Offerings

June 13, 2017 @ 3:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than three years after successfully securing £203,000 through Crowdcube, leather bag company, Beara Beara, has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform to raise £380,000 as it plans to establish a new factor and open a larger store in London. Beara Beara currently has shops… Read More

June 13, 2017 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fundrise, one of the leading online investment platforms for real estate, has launched the “2.0” version of their platform. Fundrise has created a Robo-Advisor focused on real estate thus providing an investing tool to match individual investor needs. Ben Miller, co-founder and CEO of Fundrise,… Read More

June 13, 2017 @ 2:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RideLink (previously known as DriveJoy), an online community where car owners can safely rent their cars directly to drivers, has successfully secured its initial £1 million funding target and has raised well over £1.1 million through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The initiative has already attracted more… Read More

June 13, 2017 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Roomba inventor, Joe Jones, alongside Massachusetts-based robotics company Franklin Robotics, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter seeking $130,000 for his latest invention, a weed-killing robot called Tertill. The Tertill is described as a solar-powered and weatherproof robot that weeds gardens every day. The campaign’s description… Read More

June 13, 2017 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Spanish “urban craft distillery,” Santamanía, is seeking £400,000 (€460,000) in an equity crowdfunding campaign launched on Crowdcube. The offer is for a 5.41% equity stake at a pre money valuation of just under £7 million.  The crowdfunding round is already partially funded at 46% of… Read More

June 13, 2017 @ 7:04 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

Last week it was announced that fintech wealth management platform Addepar had raised $140 million in its Series D round of funding. The funding round was led by Valor Equity Partners, 8VC and investment manager Harald McPike. Operating System for Wealth Managers Based in Mountain… Read More

June 13, 2017 @ 4:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

WiseAlpha, a UK online lending platform that gives everyday investors access to high yield institutional bond and loan investments, has raised over £909K on its Crowdcube, 180% over its original target, with days remaining. Originally offering 8.92% equity, WiseAlpha has taken it up a notch, offering 12.43%.  The… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 5:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Finland-based Ägräs Distillery recently completed its latest equity crowdfunding round on Invesdor. The company, which previously secured €200,000 through its first Invesdor campaign, closed the round with a grand total of €377,340. Ägräs Distillery was founded in mid-2015 and is headquartered, produces, and has entertainment facilities in… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 3:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter and Indiegogo alum Knix Wear recently announced the launch of its new leakproof undies line, Knixteen, which is specifically targeted towards teen girls 12 years old and older. The company previously secured $1,551,287 from more than 19,000 backers through Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns for its 8-in-1 Evolution… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 2:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

CommonBond is reporting they have closed a $231 million securitization of refinanced student loans. The online lender says the issuance received their highest ratings to date with Moody’s rating Aa3, DBRS at AA. The securitization was CommonBond’s fourth and largest and was said to be… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 11:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a month after launching its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, London-based whisky brand 8O8 has successfully surpassed its initial £300,000 and is currently nearing £365,000 thanks to more than 200 investors. 8O8, which was founded in 2014 by co-founders, Tommy Danvers and Paul Pullinger,  is… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With nearly one week until its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube comes to an end, online premium personal styling service for men, The Chapar, has successfully secured its initial £1 million funding target thanks to more than 570 investors. As previously reported, The Chapar describes… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 8:08 am By JD Alois  |  

ZrCoin, based in Russia, says it has raised $7.07 million in cryptocurrency from 3,955 investors during their Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The offer was live from May 11th to June 9th and was hosted on the Waves platform. The company says the funds collected will… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 5:32 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Powervault has proven that successive raises on Crowdcube can be very successful.  In the middle of the UK company’s fourth raise, the home battery system with a pre-money valuation of £8,083,548 aims to enable customers to make smarter use of their energy by harnessing freely-generated solar energy and off-peak… Read More

June 12, 2017 @ 4:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“We’re living in scary times. Holocaust denial has been on the rise. Anti-Semitism and hatred is extremely worrisome. It’s on the front of a lot of minds, certainly this institution. These diaries, these first-person accounts, testimonies, this is the evidence,” commented U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Director… Read More

June 11, 2017 @ 3:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Next week two smaller companies intend on listing their shares on a public exchange. What is interesting about this fact is that each of these companies used Regulation A or Reg A+ to facilitate this “mini-IPO” type offer. Created by Title IV of the JOBS… Read More

June 9, 2017 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Adomani has announced the official closing of its Reg A+ crowdfunding round having raised $14.261 million. Crowdfund Insider reported earlier this week the offer had closed at $14.45 million, according to the offer page on FlashFunders. The company said it expects its shares to trade… Read More

June 9, 2017 @ 3:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Myomo, a medical robotics company that has developed powered brace to support a weak arm, will become the first Regulation A (Reg A+) issuer to immediately go from crowdfunding to actively trading on an exchange. Myomo will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange… Read More

June 9, 2017 @ 10:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Oh, the places you will go and the beaches you will see! The Shark Tank Your Life Winner The Undress V3 aims to help backers transition from beach to town simpler, or at least, less revealing. With three successful Kickstarter campaigns and over $864K and… Read More

June 9, 2017 @ 9:50 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In Nordic countries tapping trees is a centuries old springtime ritual, with people enjoying the vitamin and mineral rich birch sap as a cleansing and rejuvenating post winter tonic. True to tradition, during this spring Tåpped has sought to tap into the crowd to help grow… Read More