General News

December 13, 2013 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

UK Alternative Finance Said to Hit £1.6 Billion in 2014. Nesta, a UK based charity which strives to support the best and brightest ideas by providing grants and doing research, has published a report on the “Rise of Future Finance”.  This is a first ever… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 7:22 am By JD Alois  |  

NowStreet Wire, a producer of financial events that introduce the Wall Street community to rising asset classes such as crowdfunding and P2P lending, is pleased to announce that, due to strong demand, it will be providing a live broadcast of Crowdfinance 2013, a crowdfinance event… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Annemarie Tierney is General Counsel for SecondMarket, an online marketplace for buying and selling illiquid assets in the United States. SecondMarket burst onto the scene during the run-up to the Facebook IPO by facilitating transactions in Facebook shares sold by Facebook employees to members of… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie series periodically takes a peek at crowdfunding data for game-related campaign raising money on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Today they published the latest breakdown, and it shows that 186 projects on these two platforms raised $23,914,666 from over 500,000 backers. Mighty No. 9 tops… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 6:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Milken Institute, Center for Financial Markets and PayPal have partnered in a gathering in San Jose, California about Crowdfunding. The event is taking place tomorrow (Thursday, December 12). Daniel Gorfine,  Director of Financial Market Policy and Legal Counsel at the Milken Institute will moderate… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Recorded video is posted below. As previously reported on Crowdfund Insider the Business Law Section and the International Section of  the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) is hosting a live program and webcast in New York City on December 11, 2013, to review crowdfunding. The… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

With the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) consultation period scheduled to end shortly, CrowdConsent is announcing a simple technology solution to address current proposals to regulate both equity and debt based crowdfunding. The CrowdConsent service allows platforms to demonstrate that they have obtained the informed consent… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 8:06 am By JD Alois  |  

James A. Jones has been hired as Kingdom Trust Company’s new Vice President of Business Development as part of their strategy in targeting the crowdfunding industry with self-directed IRAs.  The Kingdom Trust Company is an alternative asset custody provider.  Jones, a board member of the… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 5:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdfund Global Expo is set to take place in San Diego this coming January.  Crowdfund Weekly News, Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, Invested.in, and Leverage PR, will present two full days of high-level educational sessions, networking, business development, and Keynote addresses. The Crowdfund Global… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 12:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

In two public letters the UK based Social Foundation and the Crowdfunding Centre openly pose the question, “Is the Government Guilty of Financial Discrimination?” Both letters, reproduced in their entirety below, question  the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) “rush to regulate” the quickly growing crowdfunding industry…. Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Jeremiah Owyang, previously with the Altimeter Group, announced at LeWeb internet conference his new endeavor Crowd Companies.  The internet / technology prognosticator will focus Crowd Companies on providing peer-to-peer knowledge, expert education and an access to a network of startups via a brand council. The… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

ForeverGeek has launched the ForeverGeek Kickstarter store, an online store dedicated to collecting and selling successfully crowdfunded Kickstarter projects.  The site is part of the Splashpress Media portfolio of sites. The Forever Geek Kickstarter store has configured eight categories with released Kickstarter products, including comic books, video… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 9:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bendigo Partners LLC and Asurvest Join Forces to Deliver the First Risk Management Products for Equity Crowdfunding. A person familiar with the situation has indicated that Asurvest, Inc., a developer of risk management products, and Bendigo Partners, LLC, a private investment firm, are expected to… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

California based Securities Attorney Samuel S. Guzik has been scheduled to lead the Small Business Administration (SBA) Crowdfunding Roundtable scheduled for January 15, 2014.  The event is open to the public and will be held at the SBA offices in Washington, DC.  Guzik, a noted… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 10:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jon Medved of OurCrowd recently appeared on Bloomberg’s “On The Move Asia” discussing how equity crowdfunding and ourCrowd are democratizing access to capital for Israeli startups. Specifically, he addresses an often-cited criticism of equity crowdfunding: why can’t these deals just get funding from angel investors… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Quartz | 2014 is the year of the internet of things—no, seriously, we mean it this time The “Internet of Things” movement is alive and growing and Quartz predicts that things will really take off in 2014. Of course, crowdfunding stands to be front and center… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

White label crowdfunding software provider CommunityLeader and IRA Services Trust Company have partnered to offer the Crowdfund IRA.  This self-directed IRA product allows individuals a new way to invest in securities-based crowdfunding ventures using their retirement funds in a compliant and transparent manner. “We’re excited… Read More

December 8, 2013 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Vancouver based TaskForce-1, has announced their launch of white label crowdfunding platform Thrinacia.  As they enter a competitive space, Thrinacia is differentiating their product as more of a crowdfunding engine – not just a platform.  TaskForce-1 is a very successful web development shop boasting an… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 4:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

As PBS MediaShift continues to focus on crowdfunding this week, The Mediatwits held a Google+ Hangout with various players from the crowdfunding space. They include… Slava Rubin, Indiegogo CEO Ernst-Jan Pfauth of news magazine De Correspondent Todd Ruppert, co-producer of the upcoming musical “Happy Days” Zak Piper, co-producer… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 1:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

One Spark is all about the Creators. Creators are people with ideas in art, innovation, music, science and technology that turn them into Projects to showcase at One Spark, the World’s Crowdfunding Festival. One Spark is built on the premise that great creations can come… Read More