Tagged: research

November 12, 2015 @ 11:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdfunding Centre in the UK has released an infographic on the state of crowdfunding in advance of UK Crowdfunding Week, which is scheduled for next week (November 16-22nd).  The platform tracks rewards based crowdfunding projects and has created an interesting compendium of projects from… Read More

November 11, 2015 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The study is supported by KPMG, CME Group Foundation, the ACCA and 20 leading industry and academic research partners. The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School, the Tsinghua University Graduate School of Shenzhen and the University of Sydney Business School are… Read More

November 9, 2015 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Consano, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit crowdfunding platform that focuses on medical research campaigns, today announced the launch of Honor Funds, a new initiative that allows individuals and groups to create a dedicated online hub to raise funds for a specific research project. Consano developed the Honor… Read More

October 31, 2015 @ 5:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Title II, 506(c), Equity Crowdfunding has Raised $33 Billion to Date. The unregistered securities market in the US is huge. In fact in 2014, over $2 trillion of capital was raised using unregistered securities largely using Regulation D. This is revealed in a white paper… Read More

October 27, 2015 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Quire partnered with mattermark a few weeks back on a survey asking individuals if they would be interested in investing in early stage companies.  The results are telling. Today, the vast majority of the population has been excluded from investing in startups… Read More

October 26, 2015 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

European venture capital has dropped 58% in capital raised from Q2 to Q3 2015.  This is according to a report produced by Dow Jones. The research states that 13 European venture capital funds accumulated €853 million during 3Q 2015, dropping 58% in capital raised from… Read More

October 23, 2015 @ 8:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published its anticipated report on the state of retail banking in the UK.  Unlike the US market, the UK banking industry is almost completely served by several very large banks (RBS, Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds & Santander).  These are… Read More

October 16, 2015 @ 1:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday crowdfunding platform,  RocketHub, announced that one of its projects, Lunar Lion Moon Mission, has successfully hit a funding milestone. Penn State’s Lunar Lion is led by director of Space Systems Initiatives at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory, Michael Paul. The project’s team is the… Read More

October 15, 2015 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School and the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Chicago Booth School of Business are jointly launching the 2015 Americas Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey. This survey will be the first comprehensive and empirical assessment… Read More

October 12, 2015 @ 2:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulatory consultancy Bovill states that many aspiring peer to peer lending platforms are having a change of heart.  According to a release published by the firm, 26% of P2P lending applicants have withdrawn their request as they are concerned they will not be able to meet… Read More

October 12, 2015 @ 1:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global consulting firm Accenture has published research reflecting on how difficult it is for big corporations to incorporate an innovation culture: One that not only embraces change, but empowers it to thrive. Accenture  did a survey of 1000 large companies, along with a poll of… Read More

October 3, 2015 @ 1:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Financial services technology company Fiserv has published research on the UK alternative finance market that indicates new finance will top £10 billion by 2020. According to the report, UK SMEs will benefit dramatically from the growth of peer to peer lending and crowdfunding over the… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 8:04 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its most recent data on complaints filed against financial institutions. While the top line number dropped, removing the  Payment Protection Insurance (PPI) category saw the overall number jump by 11.6% versus the same period year prior. The increase was… Read More

September 25, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

uBiome, a microbial genomics company, announced on Friday that it is supporting the prevention of oral disease, the most prevalent chronic disease in both children and adults in the United States, in three ways. The company is making a donation to the Smiles Across America… Read More

September 24, 2015 @ 1:00 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Equity crowdfunding platforms are “crowding out” banks, venture capitalists and business angels in the UK, suggests a new paper published by researchers from the University of St Andrews and the University of Stirling. St. Andrews explains that UK startups are “embracing the £146 million Crowdcube economy.” Crowdcube may be… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Electrospinning Company, a UK SME that was established in 2010 to develop products utilizing the world-class electrospinning platform, has launched an crowdfunding campaign on SyndicateRoom to raise £450,000 for what it believes to the world’s first synthetic corneal epithelial transplant. The company noted that corneal blindness affects around… Read More

September 13, 2015 @ 3:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Data analysis company AlliedCrowds has published an updated report on the growing sector of crowdfunding and developing nations. The most current data indicates that developing countries raised over $30 million during the month of August. Some of the “key” findings include: Brazil led the developing… Read More

August 26, 2015 @ 11:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Liverpool ChiroChem, a pharmaceutical research and biotechnology company, has launched a crowdfunding initiative on SyndicateRoom to raise £550,000 for expansion and a new manufacturing process. According to Insider Media, the company was founded in 2014 and has developed a manufacturing process to make pure chemicals in three… Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

UK research firm Beauhurst has published their report on equity investments for the year and according to their data it will be a stellar 2015. For the first half of 2015 a bit over £2  billion has been invested in 577 equity deals.  In 2014,… Read More

August 8, 2015 @ 7:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Milken Institute publishes an annual Global Opportunity Index that tallies the countries where it is easier to do business and thus foster companies that can be competitive on a global basis. This is important because while all businesses start small, most would love to scale… Read More