Tagged: silicon prairie

June 17, 2025 @ 11:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie, a multifaceted Fintech Company in the securities crowdfunding sector, is interested in acquiring a community bank. In a recent LinkedIn post, Silicon Prairie founder and CEO David Duccini stated that they are not a traditional Fintech story, but rather a Capital Technology firm… Read More

January 14, 2025 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently, CI reported that Silicon Prairie had exited its status as a Funding Portal. A Funding Portal is a relatively new FINRA-regulated intermediary created under the JOBS Act of 2012. Initially viewed as a path for firms to issue securities under Reg CF, most Funding… Read More

December 27, 2024 @ 10:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie has dumped its Funding Portal designation and is migrating all current offerings to its Broker-Dealer. FINRA regulates both Broker-Dealers and Funding Portals. A Funding Portal is kind of like a broker-dealer light. This new type of intermediary was created under the JOBS Act… Read More

October 18, 2024 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie Holdings has added a new feature to its platform – a voting module for issuers to poll investors. Silicon Prairie is a full-stack online capital formation provider that also offers services like secondary transactions with an ATS and tools to manage cap tables,… Read More

May 20, 2024 @ 5:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mainvest, a FINRA-regulated funding portal, is ceasing operations. According to the platform’s website, the firm has raised over $30 million for issuers since its inception. A pop-up on the Mainvest website also states that payment processing is currenlty unavailable: “Due to the ongoing dispute between… Read More

November 28, 2023 @ 3:15 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

In the most recent episode of Capital Ideas, David Duccini, CEO and founder of Silicon Prairie Online, shed light on how Silicon Prairie’s portal is leveraging blockchain-based solutions and an Alternative Trading System (ATS) to revolutionize the world of secondary sales in investment crowdfunding. David… Read More

January 28, 2023 @ 7:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie has been approved to operate an Alternative Trading System (ATS). An ATS is similar to a securities exchange but with different regulatory requirements. An entity must first be approved as a broker-dealer before applying to become an ATS. This will enable Silicon Prairie… Read More

February 17, 2021 @ 12:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie, a funding portal as well as a broker-dealer, has noted that it has filed for an Alternative Trading System (ATS) with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The intent is to provide liquidity for traditionally illiquid securities like securities issued under Reg CF in… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 8:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Not too long ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concluded the comments phase of a proposal to update, and hopefully improve, rules pertaining to the exempt offering ecosystem. This includes Reg A+, Reg CF, and Reg D (506c), each a variant of online capital… Read More

June 15, 2019 @ 6:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie, an investment crowdfunding platform that offers securities as a Reg CF portal as well as under intrastate securities exemptions, is now a broker-dealer. But Silicon Prairie is not required to be regulated by FINRA as it has received approval to operate under the… Read More

November 29, 2018 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Silicon Prairie, an intra-state investment crowdfunding portal, says it is the first platform to link blockchain based distributed ledgers under an “Initial Crowd Offering model” and now allows the ability to invest with a Self-Directed Individual Retirement Account (SD-IRA) via a partnership with AltoIRA. The… Read More

March 30, 2018 @ 6:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last time we checked in back at the end of December, there were 36 FINRA approved Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) portals in operation. Today, that number has increased to 38 as two more entrants have entered the Reg CF space. As for portals that have… Read More