Tagged: regulation a

December 21, 2015 @ 11:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Fig Publishing, born in part from the huge success of Double Fine Ventures and its standout Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns, is raising capital and it has just filed a Tier 2 Regulation A+ offer with the SEC. The filing, completed by the law firm of Ellenoff,… Read More

December 16, 2015 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, online media platform Med-X, Inc. (Med-X) announced the launch of an equity crowdfunding initiative on StartEngine as the next phase in the company’s fundraising strategy. The company announced late last month that it had been qualified by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission… Read More

December 14, 2015 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The OTC Markets Group has strengthened its market standards for companies listed on the OTCQX market. OTCQX is their best market for established US and international companies. Listing firms must now adhere to high-quality financial standards and must be sponsored by a third party advisor… Read More

December 7, 2015 @ 5:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

StreetShares, marketplace lending platform that connects small business owners with investors, has filed a Regulation A+, Tier 2 offer to raise up to $50 million in debt securities. The filing was posted on December 4th. In using Regulation A+, StreetShares will be allowed to solicit… Read More

December 1, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“I do not recycle or repackage the ideas of others.  I try to focus instead on broader JOBS Act issues and events which have thus far gone unnoticed – or barely noticed – and which require further thought, analysis and hopefully, action, by louder and… Read More

November 20, 2015 @ 8:24 pm By Anthony Zeoli  |  

In what is one of the largest equity crowdfunding rounds in the world, Elio Motors has received approval by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to seek $25 million in equity capital under the recently released Regulation A+ rules.. Elio, one of the very first… Read More

November 18, 2015 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The ongoing battle between the States and the Securities and Exchange Commission took another step forward this week as the Commission responded to the States claims.  States securities regulators in both Montana and Massachusets, supported by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), have persistently… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 12:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The XTI Aircraft Company has filed with the SEC to complete a Regulation A+ offering following a successful Test the Waters (TTW) campaign that generated over $13 million in investor interest.  The company would like to raise $10 million using Tier II of the updated exemption. XTI… Read More

November 6, 2015 @ 2:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform SeedInvest has responded to proposed rules the state of Washington has hoisted up the securities regulation flag pole regarding Regulation A+.  In brief, SeedInvest wants to to “Save Regulation A”, according to a post on their blog. As enacted under Title IV… Read More

October 30, 2015 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, StartEngine announced its support for the finalized rules of JOBS Act’s Title III that allows non-accredited equity crowdfunding.  Startups and SMEs will soon be able to raise up to $1 million in equity funding. The SEC’s four commissioners voted 3-1 on Friday morning… Read More

October 28, 2015 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

NextGen Crowdfunding and Crowdfundingroadmap, Inc. announced they have formed a partnership to help crowdfunding investors, emerging businesses, and crowdfunding service providers connect with each other. The companies made the joint announcement at the 4th Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention founded by Ruth E. Hedges. Regulation A+ is… Read More

October 26, 2015 @ 1:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Commercial real estate management firm Allegiancy has amended its Regulation A+ offering statement.  The company announced a Reg A+ offer this past September seeking to take advantage of the new securities exemption that was legalized under Title IV of the JOBS Act. The initial offer… Read More

October 23, 2015 @ 8:16 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Before Facebook’s IPO, there was SecondMarket: a leader in the secondary trading market, which enables repurchases of shares in private companies. SecondMarket’s platform saw over $1.4 billion worth of transactions in 2014–quadruple the volume of its transactions in 2013.  And today (Oct. 22), Nasdaq announced it had acquired… Read More

October 19, 2015 @ 8:30 am By Anthony Zeoli  |  

As many of you know, since the release of the final Title IV (i.e. “Regulation A+”) rules earlier this year, Massachusetts and Montana have been vehemently contesting the provisions allowing for pre-emption of State regulation with respect to “Tier II” offerings. They have even gown… Read More

October 9, 2015 @ 1:27 pm By Victoria Silchenko, Ph.D.  |  

Recently I’ve been noticing a lot of hype in the entrepreneurial community regarding Reg A+ and there have been a lot of cheerful pitches about the new regulation that would allow young companies “to raise up to $50 million without the expense and complexity of a traditional… Read More

October 6, 2015 @ 7:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

DSTLD, a direct to consumer premium denim company, has quickly climbed the ladder of investor interest as it “Tests the Water” (TTW) as part of a possible Regulation A+ equity crowdfunding round.  Crowdfund Insider wrote about DSTLD last week, and since that time the company… Read More

October 5, 2015 @ 7:40 am By Samuel Guzik  |  

  Are Final JOBS Act Crowdfunding Rules Truly Upon Us? It’s been too long since I graced the pages of Crowdfund Insider with one of my many missives – or as some at the SEC might say: missiles.  Well, since Regulation A+ went live in… Read More

October 3, 2015 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

This falls under the category of recently discovered. SeedInvest co-founder and CEO Ryan Feit visited Dierdre Bolton this past June to talk about equity crowdfunding and the Regulation A+ securities exemption. Until this year, most investors were excluded from investing in the vast majority of… Read More

September 29, 2015 @ 8:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation A+ is the newest securities exemption to hit the US rule book.  Legalized under Title IV of the JOBS Act, Reg A+ allows anyone to invest – not just accredited investors. It also allows for a unique option of gauging investor interest prior to… Read More

September 27, 2015 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

SeedInvest is one of the leading equity crowdfunding platforms that is leveraging recent rules created under the JOBS Act of 2012.  DSTLD (pronounced distilled), a “digitally focused” premium denim company, has quickly attracted over $7.3 million $7.7 million in investor interest under Reg A+.  As… Read More