Tagged: angellist

AngelList Year in Review: Raised $163 Million in 2015

Disruptive investment crowdfunding platform AngelList has published an end of the year recap.  The digital funding and job board community states that it raised $163 million during 2015. This number was generated for 441 startups funded by 3,379 investors. There are approximately 770,000 companies with… Read More

Foundry Group Founder Brad Feld Shares AngelList Syndicate Experience as “Experiment” Ends

Brad Feld, co-founder of VC firm Foundry Group, has taken to his personal blog to talk about his experience in running a syndicate on AngelList. Feld announced earlier this week that they were ending their FG Angels Syndicate experiment. AngelList launched their syndicate option in… Read More

The First Investment Crowdfunding Fraud. What Does this Mean for the Industry?

During the buildup to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s announcement regarding the final rules on Title III retail crowdfunding, the Commission filed a fraud case in the US District Court of Nevada.  The SEC accused Ascenergy, a company ostensibly in the oil and gas industry,… Read More

AngelList Gives Platform Update at SEC Event on Small Business Capital Formation (Deck)

Kevin Laws, Chief Operating Officer of AngelList, delivered an “illuminating” presentation at the SEC Government Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation yesterday. AngelList, a leader in the equity crowdfunding sector, has become an important catalyst in the online finance space innovating and expanding its… Read More

SEC Calls Fraud on Ascenergy Oil & Gas Crowdfunding Scheme

Lost in all of the excitement of last weeks’ announcement from the SEC on Title III crowdfunding rules was a case of crowdfunding fraud.  According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the agency halted a “fraudulent oil and gas crowdfunding scheme”.  The SEC has frozen… Read More

How Much Money Would You Be Worth if You Had Invested in Uber on AngelList?

Uber is a poster child for the collaborative economy and the new breed of unicorns cropping up. The profound success of Uber and their disruptive approach to public transport has flipped the taxi-cab industry upside down – for the better. Sure, they are marching in… Read More

Brief: AngelList Launches iOS App for Jobs

Crowded out by the huge announcement of AngelList signing a deal that will direct $400 million towards early stage startups made possible by CSC Upshot was the revelation the platform had launched a new App for startup jobs.  Described as like the Tinder for tech… Read More

AngelList Partners Up with China’s 3rd Largest Private Equity Group in $400 Million Seed Fund

AngelList has posted a “few announcements” on their blog today.  CSC Upshot, a new venture capital firm, has raised a $400 million fund to invest in startups on AngelList.  According to AngelList this is the 3rd largest seed stage fund ever.  AngelList has raised approximately… Read More

Disintermediation, Due Diligence & Harnessing the Insight of the Rational Crowd

  If you’ve even casually followed the startup world over the last five years there’s a word that you’ve surely heard – disintermediation. It’s a fancy new word for a plain old business concept: cutting out the middleman. Disintermediation, to its devotees, is the role… Read More

Whatever Happened to the Crowdfunding Patent Lawsuit?

Back in January of this year, Crowdfund Insider covered a patent lawsuit that sought to challenge many of the prominent US crowdfunding platforms in operation today.  This included both rewards/donations and investment crowdfunding platforms.  AlphaCap ventures, a company that has been described as a patent troll,… Read More

Role Reversal: Dragons’ Den’-Style Panel Of Entrepreneurs Question VCs During London Tech Week,

In a turning of the tables, VCs recently took the stage before a “Dragons’ Den”-style panel of entrepreneurs to pitch for themselves. The event was held by Innovate Finance, part of a series of events complementing London Tech Week, as Innovate Finance reports. “Could it be time for disruption… Read More

Blockchain Capital Announces First Closing of Second Venture Capital Fund; Rebrands From Crypto Currency Partners

Blockchain Capital announced today the first closing of its second venture capital fund and rebranding from Crypto Currency Partners, according to Managing Partner Brad Stephens. The firm’s second fund has raised $7 million in a first close and will continue to invest in blockchain-enabled technology companies… Read More

Watch: Naval Ravikant & Dave McClure Talk AngelList Funding & More

AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and ubiquitous VC Dave McClure (500 Startups) sat down together at the PreMoney gathering in San Francisco, an “invite only” event on the future of venture capital. The pair first chatted about the hot topic of is there, or isn’t there,… Read More

‘Making Renting An Airplane As Easy As Renting A Car,” OpenAirplane Is Now Crowdfunding on SeedInvest

Glimmering just ahead, summer offers the hope of beach days, picnics, hikes, ice cream until it hurts and, if the petsitter is available, travel. The minor (major) hassles of transportation–airplane delays or cancellations, a sea of brake lights–will be worth it. Certainly. But if one could reduce… Read More

MIT Professor: Syndicates Are Best Approach for Equity Crowdfunding Investors

MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Christian Catalini has targeted his research on the economics of innovation, entrepreneurial finance and crowdfunding.  Catalini is part of an elite few academicians who are analyzing the emergent investment crowdfunding space, so when he shares his findings, and associated perspective, it is… Read More

New York Accelerator StartUp Health Among First Accelerators to Launch Crowdfunding Syndicate on AngelList

StartUp Health, a New York-based technology accelerator, is now among the earliest accelerators to begin health-investing syndicates on AngelList, according to a recent story in Wall Street Journal’s blog, Venture Capital Dispatch. The accelerator also calls itself an “academy,” due to its multi-year involvement with digital-health startups. Companies… Read More

Rocketbook Announces Indiegogo Initiative at Launch Festival 2015; Secures Over $40,000 in a Matter of Days

Rocketbook is the easiest way for people who prefer handwritten notes to also enjoy the ease and convenience of organized cloud storage. Joe Lemay, the CEO of Rocket Innovations, announced his newest product yesterday at Launch Festival in San Francisco, California. Rocketbook went live on… Read More

On AngelList: CamFind It is A Visual Search Engine That Lets You Google the World by Taking a (Smartphone) Picture

Snap a picture of any object with the CamFind app, and you’ll get the details on what the item is and where to buy it. The app, developed by Image Searcher, Inc., is “the only successful visual search engine worldwide,” and also translates into several… Read More

Fund Wisdom: Equity Crowdfunding Public Offerings Drove $278M in Angel Investing for 2014

Fund Wisdom, an equity analytics firm analyzing online equity offerings, released its first annual Investment Insight report for 2014. The report details industry-wide online private equity offerings from top investment platforms including AngelList, SeedInvest, WeFunder, Onevest, Fundable, EquityNet, Return On Change, CrowdFunder, and EarlyShares for… Read More

“Is it a Crowd? Is it a Herd? Is it a Problem?” How Informed Startup (Crowd) Investors Really Are.

Welcome to the Jungle New York City, 1968. Busy street. A group of people have stopped on the sidewalk to look up at a window on the 6th floor of the adjacent office building. No one is in plain sight. No one is trying to… Read More