Tagged: equitise

May 31, 2016 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Expectations were high earlier this year as Australia appeared poised to enact legislation to improve the environment for investment crowdfunding to occur in a more liberalized environment. Yet the proposal by policy makers had come under pointed criticism.  Eventually the bill “lapsed at dissolution” in… Read More

May 8, 2016 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Growing sports brand SKINS has placed its equity crowdfunding campaign on pause as multiple, large investors have indicated their interest in gaining a “substantial shareholding” in the brand.  The Swiss company launched a £2 million crowdfunding round earlier this year using both Seedrs in the… Read More

March 7, 2016 @ 9:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

International Financial firm Investec, a publicly traded company, has invested in H2 Ventures, a fintech accelerator based in Australia.  In a blog post on the H2 site the company explained; “At risk of blowing our own trumpet, we are delighted to announce today an investment… Read More

February 15, 2016 @ 9:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global sportswear brand, SKINS, announced on Monday it has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign in the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The Aussie company and inventors of sports compression is working with Seedrs and  Equitise to raise £2 million out of a 10 million global fundraising… Read More

February 8, 2016 @ 5:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise has a new shareholder.  Investec Australia, a publicly traded company, announced today that it had purchased a 20% stake in the equity crowdfunding platform making it the single largest shareholder behind the Equitise co-founders.  Investec was joined in the funding round by H2 Ventures and… Read More

January 12, 2016 @ 7:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise, a “Trans-Tasman” equity crowdfunding platform has shared a few of the high-points from 2015. Originally queued up to launch in Australia, Equitise first set up shop in New Zealand as the regulatory regime moved a bit quicker in facilitating the new form of internet finance…. Read More

October 29, 2015 @ 9:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise, operating in Australia and New Zealand, has partnered with Auckland-based Syndex to create a secondary market to trade crowdfunded securities. The “Trans-Tasman” market is said to deliver “a new degree of maturity and sophistication to the nascent crowdfunded equity market in New Zealand”.  … Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Paul Niederer, CEO of ASSOB – one of the very first investment crowdfunding platforms ever, has shared his opinion of the recently published a regulatory framework for crowdfunding in Australia and, in brief, he thinks it is wrong. Forest for the Trees Niedierer believes the… Read More

August 9, 2015 @ 2:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the fast changing world of equity crowdfunding Equitise, with offices in both New Zealand and Australia, is charting new territory with a “ground breaking” offer to partially crowdfund an initial public offering (IPO) on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).  This is another sign of the… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:50 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

In the first equity crowdfunding deal for Crowdcube NZ, an extension of Crowdcube UK, cloud software firm Collect Group seeks to raise funds for its marketing and loyalty software, according to New Zealand publication Stuff. Crowdcube NZ is being run in New Zealand by Wellington boutique investment bank Armillary Private… Read More

June 2, 2015 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Snowball Effect recently surveyed their registered users and they received a lot of feedback on providing liquidity for investors. The equity crowdfunding platform initially researched the issue prior to their launch in 2014 but in the last 6 weeks the New Zealand based company has… Read More

May 14, 2015 @ 6:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise is operating successfully in New Zealand but they remain hopeful for the future of investment crowdfunding in their native Australia.  While the Kiwi regulatory approach has rendered many fans, most Aussies regard their current regulatory approach as rather challenged. According to Equitise, there are… Read More

May 8, 2015 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equitise, a new Australian equity crowdfunding platform, announced this week that its very first investment opportunity, Tourism Radio New Zealand, has finished its funding round and successfully raised over $211,000. Equitise announced the campaign earlier this year, revealing that the company was needing to raise a… Read More

January 29, 2015 @ 5:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise, an equity crowdfunding platform, was ready to go live in Australia last year . In light of the regulatory environment “down-under” Equitise has since set up shop in New Zealand and they are now live with their very first investment offers. In a notice to followers Equitise… Read More

January 26, 2015 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdfunding Institute of Australia has launched a survey on equity crowdfunding to measure interest and awareness for the budding investment crowdfunding industry. The purpose of the survey is said to be to provide a nationally representative response to the Australian government’s recent discussion paper titled “Crowd-sourced Equity Funding”…. Read More

July 25, 2014 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Equitise has signaled their confidence the Australian government will move forward with the recommendations by the CAMAC report that advocates streamlining capital formation for small business.  Equitise is an equity crowdfunding platform that is already accepting registrants from both investors and entrepreneurs in anticipation of… Read More