Tagged: angellist

April 22, 2014 @ 1:10 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

In its concurrent fourth tranche of funding in past two years, Dealflicks has raised $750,000, with roughly $150,000 of it coming from Wefunder so far, bringing their total raise for their cumulative seed round up to $1,545,000. In past tranches, Dealflicks raised $115K in September… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Accredited Investors May Participate in Fund with a Minimum $2500 Investment. The RevTech Labs III 506(c) Index fund is officially open for investment. With the launch of the RevTech Labs III class, the fund allows accredited investors to invest in the spread of 10 startup… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

AngelList co-founder and CEO Naval Ravikant took to his blog over the weekend to outline what could be a new paradigm in funding startups. It melds the crowdfunding model with a novel cryptocurrency that in theory could allow a company to “go public” without the… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 8:13 am By Erin Hobey  |  

After taking AngelList by storm in 2013, Boatbound has raised $980K in commitments and has room to invest up to 1.1 M with its  OurCrowd equity crowdfunding campaign; their campaign ends today.  Boatbound is the nation’s fastest growing “pier-to-pier” boat rental marketplace in the United… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 11:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In an interview with BusinessDay, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund CEO Franceska Banga expressed optimism when asked about the impact equity crowdfunding’s implementation could have on New Zealand startups and the investment community as a whole. The early-stage investment community, and particularly angel networks and… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform AngelList has announced a new feature for their growing platform: Filtered alerts now allows investors to monitor specific characteristics such as location, type of offer, and other variables to aid in managing the growing number of businesses listing on their platform.  As… Read More

January 24, 2014 @ 10:18 am By Brad Feld  |  

Brad Feld is a venture capitalist with the Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. He invests in software and Internet companies around the United States. The following post was shared with permission. When the JOBS Act was finalized, one of the rule changes that had a lot of… Read More

January 23, 2014 @ 9:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Bob Rice is Managing Partner at Tangent Capital Partners and Bloomberg TV’s Alternative Investment Editor. He sat down with Steven Dresner of Dealflow.com to discuss crowdfunding, the JOBS Act and some perhaps unforeseen hangups for equity crowdfunding in the US. Interestingly, Rice and Dresner discuss something… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 1:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Worlds “first citizen science project to sequence the human micro biome” – uBiome – raised $351,000 on Indiegogo in one of the largest “citizen science” crowdfunding campaigns ever.  The campaign ran from November 16, 2012 to February 18, 2013 – closing almost one year ago…. Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Interested accredited investors will have the opportunity to own a part of ByOwner.com.  The advertising site is seeking equity crowdfunding investors via AngelList to raise capital needed to advance its position as the safest online community to post free classified ads for over ninety categories of products and services. … Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: At least one crowdfunding platform has stepped forward saying they were left off the list. iFunding emailed Crowdfund Insider to clarify that they have raised about $3 million on their platform since launch. RockThePost has shared a top-ten list of equity crowdfunding platforms currently operating in the… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Stack  |  

Angel investing involves accredited investors (millionaires) investing directly in the private stock of early stage companies. Millionaires are rare—they make up 1.5% of the world and 4% of the US. As most entrepreneurs quickly learn, angels are very, very rare. Only 3% of all accredited… Read More

October 25, 2013 @ 11:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Entrepreneur | Successful Crowdfunding Is About More Than Money It is something we say over and over again: crowdfunding is about more than money. Specifically, entrpereneurs and project creators can and should make use of the feedback they get from the crowd to inform their strategies…. Read More

October 19, 2013 @ 2:57 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

VentureBeat: WePay’s API pays off, handles 648% more crowdfunding volume than last year The headline says it all… WePay is seeing some pretty impressive traction providing payment services to crowdfunding campaigns, but they’re quickly moving toward robust solutions for platforms as well. A provided API has… Read More

October 3, 2013 @ 12:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Foundry Group is a VC fund focused on early-stage IT, internet and software startups. The firm has just announced the formation of FG Angels, an AngelList Syndicate that aims to funnel $2.5 million in funding into 50 companies between now and the end of 2014…. Read More

October 1, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

For entrepreneurs and investment professionals, opportunity lies where there is access to investors. It is a reality that has paid dividends for AngelList, especially in light of the recent release of AngelList Syndicates. AngelList focused on the network first. Now Title II and general solicitation… Read More

September 24, 2013 @ 10:52 am By Charles Luzar  |  

AngelList has been testing a new feature called AngelList Syndicates. Synidcates allow accredited investors to pool resources, and the syndicator can charge a carry for value adds similar to many hedge funds and VCs. AngelList explains… Here’s an example. Sara decides to invest in a… Read More

September 23, 2013 @ 11:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

With the lifting of the ban on general solicitation, today marks the beginning of a grand experiment in capital formation in the United States. It is also a boon to a crowdfunding industry that has largely been on autopilot while the implementation timeline of the… Read More

September 21, 2013 @ 1:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a message to AngelList members, the accredited investor platform announced that “Public Fundraising” starts on Monday, September 23, 2013.  This date coincides with the SEC designated date when the ban on “General Solicitation” or advertising has been lifted on certain private placement offerings. Companies… Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

 San Francisco based startup Crave has announced a successful Series A Round  raising $2.4 Million from over 60 Angel investors.  Many of the investors were sourced online via the AngelList – Invest Online platform.  Crave specializes in the design and manufacture of discreet and elegant luxury… Read More