Last week, the Federal Government revealed plans to raise qualifications for sophisticated investors. Investors would now need $4.5 million or more in assets, or to earn more than $450,000 for two consecutive years to be able to access certain types of investment opportunities such as venture capital. Under existing rules, a sophisticated investor qualifies as… Read more »
Equity crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd has raised $10 million in a Series A. As well as $6.6 million from existing investors, the company used its own platform to raise an additional $3.9 million from new investors. The funds are earmarked to further develop VentureCrowd’s technology platform, scale its retail product offering in venture capital, property, private credit… Read more »
Biotech startup EnGeneIC, has raised $5 million on the VentureCrowd platform in a pre-IPO round, ahead of plans for a NASDAQ listing in Q2 2022. News of positive results for Covid-19 nanocellular vaccine pre-clinical animal studies, saw that figure jump five-fold. The startup has develop proprietary nanocell technology, which they’ve called EDV, which is predominantly… Read more »
Equity crowd-sourced funding (CSF) platform VentureCrowd and digital venture studio Josephmark have launched a joint-venture to help early-stage Australian startups accelerate their scaling plans. The new project will offer growth services to early-stage startup founders from Josephmark’s brand, product, growth, and venture strategy and rollout services through to investment support and fundraising via the VentureCrowd… Read more »
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