General News

October 25, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Danae Ringelmann, co-founder of crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo, shared her thoughts about importance of diversity at Y Combinator’s Startup Day. Forbes reported that Although she addressed 90% of males, Ringelmann stressed how diversity will help startups achieve ultimate success. The media outlet caught up… Read More

October 25, 2014 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

CircleUp co-founder and CEO Ryan Caldbeck crashed the CNBC Cash Crowd party to fund Nomad, a hardware company that is equity crowdfunding on the CircleUp platform.  He made his appearance after the “super panel” of investors had already gone through their brief funding routine deciding… Read More

October 24, 2014 @ 6:03 pm By Anthony Zeoli  |  

Well it’s official. At long last my proposed Illinois intrastate crowdfunding exemption has been formally drafted as a proposed bill. It may be without a sponsor at the moment but one step at a time…. For those that are interested in reading the full proposed… Read More

October 24, 2014 @ 2:41 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

LendInvest, the world’s largest peer-to-peer marketplace for real estate mortgages has released an interactive Buy-to-Let Index for UK property. According to LendInvest, the LendInvest Buy-To-Let Index will be published monthly with a report featuring Buy-To-Let (BTL) performance indicators, rental demands, Buy-To-Let industry news and information on… Read More

October 24, 2014 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tipalti, a provider of the cloud pay-outs management automation platform, announced on Friday (October 24th) a $13 million Series B funding round led by Wicklow Capital. Tipalti plans to use the new round of funding to aggressively grow sales and marketing, to invest in product… Read More

October 24, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With the help of over 2,000 backers, the Joan Didian Documentary, We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order to Live,  easily exceeded its modest $80K goal with over $121,800 in pledges.  Live on Kickstarter, the film’s campaign is led by director, Griffin Dunne, who has known… Read More

October 24, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kent and Sussex based property investment brokerage and development company Capitalise Invest is reforming its business, offering all investors the opportunity to develop a high yielding, secure and robust investment portfolio. Following the huge success of its property crowdfunding business, the firm is now opening… Read More

October 24, 2014 @ 7:48 am By Erin Hobey  |  

New Bond Facilitates Developing World’s Students’ Financial Access to Higher Education Prodigy Finance, the leader in international student lending, announced the launch of a $25 million Education Note in partnership with the Credit Suisse Impact Investing and Microfinance team, led by Patrick Elmer, Philanthropy Services & Responsible… Read More

October 23, 2014 @ 5:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Indiegogo announced the immediate integration and  availability of Apple Pay –  incorporating the one touch iPhone payment system in their crowdfunding platform. The popular website joins a growing number of banks, credit card providers and retailers jumping aboard Apple’s spin on a digital wallet. On… Read More

October 23, 2014 @ 12:41 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Prime Meridian Capital Management, specializing in online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, launched its new fund, Prime Meridian Small Business Lending Fund on 7/1/14, giving investors the opportunity to invest in the growing sector of P2P small business lending. PMCP states, “Prime Meridian’s Income Fund was one of the first… Read More

October 23, 2014 @ 12:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Move Over, Chicago & New York! Washington D.C. is making its mark in the crowdfunding industry. On Wednesday (October 22nd), a new report revealed that the city is best place for entrepreneurs and startups to crowdfund their products. According to In The Capital, a new… Read More

October 23, 2014 @ 12:25 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Ringside at the 3rd Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp GCCB2014 today, event organizer Ruth Hedges of Pinnacle Crowdfunding Group and Ray Garza announced that the Oscar de la Hoya, the gold Olympic medalist and retired champion professional boxer, will head back into the ring… for a film… Read More

October 23, 2014 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Financial news network is launching “Cash Crowd” a new series that is combination shark tank / crowdfunding where entrepreneurs get 30 seconds to pitch a product to the “ultimate” panel of investors while simultaneously connecting with “thousands” of accredited investors registered on equity crowdfunding platforms…. Read More

October 23, 2014 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

By bundling up the best of the world’s crowdfunding opportunities with an equally comprehensive amalgamation of more conventional businesses for sale. BusinessAgent aims to become to investment and crowdfunding as what Rightmove is to houses and estate agents. While sharing details about the newest equity crowdfunding… Read More

October 23, 2014 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boostable, an advertising platform for marketplace sellers, announced on Thursday (October 23rd) it has raised $3.2M in additional seed financing to partner with new online marketplaces and expand its advertising channels beyond Facebook. While online marketplaces such as Etsy and Eventbrite are making it easy… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 3:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

eCoinConcepts, a provider of storage for digital currency, announced on Wednesday (October 22nd) that it is set to launch its first consumer facing product, BitStash, dubbed to be the safest and most secure device for storing and spending Bitcoin in the market today. CTO of… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 12:54 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Pocket Protein KIDZ, a new protein drink for children, is joining the fight against childhood hunger and obesity and seeks the crowd to help fund its initiative. Pocket Protein has launched a crowdfunding campaign powered by Tilt to land Pocket Protein KIDZ on grocery shelves,… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 12:34 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

New Fund to Continue Carmel Strategy of Backing Visionary Israeli Entrepreneurs Focused on Building Leading Global Technology Companies Carmel Ventures, a leading Israeli venture capital firm and a member of the Viola Group, today announced the final closing of its latest investment fund, Carmel Ventures… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Atlas Wearables, a wearable device that tracks the user’s body on the x-, y- and z- axes as well as detects and logs exercises performed by users, has closed its campaigns on SeedInvest, Fundable  and Crowdfunder.  After successfully raising over $629K on its pretail Indiegogo campaign,… Read More

October 22, 2014 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

It would be hard to publish a market perspective on real estate today with tackling the emerging industry of real estate crowdfunding. This new approach of raising capital for real estate projects is one the leading segments of the investment crowdfunding industry.  Investors have the… Read More