Tagged: equitise

April 2, 2017 @ 5:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gather Online, an Australia-based gather and share platform, has recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The website is currently seeking £245,000 as it prepares to expand. Gather Online, which was launched in early 2015, describes itself as a social discovery platform that allows users to… Read More

March 20, 2017 @ 12:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Australia lauded the Australian Parliament’s vote to support the Corporations Amendment (Crowd-Sourced Funding) Bill of 2016. The advocacy group said the approval of the equity crowdfunding law will provide a major avenue for companies to raise capital and create new jobs. Fintech Australia CEO… Read More

March 8, 2017 @ 9:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding platform Equitise has launched a new “Syndicate” platform to connect Australian VCs and Angel Investors with retail investors. The shift was described as a bit of a pivot for the Australian / New Zealand – funding platform. Equitise said it was frustrated by the… Read More

February 13, 2017 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise is an investment crowdfunding platform set up to operate in New Zealand and Australia. While New Zealand created a bespoke regulatory regime to allow equity crowdfunding to evolve some time ago, Australia has struggled to enact new rules. This week, the Australian Senate published… Read More

October 14, 2016 @ 12:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

H2Ocean, the Fintech fund that expected to list shares on the ASX, has pushed pause in its public float as funding fell short of goal.  In a letter to prospective investors, Ben and Toby Heap, creators of H2Ocean, explained their challenge; “As you may know,… Read More

September 28, 2016 @ 1:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following its official launch by Australia’s treasurer, Scott Morrison, H2Ocean Limited announced it received support from financial services figures, Link Group Chairman Michael Carapiet and Perpetual Guardian founder Andrew Barnes. Other supporters include technology industry figures Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, AfterPay Executive Chairman Anthony Eisen, Ratesetter Australia… Read More

September 13, 2016 @ 1:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise’s First Big Syndicated Transaction. H2Ocean Limited is in the process of doing an initial public offering (IPO) in Australia.  The shares are expected to list on the ASX this coming October. As part of the process, H2Ocean is offering shares via an offer on Equitise –… Read More

August 25, 2016 @ 11:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

1Above, a travel well-being company, is raising capital via equity crowdfunding platform Equitise. The New Zealand based company has created an anti-jet lag concotion that apparently works quite well. We all know the detrimental effects of jet-lag that can undermine quick trips around the globe. 1Above… Read More

July 21, 2016 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise is a “Trans-Tasman Investment Platform” providing access to capital and unique investment opportunities to investors in New Zealand and Australia. Founded in Australia in 2014 by Chris Gilbert, Jonny Wilkinson and Panche Gjorgjevski, the investment crowdfunding platform soon added Will Mahon-Heap as the executive to… Read More

May 31, 2016 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Expectations were high earlier this year as Australia appeared poised to enact legislation to improve the environment for investment crowdfunding to occur in a more liberalized environment. Yet the proposal by policy makers had come under pointed criticism.  Eventually the bill “lapsed at dissolution” in… Read More

May 8, 2016 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Growing sports brand SKINS has placed its equity crowdfunding campaign on pause as multiple, large investors have indicated their interest in gaining a “substantial shareholding” in the brand.  The Swiss company launched a £2 million crowdfunding round earlier this year using both Seedrs in the… Read More

March 7, 2016 @ 9:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

International Financial firm Investec, a publicly traded company, has invested in H2 Ventures, a fintech accelerator based in Australia.  In a blog post on the H2 site the company explained; “At risk of blowing our own trumpet, we are delighted to announce today an investment… Read More

February 15, 2016 @ 9:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global sportswear brand, SKINS, announced on Monday it has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Aussie company and inventors of sports compression is working with Seedrs and  Equitise to raise £2 million out of a 10 million global fundraising… Read More

February 8, 2016 @ 5:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise has a new shareholder.  Investec Australia, a publicly traded company, announced today that it had purchased a 20% stake in the equity crowdfunding platform making it the single largest shareholder behind the Equitise co-founders.  Investec was joined in the funding round by H2 Ventures and… Read More

January 12, 2016 @ 7:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise, a “Trans-Tasman” equity crowdfunding platform has shared a few of the high-points from 2015. Originally queued up to launch in Australia, Equitise first set up shop in New Zealand as the regulatory regime moved a bit quicker in facilitating the new form of internet finance…. Read More

October 29, 2015 @ 9:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise, operating in Australia and New Zealand, has partnered with Auckland-based Syndex to create a secondary market to trade crowdfunded securities. The “Trans-Tasman” market is said to deliver “a new degree of maturity and sophistication to the nascent crowdfunded equity market in New Zealand”.  … Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Paul Niederer, CEO of ASSOB – one of the very first investment crowdfunding platforms ever, has shared his opinion of the recently published a regulatory framework for crowdfunding in Australia and, in brief, he thinks it is wrong. Forest for the Trees Niedierer believes the… Read More

August 9, 2015 @ 2:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the fast changing world of equity crowdfunding Equitise, with offices in both New Zealand and Australia, is charting new territory with a “ground breaking” offer to partially crowdfund an initial public offering (IPO) on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).  This is another sign of the… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:50 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

In the first equity crowdfunding deal for Crowdcube NZ, an extension of Crowdcube UK, cloud software firm Collect Group seeks to raise funds for its marketing and loyalty software, according to New Zealand publication Stuff. Crowdcube NZ is being run in New Zealand by Wellington boutique investment bank Armillary Private… Read More

June 2, 2015 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Snowball Effect recently surveyed their registered users and they received a lot of feedback on providing liquidity for investors. The equity crowdfunding platform initially researched the issue prior to their launch in 2014 but in the last 6 weeks the New Zealand based company has… Read More