Strategy

June 7, 2022 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The past few months have been difficult for crypto markets AND traditional securities. Both markets have flailed as inflation has rocketed higher and the Federal Reserve moves to battle rising prices by ending quantitative easing and raising interest rates. Crypto, once viewed as “digital gold”… Read More

June 6, 2022 @ 11:13 am By JD Alois  |  

    “We still believe The Merge will not happen.” Dr. Martin Hiesboeck, Head of Blockchain and Crypto Research at Uphold – a trading platform, has issued a statement slamming Ethereum while hammering creator Vitalik Buterin for his erratic and emotional Tweets. Hiesboeck is of the… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WestCap made an investment in Addepar via its Strategic Operator Fund and as a partner at the firm, Jaime Hildreth has had a “front-row seat” to witness Addepar’s steady growth in recent years. Her experience at the “nexus” of technology and private capital markets brings… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 6:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Reg A+ is one of three exemptions created under the JOBS Act of 2012 that legalized online capital formation or securities crowdfunding. Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) initially allowed issuers to raise just $1.07 million (now $5 million), while Reg A+ allowed firms to raise up… Read More

May 24, 2022 @ 12:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Noelle Acheson, Head of Market Insights at Genesis, has distributed some perspective on why crypto correlations spike during times of “uncertainty.” Markets have been in a tumble – both crypto and traditional markets have retrenched as fears of a looming recession along with Giga high… Read More

May 23, 2022 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Coinshares has distributed its weekly report on digital asset activity and according to their numbers, last week saw a $141 million outflow in digital assets. Coinshare states that currently total assets under management now stand at $38 billion – the lowest amount since July… Read More

May 23, 2022 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Earlier this month, Crowdfund Insider held a webinar to discuss the trading of private securities. Crowdfunded securities fall in this category because any security issued online via a platform or directly must be an exempt offering. This means securities issued under Reg CF, Reg… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 12:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs, a top European securities crowdfunding platform that operates an emerging secondary trading platform for securities issued on the platform, has posted an interesting write-up as to why investors trade on its secondary marketplace (and others). Recently, CI hosted a webinar on secondary transactions in… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 8:29 am By JD Alois  |  

After a painful drop where Bitcoin crashed below $30K and many other cryptocurrencies chased it down, GlobalBlock (TSXV:BLOK) sees light at the end of the tunnel – at least for now. Marcus Sotiriou, Analyst for GlobalBlock, operating in the UK has distributed a comment on… Read More

May 12, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

The past few weeks have been tough for investors. Both traditional markets and crypto markets have been battered. Expectations for much higher interest rates, aiming to mitigate crushing inflation, means the pain is here to stay – at least for a while. Regarding stock markets,… Read More

May 2, 2022 @ 12:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Radiflow, an Israeli OT cybersecurity startup, announced that it is being acquired in “a two-phase process by Sabanci Group, market leaders in the financial services, energy, and industrial sectors.” As mentioned in an update shared with CI, the initial phase entails “a $45 million primary… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 3:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

    A couple of weeks back, CI held a webinar with two investment platforms, Rialto Markets and Republic,  which both sell securities online. The topic of discussion was deal quality and the different types of securities issuers pitch when pursuing an investment crowdfunding offering…. Read More

April 24, 2022 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Marcus New, CEO and Founder of pre-IPO marketplace InvestX. InvestX delivers access, liquidity, and innovation to the private equity asset class via investments in late-stage private equity on a  trading platform, InvestX GEM. InvestX aims to empower broker-dealers and advisors… Read More

April 11, 2022 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset investors are taking profits, according to CoinShares weekly report as over $134 million in crypto exited positions – the second largest weekly outflow this year. The most popular crypto, Bitcoin was the biggest exit Hoovering up most of the outflow at $132 million…. Read More

April 4, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance’s Chief Technology Officer, Rohit Wad recently shared why he decided to make the leap to crypto and blockchain, and the projects that “excite” him. Rohit noted that before the COVID-19 pandemic, his mother “didn’t even use credit cards.” He added that now, she knows… Read More

March 30, 2022 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies have recently experienced a solid rise in price. Bitcoin, the world’s most popular crypto is up by around 10% just this week. This week,  Noelle Acheson, Head of Market Insights at Genesis, shared her opinion on the bullish crypto market. Acheson… Read More

March 28, 2022 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

At the beginning of 2022, Gemini had welcomed their CTO, Pravjit Tiwana, who joined them from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Pravjit is responsible for leading Gemini’s Engineering, Product, and Information Security teams, with “a vision of building customer-centric innovative products that harness the opportunities of… Read More

March 27, 2022 @ 7:17 pm By Adam Putz, PhD,  |  

The blistering pace of venture capital deployment has emerged as one of the more salient investment themes from the pandemic. As Fred Wilson, partner at Union Square Ventures, observes, “It is tempting to mourn the loss of careful and considered investing but from where I… Read More

March 23, 2022 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When one of the most prominent firms, Andreessen Horowitz, proclaimed in January 2020 that “every company will be a fintech company”, it “spurred a big debate,” according to the team at UK’s MarketFinance. How much should software platforms “build their own solutions, versus embedding third… Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 1:22 pm By Jamie Finn  |  

One of the biggest challenges founders and CEOs of startups face is funding: courting angels and VCs, pitch decks, travel, and meetings, getting ghosted, negotiating and swallowing unreasonable terms, eroding control–all at the expense of actually running and growing the business. When you hear the… Read More