Offerings

September 5, 2019 @ 2:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

uBiome, once a Biotech darling that popularized its concept on the pages of pretail e-commerce site Indiegogo and then listed an investment opportunity on Angellist, has filed for bankruptcy according to public documents. Back in 2015, uBiome pitched the concept of sequencing an individual’s microbiome… Read More

September 5, 2019 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Curve knocked it out of the park this week in an investment crowdfunding round that crushed multiple records on the Crowdcube platform. In brief, Curve raised £6 million (about $7.4 million) in less than one day. Crowdcube reports that many of the prior records… Read More

September 4, 2019 @ 6:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

As Crowdfund Insider reported earlier this week, Fintech Curve became the fastest crowdfunding offering ever to top £4 million on Crowdcube hitting that amount in minutes. Today, the securities offering is completed as 9555 smaller investors funded just shy of £6 million in 6 hours… Read More

September 4, 2019 @ 10:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate investment platform Fundrise has raised over $22 million for their Opportunity Fund. The information was revealed in a recent Form D 5o6c filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Fundrise Opportunity Fund benefits from the newly minted “Opportunity Zone” designation created… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 9:17 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Van Eck and SolidX have announced they will commence selling shares in their Bitcoin Trust to qualified institutional buyers outside the US in coming days. The companies have been working to for more than a year to obtain a green light from the SEC to sell… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 8:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cartica AI, a leading Israeli autonomous AI mobility startup, has closed on a Series B funding round for an undisclosed amount. Investors included leading investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd alongside BMW i Ventures, Continental, and Toyota AI Ventures. Cartica expects to use the funds to launch… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 12:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a month after launching its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, Kingston’s professional football club AFC Wimbledon has successfully secured its initial £2 million funding target from more than 3,600 investors. The initiative made its debut with a mission to raise the funds for… Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Curve, a UK based Fintech crowdfunding on Crowdcube, is killing it, according to a note from the company. Curve now claims to be the fastest startup to top £4 million ever crowdfunding on Crowdcube topping the amount in “just minutes” after opening up the offer…. Read More

September 3, 2019 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate investment platform iFunded has listed a new property investment opportunity – both retail and institutional investors may participate in the security offering. According to iFunded, the property being financed is an apartment building in Berlin with five units, three of which have already… Read More

September 1, 2019 @ 10:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Life Length, a Spain-based telomere diagnostics and analyses company, is set to close its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with more than £2.1 million in funding from nearly 1,000 investors. The campaign was launched earlier this summer and quickly raised £650,000 funding target. As previously… Read More

September 1, 2019 @ 10:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Troubadour Goods, a London-based menswear brand that specializes in designing and creating handcrafted leather goods, has returned to Seedrs just a little over two years after securing £583,769 through its previously equity crowdfunding round. The company, which quickly raised its new initial £411,248 funding target,… Read More

August 30, 2019 @ 10:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Italy-based cryptocurrency exchange platform, Young Platform, is set to close its Seedrs campaign with nearly €800,000 in funding. The funding round was launched on the equity crowdfunding platform earlier this summer and quickly secured its initial €500,000 funding target. It has attracted more than 700… Read More

August 30, 2019 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Peer to peer property investment platform the House Crowd is crowdfunding on Seedrs. Founded in 2012, the House Crowd explains that it has evolved from an FCA regulated P2P platform in the buy to let space to doing multi-million-pound property developments. The House Crowd states:… Read More

August 30, 2019 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, leading UK based securities crowdfunding platform Seedrs confirmed it had agreed to terms of a £4.5 million funding round. Crowdfund Insider reported on the investment earlier this month and now Seedrs has publicly confirmed that two of their major institutional shareholders have committed to… Read More

August 30, 2019 @ 10:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Arival, a digital bank that seeks to be crypto-friendly, is set to close its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with nearly £1.2 million in funding. The banking group reported that the progress bar includes £1,065,060 raised through a co-offering (i.e. on SeedInvest). The Crowdcube round… Read More

August 29, 2019 @ 3:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just one month after launching its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, UK-based tech-enabled beauty business blow LTD has surpassed its initial £1.5 million funding target is now nearing £1.8 million. The initiative’s debut comes just a few years after blow LTD raised £1.35 million… Read More

August 29, 2019 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has settled charges with Bitqyck Inc. and its founders, Bruce Bise and Sam Mendez. The SEC alleges that Biqyck and its founders defrauded investors and operated an unregistered exchange. Bitqyck also created and maintained its own online trading platform… Read More

August 29, 2019 @ 9:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Small Change is planning to launch an Opportunity Zone fund enabling access to investments in the newly minted tax-advantaged designation. As explained by the IRS: “Qualified Opportunity Zones were created by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. These zones are… Read More

August 29, 2019 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

MERJ Exchange, the national stock exchange of Seychelles, will partner with Globacap, a capital markets platform for digital securities, to offer tokenized assets to EU and UK investors. Globacap is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). MERJ will be offering securities in its… Read More

August 27, 2019 @ 7:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Paragon, a Cannabis-focused company that completed an initial coin offering (ICO) that was determined to be an offering of unregistered securities by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has begun accepting applications for investor refunds. According to a recent update on the Paragon site, the… Read More