The Ontario Securities Commission will explore crowdfunding as a way to help entrepreneurs close the funding gap, the minister announced at Technicity.
Although many members of Canada's startup community are eager to raise financing through crowdfunding, nearly two thirds don't even realize that equity crowdfunding is still illegal here. In a new online survey gauging
The main organization lobbying to legalize equity crowdfunding in Canada is teaming up with a major U.S. group to bolster its efforts. Invest CrowdFund Canada (ICC) announced today it is formally partneringwith the
The Cobra is already within striking distance of its target. The Cobra is a project to build the perfect wallet for today's techies.The target is $30,000, which is how much money Toronto-based designerAlex
Published on: September 24th, 2012 Christine Wong @thatchriswong
The CEO of the world's first equity crowdfunding site is coming from the UK to share his insights with a Toronto audience at this year's Technicity summit. Darren Westlake co-founded UK-based Crowdcube, which
Published on: September 20th, 2012 Christine Wong @thatchriswong
Even though America's equity crowdfunding law is now stuck in bureaucratic red tape, one of the law's key architects says U.S. startups could be raising money through investment crowdfunding in less than six
Published on: September 13th, 2012 Christine Wong @thatchriswong
Viral marketing, social media and crowd-sourced funding. All these terms are important in the area of independent film-making. Currently, our city (Toronto) is knee deep in glitter and glitz as the Toronto International
Published on: September 12th, 2012 Karim Kanji @karimkanji
A national group lobbying to legalize equity crowdfunding in Canada is sending its message directly to provincially elected politicians across the country. Starting this week, the Ontario wing of Invest CrowdFund Canada (ICC)is
An independent Web blog is launching a real-time map of active Kickstarter projects Sept. 10, according to one of the site's co-founders.Kickstarter allows individuals and businesses to ask for donations from many different
The march towards legalizing equity crowdfunding in the U.S. just took another step forward.The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released its first rulingyesterday proposing how equity crowdfunding would beallowed to takeplace under the
Are conservative Canadian attitudes influencing support levels for crowdfunding here?The Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) has created an onlinesurvey to find out. The survey is designed to assess what Canadiansthink about crowdfunding and
Published on: August 14th, 2012 ITBusiness Staff @itbusinessca
As many of you know, almost every week we interview someone from the tech or startup space. Last week I had the fortune of interviewing Brian Meece who is the CEO and co-founder
Published on: August 1st, 2012 Karim Kanji @karimkanji
Don't let hype overshadow investor safety if equity crowdfunding becomes legal in Canada, two of the country's angel and venture capital groups warn. Some leaders in Canada's angel and VC sector say equity
Do Canadian venture capitalists see crowdfunding sites as a competitive threat?There are rumblings of that sort in the American investment communityand now, some of those fears appear to have crossed the border intoCanada.
