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Curating Peer-to-Peer lending and Crowdfunding news
Contrary to my friends at http://www.friendsclear.com/, I am not an expert in P2P lending, a market I started to follow as a Forrester Research analyst when Zopa was created in the UK. P2P lending was a buoyant small space. But financial scandals, the resulting economic crisis and a favorable US regulation (the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act) are making crowdfunding and the notion of by-passing traditional lenders more and more popular. If you're interested in this topic I recommend you follow Matthew Paulson and Peter Renton from http://www.p2plendingnews.com/ and http://www.sociallending.net/.
Finovate returns to San Francisco on May 14 and 15 with FinovateSpring 2013, a two-day showcase of the best innovations in financial and banking technology from a mixture of leading established companies and brand-new startups.
The following guest post is by David Drake, founder and chairman of LDJ Capital, a New York City private equity firm, and of The Soho Loft, a global financial media company with divisions in Conferences and Publishing.
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Grace à cette acquisition, Ulule compte désormais se positionner sur le terrain des longs métrages en permettant…
Editor's note: Danae Ringelmann is a co-founder of Indiegogo. Prior to that, she was a securities analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment companies, including Pixar, Lionsgate, Disney and Electronic Arts.
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As many of my Scoop.it friends know I'm creating a nonprofit foundation called The Story of Cancer Foundation. The foundation's mission is simple - Tech Cures Cancer.
Our first project is CureCancerStarter.org is underway. Now we need a great board with more experience at creating cause marketing on a BIG scale than ME (won't be hard :).
If you have ideas, know people who can help or want to mentor, adopt or save me, please do so (lol).
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Thanks, Marty
Via Martin (Marty) Smith
ekwity.com team, job and business recruiting site creates startup employment through aspiration, availability, compensation like equity.
A recent $400,000 investment from Virginia-based QED Investors finished off the Seed round. Prior investments contributing to the total amount include: $1.2 million in May of 2012$310k in September 2011
Kickstarter on Friday updated its iOS app designed for iPhone and iPod touch, adding a slew of new features and fixing various bugs. You can grab the new version now directly from the ...
Crowdcube, the equity crowdfunding website, is now authorised by the Financial Services Authority (FSA). ... Darren Westlake, co-founder and CEO of Crowdcube commented: "We're delighted to be the first authorised crowdfunding platform that allows investors to become direct shareholders in UK businesses... Crowdcube has raised over £5 million for UK businesses. More than 28,000 investors have registered on its website since its launch in February 2011.
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Funding Circle, co-founded by Andrew Mullinger (pictured) says it's dealing with several cases of firms forced to wait months to receive funding because of hold-ups by high street banks.
Peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club is announcing a huge new investor today: Google. Google and existing investor Foundation Capital have put $125 million in Lending Club, which was valued at $1.55 billion in the round.
Google has become a minority stake-holder in Lending Club after leading a $125 million deal to buy a share in the peer-to-peer loan specialist from existing investors.
MicroDon allows businesses and their employees to donate micropayments generated by rounding up their salaries and their bills
The Securities and Exchange Commission is making way for a number of startups and online investment platforms to enable startups to crowdsource investment.
The Next Web: Distil Networks closed a $1.8 million seed round of funding in January. It was raised over time, with participation from TechStars, and ff Venture Capital. Then the company raised another ...
Let's bring Everlane to Canada
Jim Bruene @NetBanker : [...] At Pave, backers pledge money to prospects and form a team. In return, backers receive a portion of the prospects' future income. It's like angel investing, but focused on careers. Pave is just getting started, with eight funded teams, but the stories are compelling and the future bright. As it is for the whole industry. --------------------------------------------- Pave brings mentors/benefactors together with talented individuals needing support (28 Feb 2013)
Finovate: SocietyOne is the company running the platform
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Alternatives to big bank and big money investors. This is showing up as a way for emerging film makers and others with ideas, businesses or causes to move forward with the money from crowd funding.