Amy Cortese | March 15, 2017
Scotty’s Brewhouse in Indiana has become the first intrastate crowdfunding exit. After raising money through Indiana’s intrastate crowdfunding exemption in 2014, Scotty’s Brewhouse, a chain of 18 brewpubs founded 20 years ago, recently agreed to be acquired by a private equity firm for an undisclosed sum. Scotty’s raised just a small amount of its total […]
Amy Cortese | May 31, 2016
One of the first funding portals to receive SEC approval was NextSeed. The company, founded by Youngro Lee, Abraham Chu and Bob Dunton (with team, above), had been quietly raising money for small businesses in Texas for a year. With the implementation of Title III of the JOBS Act, Houston-based NextSeed is now expanding to the […]
Locavesting Staff | December 28, 2015
2016 will be the year that the long-awaited Title III “Regulation Crowdfunding” goes into effect. That, along with Title II (for accredited investors), Regulation A+ (Title IV, the ‘mini-IPO’) and intrastate crowdfunding, will open up new avenues for entrepreneurs, investors and portals alike. But where will it all lead? We asked some experts to weigh […]
