General News

November 19, 2013 @ 1:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

The first annual SocalTech 50 list was just announced.  This list of represents their 50 up and coming people in Souther California’s tech world.  The team at SocalTech received over 700 nominations this year and somehow they whittled it down to only 50 who their… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 11:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As platforms like WeFunder and hundreds of others launch to provide startup businesses with funding, *Design Your Startup* was created to bridge the gap between an idea and startup—especially for entrepreneurs outside the US. Design Your Startup is a new service company founded by Hungarian-born entrepreneur Janos Nemeth. The… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

SSX Ventures has launched their LATAM Incubated One BV, a publicly-traded investment vehicle organized to invest in companies graduating from Latin America’s top incubators, including Wayra, NXTP Labs, 21212 and 500 Startups. LATAM will raise investment capital via an Initial Public offering on the Startup Stock Exchange (SSX)… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 11:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The Application Deadline has now been extended to December 31st, 2013 Every start-up has a story about how the idea came about, the challenges, the highs and the lows associated with the struggle of starting a business.  Now online social publishing platform Cloudpage has… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 12:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Paul Niederer | Crowdfunding and Innovation Paul Niederer is the founder of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB) and an equity crowdfunding pioneer. On his blog, he explains that crowdfunding is about more than just raising money and goes on to explain how crowdfunding… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdsource has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Servio which is a leader in the enterprise crowdsourcing industry.   Servio has raised nearly $12 Million in funding since 2009 capturing the support of  Akkadian Ventures and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.  Crowdsource has been backed by… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 9:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jamie Siminoff, inventor of the DoorBot and founder of crowdfunding platform Christie Street, appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank over the weekend. In the end only one shark was interested in providing capital for Siminoff and his product, which is set to appear in Staples stores… Read More

November 17, 2013 @ 8:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a document published recently by the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) in Canada, the provincial regulators appear to address the issue of crowdfunding and its legality in the province.  Unlike the United States where the federal regulators have jurisdiction over regulating crowdfunding nationwide, the Canadian… Read More

November 17, 2013 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the bastion of traditional media know as Time is a listicle outlining the “25 Best Inventions of the Year 2013” which unsurprisingly includes several crowdfunded projects.  Now I must point out that the paper and ink crew at Time may be a bit… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 12:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

CrowdCheck Blog | Due Diligence: It doesn’t just protect investors Brian Knight of due diligence service provider CrowdCheck built upon a recent Crowdfund Insider article that explored the circumstances surrounding the Luci project on Kickstarter. Here he explains how due diligence can protect issuers and investors in crowdfunded… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Quirky is an online community for inventors that allows people to submit an idea and then community members vote of the concept.  If viable, Quirky will manage the creation from start to finish while the person with the idea benefits from royalty payments – which… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Marketing / PR firm Deliver The Crowd, which specializes in generating accredited investor interest in financings for small to large equity and debt offerings via crowdfunding has acquired Marketingworks a social media influencer firm. Rand Bleimeister, CEO of Deliver The Crowd, made the announcement today.   “We are… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 12:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Minneapolis-based SmartThings Kickstarted their way to $1.2 million, closing their campaign in September of 2012. Over 5,500 backers pitched in for the home automation system. SmartThings makes it easy to connect the things in your physical world to the Internet. You can monitor, control, automate,… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 12:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Rolling Jubilee launched last year with hopes of buying and abolishing medical debt for pennies on the dollar. Born from the Occypy Wall Street movement, the organization generated $600,000 in funding through a telethon and variety show, as well as through donations collected through… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

At this year’s One Spark Festival in Jacksonville, Florida, a section of the grounds will focus on innovation in education, giving teachers and students alike the chance to compete for a slice of the $300,000 slated to be awarded to participants. One Spark is a… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 11:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A recent question on Quora asked respondents what they “hate most about equity-based crowdfunding?” The incindiary question produced some really interesting responses, not the least of which was the most-upvoted response by Gil Silberman. Silberman is a San Francisco-based startup lawyer. His response is as… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 10:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kingom Trust Co., NowStreet and Prosper Marketplace are teaming on a webinar scheduled for 1 PM Eastern this afternoon. The focus of the webinar: P2P lending as a method of investing from tax-free retirement accounts. With high volatility and low interest rates driving retail… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Medical “tri-corder” device Scanadu raised $1,664,574 on Indiegogo this past July.  Their goal of raising $100,00 was crushed as 8523 backers rushed to support the medical device and their crowdfunding campaign.  Scanadu was Indigogo’s highest grossing campaign at that time. Now with a proven success… Read More

November 12, 2013 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Omega sees opportunity to create a crowdfunding platform built to drive in additional revenue for this broker dealer.  Publicly traded Omega Commercial Finance Corporation, has signed a Letter of Intent with a New York based registered broker dealer acquisition candidate. This full-service broker dealer is a… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More