Tagged: milestone

February 9, 2016 @ 9:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, UK-based Crowdcube celebrated its fifth birthday by unveiling a timeline of significant events and equity crowdfunding milestones. Sharing his thoughts about the portal’s successes so far, co-founder of Crowdcube, Darren Westlake, stated: “The past five years have been amazing. To think that we’ve created… Read More

February 4, 2016 @ 10:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, real estate crowdfunding platform iFunding announced that it has hit a new milestone. The portal revealed that it returned over $5 million of capital to investors during 2015’s calendar year. Founder and CEO of iFunding, William Skelley, shared: “The entire team is excited… Read More

December 21, 2015 @ 4:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, accredited crowdfunding platform RealtyShares announced it has reached more than $100 million invested to date. Each investment was made on the platform from accredited and institutional investors who have invested in over 270 transactions involving over 1,500 different properties. CEO of RealtyShares, Nav Athwal, stated:… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 5:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, New Zealand-based Snowball Effect announced it has made a few changes after $10 million was raised through its Kiwi investment crowdfunding platform.  While sharing details about its updated website, the platform shared: “The new website incorporates your feedback and our learnings from the first… Read More

November 4, 2015 @ 4:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, crowdfunding leader Kickstarter announced that it hit a huge milestone last month. The platform shared: “On October 11th, the Kickstarter community pledged its two billionth dollar towards bringing creativity to life. Six and a half years into Kickstarter’s history, this new way of making… Read More

November 2, 2015 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Lending Club (LC:NYSE) announced that it has surpassed $13 billion from borrowers since its launch in 2006. Lending Club is the “world’s largest online marketplace.” The platform connects borrowers with investors in a streamlined, low friction process that have seen growing acceptance by consumers. The company… Read More

October 28, 2015 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dealstruck, an online direct lender, announced on Wednesday the completion of over $100 million in loans to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) nationally. Since inception, in October 2013, the firm has been committed to providing fast-growing and profitable SMBs with flexible, affordable and transparent financing…. Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 12:50 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Wow. $40,000,000+ in crowdfunding cash from 400,000+ backers for Star Citizen. To put that in perspective, the 2010 census placed the population of Wyoming – the smallest state by population – at somewhere around 560,000 people. At what point should Star Citizen get a couple of Senators and… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s one of the top 1,000 web sites in the world. It’s been used to fund small, personal pet projects and it’s been used to spur enormous companies. It creates jobs. It’s a platform, an idea, and now even a verb. Do you start a… Read More