General News

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

October 22, 2014 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

TheCrowdDataCenter.com has teamed up with Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA), participants in the creation of the JOBS Act legislation, harnessing big-data to create a way to measure crowdfunded activity and job creation, at national and, crucially, local level in a new way. The JOBSIMPACT score rates the impact… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 7:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

World Crowdfunding Council (WCC) Meeting Scheduled for October 23rd in Las Vegas.  The Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp (GCCB) has claimed the title of the longest running crowdfunding convention.  The three day event was founded by organizer Ruth Hedges and is now on its 3rd… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 4:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Retailcommon, a Toronto-based social shopping network, announced on Tuesday (October 21st) it has raised $2 million in Series A financing. The company, which developed a revolutionary way for retailers to connect with their customers’ mobile devices while they are actively shopping, also announced it will… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 1:51 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Orchard, the Marketplace Lending Platform backed by Spark Capital, Canaan Partners, and industry veterans, secures $14.7M in total investments Founded in NYC 2013, Orchard Platform, an investment and analytics platform focused on the global marketplace lending market, today announced it has raised $12 million in Series A… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Asia launched their inaugural crowdfunding convention this past August.  It was the first event of its kind in the entire Asian region gathering thought leaders, portal operators, high level politicians and public officials from around the world to convene to discuss this new approach… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 9:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cooperative Platform of Sustainability Partnerships announced on Tuesday (October 21st) that it is donating 1 million equity shares, which will be used to recruit sustainability minded individuals and companies that share a desire for sustainability and to empower 1 billion people with a sustainability mechanism that converts… Read More

October 20, 2014 @ 10:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Eaglewood Capital Management, an investment management firm specializing in investing in online lending strategies, has announced that it has completed a $75 million securitization.   This represents Eaglewood’s second securitization of peer-to-peer (P2P) consumer loans and brings its total issuance to $175 million. The $75… Read More

October 20, 2014 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

The Peer 2 Peer Finance Association (P2PFA), an industry advocate group for UK P2P platforms, has jumped into the scrum regarding the forthcoming inclusion of P2P lending assets in Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs).  Chancellor of the  Exchequer George Osborne announced earlier this year that ISAs… Read More

October 19, 2014 @ 9:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer lending platform Lending Club has selected the New York Stock Exchange as their venue to list the much anticipated initial public offering. According to multiple reports, but first advanced in the FT, Lending Club has followed the path of several high profile… Read More

October 19, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Breakaway Funding is a young investment crowdfunding platform that was founded by seasoned banking executive  Kim Kaselionis.  She is the former CEO / Chairman of Circle Bank where she led the company to 53 consecutive profitable quarters and from near insolvency to being sold to… Read More

October 19, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission not only spends a lot of time creating rules they also hit the streets and enforce them.  Monolithic and ill thought out legislation such as Dodd-Frank create an almost never ending list of new rules adding complexity and inertia to… Read More

October 18, 2014 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

First State to Create Secondary Market for Privately Crowdfunded Securities. Tired of waiting on federal regulators to implement investment (aka equity) crowdfunding for all investors, several Midwestern states, including Michigan, have legalized intrastate investment crowdfunding. Now, with the pending passage of HB 5273, Michigan’s effort… Read More

October 18, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, crowdfunding platform Tilt announced the official launch of Tilt/Open Pre-Orders. It is considered the easiest way to turn any website, such as static, WordPress, Squarespace, SpaceCraft, or any other, into an online store, taking pre-orders, all by dropping in two lines of… Read More

October 17, 2014 @ 4:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BOOMTOWN, a startup accelerator founded and operated by a group of media, marketing and technology veterans, announced earlier this week its second class of startups, which was composed of nine companies selected from more than 300 applicants. Selected companies are now participating in a 12-week… Read More