Offerings

June 19, 2024 @ 11:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

The VanEck Bitcoin ETF (ASX:VBTC) traded on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) today, following the lead of the US. VanEck said the exchange-traded fund was the first and most cost-effective Bitcoin ETF on ASX. Other sponsors are expected to enter the Australian market with a… Read More

June 17, 2024 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper, the savings and investments wealthtech founded by Nick Perrett and Ricky Knox, formerly of Tandem Bank, has reached its £800,000 Crowdcube target before launching to the public. Nick Perrett, Prosper’s CEO said: “We have been overwhelmed by the early show of support in the… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 6:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spiko, co-founded in 2023 by Paul-Adrien Hyppolite and Antoine Michon, has raised €4 million in pre-seed funding. Spiko is a tokenization platform that claims to be the first provider in the world to offer fully tokenized Money Market Funds (MMFs). The digital assets leverage both… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

The securities crowdfunding industry needs to do a better job of highlighting successes for investors as well as embracing the failures. Entrepreneurship generates enormous benefits for society, but investors backing these early-stage firms are taking on a lot of risk. Most startups fail, and some… Read More

June 14, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MicroStrategy (NASDAQ:MSTR) recently revealed its plan to sell $500 million in convertible bonds in order to finance the purchase of more Bitcoin (BTC). MicrosStrategy, which presently possesses 214,400 Bitcoin (BTC) valued at about $14.5 billion, holds more than 1% of BTC’s total circulating supply. The… Read More

June 12, 2024 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

SyndicateRoom, a platform that began life as a single issuer investment platform, has shared insight into its Access EIS Fund performance. The Access EIS Fund is available to smaller investors and aims to generate a return of £3.50 for each £1 invested. The diversified fund… Read More

June 10, 2024 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Space and space entrepreneurship is a hot sector of innovation. Beyond the high-profile space ventures being pursued by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, the “space economy” represents a significant opportunity for firms seeking to provide services or technology to advance space exploration and science. According… Read More

June 6, 2024 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Quarter, a platform that fractionalizes homes and provides a mortgage alternative, has listed the Quarter Launch Fund on tZERO, a broker-dealer that provides online capital formation. According to a note from tZERo, the Quarter Launch Fund aims to raise up to $147.25 million in a… Read More

June 4, 2024 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Founded by Nick Perrett of digital bank Tandem, Ricky Knox of Tandem and Azimo, and Phil Bungey of Nutmeg, new WealthTech platform Prosper is offering an alternative to how people save and invest. Where other FinTechs have transformed payments, currency exchange and banking, Prosper is… Read More

June 4, 2024 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Watford FC, a Premier League football (soccer) team, is selling shares to investors on Republic and Seedrs. Republic is the largest investment crowdfunding platform in the world. Its acquisition of UK-based Seedrs cemented its top position. The relationship between the two platforms has fostered a… Read More

June 3, 2024 @ 3:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cyabra, a proactive artificial intelligence solution designed to sniff out fake news and other bogus information, such as fake profiles, has posted a report on the forthcoming Presidential election and the activity of fake campaigns targeting the Biden and Trump campaigns. According to the report,… Read More

May 30, 2024 @ 10:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Republic, the largest investment crowdfunding company in the world, has revealed a partnership with niche crowdfunding platform RedCrow. RedCrow is an online investment platform that invests in early-stage healthcare firms. It is part of Alira Health, a healthcare consulting firm. Details of the relationship were not… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

While the US Congress has a pending ban on China-owned TikTok (ByteDance), if the company is sold to a US entity, it may still operate in the country. The fear is the tendrils of the Chinese Communist Party are utilizing TikTok to garner data from… Read More

May 24, 2024 @ 12:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is poised to green-light Ethereum (Ether) ETFs after years of pushback. As of this writing, it was not clear as to when these products would commence trading. Earlier this year, the SEC approved spot Bitcoin ETFs for trading after… Read More

May 22, 2024 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CarCloud, which claims to be on a mission to achieve the lowest possible monthly car costs for the United Kingdom’s 33.5 million drivers, has secured 115% of its £325,000 target from 119 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 16 days left in… Read More

May 17, 2024 @ 12:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

WatchHouse, a specialty coffee shop that aims to top entrenched players, has raised over £7.189 million on Crowdcube. This is the second funding round on the crowdfunding platform. WatchHouse previously raised over £2.8 million in 2022; thus, the total in online funding now surpasses £10… Read More

May 14, 2024 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor, one of the oldest securities crowdfunding platforms in Europe, says it has funded the largest sustainability securities online offering in Europe. According to the platform, the Fryslân wind farm in the Netherlands raised €6 million in just one day. The securities offering went on… Read More

May 13, 2024 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

FAT (Fresh. Authentic. Tasty.) Brands Inc. (NASDQ:FAT) has been hit with allegations of fraud. This past Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed fraud charges against FAT, its former CEO and current Chairman, Andrew Wiederhorn, and its former CFOs, Ron Roe and Rebecca Hershinger,… Read More

May 13, 2024 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

GenoCrowd, a real estate investment platform that provides developers with access to capital, is reporting that a recent offering opened to investors has quickly sold out. According to an email, the Eisenbahnstrasse, Leipzig project, which went live on April 30th with a funding goal of… Read More

May 9, 2024 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, a global Fintech that is a huge e-commerce and payments player, has issued a post that retail investors should be careful about claims they can invest in their shares. Stripe is a private company that may never go public. Today, due to excessive regulation… Read More