Zilch, a UK-based buy now, pay later fintech, announced on Wednesday it secured $30 million through its oversubscribed pre Series B in less than three weeks. The latest funding round comes just a few months after Zilch raised $10 million. As previously reported, Zilch… Read More
Crowdcube, one of the leading UK investment crowdfunding platforms, recently announced it has celebrated a new milestone: now having one million members. The funding portal reported its community has made more than 800,000 investments, with £1 billion having been invested in campaigns. Founded in 2010,… Read More
AlphaCredit, a Latin American fintech that specializes in consumer lending and financial solutions for SMEs, announced on Sunday it has signed an equity round for up to $125 million. The round is led by SoftBank’s Latin America Fund and will notably allow AlphaCredit to continue… Read More
Lendbuzz, a U.S.-based fintech company that aims to disrupt the existing car financing market using machine learning algorithms, announced on Monday it secured $150 million in debt and equity financing. The company reported that this latest funding round was led by 83North with significant participation from existing… Read More
Credit Sesame, a personalized credit service and financial wellness company, announced on Wednesday it secured $42 million in equity and venture debt funding. According to the fintech startup, the funding comes from existing and new investors including Menlo Ventures, Inventus Capital, Globespan Capital, IA Capital,… Read More
Wells Fargo announced on Monday four early-stage fintech companies, Edquity, Hurdlr, Redrock Biometrics, and SimSpace, are the latest startups to join the Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator. The banking giant revealed that it started the non-exclusive, six-month program a little over three years ago to join startups in… Read More
Fineqia International Inc. (CSE: FNQ) (OTCPink: FNQQF) (Frankfurt: FNQA) has announced today that its U.K. subsidiary Fineqia Limited is launching a beta version of its new debt and equity platform that brings crowd investors selected and risk-mitigated opportunities, many of which were previously only available to… Read More
On Thursday, tabletop game creator, Tasty Minstrel Games (TMG), launched its equity crowdfunding campaign through Indiegogo. Founded in 2010, the company has secured more than $2.5 million on Kickstarter to fund 26 individual hobby board gaming projects. While sharing details about the company’s history, the… Read More
Los Angeles-based fintech startup ProducePay has secured $7 million in equity and $70 debt during its recent financing round, which was led by CoVenture with participation from Menlo Ventures, Arena Ventures, Red Bear Angels, and Social Leverage. ProducePay, which was founded in 2014, describes itself… Read More
Less than two months after Indiegogo teamed up with MicroVentures to launch its equity crowdfunding platform, campaigns on the platform have successfully secured $1 million in funding. There are currently five initiatives on the website. Indiegogo launched the new equity portal with MicroVentures on November 15th, which… Read More
On Thursday, NextGen Crowdfunding announced details about the first series of online awards programs, the Crowdfunding Video Awards (CVAs). This new event will notably recognize the best videos from both reward and equity crowdfunding campaigns. NextGen reported that the CVAs will provide campaign organizers new ways… Read More
On Friday, SEC-registered equity crowdfunding platform, Jumpstart Micro, announced it has officially opened and debuted three offerings for Axe Digital, TravelBook App, and Treycent. This launch comes just a few months after Title III of the Jobs Act went officially into effect. Offering up details… Read More
Global insurance provider, American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG), has announced the launch of a new insurance vehicle, Crowdfunding Fidelity, which was developed specifically to protect investors on equity crowdfunding platforms against issuer fraud. The launch of AIG’s new insurance comes just a little over a week after Title III… Read More
This week, crowdfunding platform EquityNet unveiled a new equity crowdfunding checklist that will help businesses find success with their upcoming campaigns. The following was reported by EquityNet. The company is legally formed – in this instance; the platform used an LLC as an example: Choose a… Read More
Ready to ring in the new calendar year with positive thoughts and motivation, debt and equity based crowdfunding platform, Invesdor unveiled more details about its success throughout 2015. The Helsinki-based website shared: “Over the last 12 months, Invesdor has grown. So has the European crowdfunding scene…. Read More
With the new year just around the corner, online financial publication and social community for investors, Equities, revealed its predictions for what’s in store for the debt crowdfunding in 2016. The website shared in a post titled 7 Reasons Why Private Equity Loans Will Overtake Debt… Read More
NextGen Crowdfunding has announced that reward-based crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, will be participating in its November 19th Equity Crowdfunding Conference in Santa Monica, California. Amanda Hat, Senior Director of Growth Innovation at Indiegogo, will join other industry leaders discussing current and future directions in crowdfunding.Aubrey Chernick, founder… Read More
This week, UK equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube announced that it has hit a new milestone. The investment platform has now successfully funded 300 raises. The platform explained: “Today we have over 200,000 members and an ever growing network of growth stage businesses approaching Crowdcube, and… Read More
This week, investment research firm Crowdability, Inc. unveiled CrowdabilityIQ, a ratings and research service designed specifically for the equity crowdfunding market. With over 100 million retail investing households in the United States, equity crowdfundingthe online offering of private company securities to accredited and non-accredited investorscould become… Read More
In order to start expanding, Poole-based cargo bike manufacturer, Boxer Cycle, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs with a mission to raise £48,000 with a 7.41% per equity. The company stated: “Boxer Cycles are based in Poole, Dorset and use local manufacturers and… Read More
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