Tagged: regulation a

June 22, 2022 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Boxabl is currently raising capital on two different investment crowdfunding platforms: StartEngine and Republic. As was previously reported, Boxabl is aiming to raise up to $1.07 billion in a Reg D – Reg A+ funding round. The funding is divvied up with a $500 million Reg… Read More

June 15, 2022 @ 6:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding is not just for smaller funding rounds and Boxabl is an excellent example of that. Boxabl is aiming to raise a whopping $1.07 billion at a valuation of $3 billion and it is leveraging two securities crowdfunding platforms to help with part of… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 2:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Longfin, a Reg A+ issuer that saw its shares trade on the Nasdaq only to later implode, has generated some more collateral damage as an audit firm providing services to the firm has been penalized by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Back in 2020,… Read More

May 27, 2022 @ 6:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Reg A+ is one of three exemptions created under the JOBS Act of 2012 that legalized online capital formation or securities crowdfunding. Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) initially allowed issuers to raise just $1.07 million (now $5 million), while Reg A+ allowed firms to raise up… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 7:30 am By David R. Burton  |  

Passed with large bipartisan majorities and signed into law by President Obama, the 2012 JOBS Act was a bipartisan achievement of consequence. The JOBS Act substantially improved the laws governing entrepreneurial capital formation and has had a measurable positive impact on entrepreneurial capital formation. But… Read More

May 6, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

RentBerry, a long-term rental platform, is raising money on StartEngine using Reg A+. According to the offering page, Rentberry has topped $8.5 million from more than 5000 investors. The security offered is common shares at a pre-money valuation of $25 million. The Proptech hopes to… Read More

May 4, 2022 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

NowRX, a pharmaceutical delivery service and digital health platform, has now topped $20 million on SeedInvest – making it the biggest raise on the securities crowdfunding platform to date. As has been previously reported, NowRX is offering preferred equity at a pre-money valuation of $275… Read More

April 19, 2022 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

NowRX, one of the largest funding rounds ever listed on SeedInvest, is scheduled to close its current Series C round on May 20, 2022, according to an email. As it stands today, NowRX has raised $18.6 million from over 6100 investors. NowRX is selling preferred… Read More

April 7, 2022 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Republican Staff of the House Financial Services Committee has produced a report revisiting the JOBS Act of 2012 and the decade since the legislation became law.  Perhaps the best-known outcome of the legislation was to legalize online capital formation – or crowdfunding – but… Read More

April 5, 2022 @ 3:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

  The JOBS Act of 2012 was signed into law by President Barack Obama ten years ago today, on April 5, 2012. In a rare moment of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats joined together to help private firms raise much-needed growth capital via online securities offerings…. Read More

March 22, 2022 @ 1:22 pm By Jamie Finn  |  

One of the biggest challenges founders and CEOs of startups face is funding: courting angels and VCs, pitch decks, travel, and meetings, getting ghosted, negotiating and swallowing unreasonable terms, eroding control–all at the expense of actually running and growing the business. When you hear the… Read More

March 20, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

This past week, StartEngine – one of the largest securities crowdfunding platforms in the US, returned to its own platform to raise more growth capital. According to the offering page, StartEngine is seeking up to $46 million at a valuation of $1.32 billion. The Reg… Read More

March 16, 2022 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Exodus, a multi-asset software wallet that aims to make crypto and digital assets easy for everyone, has commenced trading its security on Securitize Markets. Securitize is a digital asset securities firm that operates an Alternative Trading System (ATS). Exodus is a unique digital security. It… Read More

March 11, 2022 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

In the United States, securities or investment crowdfunding was legalized under the JOBS Act of 2012. This bi-partisan legislation was in recognition of changes in technology as well as an understanding of the need to better facilitate capital formation for early-stage firms. Effectively, there are… Read More

March 7, 2022 @ 4:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Towards the end of 2021, NowRX announced a Series C funding round on the securities crowdfunding platform SeedInvest. The Reg A+ offering was seeking preferred equity at a pre-money valuation of $275 million. Today, the offering is still live and over 5100 individual investors have… Read More

March 3, 2022 @ 4:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Importance of Compliance. Under the JOBS Act 0f 2012, online capital formation – or investment crowdfunding, became legal in the US. Three exemptions were created that enabled firms to raise money online to fund a company by selling securities. The legislation created Regulation Crowdfunding… Read More

February 16, 2022 @ 3:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Insurtech Assurely has announced the expansion of their TigerMark Directors and Officers Liability (D&O) insurance program. Assurely is the only insurance platform publicly promoting its exempt securities insurance program. Assurely insures companies and platforms using Reg CF, Reg A+ and Reg D 506c According to… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 3:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine, one of the largest securities crowdfunding platforms in the US, has filed a Form 1-A to pursue a Reg A+ offering aiming to raise up to $46 million.  StartEngine had indicated earlier this year its intent to pursue another funding round after completing a… Read More

February 3, 2022 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Masterworks has been in operation for a couple of years now (2019) but when the art-oriented investment crowdfunding platform raised a whopping $110 million at over a billion-dollar valuation, the world of online capital formation took notice. The Series A was led by Left Lane… Read More

February 2, 2022 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine, one of the largest securities crowdfunding platforms in the US, is planning another self-crowdfunding round at some point in 2022. This will follow a successful offering that was completed at the end of 2021 where StartEngine raised $29.4 million leveraging the Reg A+ exemption…. Read More