Money360 Provides $1.848M in Financing for Hospitality Property’s Bridge Loan

Real estate marketplace lending platform, Money360, announced on Monday it provided  $1.848 million in financing to a commercial property owner for the value-add renovation of a full-service boutiq...

Indiegogo Success Touchjet Wave Hits Best Buy’s Website

On Monday, Indiegogo alum Touchjet announced, following the final round of the FCC approval, its WAVE TV tablet system will now be available on Best Buy’s website. The Touchjet WAVE turns any flat s...

Shark Tank Alum Keen Home Moves onto Air Purification

Building on its successful Reg A+ campaign on SeedInvest and the company’s first product, the Smart Vent System, Keen Home is now focusing on air purification.  It launched its second product...

FundedHere Announces Strategic Partnership With MediaCorp to Promote Seed Funding For Media-Related Startups

On Monday, Mediapreneur and FundedHere announced they formed a strategic partnership to promote seed funding for media-related startups through FundedHere’s crowdfunding platform. The companies ...

The Federal Reserve Publishes Report on Blockchain: “Could Reduce or Even Eliminate Operational & Financial Inefficiencies”

The Federal Reserve released a report on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) or Blockchain last week. The document reviews the potential and challenges for the new technology to disrupt and benefit fi...

Andrew Ceresney, SEC Enforcement Director, to Depart Commission at End of Year

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Enforcement Director Andrew J. Ceresney will depart the agency by the end of the year. Ceresney has been with the SEC for four years as ...

Kia Teams Up With DonorsChoose to Launch Annual “Holidays on Us” Celebration to Support High-Need Schools’ Projects

Kia Motors America and DonorsChoose announced on Sunday they are launching the annual “Holidays on Us” celebration to bring resources to schools in need this holiday season. The companies ...

FINRA Said to Ban uFundingPortal as Reg CF Platform

uFundingPortal (UFP LLC) went off-line last month after receiving regulatory approval to operate as a Reg CF funding portal earlier this year.  Crowdfund Insider reported the disappearance of the sit...

Crowdfunding medicine via Facebook is a lifesaver for sick children in Sudan

With NGOs seen as a political threat, a volunteer initiative that links doctors and pharmacists with donors is funding much-needed healthcareA tea stall under a tree on one of Khartoum’s busiest roa...

Crowdfunding- The Good, The Bad & The (really) Ugly Part II –The Bad

By Shane Liddell is the CEO and chief Crowdfundologist at Smart Crowdfunding LLC,. Crowdfund Beat Guest post, Introduction In Part 1 I covered all of the good things that we have seen as crowdfunding ...

First Crowdfunding portal to be expelled from FINRA

By Alexandra Perry  Crowdfund Beat Guest post, On November 2, 2016, FINRA terminated the FINRA registration for UFP, LLC (“UFP”), making UFP the first crowdfunding portal to be expelled from FINR...

Asset Backed Finance Jumps to £4.3 Billion in the UK

Alternative finance using asset-backed lending has hit a record high of £4.3 billion – up  22% versus year prior.Total asset-based finance hits £20.7 billion, another all-time high, as the Go...

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