Offerings

May 9, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

In the latest Capital Ideas interview, Mark Elenowitz, Managing Director at Digital Offering, revealed the strategies behind the historic Newsmax IPO. This groundbreaking Regulation A+ offering achieved the largest two-day opening gain in US market history. The success story provides a compelling blueprint for how… Read More

May 8, 2025 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tokenization firm Savea has raised $2.5 million in pre-seed funding, according to the company. The platform aims to tokenize “high-value assets” in a regulated environment. The funding came from angel investors and venture firm EmergentX. Savea says it will utilize blockchain technology to improve liquidity… Read More

May 6, 2025 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

OpenAI is one of the hottest private companies today. OpenAI is the creator of ChatGPT, the one AI [artificial intelligence] app that truly launched consumer AI into the mainstream. According to ChatGPT, it is currently in the process of raising $40 billion in a new… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 5:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic Digital Acquisition Company (Nasdaq:RDAGU) raised $300 million in an initial public offering (IPO) last week at $10 per share. The SPAC deal was initially reported to have raised $264 million. However, after the float was completed and the underwriters’ allotments were filled, the sale… Read More

May 5, 2025 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Republic Note, a profit-sharing digital asset focused initiative by Republic, has reached a significant milestone with its Dividend Pool hitting $1.71 million. This figure represents 85.5% of the $2 million threshold required to trigger payouts to Republic Note holders. Republic Note 1. The pool is… Read More

May 1, 2025 @ 11:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic, the largest securities crowdfunding platform in the world, has launched a SPAC deal with the advent of Republic Digital Acquisition Company. According to a company statement, Republic Digital Acquisition aims to target a merger or purchase in the Fintech, software, and/or crypto sector. Republic… Read More

April 30, 2025 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital Asset Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DAAQ) has sold 17,250,000 units in an initial public offering, raising $172.5 million. There is an underwriters over allotment offer of an additional 2,250,000 units. Each unit includes one half of a redeemable warrant exercisable at a per-share price of… Read More

April 30, 2025 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Securitize has announced a “new chapter for institutional DeFi.” The tokenization platform has partnered with Gauntlet to enable a Real World Assets (RWA) strategy, powered by Morpho, deployed on the Polygon Network. Securitize states that the institutional-grade solution enables permissioned Apollo Diversified Credit Securitize Fund… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 9:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yieldstreet, a private markets investing platform, and Upgrade Inc., a fintech offering “responsible” credit products to mainstream consumers, announced the completion of an agreement to “purchase assets through Flex Pay, Upgrade’s BNPL financing solution.” This partnership enables individual investors to “target passive income from exposure… Read More

April 29, 2025 @ 12:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

KingsCrowd is expected to close its Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) funding round tomorrow, April 30, 2025. The securities offering is listed on StartEngine. KingsCrowd filed a Form C indicating its interest in raising more growth capital this past February. Earlier this month, it was updated… Read More

April 27, 2025 @ 5:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On April 30, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will see the effective launch date for ProShares Trust‘s XRP-focused exchange-traded funds (ETFs), a development that signals a major step forward for XRP’s integration into mainstream financial markets. ProShares Trust, based in Bethesda, Maryland,… Read More

April 22, 2025 @ 12:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MAGFAST has reportedly secured substantial funding across several different offerings carried out via Netcapital. According to a release, this is the second-largest total amount secured under Reg CF in the consumer packaged goods industry per KingsCrowd. Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL, NCPLW), a digital private capital… Read More

April 19, 2025 @ 4:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, HashKey Capital launched the HashKey XRP Tracker Fund. The company said it is the first investment fund in Asia designed to track the performance of XRP. One of the world’s leading digital assets infrastructure providers, Ripple, is an early investor. The HashKey XRP… Read More

April 15, 2025 @ 10:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic is pointing to the returns generated from its PE fund, which is available for investors on its marketplace. In January 2025, Republic announced it would be working with Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) to bring “institutional-quality private market investments to individual retail investors in the US.” Hamilton… Read More

April 14, 2025 @ 11:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

21Shares AG, one of the world’s largest issuers of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs), has formed a partnership with the House of Doge to create the only Dogecoin ETP endorsed by the Dogecoin Foundation, which will be listed on SIX Swiss Exchange. This collab marks a… Read More

April 13, 2025 @ 12:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL, NCPLW), an online capital formation marketplace, announced that graphene-licensing technology company, Avadain, raised more than $1.275 million within the first 24 hours of launching its third offering on the Netcapital funding portal platform. Avadain’s offering is available for a limited time… Read More

April 10, 2025 @ 12:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Not too long ago, CI reported that event betting platform Polymarket indicated a chance of recession at 65%. Yesterday, President Trump reversed his aggressive tariff posture announcing a 90 day pause on previously announced penalties. Markets rocketed higher following the news. For a moment, all… Read More

April 8, 2025 @ 12:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Chi-Chi’s, once a popular Mexican restaurant that emerged in the 70’s only to disappear in 2004, may emerge once again. That is if an attempt to reanimate the brand is successful. Raising money on StartEngine, Chi-Chi’s reborn has attracted the support of 360 investors, with… Read More

April 3, 2025 @ 4:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Polymarket has a listing on its platform where you can bet on a recession in the US. Currently, there is a 48% chance a recession will be forthcoming in 2025. According to the rules of the market, a “yes” is confirmed if the National Bureau of Economic… Read More

April 2, 2025 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

NewsMax (NYSE:NMAX) floated its shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) this past week. Shareholders saw the value of the equity go hyperbolic as shares closed at $233 yesterday, rising almost $150 during the day, giving the company a market cap of over $20… Read More