Tagged: reg cf

August 11, 2026 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Netcapital (NASDAQ:NCL), an early entrant in the securities crowdfunding sector, has been charged with fraud. According to a report by Reuters, the Securities and Exchange ​Commission has filed charges in Boston Federal Court alleging that NetCapital improperly recorded $14 million in revenue from consulting by… Read More

August 6, 2026 @ 2:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

GUARDD, founded by Sherwood Neiss who is also the co-founder of Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) and one of the authors of the JOBS Act which approved online capital formation, recently met with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to discuss secondary trading of tokenized exempt… Read More

July 30, 2026 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission held its annual Small Business Forum back in March of this year. This past week, the SEC published recommendations from participants in the gathering. These recommendations are available here. Several of the suggestions impact online capital formation, including Reg CF…. Read More

July 27, 2026 @ 10:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Kingscrowd, a leading data provider for online capital formation, is extending its Reg CF funding round listed on StartEngine. Typically, platforms in the funding portal/online capital formation sector will partner with another platform to raise money online. Kingscrowd covers data for both Reg CF and… Read More

July 26, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

Darren Marble has spent years arguing that the wall between entertainment and investing doesn’t need to exist – and that tearing it down could actually make private capital formation more transparent, not less. Marble, Founder and CEO of Going Public, joined ICAN co-hosts Nick Morgan,… Read More

July 7, 2026 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Reg CF, the smallest securities exemption that supports investment crowdfunding, experienced a solid rebound in the month of June following a dismal first quarter and slow month of May. As was reported last month, Q1 2026 generated 485 closed offerings in Q1 202 d5, just… Read More

June 16, 2026 @ 5:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation CF, or Reg CF, is the smallest of the securities crowdfunding exemptions, as issuers may raise up to $5 million. Still, the exemption has helped build an industry in which smaller firms can access capital through a regulated securities offering open to anyone, not just Accredited Investors…. Read More

June 12, 2026 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA), a leading consulting and data group that supports online capital formation, has launched a new series of “Crowdfinance Indices.” The benchmarks are updated daily and cover Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF), the smallest securities exemption that enables online capital formation. These Indices… Read More

May 16, 2026 @ 5:40 pm By Sherwood Neiss  |  

For the 10th anniversary of Regulation Crowdfunding, Crowdfund Capital Advisors releases the first comprehensive analysis of what a full decade of the RegCF market has produced Ten years ago today, Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) went live, giving everyday Americans the legal right to invest in… Read More

May 14, 2026 @ 12:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Netcapital (NASDAQ:NCPL) is exiting online capital formation or securities crowdfunding. Netcapital was founded by Jason Frishman in 2014 as a FINRA-regulated funding portal. In a recent company statement, Netcapital stated it was moving away from online capital formation, “as it plans to evolve from a… Read More

April 30, 2026 @ 2:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation Crowdfunding, or Reg CF, is a securities exemption that enables online capital formation for smaller issuers. The exemption only requires a notice filing with the SEC, and thus does not need to be “qualified” by the regulator before the business raises money online. Typically,… Read More

April 26, 2026 @ 10:50 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

In a recent episode of Capital Ideas, ICAN’s Nick Morgan, Mark Hiraide, and Dara Albright sat down with Silicon Prairie Founder and CEO David Duccini to unpack what’s actually working in modern capital formation and what isn’t. The conversation cut through the hype around crowdfunding… Read More

April 14, 2026 @ 9:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Kingscrowd, a data and analytics company for online capital formation, recently published its Q1 2026 update, which highlights a softer market for investment crowdfunding under Reg CF and Reg A. Currently, there is no comprehensive data on Reg D offerings, which many platforms support, so… Read More

April 9, 2026 @ 10:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie is a tenacious participant in the investment crowdfunding sector. Founded by David Duccini in 2016 and based in the Midwest, the platform has continued to iterate and add new services as it adapts to the evolving marketplace of online capital formation. Over time,… Read More

April 2, 2026 @ 5:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

While venture capital is booming, largely due to the hot artificial intelligence (AI) sector, Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) is in the doldrums, according to a report from Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA). According to their numbers, Reg CF cratered during the first three months of 2026…. Read More

March 27, 2026 @ 11:49 am By Nick Morgan  |  

In a recent episode of ICAN’s Capital Ideas podcast, Vertalo CEO Dave Hendricks delivered a clear and unapologetic thesis: distributed ledger technology is not a speculative crypto experiment. It is a once-in-a-century upgrade to how ownership is recorded. And in his view, the regulatory moment… Read More

March 26, 2026 @ 3:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation Crowdfunding, or Reg CF, is the smallest security exemption that enables online capital formation. Currently, Reg CF enables an issuer to raise up to $5 million in a securities offering that needs only a notice filing and can solicit from both Accredited and non-Accredited… Read More

February 25, 2026 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) is the smallest of the securities exemptions that enables online capital formation. The ecosystem has evolved over the years, having enabled over $1.34 billion as of 2024. As it stands today, an issuer may raise up to $5 million in a… Read More

February 23, 2026 @ 9:17 am By Michael Wong  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance issued revised staff interpretations on Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF), offering new guidance on how issuers can switch intermediary platforms, calculate fundraising caps, and comply with filing obligations for longer-running offerings. Reg CF was part of the… Read More

February 2, 2026 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sherwood Neiss, founder of Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA), has submitted a statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) advocating for improvements to secondary markets for crowdfunded securities. At the same time, Neiss has sent a letter to the House Committee on Financial Services,… Read More