General News

July 7, 2014 @ 9:50 am By JD Alois  |  

A growing number of universities see crowdfunding as a powerful tool to boost fundraising and leading university Berkeley is preparing to join the list.  In a recent posting the University of California Berkeley has revealed they intend on launching a campus wide crowdfunding platform in… Read More

July 7, 2014 @ 8:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

IgnitionDeck, Inc., a provider of Wordpress-based commerce solutions, has acquired two popular tools for no-fee crowdfunding: Fundify, purchased from Astoundify; and CrowdPress, purchased from BoxyStudio. The acquisitions consolidate IgnitionDeck’s ownership of the some popular solutions for no-fee crowdfunding on Wordpress, which is the dominant online… Read More

July 6, 2014 @ 5:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hitting the final stretch of its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, Rooster Teeth’s featured film “Lazer Team” stood at over  $2,365,958 from over 35,000 backers. The project first made headlines when it reached its initial goal of $650,000 within the first 24 hours. Not only was it… Read More

July 6, 2014 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Urging Americans to declare their freedom from big oil companies this Independence Day, three environmental organizations have launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt called “Exxon Hates America” in an attempt to take down the large corporation. According to International Business Times, Other98, Oil Change International, and Environmental… Read More

July 6, 2014 @ 10:30 am By Casper Arboll & Balthasar Scheder  |  

For a long time women entrepreneurs have been marginalized in traditional forms of finance, excluded from venture capital and business angel investing which is often referred to as old boys clubs. With only 12 percent of all business angels being female, it is not surprising… Read More

July 5, 2014 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

The UK Peer to Peer Finance Association (UKP2P) is the self regulatory body behind the booming peer to peer industry in the UK.  Last year the association’s members experienced a growth rate of 121%.   The major industry participants have set about to create some… Read More

July 4, 2014 @ 9:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Excitement abounds for Fundly’s philanthropic crowdfunding. Fundly, the donation-based crowdfunding platform that empowers people, groups and organizations to raise funds for near and dear campaigns,  concurrently hosts thousands of active campaigns daily.  With over 100,000 campaigns created in the last year, Fundly allows users to… Read More

July 3, 2014 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With entrepreneurs continuing to wait to take advantage of equity crowdfunding in various countries, New Zealand’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) announced some exciting news about the funding option. In a report by Stuff, FMA spokesperson Andrew Park declared the financial regulator is ready to grant… Read More

July 3, 2014 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Indiegogo has announced a new iPhone app for Canada. This is the first of what is expected to be a global roll out of mobile versions of its funding technology. According to the Globe and Mail, the global crowdfunding company stated Canada was chosen because… Read More

July 2, 2014 @ 12:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, the Securities Board of the State of Texas had proposed rules on intrastate crowdfunding As previously reported, the new legislation will go into effect next month and as with other state investment crowdfunding laws, the intent is to facilitate capital to small… Read More

July 2, 2014 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Joins Seed Round Investment. Parko, an Israeli startup, has raised $1.1 million in a seed round to fund their technological approach to fix parking problems.  The company has developed a “parking ecosystem” to assist drivers in discovering parking spots and leverages… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 2:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

PENSCO, a leading alternative asset custodian helping investors buy, hold and divest non-publicly traded investments in tax-advantaged accounts, today announced that Stephen J. George, founder and managing partner at Omaha-based Panorama Point Partners, an innovative private equity partnership, has joined the company’s Board. Mr. George’s… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

A growing number of states have taken it upon themselves to push forward with investment crowdfunding while the SEC still ponders Title IV and Title III of the JOBS Act. While Title II of the fabled bill has been in effect since September of 2013… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 8:32 am By Samuel Guzik  |  

Has Intrastate Crowdfunding in Washington State Been Washed Out by NASAA and the SEC? On May 5, 2014, I published an article in Crowdfund Insider highlighting recent informal “rulemaking” at the SEC Division of Corporation Finance, which in my opinion quietly dampened the efforts of… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 7:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdnetic has announced Wall Street’s second annual Crowdfinance conference to be held in NYC on October 16th at Thomson Reuters’ Conference Center. Crowdfinance is redefining the global equity and debt markets fostered by a surge in financial innovation, shifting trends in communication, advancements in technology and a new… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdFundBeat Media has announced its first “Proud of the Crowd” listing of the top one hundred professionals and thought leaders in the burgeoning crowdfunding industry. The current list is comprised of founders and executives of leading crowdfunding platforms, authors, visionaries, general practitioners, and even pundits… Read More

June 30, 2014 @ 7:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Office of Investor Advocate (IA), a new role mandated by Dodd-Frank, has submitted its inaugural report to Congress.  In February of this year, SEC Chair Mary Jo White appointed Rick A. Fleming as the first Investor Advocate for the SEC. Fleming, a well known… Read More

June 30, 2014 @ 2:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

BancBox, a company that sees investment crowdfunding platforms as a targeted customer for their services that “give non-financial institutions a simple, secure way to collect, store, and send money” has released a statement indicating they are currently reviewing their process of onboarding customers onto their platform…. Read More

June 30, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

While attending the CFGE Conference in New York City last week I was able to sit in on a presentation by Anthony Zeoli regarding the “vanishing middle market IPO”.  Anthony is a securities attorney who is championing the cause of intrastate crowdfunding in Illinois –… Read More

June 30, 2014 @ 9:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding champion Paul Niederer, the founder of ASSOB – one of the earliest equity crowdfunding platforms around, recently shared some insight into his experience with investment crowdfunding.  ASSOB or the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board.  He has incorporated some actual empirical data regarding this new form of… Read More