TheCrowdCafe weekly: Reigniting Alumni Engagement with Crowdfunding

From the Cafe

• Reigniting Alumni Engagement with Crowdfunding
• Union Square Ventures is Cornering the Crowdfunding Market

Selected Articles

• The SEC’s recent “no action” letters | Crowd Valley
• SEC’s White Said to Push for Lifting ban on hedge-Fund Ads | Bloomberg
• What Crowdfunding Can Glean from the Success of P2P Lending | Now Street Journal
• Attack of the Kickstarter Clones: Crowdfunding Reaches Its Tipping Point | Wired
• Can crowdfunding help venture capitalists identify the best start-ups? | Financial Times
• Whither General Solicitation  | Wac6 (Bill Carleton)
• Crowdfunding Gives Rise to Truly Public Domain Projects | CIO Today

Lift-Off (Legend: Security | Vertical | Geography | Comments)

• Funding Community | Debt | Small Businesses | Helps SMBs raise up to $10,000. Live today
• Fundrise | Debt & Equity | Real Estate | U.S. | Opens its platform to developers
• HealthFundr | Equity | Health Startups | U.S. | Registered broker-dealer; open to accredited investors 
• SterlingFunder | Equity | Small Businesses | Live today for both accredited and non-accredited investors in Georgia
• Blackhawk | Debt | Real Estate | U.S. |
• Eureecca | Equity | Startups | Middle-East | First MENA platform to launch!
• Crowdbaron | Equity | Real Estate | Asia |

The Funded

• After crowdfunding $10M for a dozen consumer product companies, CircleUp  raises its own $7.5M Series A | Pando Daily
• Crowdcube raises £1.5 million investment