Tagged: guardd

December 18, 2025 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss, GUARDD CEO and securities crowdfunding OG, has sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission outlining their ability to support secondary trading for exempt securities. The letter was sent in response to a statement by SEC Chairman Paul Atkins asking for… Read More

December 30, 2022 @ 3:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

GUARDD, a Fintech that was co-founded by Sherwood “Woodie” Neiss, Doug Ellenoff, and Jim Dowd, is looking to raise up to $2 million in growth capital on SeedInvest. For those of you in the know, Neiss, Ellenoff, and Dowd are Fintech superstars, each active in… Read More

February 10, 2022 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is watching. It likely will not be long before the first enforcement action against a Non-Fungible Token (NFT) issuer is announced. The 80+ enforcement actions the regulators have taken to date on cryptocurrency, digital assets, and Initial Coin… Read More

February 25, 2021 @ 8:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Association of International Certified Professional Accountants and CPA.com have selected five early-stage ventures to participate in an accelerator. The program was launched in 2017 in recognition of the ongoing digital transformation taking place in financial services. Erik Asgeirsson, president and CEO of CPA.com, says the… Read More

January 13, 2021 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Trading private securities in the US entails certain compliance requirements that can make it difficult and a young Fintech is on a mission to make it easier. GUARDD, a startup looking to facilitate private security liquidity, has announced two new partnerships with Alternative Trading Systems… Read More

December 28, 2020 @ 6:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Doug Ellenoff, the Managing Partner of Manhattan law firm Ellenoff, Grossman and Schole (EGS), has been involved with the Fintech sector since the early days of the JOBS Act – the legislation that eventually legalized investment crowdfunding. He is not only deeply engaged with… Read More

November 24, 2020 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

The exempt securities marketplace can be arcane and challenging to manage for entrepreneurs seeking to raise capital. The advent of online capital formation has helped to democratize access to capital as well as streamline securities offerings but hurdles do remain. A new startup co-founded by… Read More

December 2, 2019 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a significant review of the securities exemption ecosystem in June of this year. During the past few decades, the Commission, with some help from Congress, has updated and added to the many rules that regulate private securities offerings…. Read More