March 28, 2024

Web and Technology News

OurCrowd teams up with Airwallex to let its investors back startups in their local currency

Over the course of the last few years, venture investment platform OurCrowd has become Israel’s most active venture investor, with over 400 portfolio companies across 42 funds. The platform allows accredited investors to invest in the startups in the OurCrowd portfolio, but until now, they had to do so by first converting their local currency […]

Kickstarter requires generative AI projects to disclose additional info

As generative AI enters the mainstream, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has struggled to formulate a policy that satisfies parties on all sides of the debate. Most of the generative AI tools used to create art and text today, including Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, were trained on publicly available images and text from the web. But in […]

Substack opens up a $2 million community fundraising round

Substack is opening up a community fundraising round, letting writers invest in and own a piece of the company. The company announced on Tuesday that writers can make an investment, of at least $100, starting today via Substack’s Wefunder page. According to the page, Substack’s funding goal is $2 million. The company’s pre-money valuation is […]

Substack opens up a $2 million community fundraising round by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Israel’s OurCrowd expands to Abu Dhabi

Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, which has now become Israel’s most active venture firm, today announced that it is expanding its operations in Abu Dhabi by launching a new office and AI tech hub — enabled by the Abu Dhabi Investment Office — in the emirate. In total, OurCrowd plans to invest $60 million as part of […]

Israel’s OurCrowd expands to Abu Dhabi by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on blockchain, inclusion, unions and the future of crowdfunding

For most CEOs, the first several weeks or months are spent learning the ropes, poring over financials and meeting shareholders. More often than not, press interviews are reserved for a later date. Everette Taylor, on the other hand, is jumping in with both feet. It hasn’t been a full week since Kickstarter appointed the former […]

Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor on blockchain, inclusion, unions and the future of crowdfunding by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Crowdcube brings its equity crowdfunding platform to France

If you live in the U.K. or the U.S., you may already be quite familiar with equity crowdfunding. And yet, few French startups turn to their community of users to raise some new funding. Thanks to recent regulatory changes, British investment platform Crowdcube plans to shake things up as it is officially launching on the […]

Groundfloor steps up its real estate debt crowdfunding platform with fresh capital

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor, the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approval, announced today that it raised its first round of institutional capital since 2015. Brian Dally, a former mobile network exec, and Nick Bhargava, a co-author of the […]

Indiegogo will designate legit crowdfunders with a ‘Trust-Proven’ badge

Indiegogo has a trust problem. It’s something the company is keenly aware of. For years, the platform has been viewed by many as the destination for those campaigns that didn’t make it through the initial Kickstarter vetting process. As CEO Andy Yang told me in an interview last summer: We’ve had our number of failures […]