For Murthy, one of the most important alternative sources of finance to look at would be crowdfunding and P2P lending in the country. Here'...

Both the brands will stay in the market post this acquisition, focusing on different segments of the crowdfunding industry.

Sebi has also assumed that the offer made on the platform is likely to violate the private placement norms under the Companies Act.

Apology letters are becoming a regular occurrence for UK companies that raise money via crowdfunding.

Close to 200 companies have raised Rs 350-450 crore on these platforms over the past 18 months, according to industry estimates.

Regional movies are the buzz at crowd-funding startup Wishberry as well. It has two Bengali movies seeking funds — ‘Call of the Open Road’ ...

Even as equity crowdfunding is one of the fastest growing models of crowdfunding globally with a total volume of $2.5 billion, it is yet to...

Most crowdfunding platforms have a minimum investment threshold starting at Rs 5–10 lakh. Upper limits in investments are set by the compan...

From introducing cash-less wallets to B2C startups leading the marketing race to peer-to-peer lending to crowdfunding, the new-gen startups...

Top Indian startups in this space — Wishberry, Catapooolt, Ketto and TheHotStart — have already raised about Rs 10 crore through crowdfundi...

The lack of clear regulations and registered portals got Kobel and Raju into exploring the idea of equity funding through other markets.

One reason for this is that as India's startup hub Bengaluru makes for an ideal medium bringing together entrepreneurs and individual backe...

For startups that are working on tangible products, they need to know whether this is something people would like or not before building a ...

The new rules state that startups now have the option to raise either $ 20 million or $ 50 million through two alternate ways.

Crowd-funding is making significant shifts: from creative and fun projects to serious businesses, from donations to equity stakes, from the...

Many of the proposals by Sebi to oversee crowdfunding are leading to unrest in the startup community.

The aim is to scale up the crowdfunding platform which has been developed to help people raise funds, Abhinav Sree, CEO, Springr, told repo...