Board Game Creator Isaac Childres Returns to Kickstarter: Quickly Raises Over $1.2 Million For “GloomHaven” Second Printing

Posted 5th April 2017

On Tuesday, board game creator Isaac Childres took to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for the second printing of his previous crowdfunding project, Gloomhaven. Within a matter of 24 h...

Fintech Company Street Contxt Receives Investment By Strategic Funding Consortium

Posted 5th April 2017

Street Contxt, a fintech company that helps brokerages, independent research providers, and asset managers distribute, manage, unbundle and value research, announced on Wednesday it received an invest...

Live Crowdfunding: Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH Festival First Batch of Companies

Posted 5th April 2017

LAUNCH Festival takes place later this week and the first batch of participating companies have been released. LAUNCH, the creation of Jason Calacanis, has partnered with SeedInvest to offer live inve...

Tradeshift Forms Partnership With CreditEase to Launch Trade Financing App That Will Bring Low-Cost Financing to Chinese Businesses

Posted 5th April 2017

Business commerce platform Tradeshift announced on Wednesday it has partnered with Chinese peer-to-peer lender CreditEase to launch a trade financing app, which is aiming to bring low-cost financing t...

Giftgaming Completes Seedrs Round With Nearly £95,000 in Funding

Posted 5th April 2017

UK-based in-game advertising platform Giftgaming successfully completed its latest equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. This additional funding round comes a little over two years after the compa...

Singapore Fintech Startup soCash Raises $600K Angel Round

Posted 5th April 2017

Yesterday, fintech startup soCash announced it had raised another US $600K (S$ 836,697) from angel investors. soCash, located in Singapore, provides digital cash management services to banks...

FinTech Sandbox Announces Demo Day 4.0 in Boston

Posted 5th April 2017

FinTech Sandbox, a Boston-based nonprofit providing fintech startups free access to data and infrastructure to accelerate product development, announced on Wednesday details about Demo Day 4.0, which ...

Overfunding Humble Grape Surpasses £1 Million Funding Target on Seedrs

Posted 5th April 2017

Independent wine merchant and wine bar concept, Humble Grape, has officially surpassed its initial £1 million funding target on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. The campaign was launched last mo...

FinTech Australia Adds Female Fintech Leader of the Year Award to Upcoming Finnies

Posted 5th April 2017

There is growing global appreciation of women in Fintech, and FinTech Australia is recognizing this phenomenon with a new award for female Fintech leaders. FinTech Australia has announced the Female F...

Kabbage Exceeds $3 Billion Mark, Lends to over 100,000 SMEs

Posted 5th April 2017

Kabbage, a leading financial services, technology and data platform, announced it has extended more than $3 billion to small businesses across all 50 U.S. states, covering every industry. The compan...

Lykke Accelerator Will Provide Custom Integration of Apps & Other Financial Services

Posted 5th April 2017

Lykke, a Swiss Fintech firm that is creating a global blockchain-powered marketplace, has launched the Lykke Accelerator. Richard Olsen, founder and CEO of Lykke, explains; “The Lykke Accelerator ...

Kreditbörsen Launches Peer-to-Peer Lending Service in Sweden

Posted 5th April 2017

Kreditbörsen (the credit exchange), a part of Sweden-based LendyTech , has launched a peer-to-peer lending service for borrowers and investors. The LendyTech group is described as a Fintech group ...