Tagged: wine

March 24, 2026 @ 5:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine, a top securities crowdfunding platform, has acquired Vinovest, a niche wine-and-whiskey investment platform. The terms of the deal were not immediately available. According to a company statement, Vinovest currently is home to 200,00 registered users. Since its founding, Vinovest has secured approximately $140 million… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

CruTrade, a new online investment platform that offers wine investors a place to buy and sell fine wine, announced its launch today, promising a marketplace where enthusiasts can trade wine powered by Avalanche. CrutTrade touts its ability to allow traders to instantly invest in bottles… Read More

April 23, 2024 @ 12:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

DWealth Education and dVIN are partnering on an initiative to “bring blockchain proficiency and economic opportunity to the global investment-grade wine ecosystem.” dVIN is a blockchain-based platform for the wine market. The company says it will introduce a digital asset dubbed $VIN (Vincoin) later in… Read More

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

GrtWines is a new online investment platform that focuses solely on collectible wines. At the beginning of the year, GrtWines revealed its inaugural collection, “100 Magnums,” featuring Bordeaux wines. According to GrtWines, this first collection sold out in four days, thus displaying high demand for… Read More

December 27, 2022 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) in France has posted an update on the number of bogus websites attempting to solicit investors with sketchy offerings.  The AMF reports that since the beginning of 2021, 20 websites have been added to the list while cautioning the… Read More

November 29, 2022 @ 12:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wine and whiskey investment platform Vinovest has listed a securities offering on Republic. According to the offering page, Vinovest is raising capital for Bottle & Barrel I LLC, a series of Vinovest Capital, LLC. It appears that Vinovest is looking to expand its community by… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

ADDX, a Singapore-based digital securities exchange, has “tokenized” a portfolio of wine from top vineyards in Burgundy, France, providing a keen example as to how distributed ledger technology can be utilized to turn different products into digital assets. According to ADDX, the estimated worth of… Read More

February 3, 2021 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based Sygnum Bank, a licensed digital asset bank founded on “Swiss and Singapore heritage” operating globally, and Fine Wine Capital, a privately-held specialist trading firm with a special focus on the fine wine market, have reportedly tokenized a range of premium investible wines. This initiative… Read More

January 21, 2021 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading investment crowdfunding platform StartEngine has filed a Form 1-A indicating its intent to offer the StartEngine Collectibles Fund. According to the filing, the Reg A+ offering will be split between two types of collectibles including wine and music. The document reveals that if fully… Read More

July 6, 2020 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

GrapeStars, a marketplace where celebrities may promote their wine and spirits to followers, is now seeking funds through its Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) campaign on Republic. Founded in 2017, GrapeStars claims it is a one-of-a-kind online marketplace where celebrities can promote wine and spirits directly… Read More

March 9, 2019 @ 7:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two years after securing £1.3 million through its Seedrs funding round, Independent wine merchant and wine bar concept, Humble Grape, returned to the equity crowdfunding platform and has already secured its initial £400,000 funding target. The initiative is now nearing £550,000 thanks to… Read More

December 26, 2018 @ 12:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Madison Holdings Group (HKSE: GEM), a French wine company, is looking to purchase a $30 million stake in Japanese cryptocurrency trading platform, BitOcean. According to South China Morning Post, Madison Lab, a subsidiary of Madison Holdings, is to acquire 6percentcent of BitOcean from independent third parties… Read More

June 15, 2018 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube set to close next Friday, Notes, a growing coffee shop and wine bar concept, has successfully surpassed £1 million thanks to more than 700 investors. The funding round, which was launched three years after Notes raised £908,400 through… Read More

May 12, 2018 @ 7:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over three years after successfully securing £505,310 through its first equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs, French vineyard and winery Domaine du Grand Mayne, returned to the funding portal to raise £100,000.  The Domaine du Grand Mayne team stated the vineyard, which has… Read More

April 7, 2018 @ 2:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Winebuyers, an e-commerce platform that connects vineyards and wine merchants directly to the end consumer, has successfully secured its initial £525,000 funding target on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The funding round was launched last month and was recently extended. So far, it has attracted nearly 185 investors. As… Read More

March 1, 2018 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Winebuyers, an e-commerce platform that connects vineyards and wine merchants directly to the end consumer, is now seeking £525,000 through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. According to Winebuyers, the platform is customer focused, works on a completely transparent model, it doesn’t mark up prices or charge commission on any… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based online wine merchant Your Sommelier is set to close its equity crowdfunding initiative on Seedrs with more than 110,000 in funding. The company launched the campaign earlier this summer, seeking the 110,000 as it prepares to grow and expand its monthly subscription services. As… Read More

July 20, 2017 @ 11:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Your Sommelier, a London-based online wine merchant, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. The company is seeking £110,000 as it prepares to grow and expand its monthly subscription boxes of French wines. The company stated it started trading three years ago a concept of offering… Read More

May 2, 2017 @ 5:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Independent wine merchant and wine bar concept, Humble Grape, has successfully completed its latest equity crowdfunding round on Seedrs. Originally seeking £1 million, the company’s campaign secured £1,291,745. In 2014, Humble Grape raised over £500,000 on Seedrs and since then, the company reported it has grown quickly and… Read More

April 28, 2017 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Independent wine merchant and wine bar concept, Humble Grape, is set to open a third site in Islington this upcoming summer. The news comes just a few weeks after the company secured its initial 1 million funding target through its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on… Read More