EquityNet is an online network that connects capital-seeking businesses with accredited investors. The platform's calling card is its data-driven approach to supporting investors and businesses in the matchmaking process. It does so by delivering standardized, and contextual, analytics and tools to both sides of the market. Currently, introductions are facilitated online, with transactions executed offline ...

[video id="Qgb27ObEfdY" type="youtube"] I had the pleasure to sit down with Rory Eakin, co-founder and COO of CircleUp. Rory gave a wealth of insight into the pioneering equity crowdfunding model him and his team have built to fund underserved companies in a targeted industry vertical (emerging growth consumer product and retail companies).  I've distilled and summarized key themes below for convenience, bu ...

[video id="8p3DWzYBx4k" type="youtube"] Crowdfunding Insight is a series of interviews with global leaders in the investment crowdfunding industry. The intent is to capture their learnings and data so that we may better prepare for the genesis of security crowdfunding in the United States. I had the chance to sit down with the Chairman and Co-Founder of Invesdor, Lasse Makela. Based out of Helsinki, Finland ...

SecondMarket announced a strategic partnership with CircleUp last week which comes on the tail of a similar partnership with Angellist in the Fall. Both partnerships —currently in beta— fall under the umbrella of SecondMarket+, an initiative that is selectively partnering with leading platforms to give SecondMarket investors centralized access to high-quality deal flow. Each entails cross-listing deal-flow ...

[video id="7yrPSMsVKqY" type="youtube"] I had the opportunity to sit down with David Rose. Penned by Forbes as the "Father of Angel Investing in New York," David is a serial entrepreneur and mentor, Chair of the New York Angels, and the CEO of Gust. A global platform for startup funding, I believe Gust —along with other existing networks of startups and accredited investors— is uniquely positioned to capita ...

[video id="U5NXu7hZzos" type="youtube"] Crowdfunding Works is a series of interviews with the CEOs of major investment crowdfunding platforms globally. The intent is to learn from their experiences, data, and insight and use it to guide our understanding, and expectations, of the advent of security crowdfunding here in the United States. Fingers crossed, I hope our regulators take note: democratized private ...

[video id="bZLTk_LJIE4" type="youtube"] Crowdfunding Works is a series of interviews with CEOs of major investment crowdfunding platforms worldwide. The intent is to learn from their experiences, data, and insight. This can help shape our understanding, and expectations, around the advent of security crowdfunding in the United States. And, fingers crossed, I hope our regulators take note of these proof poin ...

I had the pleasure of interviewing Paul Niederer, CEO of ASSOB, the world’s largest equity crowdfunding platform. It's available on YouTube here. Structuring the interview as a story, Paul and I walked through a crowdfunding lifecycle on ASSOB from cradle to grave, from the perspective of both the business and the investor. This was my first time interviewing via Google + so please forgive my redundancies a ...