Traditional Lenders Move in on Higher Interest Rate Personal Loans
Apparently traditional banks are moving into higher rate and thus higher risk personal loans. This strategic shift is driven, at least in part, by growing competition from peer to peer (P2P) lending...
View ArticleNew Mexico Proposes Investment Crowdfunding Rules
In a letter from the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department, Securities Division, Director Alan Wilson has summarized the objectives of proposed regulations to remove restrictions an allow...
View ArticleAT&T Funds all Education Projects in Charleston on DonorsChoose
Taking a page out of the Google handbook, AT&T Aspire announced they had funded 130 education projects in Charleston, Berkley and Dorchester counties on DonorsChoose. The total amount donated was...
View ArticleArizona-based Startup Seeks $500,000 Through Kickstarter Campaign for...
On Tuesday (October 7th), Chandler, AZ-based Eggcyte has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to help fund its new personal web server and storage device, The Egg. Offering 64/128/256GB of...
View ArticleSarah Silverman & Droga4 Create $30 Trillion Crowdfunding Camapign For...
Comedian/actress Sarah Silverman and creative agency Droga5, co-creators of “The Great Schlep,” have reunited to create a new campaign called The Equal Payback Project, which launched on Wednesday...
View ArticleTile + Blunt Means Never Losing Your Umbrella Ever Again.
Super umbrella company Blunt has partnered up with Tile, “worlds largest lost and found”, to deliver the worlds first umbrella that you will never lose. Blunt makes really tough and cool umbrellas...
View ArticleCircleUp Co-Founder Ryan Caldbeck Crashes Cash Crowd to Fund Nomad (Video)
CircleUp co-founder and CEO Ryan Caldbeck crashed the CNBC Cash Crowd party to fund Nomad, a hardware company that is equity crowdfunding on the CircleUp platform. He made his appearance after the...
View ArticleIndiegogo’s Danae Ringelmann Reveals the Importance of Diversity In Startups
Earlier this month, Danae Ringelmann, co-founder of crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo, shared her thoughts about importance of diversity at Y Combinator’s Startup Day. Forbes reported that Although she...
View ArticleGoCoin Hits 62% of Crowdfunder Goal, Secures over $1.2M: Digital Bitcoin...
Adding to $1.5M in previously secured funding, GoCoin has publicly secured more than $1.2M in crowdfunding in its Crowdfunder campaign. The campaign goal is set at $2M, with a minimum investment of...
View ArticleMedTech Company Sutrue Uses CrowdBnk to Raise Funding to Meet Patent...
According to a release from CrowdBnk, MedTech company Sutrue has leveraged the platform to fund its global patent registration filing deadline – “with only hours to spare”. The small equity...
View ArticleOregon Releases Proposed Intrastate Crowdfunding Exemption Rules; BUT Will...
While just recently uploaded, sometime in October David Tatman, the administrator of the Division of Finance and Corporate Securities, filed a “Statement Of Need And Fiscal Impact” with the Oregon...
View ArticleSEC Chair Mary Jo White: “Small Businesses Play a Crucial Role in the Growth...
The week of November 17th should be officially designated “SME Regulatory Week” due to the number of events that occurred in our nation’s Capitol over several days. The primary draw was the SEC...
View ArticleNorth Capital Investment Technology Closes $1 Million Seed Funding Round
North Capital Investment Technology has closed its seed funding round of $1 million, attracting support from major institutional investors including JFO, Karlani Capital and Green Visor Capital. The...
View ArticleBrief: Indiegogo’s Kate Drane: Crowdfuding Proves Demand (Video)
Sharing her insight about crowdfunding and its effects on the marketplace, Indiegogo’s hardware category lead Kate Drane spoke at the PSFK & PCH’s Makers Movement event in San Francisco earlier...
View ArticleBrief: Fundrise Partners With Larson Realty Group to Redevelop Form Tiger...
First Crowdfunded Real Estate Project in Detroit Fundrise, a leading real estate crowdfunding platform, today announced it is partnering with Larson Realty Group to develop the former Tiger Stadium in...
View ArticleOnDeck IPO Jumps on Day One, Just as Expected
The next peer to peer lending platform to publicly trade, OnDeck, hit the screens of the NYSE today trading under the symbol ONDK. The company filed its S-1 with the SEC this past November catching...
View ArticleLunar Mission One Set to Voyage to the Moon After Successfully Crowdfunding...
Kickstarter staff pick and space fan favorite Lunar Mission One successfully hit its crowdfunding goal raising over $1 million with the support of over 7200 backers. Called the “most inspirational...
View ArticleCrowdfunding Mailbox: Sonim XP7 Super Smartphone, Premium Sweats by New...
Happy Holidays to everyone from Crowdfund Insider. We are in the final days of 2014 and I can sense things are starting to slow down as people gather to celebrate family and friends, reflect upon the...
View ArticleCrowdfunder Reveals Its Top 12 British Crowdfunding Projects of 2014
With only a week and half until the world rings in the new year, UK-based platform Crowdfunder presented its Top 12 British Crowdfunding Projects of 2014. Sharing details about the successful...
View ArticleBritish Startup POD Point Scores £1.2M on Seedrs for Its Electric Car Chargers
Earlier this month, London-based POD Point launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £1.2 million for its network of electronic car chargers. According to its campaign website, POD Point has...
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