Tagged: columbia university

March 1, 2021 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumers have reportedly spent over $230 million purchasing and trading digital collectibles of NBA game highlights. The NBA’s Top Shot product is a blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT)-powered digital trading card system that has managed to generate more than $230m worth of gross sales,… Read More

December 17, 2020 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fairbanc, the Silicon Valley-based Fintech firm that provides credit to the unbanked or financially underserved in Southeast Asia, has received financial backing from Columbia Business School’s student-run impact fund, Microlumbia. According to a release, this financial backing has come shortly after an investment from 500… Read More

May 29, 2019 @ 12:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

MetaProp recently announced the opening of applications for the 2019-2020 MetaProp Accelerator at Columbia University, which is a PropTech accelerator program based in New York City. According to MetaProp, the 22-week boot camp connects up to eight PropTech startups from around the world to award-winning… Read More

July 18, 2018 @ 7:51 am By Cali Haan  |  

IBM and Columbia University in New York City have announced plans to create an on-campus centre for research into blockchain tech and data transparency and the creation of an associated business accelerator for students, faculty and start ups. The related release does not indicate when… Read More

August 23, 2017 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Biz2Credit announced it has teamed up with the Columbus Business School to host the Frontiers of Digital Finance in New York on October 2nd-3rd. According to the duo, the conference will drive a discussion among those in the industry as well as policy makers… Read More

April 4, 2017 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Biz2Credit announced on Tuesday it is teaming up with Columbia Business School to host the inaugural conference of Frontiers of Digital Finance on May 31st at Lerner Hall of Columbia University’s campus in New York City.  According to Biz2Credit and Columbia Business School, the conference will… Read More

December 4, 2014 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kimbia, the single-day crowdfunding event platform for nonprofit organizations, has released their Who Gives to Crowdfunding Events? infographic. The infographic includes donor demographics from Give Local America, which has been dubbed the largest crowdfunding event to date, during which over 300,000 donors gave $53.7 million to more… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 12:27 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Science for the people, by the people. Experiment, the crowdfunding platform for scientific research, is currently trending on AngelList, and for good reason: researchers from over 150 institutions and universities are using Experiment to fund important seed-stage research that would otherwise go unfunded.  The new… Read More