Offerings

September 12, 2019 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

tZERO, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) has formed a partnership with Bloq Flix, LLC, to tokenize films, according to a release. Bloq Flix claims to be the “first blockchain entertainment financing company.” tZERO said that Bloq Flix will utilize its tokenization protocol technology to tokenize… Read More

September 12, 2019 @ 8:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based tech-enabled beauty business blow LTD has closed its latest equity crowdfunding round on Seedrs with a total of £1,930,470 in funding secured. The campaign was launched last month, originally seeking £1.5 million. blow LTD previously raised £1.35 million through its other crowdfunding campaign on… Read More

September 11, 2019 @ 1:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based investment services Smarterly completed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs with a total of £2,575,103 secured. The funding round was launched earlier this summer, originally seeking £2 million. Smarterly is on a mission to turn the UK into a nation of investors, by promoting the… Read More

September 10, 2019 @ 11:03 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Jay Clayton has told a reporter at CNBC that manipulation in crypto markets remains a concern and that there is “still work to be done” before the Commission can approve Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETFs). Clayton told Bob… Read More

September 10, 2019 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Blockstack, the first token issuer to have a Form 1-A approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has raised $23 million in their offering which included funds raised under Reg S for international investors. The final tally was revealed by Blockstack in a blog… Read More

September 10, 2019 @ 7:40 am By JD Alois  |  

MERJ, the national stock exchange of Seychelles, has kicked off its initial public offering (IPO) of tokenized equity. The digital asset is the first security token offering (STO) of a regulated stock exchange anywhere. The IPO values the 8-year old exchange at USD $25 million…. Read More

September 9, 2019 @ 3:37 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Controversial stablecoin issuer Tether has launched its promised “CNHt” coin, which is designed to act as a cryptographic proxy of offshore Chinese yuan (CNH). The coin will run as an ERC-20 token on the Ethereum network. Offshore Chinese yuan (CNH) added to our basket of… Read More

September 9, 2019 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

US real estate company and shared office space firm WeWork might slash the valuation it’s seeking as a public company to under $20 billion. The New York-based firm is also considering postponing its IPO, according to the Wall Street Journal. WeWork’s proposed valuation cut comes… Read More

September 9, 2019 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based a hedge fund, Nickel Asset Management, is reporting the first digital assets arbitrage strategy fund run by a UK FCA-regulated manager. The Nickel Arbitrage Fund will apply market-neutral, low-latency algorithmic trading to crypto securities, according to a release. Nickel states that within 2… Read More

September 8, 2019 @ 10:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Whoomies, a France-based home-sharing mobile app, is now nearing €400,000 during the final days on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. The app’s campaign was launched earlier this summer and quickly secured its initial €300,000 funding target. More than 150 investors have invested in the funding round… Read More

September 6, 2019 @ 7:18 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Multibillion-dollar American investment firm Franklin Templeton has filed a prospectus with the SEC detailing a plan to use the Stellar Lumens blockchain for automated settlement of shares in a “US government money fund.” The shares resemble “stablecoins” in that, “The Fund uses the amortized cost… Read More

September 6, 2019 @ 2:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Inadash, a UK-based property renting platform, has successfully secured its initial 350,000 funding target on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. Founded in 2016, Inadash claims to be the fastest-growing property app in London and is on a mission to build an “innovative way” for people to… Read More

September 6, 2019 @ 2:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Caribu, an App-based tech firm that enables interactive video calls (think drawing etc.) with your kids (or grandkids), has cruised to its $1 million funding cap on Wefunder. Interestingly, Caribu says that company revenue saw double-digit month over month growth throughout the Reg CF campaign… Read More

September 6, 2019 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Germany based investment crowdfunding platform aescuvest has kicked off pan-European securities offerings with Surge On Medical. The Dutch Medtech has developed technology aimed at setting new standards in precision and robotic surgery. Surge-On seeks to raise up to €5 million on aescuvest. A launch event,… Read More

September 6, 2019 @ 10:43 am By JD Alois  |  

This past June, Smartlands announced the first UK property to be tokenized and offered to investors. The crowdfunding platform now reports that the project has closed fully funded. The student accommodation in the UK sought £1 million for a 30% equity stake in a property… Read More

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