Fig Announcement: Secures SEC Qualification to Issue “Psychonauts 2” Game Shares

Posted 29th September 2016

Fig Publishing, Inc., a crowdfunding and publishing platform that allows non-accredited investors to financially support video game development and publishing, announced on Thursday it secured SEC qua...

Kano Returns to Kickstarter: Seeks $500,000 For New Creative Computer Systems

Posted 29th September 2016

Earlier this week, technology startup Kano returned to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter to raise $500,000 for its new creative computer systems. The company previously secured $1,522,160 from 13,387 ba...

Brief: Kickstarter to Present The Future Fablab at World Maker Faire 2016 in New York

Posted 29th September 2016

On Wednesday, Kickstarter announced it was set to present The Future Fablab, which is described as a collection of machines that turn digital dreams into physical reality, at World Maker Faire 2016 at...

Med-X Reg A+ Offer Temporarily Suspended by SEC

Posted 29th September 2016

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has “temporarily suspended” the Regulation A+ offer by Med-X listed on StartEngine. Med-X is a company is an entrepreneurial cannabis start...

Manulife Debuts Third Lab of Forward Thinking in Singapore

Posted 29th September 2016

On Thursday, international financial services group Manulife announced the opening of its third Lab of Forward Thinking (LOFT) location in Singapore. The lab is described as a global exploration and i...

ICONOMI’s “Uberizing” Initial Coin Offering: More than $9.1M, 3K Investors & Counting

Posted 29th September 2016

Since Monday morning, ICONOMI, the globally licensed and regulated bitcoin exchange, has quickly raised an additional $3 million through its “ICO” (Initial Coin Offering) after the ...

Canadian Marketplace Lender Vault Circle Receives New License

Posted 29th September 2016

Canadian fintech company Lendified Holdings Inc. and its subsidiary and direct lender, Lendified Inc. announced today that their subsidiary Vault Circle Inc. has received an exempt market dealer li...

Amino Capital Closes $50M Fund II for Early-Stage Startups

Posted 29th September 2016

Early-stage venture firm Amino Capital Management Company, LLC (“Amino Capital”) announced on Thursday the closing of its $50 million second fund, Amino Capital II, L.P.(formerly zPark C...

¡Aprobado! MytripleA CEO Anton Discusses Additional CNMV Authorization

Posted 29th September 2016

This month the Spanish financial regulator Securities Exchange Commission (CNMV) authorized MytripleA as a Platform for Participatory Financing, the formal name for a crowdlending platform. This is...

IBM Research: Banks Will Embrace Full Scale Commercial Blockchain by 2019

Posted 29th September 2016

Distributed ledger technology is set to move out of the test environment and into the wild next year, with nearly two thirds of banks expecting to be in production with full-scale, commercial blockcha...

Directors crowdfund $78,000 for a film, spend it on champagne and limos

Posted 29th September 2016

A movie about not making a movie

FCA & Cambridge University Partner to Review UK Alternative Finance

Posted 29th September 2016

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) have formed a unique partnership to assist in the review of the UK alternative finance industry. The firs...