Tagged: seedinvest

November 2, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Ryan M. Feit  |  

For most people, digesting the 686 pages of the final Title III rules over the weekend would be some sort of Tartarus-like punishment.  Yet for me, after 3 ½ years of waiting, it was the equivalent of unwrapping a present, with each sentence laying out… 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 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 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

August 28, 2015 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Pier to Pier” boat rental platform BoatBound is raising capital once again. This time the unique sharing site has selected SeedInvest to raise $1,500,000 in a Bridge Round crowdfunding offer. BoatBound also is an OurCrowd portfolio company having raised just shy of $1 million in… Read More

August 24, 2015 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Title IV of the JOBS Act fixed some of the issues swirling around old Regulation A.  Lightly utilized in its previous incarnation, Regulation A+ (as it is commonly called) created two different funding tiers which allow non-accredited investors access to a new securities exemption and… Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Human assisted computing platform Tagasauris, has closed a $900,000 equity crowdfunding round on SeedInvest. Tagasauris previously raised a Seed round in 2013 according to AngelList. No further details on the funding round were made available. Tagasauris has developed a patent pending tagging platform designed to… Read More

August 7, 2015 @ 5:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regulation A+, promulgated by Title IV of the JOBS Act, appears to be off to a good start. The several offers that are “testing the waters” have generated pretty solid interest.  SeedInvest, one of the first equity crowdfunding platforms to offer a potential Reg A+… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 10:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Ryan Feit, CEO and co-founder of equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest,  won a British GREAT Tech Award. The recognition was delivered by none other than HRM Prince William. Feit, recently interviewed by TechdayHQ, spoke about SeedInvest’s relationships in the UK noting they were rather strong; “Through the GREAT… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 9:04 am By Rodrigo Niño  |  

  It was not that long ago that the term “crowdfunding” entered into the common lexicon. Today we regularly watch, or read about, multi-million crowdfunding campaigns delivering the next big thing to supportive consumers who are willing to wait a bit longer to receive a perk,… Read More

July 15, 2015 @ 1:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mobile phone charging station creator ChargeItSpot has successfully raised $2 million in a funding round on SeedInvest.  Investors participated alongside professional investors Robin Hood Ventures and Soundboard Angel Fund. ChargeItSpot tackles an issue that most every smartphone user encounters. Dead or low batteries while away… Read More

July 12, 2015 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

  Commercial air travel really sucks these days. You pay high fares to wait in long lines, to sit in seats sized for children, only to endure endless hours of delays.  I fly a good amount and I could go on. I love to travel… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 10:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding platform, announced on Friday that WayBetter, which runs the social dieting website, DietBet, successfully conducted one of the first “testing the waters” fund-raising campaigns under the new mini-IPO rules, which went into effect on June 19th. The company received $9.3 million of investment interest… Read More

July 7, 2015 @ 11:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Fusar (pronounced fyoo-zer) Technologies, a creator of smart motorcycle helmets, has closed a seed round in the amount of $1.1 million with the help of equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest. Investors from SeedInvest invested alongside the Jumpstart NJ Angel Network, Socialatom Ventures, the Chi Fan Group, and Casabona… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

On Friday last week, Crowdfund Insider shared that SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding platform in NYC, had launched a potential Regulation A+ issuer, WayBetter, as they “test the water” of investors. Part of the potential of Title IV of the JOBS Act, or Regulation A+, is… Read More

June 19, 2015 @ 11:14 am By JD Alois  |  

One of the positive points of Regulation A+ is the ability of potential issuers to publicly measure investor interest before committing to a full bore funding round. This “Test the Waters” process allows a company to advertise before going through the SEC registration process –… Read More

June 19, 2015 @ 8:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Today (June 19th) for the first time ordinary Americans are going to be able to invest in SME’s before the IPO. Ryan Feit, CEO and co-founder of SeedInvest took this message to CNBC’s MadMoney to discuss this regulatory change. Feit pounds the theme that until… Read More

June 13, 2015 @ 3:32 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Glimmering just ahead, summer offers the hope of beach days, picnics, hikes, ice cream until it hurts and, if the petsitter is available, travel. The minor (major) hassles of transportation–airplane delays or cancellations, a sea of brake lights–will be worth it. Certainly. But if one could reduce… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 9:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a little over a week Title IV of the JOBS Act, commonly called Reg A+, will become actionable.  We are already hearing chatter about companies planning on using the new exemption. Whenever a new chapter is written in the Securities Law Book there is… Read More

June 2, 2015 @ 11:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

There has been much debate, discussion and recent consternation regarding Title IV of the JOBS Act, something commonly labeled as Reg A+.  Some prognosticators believe it is much ado about nothing but others believe Reg A+ can become an important step in the evolving capital… Read More