Crowdfunding

In 2015 the Americas alternative finance industry grew 212% from 2014, to reach a volume of $36.49 billion, shows a benchmarking report of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative ...

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation, a UK grant-making foundation, has launched a £200,000 funding pot for projects financed via Spacehive, a UK donation-based crowdfunding platform, according to a post on ...

smava, a German lending marketplace lender, has raised $34 million in a funding round led by Russian tech-focused venture capital fund Runa Capital, the platform said over the ...

Unocoin, an India-based Bitcoin startup, said on Friday it has raised $1.5 million in a pre Series-A financing round. This is the highest raised amount for a digital ...

BigchainDB, a blockchain database provider, said on Wednesday it has raised €3 million in a Series A financing round. ...

The UK marketplace lender Funding Circle has lent v£1.5 billion to the British business. According to a post in the crowdfunding platform’s blog, this happens six years after ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Bondora said on Tuesday it is updating its entire loan pricing system by incorporating a new method for calculation. As a result аll new ...

RiskSave Technologies, yet another low-cost robo-investing platform intended for retail investors, is raising funding on UK’s leading equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The company was launched earlier this year. ...

Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Bondora said last week it has launched a Refer-A-Friend program, under which investors can earn 5% from the amount their referred friends lent in ...

P2P Global Ivestments, a British trust dedicated to investments in consumer and SME loans and UK’s largest P2P lender Zopa are working on Europe’s first scuritization of unsecured ...