JOBS Act

Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular way for companies to raise capital, and investors are taking notice. Groundfloor, the first real estate crowdfunding platform to gain regulatory approva

Simply put: alternative assets are the things that probably wouldn’t come up when you meet with your financial advisor.

Instead of a standard based on wealth, or even knowledge -- one based on users’ contributions of time and attention.

Bram Cohen invented torrenting. Now he’s building a cryptocurrency called Chia that doesn’t waste electricity like Bitcoin, and top investors are lining up. Chia has just raised a $3.395 m

Effective today, any company can file for a "confidential" IPO, even if annual revenue is greater than $1 billion. This means that larger companies can now submit and revise financial filings, waiting

The JOBS Act was signed into law by President Obama in 2012, allowing companies to acquire funding through online portals from non-accredited investors, which roughly accounts for 97 percent of the po

Equity crowdfunding is now legal in the United States. Four years in the making, Title III of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS) finally entered into force on May 16. Prior to this, the ma

Rob Leclerc Contributor More posts by this contributor AgTech Is The New Queen Of Green Editor’s note: Rob Leclerc is the CEO of AgFunder, an online investment marketplace for agriculture and a

In early January 2014, there was a widespread concern that the IPO window was going to snap shut. But the chilling IPO winter transformed into an early blossom and the market rebounded. Recently,

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.seedinvest.com/">SeedInvest</a>, the equity crowdfunding platform based in New York that helps other startups (like <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/07/veng

<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Danae Ringelmann is a co-founder of Indiegogo. Prior to that, she was a securities analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment companies, including Pixar, Lion

Steve Case, CEO of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.revolution.com">Revolution</a> and founder of TechCrunch-owner AOL, was <a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small

<strong>Editor's note:</strong> <em>Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss led the U.S. fight to legalize debt and equity based crowdfunding, co-authored <a target="_blank" href="http://www.barnesandnoble.c

<a href="http://www.solarcity.com/">SolarCity</a>, the cleantech company backed by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, filed for an IPO this past week. But there's hardly been a peep about it compared to

In a press event today held at the White House, President Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/05/president-obama-sign-jumpstart-our-business-startups-jobs-act">just signe

Today, President Obama <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/crowdfunding-is-a-go/">signs the JOBS Act into law</a>, legalizing crowdfunding in startups by non-accredited investors, so that anyon

On March 22nd, a slightly modified "Jumpstart Our Business Startups (or JOBS) Act" <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/22/senate-passes-crowdfunding/">was approved by the Senate</a> in a 73-26 vot

Well, this just in from a dispatch on Capitol Hill: The Senate has passed legislation that will essentially legalize crowdfunding in startups by practically anyone -- even your mom. U.S. Senators Scot