Report: Title II Crowdfunding Data on Three Year Anniversary Tops $1.47 Billion

Posted 25th October 2016

Crowdnetic has published its annual Crowdwatch report on Title II investment crowdfunding as enacted under the JOBS Act of 2012. Title II, or Reg D 506(c), allows issuers the option to “genera...

ICONOMI Distributes All ICN AppTokens Among Investors Less Than A Month After ICO

Posted 25th October 2016

ICONOMI, the globally licensed and regulated bitcoin exchange, announced on Tuesday it is distributing all ICN apptokens among its investors less than a month after its successful Initial Coin Offer...

Atari Teams Up With ROAM to Launch Indiegogo Campaign For Games & Music Lovers Earphones

Posted 25th October 2016

On Tuesday, gaming giant Atari and audio company ROAM launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $50,000 for their new sure-fit earphones, GameON. This news comes just a few months after t...

QuickBook Users Will Now Have Fast Access to Credit with BlueVine

Posted 25th October 2016

Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) and BlueVine have partnered to enable QuickBooks users access to credit of up to $100,000. Intuit explains that small businesses may allow their data to be accessed to get fas...

Lendio Receives $20 Million Investment from Comcast Ventures & Stereo Capital

Posted 25th October 2016

Loan matching platform Lendio has raised $20 million led by Comcast Ventures and Stereo Capital. The investment will be utilized to expand lending options for SMEs and to boost marketing. The anno...

BlueVine Teams Up With Intuit to Provide QuickBooks Customers With New Business Line of Credit

Posted 25th October 2016

BlueVine, an online lender providing factoring finance, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with Intuit (Nasdaq: INTU) to provide its business line of credit service for small businesses, Flex Credi...

Hilarious Card Game “Bears vs Babies” Nears $1.5M One Week After Kickstarter Launch

Posted 25th October 2016

Just one week after Elan Lee and Matthew Inman returned to Kickstarter to raise funds for Bears vs Babies, the hilarious card game has already secured nearly $1.5 million from more than 39,400 back...

PeerStreet Funds $150M in Investments with Zero Losses During First Year

Posted 25th October 2016

On Tuesday, PeerStreet celebrated its one-year anniversary by revealing that it has funded $150 million investments with zero losses in the last twelve months. The real estate crowdfunding platform al...

Dream Payments Named Winner of Global Fintech Challenge VentureClash

Posted 25th October 2016

On Tuesday, Toronto’s cloud-based mobile payment platform Dream Payments announced it was named the winner of the global investment challenge for fintech and digital health companies, VentureCl...

UBS Selects Apac CIO to Head Blockchain Team

Posted 25th October 2016

UBS has named its former Apac CTO Peter Stephens as head of blockchain, replacing Alex Batlin who jumped ship last week to join BNY Mellon. A thirteen-year veteran at the Swiss bank, Stephens starts ...

Downing Crowd Successfully Raises £1.25 Million for “Hydro Bond”

Posted 25th October 2016

Downing Crowd has successfully raised £1.25 million to fund its first ever “Hydro Bond” for a newly opened ‘run-of-river’ power station developed by Nightjar Sustainable Power Limited...

Former Lending Club COO John Donovan Joins Bizfi as CEO

Posted 25th October 2016

Bizfi, a, NYC-based fintech platform that combines aggregation, funding and a marketplace for small businesses, announced its board of directors has appointed John Donovan as the company’s CEO. Don...