General News

October 25, 2013 @ 7:01 am By JD Alois  |  

BoardSuite, an integrated document management and organizational tool for directors, officers and shareholders, has announced a partnership with Australian Small Scale Offer Board (ASSOB) utilizing BoardSuite Crowdfunding Infrastructure Platform (CFIP) to help extend ASSOB’s existing commitment to cooperate transparency and compliance. ASSOB is the world’s first… Read More

October 25, 2013 @ 6:35 am By JD Alois  |  

The National Crowdfunding Association (NLCFA), welcomed the unanimous vote by The Securities and Exchange Commission to issue proposed rules for Investment Crowdfunding under Title III of the JOBS Act. As Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher stated at the meeting today, “In Title III of the JOBS Act, Congress… Read More

October 24, 2013 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

RockThePost CEO Alejandro Cremades contacted Crowdfund Insider with some thoughts on SEC proposed regulations which were released yesterday.  RockThePost is an equity crowdfunding portal which is not presently associated with a Broker / Dealer.  The platform has raised over $17 Million in accredited investor offerings… Read More

October 24, 2013 @ 1:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority is proposing to alter their approach to regulation regarding firms which operate investment crowdfunding platforms.  With the UK crowdfunding market standing at about £360 Million today, this new market and associated asset class is poised to boom exponentially.  The vast majority… Read More

October 24, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Equity crowdfunding proposed rules are here. Here are the headlines from around the web.

October 23, 2013 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment and fundraising platform Crowdfunder, along with exponential technology accelerator Singularity University, have announced a competition to increase visibility and investment capital for women-led tech ventures through CROWDFUNDxWomen. In recent years, women led ventures have received only four to nine percent of professional investment capital. Crowdfunder and Singularity University are partnering to… Read More

October 23, 2013 @ 1:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The SEC has released proposed rules for Title III retail equity crowdfunding. The 582 page document is going to take a while to digest, but we wanted to share immediately. In related news, publication of these rules to the Federal Register will mark the official… Read More

October 23, 2013 @ 12:42 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The SEC has provided a fact sheet on today’s proposed rules. As we wait for the official rules to hit the SEC’s web site, here is what we do know about said proposed rules now. Note that most of this information was in the statute itself, so… Read More

October 23, 2013 @ 12:42 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Here are Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher’s comments on proposed rules for equity crowdfunding. I am glad to be able to support today’s proposal, and I want to thank those who have worked so hard to get us to this point.  In particular, I want to… Read More

October 23, 2013 @ 12:34 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Here are Commissioner Luis A. Aguilar’s comments on proposed rules for equity crowdfunding. You can see the full text including citations at SEC.gov. Also, be sure to check out the tweets from during today’s open meeting on equity crowdfunding rules. Today, the Commission is proposing new… Read More

October 23, 2013 @ 11:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Here’s the meat of Chair Mary Jo White’s comments on equity crowdfunding proposed rules. Head to SEC.gov for the full statement. Also, be sure to check out the tweets from during today’s open meeting on equity crowdfunding rules. Good morning. This is an open meeting of… Read More

October 23, 2013 @ 10:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

For once, we’ll happily speak for the entire crowdfunding industry: finally. The SEC has unanimously approved proposed rules for Title III equity crowdfunding. Now begins what should be a very interesting comment period with some strong opinions on all sides of this important regulatory change. We’re… Read More

October 22, 2013 @ 10:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

PolicyMic | Crowdfunding For Private Security in Oakland Ignores a Few Key Facts PolicyMic takes a deeper dive into the recent Crowdtilt campaigns funding private security forces in Oakland. What did they find? That some of the neighborhoods don’t have as much crime as one… Read More

October 22, 2013 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Tile item finder, which put a new spin on finding lost items, raised over $2.6 Million doing a Self-Starter crowdfunding campaign becoming the most successful Self-Starter campaign ever.  The company was founded by Nick Evans and Mike Farley in 2012.  Evans had previously worked… Read More

October 22, 2013 @ 7:49 am By Samuel Guzik  |  

The SEC Finally Convenes on Crowdfunding Rules – Let the Sun Shine! It had been more than 18 months since President Obama signed into law the multi-faceted potpourri entitled the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act).   One of the more controversial provisions… Read More

October 21, 2013 @ 5:50 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The SEC has just posted notice of a meeting under the Sunshine Act to weigh proposed rules for equity crowdfunding under Section 4(a)(6) of The Securities Act of 1933. This confirms the scoop earlier this week in Bloomberg, and also confirms the fact that the… Read More

October 21, 2013 @ 11:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Payment processors have certainly reaped the benefits of the billions of dollars flowing through the crowdfunding space. WePay is no exception, having recently announced that they are processing as much as $1.5 million in crowdfunding contributions per day. Other quick stats… Secured their first API… Read More

October 21, 2013 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR is a crowdfunding darling, having raised a $16 million Series A round on top of another $2.4 million on Kickstarter. Now the virtual reality gaming headset manufacturer is gearing up for primetime in the form of a new, consumer-spec headset that the team… Read More

October 20, 2013 @ 1:10 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crack The Crowd has released part one of what is to be a three-part interview with Dr. Richard Swart, who is a partner at Crowdfund Capital Advisors and the head of the crowdfunding research program at UC Berkeley. He was instrumental in the recently released… Read More

October 20, 2013 @ 12:23 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

For the better part of a year we’ve been anticipating a report that was to be the product of a joint venture by thought leaders and researchers in the crowdfunding space, distributed and supported by The World Bank. That report, entitled “Crowdfunding’s Potential for the… Read More