General News

November 29, 2013 @ 11:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

I was feeling a little festive yesterday and didn’t get to a roundup, so we’re making up for it today with a big roundup of things we’ve found throughout the week. My turkey coma has thankfully worn off. Forbes | Britain’s Crowdfunders Plot World Domination… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 10:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfinance 2013 is a crowdfunding event slated to take place on December 17th at Thomson Reuters’ Conference Center in Midtown Manhattan. The event will cover crowdfunding as a whole with a focus on the crowdinvesting models of equity- and lending-based crowdfunding. Crowdfinance 2013 will feature a… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 10:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Planetary Resources famously raised over $1.5 million for the ARKYD satellite on Kickstarter. The project plans to eventually launch a publicly-accessible space telescope that will allow anyone to take a picture from space. The campaign hit a handful of stretch goals after raising well over… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 11:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In an article published to Architizer yesterday, author Karen Wong interviews Kickstarter co-founder Charles Adler on a variety of subjects. One interesting question she asks early in the interview involves the question of why he left Kickstarter after helping to build the company into a… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Stack  |  

Angel investing involves accredited investors (millionaires) investing directly in the private stock of early stage companies. Millionaires are rare—they make up 1.5% of the world and 4% of the US. As most entrepreneurs quickly learn, angels are very, very rare. Only 3% of all accredited… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 10:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

One Spark is a huge event in the city of Jacksonville that was forged from a series of coffee shop discussions by three friends in 2011. It seems Elton Rivas, Dennis Eusebio, and Varick Rosete may have created an awesome, crowdfunding-powered monster. The event is expected to… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The University of California, Berkeley, Nesta and the University of Cambridge have teamed up and plan to execute a benchmarking survey to capture the size, transaction volume and growth of the alternative finance market in the UK. The team behind the upcoming report is asking… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 10:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The State of Massachusetts, under the direction of Secretary of State William Galvin, spun up a crowdfunding watchdog group called I-Crowd. Yesterday the group released a brochure aimed at educating the public on what to watch for when considering investing in crowdfunding offerings. The I-Crowd… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

The SEC hosted the Small Business Capital Formation Forum this past week on November 21, 2013.  This was the 32nd forum which has been held annually since 1982. The event provides small businesses, their advisors and their investors the opportunity to share their perspectives on… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 11:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Inman News | Real estate crowdfunding: why it’s a big deal Real estate is a nice vertical in the crowdfunding space, and I’m particularly excited about the opportunities the niche brings to non-accredited investors who may not have the means to invest in real estate… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 10:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BancBox Invest (formerly BancBox Crowd) is a crowdfunding API that we’ve covered in-depth in the past. The escrow and payment solution for crowdfunding platforms recently shared statistics with Crowdfund Insider, and so far things are looking good. The company shared that 18 crowdinvesting platforms are current… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Over £1 Million Funded on Goal of £750,000. In the ultimate validation of their crowdfunding platform, UK based equity crowdfunding site Seedrs set a goal to raise £750,000.  This was an increase in the initial target of raising £500,000 as investor demand was very robust…. Read More

November 24, 2013 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global law firm Seyfarth Shaw recently gave a presentation reviewing the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed regulations regarding Title III of the JOBs Act – specifically “retail” or “popular” crowdfunding.  These proposed regulations are now accepting comments on the SEC web site. While these… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 2:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest, which currently offers investments in startups for accredited investors, has put together an estimated cost spread sheet if Title III Crowdfunding regulations were applied today.  The results show a detrimental process for small companies attempting to raise capital.  In fact for… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 12:46 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BackerKit Blog | 2014 is the Year of the Crowdfunding Hero, and she’s got new tools in her belt. BackerKit is a service for crowdfunding project creators that “helps you manage your post-crowdfunding mayhem so that you can deliver on time.” They’ve seen a few… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 11:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Danae Ringelmann released an article via CNBC yesterday that lauds equity crowdfunding as a solution that could help in “making fundraising more efficient and fair.” The piece is a deep dive into the functional effects of the proposed SEC rules surrounding Section 4(a)(6) of the… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 10:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On his blog, noted Colorado-based VC Brad Feld shares good news from the Occipital camp: two awards for their “Structure Sensor.” The Structure Sensor is a 3D scanner for the iPad that raised over $1.2 million on Kickstarter. The campaign closed on November 1st of… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Taking crowdfunding to real time. PitchHelsinki will not only be a pitching contest, but also the first real-time crowdfunding experiment in the world. All the startups that are pitching in the event will be added as investment targets on Invesdor’s website for the duration of… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

The 3rd Annual Holiday Charity Challenge has been launched by CrowdRise, a crowdfunding platform to help people and organizations raise funds for charitable causes.  CrowdRise has organized the initiative with the support of CraigsList founder, Craig Newmark and The Huffington Post. The Challenge began on… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

With over 3 Billion Monthly views, 15,000 YouTube Channels, 200 Million Subscribers and 25,000 creators – Fullscreen is a YouTube network powerhouse.  Fullscreen has now announced multiple partnerships for their “Sign In With Fullscreen” feature which integrates an ecosystem of third party applications including the… Read More