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Jason Best: Catalyzing & Leading Systemic Disruption in Crowdfunding

December 24, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By Erin Hobey |

“In 5 years, we will no longer talk about “Crowdfunding,” it will just be “funding.” Crowdfunding will just be one of the ways that early stage companies and SMEs gain access to capital. Just like online trading of public securities is considered the primary… Read More

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Crowdfund Capital Advisors Co-Founder Sherwood Neiss Provokes, Inaugurates & Predicts Crowdfunding Innovation

December 21, 2015 @ 7:45 am By Erin Hobey |

“We believe the potential of crowdfunding is not about a single company or single crowdfunding platform. It is about the evolution from an institutional framework for allocating capital (otherwise known as banks, funds, and foundations) to a more individually driven framework enabled by existing and… Read More

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Six Things You Need to Know About Crowdfunding in Developing Countries

December 15, 2015 @ 11:40 am By Sam Raymond |

If you are an entrepreneur in emerging markets, you have probably heard a lot about crowdfunding, but wondered how it could be useful for your early-stage business. In developed markets, crowdfunding is swelling the ranks of early-stage entrepreneurs and bolstering the pipeline of enterprises that… Read More

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Brief: Outernet Exceeded $637K in Indiegogo Pre-orders; Partners with Fundable for Next Fundraise

June 18, 2015 @ 8:42 am By Erin Hobey |

Fresh from its successful late 2014 Indiegogo campaign for its Lantern reciever which raised more than $637K from 6,642 backers, New York-based Outernet Hardware has returned to the crowd, this time on its private fundraise on Fundable. Outernet, ‘Humanity’s Public Library,’ enables anyone to receive data anywhere in… Read More

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Cloud Lending Solutions Appoints World Bank Vet & Opens New Nairobi Office: Expanding the Power of Microfinance Funding

May 19, 2015 @ 12:12 pm By Erin Hobey |

Cloud Lending Solutions, an end-to-end lending solution built natively on salesforce.com, announced the appointment of Harold Rosen to the company’s Advisory Board, bringing his more than 30 years of experience in the microfinance industry, including driving social impact investing at the World Bank. In addition, the company is expanding… Read More

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Crowdfunding and Climate Innovation: The Next Steps are in Funding Impact Investing

December 17, 2013 @ 10:45 am By Sherwood Neiss |

The future of Impact Investing and Crowdfunding was on display in Nairobi, Kenya last week. At the World Bank/infoDev’s annual funding meeting their budget was divvyed up among the creation of Climate Innovation Centers (CIC) in Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Vietnam and the Caribbean and… Read More

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WATCH: Richard Swart’s Macro Take On The World Bank Report

October 20, 2013 @ 1:10 pm By Charles Luzar |

Crack The Crowd has released part one of what is to be a three-part interview with Dr. Richard Swart, who is a partner at Crowdfund Capital Advisors and the head of the crowdfunding research program at UC Berkeley. He was instrumental in the recently released… Read More

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