General News

July 8, 2014 @ 12:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

HWTrek, a global community for digital electronics, today announced the beta launch of the HWTrek Project Development Hub (the Hub), the world’s first cloud-based intelligent navigation tool for creators and inventors working to bring hardware projects to market. The Hub generates a management flow tailored… Read More

July 8, 2014 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published an interim report on domestic cash savings market. This is part of a broader study that commenced in October 2013 under their “competition objective focused on the cash savings market”.  The FCA wants to assure that competition is… Read More

July 8, 2014 @ 8:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

P2Binvestor (P2Bi) announces a $2 million line of credit to a Boulder-based client, representing one of the largest single crowdlending transactions ever. This credit line adds to P2Bi’s rapid growth and puts the young company on track to achieve a lending portfolio of $25 million this fiscal… Read More

July 8, 2014 @ 8:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

InsideSales.com, a leading cloud-based sales acceleration technology company, has stated that Dave Boyce has joined its executive team as vice president of product marketing. Boyce will oversee global go-to-market strategy for InsideSales.com’s suite of sales acceleration solutions.  More recently, Boyce was founder and CEO of Fundly, a… Read More

July 7, 2014 @ 2:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zuvo Truth Site Launched Seeking Answers and Accountability on Failure to Deliver Promised Crowdfunding Rewards. Stratus by Zuvo Water ran a successful crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo that closed in March of 2013.  The goal of raising $50,000 was achieved, financed by 267 backers.  Zuvo –… Read More

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