# Selected Articles Exploring FundersClub. The New Age of VC? | TheCrowdCafe A competitive look at FundersClub, the Y Combinator backed accredited equity crowdfunding platform live today. Backers with Benefits: Why Companies Are Outsourcing to Kickstarter | MIT Tech The pre-validation element of crowdfunding; article is written context of reward crowdfunding, but certainly implications for security crowdfun ...

# Selected Articles The Direct Public Offering – The Original Securities-Based Crowdfunding ModelA rich overview of DPOs and the opportunities they present for community businesses. An alternative route to security crowdfunding worth exploring for businesses large enough to shoulder the compliance costs. UK | Peer to peer loans trading – How our loan exchange can help investorsFundingKnight, a U.K. debt cro ...

EquityNet, an online network connected businesses with accredited investors, published a fantastically detailed research report yesterday. The company analyzed five years of internal data to explore trends in online fundraising and published its findings in an infographic. From the report: Crowdfunding statistics and trends presented in this report are based on over 1,000 U.S. businesses that used EquityNet ...

Venturebeat highlighted Gamelaunched this week, a soon-to-be-launched crowdfunding plaform focused exclusively on the  gaming vertical. Recognizing the popularity of this category on Kickstarter, Gamelaunched is positioning to win market share by offering a more targeted, and value-added crowdfunding experience to fundraisers. Focusing on a specific niche allows them to do this. As for backers, what's good ...

This syndicated article was written by Walter Frick for Bostinno.com Between now and whenever the SEC releases its final crowdfunding guidelines, we’re likely to hear a lot more about the potential pitfalls of letting anyone invest in private companies. Just as in the run-up to legalizing crowdfunding, lots of that talk will center around fraud. So headlines yesterday like Oil companies use ‘crowdfunding’ e ...

Company: Sellanapp.com Elevator Pitch: "SellanApp is a crowd funding platform for iOS apps. People with good ideas want to have their App Idea developed, and SellanApp connects them with pledgers and developers. Either your App will be funded well enough and gets selected by a developer, or time runs out and no money will change hands. It’s an all or nothing crowd funding auction." Article Source: Crowdsour ...

FundedByMe is about to make history as they become the first equity crowdfunding platform to launch in Sweden. The company's CEO and co-founder, Daniel Daboczy, shot an email to supporters earlier this morning announcing the launch: Hi, The FundedByMe team and I are really proud to announce that history is about the be made on Thursday afternoon.The first rounds of equity crowdfunding/ crowd investing for s ...

The Committee on Oversight & Government Reform hosted a joint hearing with the Financial Services Subcommittee (yep, I'm lost already too) to discuss the importance of the timely implementation of the JOBS Act. To the important stuff: The committee solicited opinions and feedback from a wonderfully diverse panel, including those with operational, legal, and political experience in the crowdfunding arena ...

I just received an email from the WeFunder team announcing their soft pre-JOBS launch. WeFunder will now allow accredited investors to discover, connect, and interact with startups on its platform. (Online investments will not be facilitated.) While I doubt capital-hungry startups and accredited investors will patiently wait for implementation, the online discovery and interaction still represents a potenti ...

This press release is a bit dated, but after stumbling upon it I thought it was worth resurfacing. Our friends across the pond are far ahead of the curve on crowdfunding as they surely recognize the potential it holds for funding companies, creating jobs and invigorating a struggling economy. And it's not just rhetoric:  The British government is putting skin in the game, allocating $160 million (100 millio ...