Tagged: jason calacanis

September 24, 2026 @ 5:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR), issued a concise public reply after venture capitalist Jason Calacanis posted a lengthy critique that treated Bitcoin as a technology whose cultural moment had passed. The comments appeared as the cryptocurrency recovered toward the $80,000 level. Calacanis… Read More

April 15, 2022 @ 5:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

In an attempt to block the acquisition of the company by Elon Musk, the Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) Board of Directors announced a Poison Pill plan today. The move was predicted following Musk’s announcement he wanted to take the company private at a per-share price of $54.20… Read More

June 29, 2020 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin and distributed systems expert Andreas Antonopoulos recently acknowledged that decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms allow users to earn passively by using their cryptocurrency holdings. Antonopoulos, who mainly supports developments related to the Bitcoin (BTC) protocol, argued that DeFi is one of the few ways to… Read More

October 12, 2018 @ 3:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jason Calacanis is offering live crowdfunding once again – this time during LAUCH Scale in San Francisco this week. Calacanis partnered with investment crowdfunding platform SeedInvest to help match investors to the early stage firms. The event took place yesterday (Thursday, October 11, 2018) with… Read More

May 19, 2018 @ 12:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic, a mission driven investment crowdfunding platform that enables companies to raise money by selling securities including initial coin offerings, has provided an update on their progress. Shared on the 2 year anniversary of when Reg CF became actionable, Republic shares the following stats: To… Read More

January 26, 2018 @ 5:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prominent Silicon Valley investor Jason Calacanis visited with CNBC’s SquawkAlley this past week while enjoying some time in Davos, Switzerland. Last month, Calacanis told Squawk that Bitcoin is a bubble. This time, Calacanis said Bitcoin could go to zero and gave it a 1/3 chance… Read More

August 15, 2017 @ 5:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

SeedInvest has partnered once again with Jason Calacanis and his forthcoming LAUNCH Scale event to provide live crowdfunding. This is the second time SeedInvest has powered live crowdfunding for Calacanis.  In the spring of this year, SeedInvest partnered on LAUNCH Festival and helped to raise… Read More

June 6, 2017 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

SeedInvest Announces Live Crowdfunding to take place at eMERGE Americas Several weeks back, Jason Calacanis held his annual LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco. As part of the event, live crowdfunding was added to the program for the first time. In February, SeedInvest had announced it… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 1:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

LAUNCH Festival, a two-day event hosted by Jason Calacanis, kicked off yesterday with a new twist. Live crowdfunding was offered for a handful of companies that were simultaneously listed on the SeedInvest crowdfunding platform.  These companies each delivered a 3 minute explanatory pitch to a… Read More

April 5, 2017 @ 12:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

LAUNCH Festival takes place later this week and the first batch of participating companies have been released. LAUNCH, the creation of Jason Calacanis, has partnered with SeedInvest to offer live investment crowdfunding during the event.  Reportedly there will be an audience of over 12,000 individuals… Read More

February 16, 2017 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedInvest, a leading equity crowdfunding platform, has revealed a new partnership with Jason Calacanis’ Launch Festival. Launch is said to be the largest startup event in the United States. Past headliners at Launch have included Mark Cuban, Paul Graham, Evan Williams, and Yves Behar. Calacanis is… Read More

July 26, 2016 @ 3:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

With AngelList spinoff Republic’s official launch last week, we decided to take a deeper look at Republic to see how they plan to differentiate themselves in this rapidly expanding crowdfunding marketplace. AngelList, arguably the largest and most successful investment crowdfunding platform in the world, provides… Read More

July 18, 2016 @ 1:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic, an offshoot of AngelList, has launched its Title III / Regulation CF crowdfunding platform today. The company stated in a release that it would be providing investors access to “mission-driven startups” curated by the Republic team. Republic expects to garner investor interest from both… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 1:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

 Ice House, a global design and development firm today announced its official North American debut and its partnership with LAUNCH Festival (San Francisco, Feb 24-26) in the $50,000 ‘You Dream It, We Build It’ competition.  Ice House is the global design and development services specialist in applied mobile… Read More

February 10, 2014 @ 10:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

LAUNCH Festival was started only a few years ago by Jason Calacanis but it has become one of the biggest startup events of its kind.  The concept was actually started as the TechCrunch50 conference when Calacanis and Michael Arrington decided to partner up back in… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 12:21 pm By Upstart Business Journal  |  

Jason Calacanis, the founder of Mahalo and Weblogs, took some time from preparing for this week’s Launch Festival, the startup pitchfest he throws in San Francisco, to talk about that and a number of topics. This is his biggest show in six years of doing… Read More