Tagged: peter-paul van hoeken

June 24, 2021 @ 5:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A decision by the Canadian Securities Administration on June 23 to harmonize securities crowdfunding rules could be a huge blessing for Canadian business. On June 23 the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) introduced National Instrument 45-110 Start-up Crowdfunding Registration and Prospectus Exemptions.  According to Canadian online… Read More

March 10, 2021 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

FrontFundr, a private markets investment platform in Canada, and The51, a “Financial Feminist platform” that seeks to foster access to capital for women-led businesses, have launched a new pilot program where early-stage companies will be featured on both platforms. The two organizations hope to address… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 2:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Toronto-based Manzil, a Fintech firm that provides halal (permissible for Muslims) financial services and solutions including mortgages, wants to give the public an opportunity to invest in the firm via a private placement conducted on FrontFundr, a Canada based crowdfunding platform. Manzil’s management noted that… Read More

February 2, 2020 @ 4:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

FrontFundr, a Vancouver based Fintech and leading investment crowdfunding platform in Canada, is raising capital while advocating on behalf of a more common-sense approach to online capital formation. Canada is a smaller market that has an active early-stage community and a dedicated professional sector promoting… Read More

December 10, 2019 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

FrontFundr, Canada’s largest equity crowdfunding platform and exempt market dealer, has partnered with DealSquare, a centralized platform for private securities offerings. Crowdfund Insider previously revealed the news when it was posted on an affiliated website. Silver Maple Ventures, the holding company of FrontFunder, said in… Read More

February 8, 2019 @ 2:19 am By JD Alois  |  

In an open letter to Canadian securities regulators, leading investment crowdfunding platform FrontFundr pointed a finger at provincial regulators and their inability to foster a robust ecosystem for online capital formation for early-stage Canadian firms. Signed by Peter-Paul Van Hoeken, who is CEO of FrontFundr… Read More

April 9, 2018 @ 1:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

FrontFundr, the leading Vancouver-based Canadian online investing platform, utilizes its online exempt market dealer (EMD) status plus its modern technology to enable users across Canada to invest in innovative growth businesses in under 12 minutes and starting from $250. “We are pleased to announce that… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 12:30 pm By Bret Conkin  |  

  American culture is known for celebrating “winners.”  Canadians are known for being modest and risk averse.  Could this cultural difference explain why Canadian equity crowdfunding appears to be relatively underdeveloped so far?  We checked out the funds actually raised in 2015 and talked to some of Canada’s… Read More

May 27, 2015 @ 1:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Today, Canadian financial technology platform, FrontFundr launched with a  promise to unlock a new capital market and allow regular people to invest in private companies. FrontFundr uses technology to enable entrepreneurs to raise money from a broad investor community. This is an opportunity for the… Read More

May 18, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

The below presentation was delivered by Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada) Co-Chair Brian Koscak a the inaugural conference in Toronto on April 24, 2014.  The deck was delivered in association with a panel that included:  Carlos Pinto Lobo  from MaRS SVX, Sandi Gilbert… Read More

May 11, 2014 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

At the inaugural conference of the Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada) held last month a panel was organized to tackle the proposed crowdfunding exemptions by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).  Presently the proposed rules are in a commenting period where interested parties are allowed… Read More

April 15, 2014 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

The Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada), created to raise awareness of equity crowdfunding, is hosting the 2014 Canadian Equity Crowdfunding Conference tour. Events will take place in: Toronto (April 24), Calgary (May 27), Vancouver (May 29), and Montreal (June 4). “Recently proposed Canadian legislation, which would… Read More