Tagged: regulation cf

April 13, 2020 @ 3:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

George Cook, the CEO of Honeycomb Credit, is a sixth-generation community banker who started a loan crowdfunding portal to support main street small businesses. A FINRA regulated funding portal, Honeycomb is a debt only seeing an opportunity to supplant bank lending or competing Fintechs that… Read More

April 11, 2020 @ 5:00 pm By Ben DiScipio  |  

Earlier this month, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a set of amendments to the exemptive framework under the Securities Act of 1933. This includes a notable update to Reg CF – increasing the funding cap from its current $1.07 million to $5 million…. Read More

April 9, 2020 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Chatter continues to disseminate as to how venture capital is pulling back or funding is simply vaporizing. At best, some deals are being reconfigured as pre-pandemic pricing is being called into question. The COVID-19 crisis is hitting early-stage firms hard. Private companies that may be… Read More

April 2, 2020 @ 7:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

If spinning or standard cross-fit classes are too tame for you, a startup providing fitness boxing may be just what you need. Grit Bxing is an early-stage firm that has already received the backing of multiple high-profile investors, according to the company. Names like Tim… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 3:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rocket Dollar is nearing the end of a securities offering on Republic and with less than 2 days in the offering, the Fintech has topped $400,000 on the crowdfunding platform. Rocket Dollar is a Fintech that helps to match investors with alternative finance offerings. The… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 3:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ammo² (or AmmoSquared) has closed on a crowdfunding round on Wefunder raising approximately $313,000 at a $4.49 pre-money valuation. Investors received preferred stock in the company. Started in 2015 by husband and wife team, Ammo² has generated over $1m in revenue to date through its… Read More

March 27, 2020 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it is providing temporary regulatory relief to market participants in response to the effects of COVID-19. The actions involve filings on the EDGAR system as well as certain company filing obligations under Regulation A (Reg A+)… Read More

March 25, 2020 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Fundopolis is the most recent crowdfunding platform to provide specific initiatives for issuers during the challenges engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic. As has been widely reported, millions of small businesses are seeing revenues drop as people comply with COVID-19 quarantines and social distancing practices. Fundopolis… Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

I don’t know about you but I am already tired of reading/hearing/seeing/dreaming about COVID-19. Social distancing and shelter at home are necessary and vital – especially for cities like New York that has emerged as an epicenter for the virus. Eventually, we will move beyond… Read More

March 24, 2020 @ 2:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a tweet this week, Wefunder said it expects the first quarter of 2020 to be their best quarter ever. This is in an environment where Fintech investment is struggling and the emergence of the Coronavirus, or COVID-19, is hammering the entire world. While Q1… Read More

March 20, 2020 @ 5:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global stock markets are tanking erasing hard in gains from the past 3 years while governments around the world struggle to keep economies moving forward during the Coronavirus pandemic reality. While COVID-19 is rattling markets everywhere, at least one, Reg CF, has shown signs of… Read More

March 18, 2020 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

KingsCrowd has closed on a $1 million crowdfunding round on the NetCapital marketplace. KingsCrowd is a ratings and analytics firm for the private securities market. NetCapital lists private securities under both Reg CF and Reg D. The KingsCrowd offering leveraged both exemptions in a side… Read More

March 8, 2020 @ 7:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Compound: Reach is an App-based real estate investment platform. The company is “re-imagining” the way people invest in real estate by enabling everybody to “participate in the growth and prosperity of the cities and neighborhoods they are helping to build.” The company currently lists several… Read More

March 4, 2020 @ 4:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed meaningful changes to multiple securities exemptions today. The pending rule change came following a closed meeting of the Commission without a public agenda. The proposals may dramatically impact platforms that facilitate online securities offerings and benefit smaller companies… Read More

March 3, 2020 @ 12:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sondors Electric Car Company has raised $449,000 on StartEngine under Reg CF. This is the second offering listed on StartEngine and Sondors has around $1.4 million on StartEngine so far. Sondors got its start in the e-bike world with successful rewards (e-commerce) campaigns. Sondors then… Read More

February 27, 2020 @ 4:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bank replacement platform Honeycomb Credit has distributed an update on platform progress during 2019. Based in Pittsburgh, Honeycomb Credit is a FINRA approved crowdfunding portal offering securities under Reg CF. Honeycomb typically matches investors with small businesses in need of debt capital somewhat similar to… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 4:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Soar Robotics has hit its funding cap on Republic, according to the offering page. The AI boosted drone company has raised $1.07 million (the funding cap under Reg CF) from 4,376 investors. Backers of this company receive a “CrowdSafe” with a 20% discount. The pre-money… Read More

February 17, 2020 @ 1:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Republic, an investment crowdfunding platform that is an offshoot of AngelList and affiliated with digital asset issuance platform CoinList, is one of the leading sites in the US providing access to equity capital for early-stage firms. It is also democratizing investment opportunities by allowing non-accredited… Read More

February 10, 2020 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Capital Advisors (CCA) and its co-founders have been a leading voice advocating on behalf of online capital formation since Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss and Jason Best helped to create the language of the JOBS Act law that legalized securities crowdfunding in the United States. Neiss… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 6:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

NextSeed, a Reg CF funding portal and broker-dealer, has distributed an update on platform progress.  According to an email from the platform,  NextSeed investors have now received over $5 million in payments via the platform. Last year, NextSeed distributed over $2 million in payments thus… Read More