Tagged: symbid

December 11, 2014 @ 9:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Symbid Corp., an investment crowdfunding platform, and Credion, a financial advisory firm in the Dutch SME market, announced on Thursday (December 11th) a contract to digitalize SME financing in the Netherlands through a new, online funding platform. Credion will process the funding for its 1,200 clients… Read More

December 1, 2014 @ 7:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

As reported last week in Crowdfund Insider,  The University of Cambridge has teamed up with EY, the global professional services organization, and launched the European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey with the support of major European industry associations. This is the largest study to date on crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and other… Read More

October 24, 2014 @ 9:59 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

What’s happening: the industry wants equity It’s ironic that crowdfunding makes it possible to set up companies that otherwise never would’ve come into existence, only to ruin them later by postponing the valuation issues that any start up will have to solve sooner or later…. Read More

October 8, 2014 @ 12:50 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

New IR Site SymbidCorp.com & Collaboration with New York-Based Firm to Boost US Investor Base of Leading European Investment Crowdfunding Platform, as Industry Matures into Online Finance Symbid Corp., the Netherlands-based company behind one of the world’s first equity crowdfunding platforms, today announced that they… Read More

October 1, 2014 @ 10:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding visionaries, Korstiaan Zandvliet and Robin Slakhorst, are joint candidates for Distinguished Young Leader Award 2014.  The recognition will be presented at Erasmus University as part of the Rotterdam School of Management’s (RSM) annual leadership summit in Rotterdam on October 3rd. The Distinguished Alumni… Read More

September 22, 2014 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Netherlands based Symbid has announced a new milestone for the growing investment crowdfunding platform.  The publicly traded company [OTCQB:SBID] has surpassed €5 million (approximately $6.4 million) in investment crowdfunding.  This growth benefited from a solid Q2 in 2014 where Symbid facilitated over $1.55 during the quarter. Symbid,… Read More

August 26, 2014 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Turns Down Acquisition by Investment Crowdfunding Platform Symbid. Equidam, a company valuation platform incorporated by crowdfunding platforms, has announced that it has closed €225,000 in seed funding to accelerate the growth and expanding the functionalities of the platform. The investment was led by a syndicate… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 8:26 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

A few weeks back the value of VC’s for the crowdfunding industry was extensively discussed. Why? Because there are lot of areas where crowdfunding and VC’s can connect. And though traditional funding and alternative funding are not as rigorously separated as many want to believe,… Read More

June 23, 2014 @ 9:06 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

As a proposition manager for Symbid, we’ve recently ran an amazingly successful campaign called “Kidswatcher”. After his little niece went missing in a ski resort, Eric Recter had an idea: develop an App for parents in combination with a digital watch for their children so… Read More

June 19, 2014 @ 7:24 am By JD Alois  |  

So you think you are getting the best Hotel deal by using a popular online booking site – right?  Wrong.  At least according to Bidroom.  Prices on these sites have been jacked up to by at as much as 25% – but Bidroom has the… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 3:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

A-Film Benelux and Symbid have formed an agreement for cooperation for crowdfunding various movie titles. Dutch investment crowdfunding platform Symbid has already had several films such TRIPPEL trample funded, thus demonstrating that crowdfunding is a valuable addition in the film financing. Symbid will be exclusive… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 10:52 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

Greg Anderson posted an interesting question in the beginning of 2013: “Should we celebrate equity crowdfunding at the first investment or first exit?”. More and more savvy (crowdfunding) investors like Nelson Gray and Daniel Isenberg are leaning towards the latter, pointing out the problems of… Read More

April 24, 2014 @ 9:05 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

The recent commotion concerning crowdfunding legislation is easy to understand considering Europe’s seemingly passive attitude concerning crowdfunding (J.D. Alois) and the discussion on open or closed crowdfunding markets. Accreditation can help to speed up the development of industry-fit regulation, but it requires companies to play… Read More

February 25, 2014 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Netherlands based Symbid Corporation, a crowdfunding platform that helps private investors, SME-entrepreneurs and start-ups come together in a secure ecosystem, has announced it has become publicly listed on the OTC Markets exchange under symbol SBID.   The company stated it was using the to accelerate… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently in an 8K public filing, Holland based crowdfunding platform Symbid indicated they were formally setting up shop in the United States by incorporating in Nevada.  Simultaneously the filing shared the company had just closed a funding round having raised over $1.5 Million in a… Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Symbid, a European investment crowdfunding platform based in the Netherlands, filed an extensive 8K with the Securities and Exchange Commission this past week.  The filing indicated a changing of their corporate structure and stating they had closed a Private Placement Offering (PPO). The private placement… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 2:30 am By Dominique Litmaath River  |  

Symbid is one of the first investment crowdfunding platforms to launch live in Europe. The Rotterdam based company was co- founded in the Netherlands by Korstiaan Zandvliet in 2011.  The idea was born of a concept while Korstiaan was attending business school at ERASMUS.  The… Read More

September 6, 2013 @ 11:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Firefly Studios has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Gambitious for a third major installment of their popular real-time simulator series Stronghold. The game allows players to create and defend their kingdoms in real-time. Stronghold Crusader 2 is the game we have been wanting to make for… Read More

August 4, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

It could fund your project, boost our companies, create jobs and maybe even save our entire economy: crowdfunding. Advertised as the go-to digital cash machine if the bank doesn’t get you the money you need, crowdfunding is well on its way to become a major… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 6:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Symbid has announced new features associated with their crowdfunding platform.  The new features are designed to enhance the investment crowdfunding experience for both investors and entrepreneurs offering shares in their company. The first new feature has been labeled “Groups” which is effectively… Read More