Union Square Ventures is Cornering the Crowdfunding Market

Union Square Ventures is Cornering the Crowdfunding Market

As you've undoubtedly heard by now, CircleUp announced its $7.5 million Series A yesterday. Surpassing Funders Club's $6 million "seed" round in October, this represents the larges ...

How Crowdfunding can Reignite Alumni Engagement

How Crowdfunding can Reignite Alumni Engagement

A friendly forewarning: this is a long article. Please accept a summarized, and downloadable, presentation embedded at the end as my apology :-). Also, if you're involved, or inter ...

Talking Real Estate Crowdfunding with RealtyMogul

Talking Real Estate Crowdfunding with RealtyMogul

[video id="4BnL-HgPoOE" type="youtube"] I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jilliene Helman, the CEO of RealtyMogul. RealtyMogul is an accredited crowdfunding platform for ...

Crowdfunding’s Disruptive DNA: The Why, How and Who

Crowdfunding’s Disruptive DNA: The Why, How and Who

Investment crowdfunding is going to disrupt and re-shape early stage capital markets. But not only for the reasons you've likely heard. There’s more to it. Crowdfunding is the prod ...

TheCrowdCafe Weekly, Issue 6 – 4/28/13

TheCrowdCafe Weekly, Issue 6 – 4/28/13

# Announcements We launched a refresh to our global investment crowdfunding database this week. We’re proud to have it sponsored by CrowdBouncer. It now includes 140+ investment pl ...

Updating our Global Investment Crowdfunding Database

Updating our Global Investment Crowdfunding Database

I'm excited to announce an update to our Global Investment Crowdfunding Database. I've appended it below and it can be permanently found under the Data section of our site. Here's ...

Why Universities Need to Get Smart on Crowdfunding

Why Universities Need to Get Smart on Crowdfunding

I speak often about the opportunity to couple investment crowdfunding with existing financial, intellectual and physical infrastructure. Universities have invested decades, and mil ...

Union Square Ventures is Cornering the Crowdfunding Market

As you've undoubtedly heard by now, CircleUp announced its $7.5 million Series A yesterday. Surpassing Funders Club's $6 million "seed" round in October, this represents the largest raise by a U.S. investment crowdfunding platform to-date. A few notable stats for context. CircleUp has facilitated over $10 mil more ...

May 08, 2013

The 2nd Annual Crowdfund Investing Innovation Forum (August 8th & 9th)

CfPA: The 2nd Annual Crowdfund Investing Innovation Forum events.cfpa.org August 8-9th Caribe Royale Resort Orlando, FL It's an honor to represent TheCrowdCafe at the 2nd annual Crowdfund Investing Innovation Forum, organized by the Crowdfunding Professional Association. I'll be presenting my research and fin more ...

March 27, 2013

TheCrowdCafe Weekly, Issue 9

# Selected Articles Another New Paradigm: Multiplex Venture Capital Fund - A Quick and Inexpensive Way to Get into Action | VC Experts Now Fully Kickstartered, Pebble Raises $15M in Venture Capital From CRV | All Things Digital For startups with university roots, an exit is priority number one | Pando Daily W more ...

May 19, 2013

Talking Real Estate Crowdfunding with RealtyMogul

[video id="4BnL-HgPoOE" type="youtube"] I had the pleasure of sitting down with Jilliene Helman, the CEO of RealtyMogul. RealtyMogul is an accredited crowdfunding platform for real estate, and we discussed how crowdfunding is going to re-imagine this asset class in a big and beautiful way. I highly encou more ...

May 01, 2013

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