Tagged: venture capital

August 17, 2013 @ 12:02 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub has become an invitation-only community in an effort to limit participation to experienced and able accredited investors. Those seeking access to FundersClub deals will now have to request an invite or receive one from an existing member. It seems to go against the ethos… Read More

July 9, 2013 @ 10:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

GameFront’s top comment of the week this past week tackled Double Fine, Kickstarter and video games crowdfunded for donations and rewards. The commenter makes an interesting point about the lack of control a Kickstarter backer has over the trajectory of the project. “What is said… Read More

July 8, 2013 @ 10:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Soho Loft has teamed with FundingPost.com for an event in New York City this August. The NYC VC, Angel and Crowd Investing Conference will bring together representatives from venture capital, angel groups and the crowdfunding space to discuss how to access capital in the 21st… Read More

June 18, 2013 @ 8:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Oculus VR has raised $16 million in a round with contributions from Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, Founders Fund and Formation 8. Spark Capital and Matrix Partners led the round. Spark founder Santo Politi and Matrix partner Antonio Rodriguez both acquire seats on Oculus’s Board of… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 8:13 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A report released last month entitled Equity Crowdfunding and Venture Capital included some interesting revelations regarding what US venture capitalists and lawyers expect from equity crowdfunding. The report surveyed VCs and lawyers based in the states. Questions sought to gauge expectations about the JOBS Act’s trajectory and… Read More

May 18, 2013 @ 10:49 am By Bizactions  |  

Out of a total $6.9 billion dollars invested across the nation during the first quarter of 2013, Georgia deals accounted for $322.4 million, catapulting the state to fourth place for venture capital funding last quarter. Georgia ranked behind only California, New York and Massachusetts. The… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pebble has joined Ouya in raising $15 million in venture capital after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. In Pebble’s case, the round was led by Charles River Ventures and partner George Zachary. Zachary said this was the largest Series A he has ever participated in. Oh,… Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 7:35 am By Upstart Business Journal  |  

Some have said equity crowdfunding could put pressure on the venture capital industry. But data compiled by crowdfunderEquityNet suggests it will open whole different categories of upstarts for funding instead. “Crowdfunding is serving the area of capitalism that was previously underserved,”Judd Hollas, chief executive of the… Read More

April 26, 2013 @ 7:28 am By ThinkProgress  |  

After the success of Rob Thomas’ efforts to crowdfund a Veronica Mars movie through Kickstarter, it was inevitable that some other auteur with a significant fanbase would follow his lead. That person is now Zach Braff, who as of this writing has raised about $954,000… Read More

April 24, 2013 @ 5:30 pm By CFO.com  |  

The one-year anniversary of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act just passed, but the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to write rules governing equity-based crowdfunding. In the meantime, some venture capital (VC) firms worry that crowdfunding, a means of collective financing by selling equity in a company,… Read More

April 23, 2013 @ 7:30 am By RealBusiness  |  

In turbulent times for business finance, the words “risk” and “funding” are inevitably connected. David Hing looks at what to watch out for in each SME funding option. Funding and investment can be the lifeblood of a start up, or indeed any business that is… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 9:20 am By Wired  |  

… Let’s start with Kickstarter as the obvious crowdfunding example. The company was founded by three guys with no previous finance experience. The target return for investors who back development of new products — from objects to movies — on Kickstarter is … nothing. Backers are instead… Read More

April 15, 2013 @ 7:26 am By Wall Street Journal  |  

Sites that enable technology startups to “crowdfund”–tap dozens of small-scale investors for needed capital–could help venture and seed investors raise their own funds online, VentureWire reports today (subscription required). At least one well-known seed-stage fund, Mountain View, Calif.-based 500 Startups, has tried a form of crowdfunding in… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 11:09 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

ReadWriteWeb recently teamed with TriNet to publish this white paper that examines the current startup climate. Six venture capitalists offered their takes on where things were headed. Crowdfunding received “honorable mention.” From the paper… Conditions are starting to change in ways that promise a major… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 2:58 am By VentureBeat  |  

The Launch festival is a three-ring circus. Fifty startups are here presenting on the main stage, 250 startups are in the demo pit, and it’s got panel discussions with influencers from the tech community, not to mention nearly 6,000 registered attendees. To help sort through the… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from the consulting group Deloitte Touche are their Tcchnology Media and Telecommunications (TMT) predictions for 2013. Crowdfunding and the revolutionary potential of this new industry is a focus of part of Deloitte’s prognostications. There was a previously released version of this report earlier this… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 2:27 am By Steven Overly  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to introduce regulatory guidelines for equity-based crowdfunding, but that hasn’t stopped some of the region’s venture capitalists from contemplating how it might impact their business. Crowdfunding allows entrepreneurs to collect small sums of money via the Internet from everyday… Read More

February 21, 2013 @ 7:51 pm By John Koetsier  |  

VANCOUVER — According to Paul Singh, a partner at accelerator 500 Startups, this is the decade of the angels. He’s speaking tonight at GrowLabs’ demo day in Vancouver, and the message is not too much different from 500 Startups founder Dave McClure’s. “If you can… Read More

February 12, 2013 @ 6:14 am By Mashable  |  

Ram Malasani, CEO and founder of the 22-person company Securifi, isn’t the typical newbie entrepreneur you’d expect to find on Kickstarter, a wildly popular website where people can pitch projects and receive small pledges of financial support from anyone. But with weeks still left to go… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 5:14 pm By BusinessWeek  |  

Nearly two years ago, I championed the idea of making it legal for entrepreneurs to raise money by selling equity stakes in their companies online. This kind of crowdfunding came much closer to becoming a reality when President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act into law… Read More