General News

June 2, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

Groucho Marx said he refused to be a member of any club that would accept him, but he never heard of Lending Club. When walking through their offices in downtown San Francisco, past the foosball and ping pong tables, mini golf course that mazes around… Read More

June 2, 2014 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The 3rd Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp is not yet taking place until late October 2014 but organizers continue to add big names to the speaking line up.  Revealed this past week, Kevin Harrington, co-founder of FundHub.Biz and original investor from hit series Shark… Read More

June 1, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada), created to raise awareness of equity crowdfunding, will host the Ottawa leg of its 2014 Canadian Equity Crowdfunding Conference Tour on June 3, 2014. Parallel events have already taken place in Calgary (May 27), Vancouver (May 29),… Read More

May 31, 2014 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Glucovation, a metabolic sensor company, announced on Friday that it has been selected as one of San Diego Venture Group‘s “Cool Companies” to be showcased at the upcoming 12th Annual Venture Summit taking place on June 19th in San Diego, California. A committee of SDVG… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 5:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Movie theaters, couches, beds, cars… these are some of the places most people enjoy watching films. But what if you could watch your favorite movie in a hot tub on top of a roof in New York City? Well, Crowdtilt is ready to bring a… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Odyssey Airlines, the new UK-based business-only carrier, announced today the unveiling of a crowdfunding campaign on U.S. platform Crowdfunder. It will run concurrently alongside with a similar funding on the UK-based platform Crowdcube, which launched earlier this month, with the combined initiative targeting £5… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 11:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Innovative firms, particularly smaller startups, will be offered the change to work with the FCA while developing new technologies and approaches to ensure they are compliant with regulations from the moment they go live said FCA chief –executive Martin Wheatley earlier today. While speaking at… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 9:55 am By Georgia Quinn  |  

  I know I am in a cool place when I ask Brady Forrest, VP of Highway 1, what one of the two 3-D printers in their workshop is printing, and he casually responds “robot parts.” The best way to describe Highway 1 is like… Read More

May 28, 2014 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

IgnitionDeck,  a WordPress crowdfunding plugin that helps you raise money on your own site has announced a new relationship with Fundify. IgnitionDeck was launched in 201o with the single goal of assisting entrepreneurs like themselves raise money without having to ask permission from various gatekeepers… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 10:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

ZeniMax Media Inc. and its subsidiary, id Software LLC, filed suit last  week against Oculus VR,  and its founder, Palmer Luckey, for “illegally misappropriating ZeniMax trade secrets relating to virtual reality technology, and infringing ZeniMax copyrights and trademarks”. ZeniMax is also asserting claims for breach… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 5:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Global Expo (CFGE) kicks off a series of investment crowdfunding events over the coming weeks with a first stop in Austin, Texas where the hot topic of Real Estate will be addressed. The in depth event will provide a venue for many industry leaders… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 12:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Since 2009, people from all over the world have been talking about crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, and now the company’s VP of community, Cindy Au, revealed there’s more to it than just being considered as a “funding option.” While speaking at the 2014 Nordic Game in… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Opportunities for homebuilders to crowdfund their projects is starting to take hold.    Open Source Capital, based in Florida, asks builders why not engage investors and homebuyers to be part of the project? With crowdfunding, builders can provide an early stage to showcase their projects… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 8:15 am By Richard Swart  |  

After more than two years of waiting, the news from Capitol Hill is not good.  The JOBS Act was a political compromise passed by Congress in 2012 due to several layered political agendas. Unfortunately, the provisions of the JOBS act, as enacted in Title III,… Read More

May 26, 2014 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

As government officials of Finland continue to evaluate rules and regulations for crowdfunding, Helsinki-based businesswoman YC Felina decided to organize and host the country’s first crowdfunding event called Crwdpuisto last Thursday (May 22). It featured more than a dozen speakers from Finland and also chair of… Read More

May 25, 2014 @ 2:10 pm By NIKOLAUS CORRELL  |  

Its no secret: the University of Colorado receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds that sponsor our research. My lab alone racks up expenditures of $800,000 a year to pay for post-doc and graduate student salary, tuition, materials and travel. Isn’t it preposterous… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 3:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

A-Film Benelux and Symbid have formed an agreement for cooperation for crowdfunding various movie titles. Dutch investment crowdfunding platform Symbid has already had several films such TRIPPEL trample funded, thus demonstrating that crowdfunding is a valuable addition in the film financing. Symbid will be exclusive… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Google spawn YouTube made a major announcement today about their future product roadmap.  As part of the announcement where they discussed forthcoming new tools, apps and more, they recognized the importance of advertising revenue generated by the global video megalith (of which they make tons… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CfIRA) will be holding their monthly educational series webinar June 1st at 1:00 p.m. EST. This month’s topic “Angel Investing 101,” will cover opportunities in the space, how to find good deal flow and the trends and forecasts affecting angel… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 10:52 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

Greg Anderson posted an interesting question in the beginning of 2013: “Should we celebrate equity crowdfunding at the first investment or first exit?”. More and more savvy (crowdfunding) investors like Nelson Gray and Daniel Isenberg are leaning towards the latter, pointing out the problems of… Read More