General News

June 9, 2014 @ 11:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

EarlyIQ, Inc. announced on Monday morning a new feature targeted at simplifying compliance with Bad Actor provisions under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Regulation D, Rule 506 (d). Under the rule, certain disqualifying events must be monitored and disclosed in order to offer securities in… Read More

June 9, 2014 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdentials, a compliance firm that services the fast growing investment crowdfunding industry, has announced the addition of a securities attorney to help strengthen their team and develop their fast growing suite of JOBS Act compliance software products. Cary Zimmerman brings nearly a decade of legal… Read More

June 8, 2014 @ 9:27 pm By Kendall Almerico  |  

Kickstarter recently announced major changes to the way they approve campaigns on their site. The first change is a creation of a “Launch Now” button where a project, if it successfully passes through an algorithm, can be immediately posted on the site. This removes the… Read More

June 7, 2014 @ 11:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Company Discloses Development of Investment Crowdfunding Platform. National Holdings Corporation, a full-service investment banking and asset management firm, today announced pending changes to its Board of Directors in advance of its annual shareholder meeting to be held on July 28th. The Board of Directors announced… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Known for its value-added crowdfunding legal IP and marketing service, KarmaKrowd provides a full suite of management consulting services to help creative inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs turn creative ideas into revenue producing businesses. Once IP assets have been identified and protected, entrepeneurs can then turn… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wisconsin’s startup companies finally have another way to raising capital! A new state law, signed into law by Governor Scott Walker last year, now grants up and coming entrepreneurs rights to raise up to $1 million from state investors through online crowdfunding websites. Up to… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 8:37 am By Barry James  |  

Crowdfunding Sees Growing Regulatory Support. “We are now looking for areas where the system itself needs to adapt to new technology or broader change – rather than the other way round. We want to ensure that positive developments, the ones that promise to improve the lives of… Read More

June 5, 2014 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) has announced their convention will be held in Paris, France this coming December.  The gathering will attract stakeholders from all aspects of the emerging crowdfunding industry.  Organizers hope to continue to build upon the continents promising growth and further develop the… Read More

June 5, 2014 @ 2:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The team behind Lima, an innovative technology that consolidates all of your content, enabling you to see the same files on all of your devices regardless of operating system or device size, today announced that Partech Ventures, an American-European Fund, has invested $2.5 million in a… Read More

June 5, 2014 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Peter Thiel introduced the 2014 class of new Thiel fellows on Thursday. The fourth set of young entrepreneurs to be award Thiel Fellowships, the fellows will receive support to bring their innovative scientific and technical projects to life, learn entrepreneurship from the group up, and… Read More

June 4, 2014 @ 4:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Crowdsourcing Week (CSW) Summit in Brussels may be sold out, but now crowdfunding platform MyMicroInvest will present a live crowdfunding round and anyone from anywhere can participate! This event will kick off June 5th, 9:50 a.m. Brussels local time. The session will present two… Read More

June 4, 2014 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED), the Southeast’s largest entrepreneurial support organization, has released its Innovators Report, showing that entrepreneurial companies in North Carolina collectively raised more than $461 million through equity investments, grants and awards in 2013. The report also finds that 108 unique… Read More

June 4, 2014 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Big Names Provide Matching Funds to Fix Badly Broken Congress. Political MayDay PAC hit their initial goal of crowdfunding $1 million two weeks ahead of schedule.  Now the social campaign has launched the next phase of its effort by targeting their next fundraising goa of… Read More

June 4, 2014 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platforms from 10 different European countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain and UK) met last week in Paris to discuss the opportunities offered by this new form of capital allocation which, according to the World Bank, will be worth… Read More

June 3, 2014 @ 8:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dark Horse Pros (DHP), a company committed to serious athletes, sponsors their very own “On the Edge Video Contest 2014” for athletes participating in action and extreme sports, with cash prizes totaling up to $5,000. From now until July 6th, entrants can upload their video… Read More

June 3, 2014 @ 6:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Portal of Pain (PoP), a lean startup platform for IT executives to share and solve business-critical problems, announced on Tuesday that it has launch a new crowdsourcing leadership tool that transforms how executives engage with internal teams, partners and customers to help drive innovations. PoPin… Read More

June 3, 2014 @ 11:28 am By JD Alois  |  

The SEC charged the co-owner of two Bitcoin-related websites for publicly offering shares in the two ventures without registering them. An SEC investigation found that Erik T. Voorhees published prospectuses on the Internet and actively solicited investors to buy shares in SatoshiDICE and FeedZeBirds. But… Read More

June 3, 2014 @ 11:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The top five most common mistakes made by millionaires are failing to diversify, investing without a plan, making emotional decisions, failing to review a portfolio, and placing too much focus on previous returns, finds a poll by one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory… Read More

June 2, 2014 @ 11:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dogecoin is making another appearance on the racetrack! The cybercurrency and Reddit.com are teaming up once again to help another driver in need and this time it’ll be going to the Australian V8 Supercar Series. The crowdfunding effort, which is called #SuperV8Doge, is aiming to sponsor… Read More

June 2, 2014 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Michigan has been one of the states at the forefront of allowing intrastate investment crowdfunding to occur as Title III retail crowdfunding remains in a regulatory holding pattern.  The state has found capable champions in the legislature and within the business community making crowdfunding a… Read More