Tagged: jobs

June 29, 2020 @ 12:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Banking group Barclays US announced on Monday plans to create more than 300 new customer service jobs in its Wilmington, Delaware headquarters. According to Barclays US, The  Council on Development Finance (CDF) approved Barclays for Delaware Strategic Fund monies totaling nearly $2.5 million, including a… Read More

January 15, 2020 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Expertise or prior experience working with blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) has quickly become the number-one “hard skill” that firms are now looking for on LinkedIn. According to a recently published job trends report, LinkedIn researchers examined user profiles who were “getting hired at… Read More

April 3, 2018 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

TalentPool, a talent matching platform that connects UK SMEs with recent graduates, has surpassed its initial £350,000 funding target from nearly 100 investors on equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs. As previously reported, TalentPool was founded in 2013 and stated it is on a mission to change the way that… Read More

March 28, 2018 @ 2:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

TalentPool, a talent matching platform that connects UK SMEs with recent graduates, is now seeking 350,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Founded in 2013, TalentPool stated its on a mission to change the way that companies find talent. “We’ve created a platform that identifies suitable… Read More

February 8, 2018 @ 1:43 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Kochava Labs SEZC, a research and development subsidiary of Kochava Inc., is proud to announce four new advisors to XCHNG, the open source blockchain framework for the digital advertising ecosystem: David Weild IV, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Weild & Co., Inc. and former Vice… Read More

December 21, 2017 @ 9:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Agility Scales, a Netherlands-based platform for guides making jobs better and easier, has successfully secured its initial €300,000 funding target through its Seedrs equity crowdfunding campaign from more than 150 investors. The company launched the funding round a couple weeks ago and is offering 6.61%… Read More

April 7, 2017 @ 9:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Snapp CV, a mobile job app that allows users to apply on-the-go through video and text, has successfully secured its initial £200,000 equity crowdfunding campaign target on Seedrs. The company launched the campaign earlier this year, seeking the funds as it prepares to expand. Snapp… Read More

April 27, 2016 @ 12:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, UK-based job search engine, Adzuna announced it has launched its Best British Workplace of 2016 competition. The company previously secured over £2 during its equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube. It has already attracts six million visitors a month, but wanted to increase that as part of… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 2:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Adzuna, the UK-based job search engine today launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise  £1.5 million for its mission to “get Britain working.” Within just a few hours, the campaign has raised over £659,330 of its £1,500,000 targeted goal for 5.89% equity offered. Now, with only a little over three weeks until its… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 7:07 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

FundersClub is celebrating an exit this evening, the first exit for a company funded on the equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors. TalentBin has been acquired by Monster Worldwide (MWW). Gozaik was also acquired by MWW today. Terms of the acquisitions were not disclosed. TalentBin and Gozaik… Read More

January 3, 2014 @ 10:17 am By Barry E. James  |  

Crowdfunding exploded in 2013, and so revealed its massive potential in a way that’s impossible to ignore. Not least December’s ‘The Rise of Future Finance” and the World Bank Report which preceded it. These together left no doubt that crowdfunding has become an established part of the… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 11:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform EarlyShares provided the following infographic outlining some of the facts and estimates behind Title III of the JOBS Act. Title III aims to legalize equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors. Rules for the new exemption (Seciton 4(a)(6) of the Securuties Act) were proposed… Read More

October 20, 2013 @ 12:34 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Love crowdfunding? Love social media? Want to work for one of the largest crowdfunding platforms on the planet? One lucky social media professional is going to have that chance. Indiegogo is seeking a social media manager with a “metrics-driven approach.” In other words, they want… Read More

September 23, 2013 @ 11:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

With the lifting of the ban on general solicitation, today marks the beginning of a grand experiment in capital formation in the United States. It is also a boon to a crowdfunding industry that has largely been on autopilot while the implementation timeline of the… Read More

July 5, 2013 @ 9:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors is holding their annual conference in Chicago next week, and for the first time ever the conference will include a large panel on crowdfunding. The AM&AA is comprised of 900 independent professionals – CPAs, attorneys, investors, M&A advisors,… Read More

June 8, 2013 @ 10:05 am By The New Zealand Herald  |  

… The problem in Europe is that the banks dominate the financial sector and they are becoming more and more cautious, partially because of new regulations. They prefer to finance the purchase of existing residential property rather than start-up businesses. This is one of the… Read More