Tagged: indiegogo

December 8, 2025 @ 6:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Rewards platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo were once the rage. The concept of “pre-sales”, enabling creators to offer a product before its production and giving interested consumers the opportunity to purchase it at a discount before its wider release, was embraced by many. But the… Read More

August 11, 2022 @ 12:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine, one of the largest investment crowdfunding platforms in the US, has announced a partnership with rewards platform Indiegogo. According to a release, the “exclusive” deal will facilitate the “full life cycle of capital from the crowd.” Becky Center, the CEO of Indiegogo, stated that… Read More

December 14, 2021 @ 4:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rewards platform Indiegogo has posted a blog boasting about a partnership with StartEngine that pairs an e-commerce offering alongside a securities sale. You may recall, that Indiegogo was launched with the intent of morphing into an investment platform once the rules were in place to… Read More

December 8, 2020 @ 8:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Slava Rubin, co-founder of Indiegogo and former CEO of the rewards-based platform, is returning to the startup scene with a new Fintech called Vincent. The startup is an online platform that seeks to help investors gain access to alternative assets – a search engine for… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 11:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NGRAVE, a digital asset security company that claims it has developed the world’s most secure cryptocurrency hardware wallet, has revealed that they’ve crossed a thousand backers (investors) and have so far secured nearly $360,000 in investments – and counting via Indiegogo (IGG). As mentioned in… Read More

December 24, 2019 @ 11:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The number of FINRA regulated “funding portals,” investment crowdfunding platforms that have been approved to issue securities under Reg CF, has continued to move upward since the new entity was created under the JOBS Act of 2012. Today, there are well over forty funding portals…. Read More

March 31, 2019 @ 5:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo, the second largest rewards-based platform in the US, has quietly exited equity crowdfunding. Indiegogo entered the securities realm in November of 2016. The platform partnered with Microventures, a Texas-based broker-dealer, to create First Democracy VC – a FINRA approved funding portal. At the time… Read More

October 9, 2018 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Aspen Digital Security Token has apparently successfully closed its offering. CI has been told that trades have already been registered via Templum, an alternative trading system (ATS) that is targeting the emerging STO marketplace. Aspen Digital was created to raise capital for the St…. Read More

September 10, 2018 @ 10:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

In early August, CI reported that Templum – a registered ATS targeting digital assets, was working with Aspen Digital to tokenize a security based off of common stock in the St. Regis Aspen Resort. Using the Reg D (506c) exemption, the tokenized security has been… Read More

August 27, 2018 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, it was announced that Indiegogo, via its partnership with broker dealer Microinvest, was launching a security token offering (STO) for Aspen Digital. The “Aspen Coins” represent a single share in common stock offered under the Reg D 506c exemption for the St. Regis Aspen… Read More

August 23, 2018 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo was conceived as an investment platform but got a bit ahead of securities law so it started as a rewards platform. Today, Indiegogo now offers securities crowdfunding via a partnership with Microventures.  Last December, Indiegogo announced it was moving into the initial coin offering… Read More

August 22, 2018 @ 2:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, crowdfunded brewing company BrewDog announced it is set to open anticipated craft beer hotel, the DogHouse, on August 27th, at its brewery location in Ohio. The opening of the hotel comes just a little over two years after BrewDog secured $324,072 through its… Read More

June 21, 2018 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois  |  

iDisclose, a Legaltech firm, has joined Indiegogo’s Expert Network and will make available its new LawCloud product to the worldwide community of entrepreneurs. Indiegogo allows both securities crowdfunding and pre-commerce offerings. iDisclose also offers automated filing for SEC Forms C, C-AR, D and ID, as… Read More

May 1, 2018 @ 10:14 am By JD Alois  |  

The creation of the Institute for Blockchain Innovation (IBI) was announced today. The new advocacy group is backed by some prominent names including Indiegogo, 500 Startups, Ausum Ventures, Finova and more.The open source think tank said it will work to “establish standards and best practices… Read More

April 5, 2018 @ 6:19 am By Adrienne Gonzalez  |  

“The world’s largest social fundraising platform” is about to get even larger, GoFundMe has just acquired rival YouCaring. The acquisition was announced late Tuesday in a pair of blog posts on the respective platforms. “It became clear to both us and them over the last… Read More

March 11, 2018 @ 2:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Any US based cryptocurrency exchange is going to be compelled to become an Alternative Trading System (ATS), a regulated trading platform but not a full blown exchange. They have to do it or else. The Securities and Exchange Commission has been increasing the volume of… Read More

January 25, 2018 @ 10:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

YouCaring announced on Thursday it has acquired Indiegogo’s personal cause platform, Generosity. The online fundraising platform revealed along with the acquisition, it has formed a long-term partnership with the global crowdfunding platform, which has been named YouCaring’s Entrepreneurial Fundraising Partner. Speaking about the Generosity acquisition and partnership, YouCaring’s… Read More

January 3, 2018 @ 10:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than six months after completing its first Reg CF round, Napa Valley Distillery has returned to Indiegogo/Microventure’s equity crowdfunding platform with a Reg D – 506 (C) offer. The earlier CF round raised $772,112 for a revenue loan that expects to pay investors 1.5X their… Read More

January 2, 2018 @ 2:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two years after securing $230,000 through its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Israeli biotech and food-tech startup SuperMeat has raised $3 million through its seeds funding round and has formed a strategic partnership with PHW, one of Europe’s largest poultry producers, and an equity investor in… Read More

December 26, 2017 @ 12:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few months after the Trump Administration announced it was ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo revealed its support for the program. The funding portal revealed in a blog post last week: “A few months ago, President… Read More