Tagged: wisconsin

February 8, 2023 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Larky, a Fintech provider helping financial institutions connect with their audience in the right place and at the right time, announced its launch with Marshfield, Wis.-based Forward Bank. The bank has introduced Larky’s nudge push notifications in order to provide its account holders with more… Read More

September 22, 2022 @ 10:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One Inc, the digital payments network for the insurance industry, announced that Wisconsin-based SECURA Insurance, has selected One Inc’s full suite of digital payment solutions PremiumPay® and ClaimsPay®, “for both inbound and outbound payments for one of its insurance products.” The result is seamless handling… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 1:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  U.S.-based insurtech startup Pie Insurance announced on Tuesday it has expanded its service to both Florida and Wisconsin.  The expansion comes just days after Pie announced it has exceeded $100 million in cumulative written premium and surpassed $100 million in annualized run rate premium. As previously reported, Pie describes… Read More

December 1, 2015 @ 2:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Chicago-based real estate crowdfunding platform PeerRealty announced it has successfully crowdfunded two separate senior housing investment opportunities. The website’s user base of accredited investors used the online crowdfunding platform to help fund the Village Pointe Commons senior housing development project in Grafton, Wisconsin,… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 1:10 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Those near Milwaukee, Wisc., tonight will have something new to drink to: Philly’s Premium Beverages LLC, a Grafton firm that sells readymade mixed drinks in bottles and cans is the first Milwaukee-area company to seek money from investors under Wisconsin’s year-old equity “crowdfunding” law, according to Milwaukee’s Journal… Read More

April 14, 2015 @ 11:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

MobCraft Beer, an award winning Madison craft brewery, announced that it has closed one of the first intrastate equity crowdfunding campaigns in the U.S. The campaign received an initial commitment of $75,000 from 57 investors, topping the Kickstarter brewery record of $71,000. The round ultimately… Read More

March 24, 2015 @ 2:56 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

You can still vote for new flavors of beer–cinnamon, vanilla cranberry and cocoa, or sour blood orange–with the confidence that it’s coming in fairly small, unique batches. MobCraft Beer, the first crowdfunding campaign to try Wisconsin’s new crowdfunding law, recently fell short of its 3.5 month… Read More

January 15, 2015 @ 10:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding and digital distribution platform for independent film, will select and award the top two short films at the 2015 Flyway Film Festival in Wisconsin. The two winners will be picked from the top five short films accepted for inclusion in the festival, chosen in… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

American Homeowner Preservation (AHP) announced today the company was able to help a Milwaukee, WI family catch up on nearly three years of delinquent mortgage payments to avoid foreclosure with a loan modification this week. AHP purchases distressed mortgages using real estate crowdfunding with a mission… Read More

September 30, 2014 @ 8:01 am By Anthony Zeoli  |  

While the industry waits for Title III crowdfunding rules to be released, the intrastate crowdfunding movement continues to move forward (as a whole). Here is a brief update as to the status of the enactment/use of intrastate crowdfunding exemptions in certain states. TEXAS – Unlucky… Read More

September 26, 2014 @ 7:23 am By JD Alois  |  

CraftFund is now offering investment opportunities in Wisconsin.  CraftFund has been a trailblazer in the crowdfunding space.  Management set up shop early positioning the platform to offer rewards based campaigns but anticipating the opportunity to offer investment crowdfunding once laws were rationalized.  Now with Wisconsin… Read More

September 25, 2014 @ 12:27 am By JD Alois  |  

MobCraft beer launched their equity crowdfunding campaign on CraftFund today (Wednesday, September 25) becoming the first company to take advantage of Wisconsin’s equity crowdfunding exemption. As was reported this past summer, Wisconsin’s intrastate crowdfunding exemption encountered a bit of a hurdle when local banks were… Read More

August 28, 2014 @ 11:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

American Homeowner Preservation, AHP, is rebuilding communities devastated by the foreclosure crisis, and August proved to be a successful month for the company as it sold vacant, abandoned properties spanning across nine states. In the last 30 days, AHP has found new owners for vacant properties… Read More

August 26, 2014 @ 2:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Winsconin’s crowdfunding law went into effect this past June, signed into law by Governor Scott Walker. The state crowdfunding exemption allows entrepreneurs to raise up to $2 million via an online investment platform ($1 million without an audit).  The law was unique in their approach… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wisconsin’s startup companies finally have another way to raising capital! A new state law, signed into law by Governor Scott Walker last year, now grants up and coming entrepreneurs rights to raise up to $1 million from state investors through online crowdfunding websites. Up to… Read More

May 12, 2014 @ 5:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Great news for entrepreneurs in Wisconsin, starting June 1st anyone in America’s Dairyland will be able to buy small amounts of stock in businesses through online portals that register through the state. This will allow business owners to easily turn to their community to raise… Read More

April 15, 2014 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Intrastate crowdfunding exemptions are on the rise as legislators continue to exhibit interest in allowing small businesses to raise money online. However, several questions remain regarding how to effectively advertise these offerings without running afoul of securities regulations. According to an article in the National… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 11:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If we were tallying states up today, Kansas, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin have made equity crowdfunding legal and are in some stage of implementation. Alabama, Washington, Maine and North Carolina are all considering exemptions. Of course, that may change tomorrow. Amidst all the hoopla about a… Read More

November 21, 2013 @ 8:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

PitchBook just posted footage of a short interview with Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. This interview took place on the same day that Gov. Walker signed a Wisconsin intrastate crowdfunding exemption into law. The original article on PitchBook’s blog expands upon the legislation and compares it… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Gamasutra | Square Enix shares its publishing vision for Collective Sure, we know that Square Enix is going to be launching Collective in an effort to help indie developers find funding from the crowd. How is it going to work? Here, Gamasutra breaks it down…. Read More