Tagged: ipo

December 18, 2016 @ 6:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

During the past 15 years, the number of emerging growth companies entering the capital markets through IPOs has plummeted relative to historical norms. This trend has transcended economic cycles during that period and has hobbled U.S. job creation. In fact, by one estimate, the decline… Read More

December 15, 2016 @ 4:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation A, or Reg A+ as everyone now calls it, has been heralded as the future of small IPOs by some. The updated securities exemption was created by Title IV of the JOBS Act and came into effect during 2015. Allowing smaller companies to raise… Read More

November 10, 2016 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor is celebrating the “first” European company to provide an exit by IPO as shares trade on Nasdaq First North Helsinki (ISIN FI4000127527) . Heeros Oyj raised €3.4m from 700 retail investors with its IPO on the Invesdor crowdfunding platform. that took place this past October. In… Read More

November 9, 2016 @ 1:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the closing of Heeros Oyj’s IPO subscription period on Invesdor last week, the funding portal’s co-founder and CEO, Lasse Mäkelä, declared more than 700 investors participated during the round. He announced on Twitter earlier this week: More than 700 investors participated in #Heeros #IPO via @Invesdor – Congrats!… Read More

November 8, 2016 @ 1:58 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Founded in 2000 and helmed by CEO and Executive Director Mark Evans, Dreamscape Networks has grown organically and without external funding to be the leading .au domain brand in Australia, and as of this past June, holds a 30% market share for .au domains with 34% market… Read More

October 20, 2016 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Heeros Oyj, a Finnish cloud-based financial management software solutions company, announced this week it is IPOing on Nasdaq First North growth market in Finland. The company revealed the subscription period of the IPO started on Wednesday through crowdfunding platform Invesdor. This launch comes one year after… Read More

September 23, 2016 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Lufax, one of China’s largest peer to peer lending platforms, is preparing for its long-awaited IPO. This is according to a report in Reuters that stated the IPO could raise $5 billion. At the last funding round, Lufax captured a valuation topping $18 billion.  China… Read More

August 2, 2016 @ 10:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Indiegogo alum, ieCrowd, announced the launch of its Crowdfunder equity crowdfunding campaign. The company’s key focus is to bring health innovations to the marketplace and its previous Indiegogo campaign was dedicated to its DEET-free mosquito repellent, Kite Shield. The company revealed: “ieCrowd’s commercialization process… Read More

June 18, 2016 @ 3:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week LendInvest appointed  Stephen Wilcke as a Senior Advisor.  Wilcke has a long track in finance including being  CEO of HM Treasury’s Asset Protection Agency.  He was also head of OneSavings Bank where he positioned the firm for an IPO back in 2014.  Now… Read More

May 15, 2016 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Billionaire shark and outspoken entrepreneur Mark Cuban is considering using Title IV of the JOBS Act. He sees the updated securities exemption as a huge opportunity.  Currently, most of the Mark Cuban media coverage has focused on him taking up the banner of the #nevertrump… Read More

April 21, 2016 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, beauty website, BeautyKind, announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved of its Regulation A+ initial public offering (IPO). This offer is being conducted by WR Hambrecht + Co, which acts as the sole underwriter. The company is currently seeking a minimum of… Read More

February 23, 2016 @ 10:09 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

    At the Continuum SF Innovation and Credit Conference in San Francisco I recently attended, those present listened to a solid lineup of speakers discuss business development and more in SF and across the Pacific in China. Speakers included SF Mayor Ed Lee; Rob Suber,… Read More

January 24, 2016 @ 8:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Elevate Credit, an online lender in the payday loan space, decided to hold off on its IPO last week as the realities of an exceptionally volatile market gave pause to management.   Elevate CEO Ken Rees stated; “Although the response to the marketing of our planned… Read More

January 19, 2016 @ 2:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, chief legal officer of crowdfunding platform Seedrs, Karren Kerrigan, and chairman for tax and economic affairs of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Tony Baron, sat down with Workspace to discuss their 2016 predictions for alternative finance. During the interview, Kerrigan stated alternative finance will… Read More

November 23, 2015 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

In a blog post, LoanDepot CEO Anthony Hsieh explained his decision to hold off on launching an IPO for now.  Hsieh used the experience of Square, which dropped its IPO price by 25% to boost investor interest just prior to offering shares to the public…. Read More

November 9, 2015 @ 2:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Seedrs announced that blockchain investment company, Coinsilium, launched a campaign on its platform as part of its initial public offerings (IPO) plans. Chief Investment Officer at Seedrs, Thomas Davies, stated in a blog post: “When Seedrs raised a secondary public offering for Chapel… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this fall, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced it became a public benefit corporation (PBC). This type of corporation performs a specific function for the benefit of the public. Now CEO and co-founder of the famous website, Yancey Strickler is ready to share details about the business’ change and… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 10:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding platform, announced on Friday that WayBetter, which runs the social dieting website, DietBet, successfully conducted one of the first “testing the waters” fund-raising campaigns under the new mini-IPO rules, which went into effect on June 19th. The company received $9.3 million of investment interest… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Innovation Economy Corporation, commonly referred to as ieCrowd, is launching its IPO to retail investors using TriPoint Global Equities online investment platform BANQ.  ieCrowd is a “health innovations commercializations company” and lists several known products as part of its portfolio. ieCrowd states it will use BANQ to help… Read More

May 22, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“We are extremely excited by the possibilities of the next decade in the alternative finance market… OnDeck’s vision is to transform how money flows to small businesses by leveraging our platform to provide capital on demand for small business owners. The data flowing through a small… Read More