Equity Crowdfunding Platform Bnk to the Future Passes the $10 Million Invested Mark

Bitcoin investment fund Bitcoin Capital has raised more than $1 million on the equity crowdfunding platform Bnk To The Future, SiliconANGLE reports. At the time of writing, almost 600 investors have bought in, with three days to go until the end of the fundraiser. Fifty percent equity will be split between the investors. Bitcoin Capital, a high-risk, high-return fund, is run by renowned financial journalist Max Keiser and Simon Dixon, co-founder of Bnk To The Future, an online investment website for crowdfunding small businesses mainly focused on financial innovation. The fund, open to....

The SEC has just made equity crowdfunding legal. Here's our take on how this applies to bitcoin and the blockchain. Last October, the US Securities and Exchange Commission released this update, which detailed the adoption of the final rules surrounding equity based crowdfunding offerings. The concept was first addressed as part of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) act way back in 2012, which was signed in by Barack Obama, as a tool that would facilitate the process through which small and medium business enterprises gain access to operating and development capital. Up until now,....

Simon Dixon from BnkToTheFuture is an ex- investment banker, trader & stock broker who left that industry in 2006 to help make the financial system stable, sustainable and inclusive to all. Simon has spent the last four years creating BnkToTheFuture which is a global online investment platform for investors who are looking to invest in the future of Finance. The very best FinTech and Financial innovation companies come to BnkToTheFuture. Since launch BnkToTheFuture.com has raised over $7 Million for companies. BnkToTheFuture offers investors something that other crowdfunding cannot offer.....

A Polish company, InPay S. A., is the first in the world whose shares are available for purchase in public offering using the digital currency Bitcoin. The sale has just launched on the equity crowdfunding site Beesfund.com. Equity crowdfunding is simply raising capital thanks to the online community. Unlike the reward-based crowdfunding, made popular by sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo or RocketHub, in equity crowdfunding people who are involved in financing the company receive personal shares. Examples of sites which enable this type of capital acquisition include the American....

U.K.-based bitcoin app Ziglu raised over $8 million in a crowdfunding campaign, the largest equity raise on the Seedrs platform this year.