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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
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>
Coalition for Crowdfunding American Jobs and Prosperity
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Coalition for Crowdfunding American Jobs and Prosperity (CCAJP)
Background
The passage of the bipartisan JOBS Act ushered in Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) and since May of 2016, over 8,500 companies ... more>
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>
ClearingBid
ClearingBid is the world’s first and only IPO network. ClearingBid opens IPO investing for all, drives true market-based pricing, assures equitable allocations, and creates economic value for companies, investors and ... 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>
