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Words matter in your pitch - We know ... we analyzed 6,800 of them!
We read 6,800 funded RegCF pitches. The words that raise the most money aren't the ones you'd expect.
The gap between a top-quartile raise and a bottom-quartile one is 24x. So we ran the language thro ...more
The #1 city for startup crowdfunding in America isn't San Francisco.
We ranked America's top 30 startup-crowdfunding ecosystems. Los Angeles came out #1 — ahead of San Francisco and New York.
Each metro is scored 1–10 across five factors: momentum, capital, expertise, ...more
How Interest Rate in Debt Offerings has Changed
The cost of crowdfunded debt doubled — and it tracked the Fed almost perfectly.
We mapped the actual terms behind every funded Reg CF deal. The median interest rate on crowdfunded debt and convertible ...more
1 in 2 crowdfunded companies stop reporting - here's what we see after the raise
Only about half of the companies that crowdfund ever file an annual report. We tracked every Reg CF company with a reporting obligation since 2016. Of those whose first report has come due, just 50% h ...more
Can We Make Impact Investing as Fun as Gambling?
John Oliver’s main story a few weeks back focused on prediction markets, the fast-growing platforms that allow people to wager on the outcomes of future events.
The segment was funny because John Oliv ...more
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Crowdfund Holdings Innovators (CHI)
Regulated Investment Crowdfunding allows companies to raise capital from a large number of non-accredited investors through a FINRA and SEC registered crowdfunding portal or broker dealer. At Crowdfund Holdings Innovators ... more>
BioTech Funding Portal is a funding portal member (FPRD or Org #334156) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Under ... more>
Brainsy offers patented Software as a Service (SaaS) to power knowledge sharing networks for issuers, private companies, trade associations, professional societies, membership organizations, and media companies. Deploying a Brainsy powered ... more>
Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA)
The Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) is a 501 (c)(6) nonprofit trade group that was established shortly after the signing of the Jumpstart Our Business Startup Act ("JOBS Act") on April ... more>
