For smaller businesses, the lending spigots are tightening — at least at traditional financial services providers, the big banks that now are cautious amid rocky macro trends. And that’s spurring at least some SMBs to consider new financing avenues — including tapping their customer bases...
Charity begins at home, and home is often the endpoint as well. In a rental housing market that’s got millions feeling frantic, desperation is yielding to innovation and improvisation. Anyone who’s gone on the hunt for a regular rental lately is aware of the price...
Ukrainian journalists have been looking to the crowdfunding site Patreon to help finance their own coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Financial Times reported Saturday (April 16). This includes Olga Rudenko, the editor of The Kyiv Independent, who fled the capital to go to western...
The online fundraising giant GoFundMe says it will acquire Classy, a nonprofit fundraising software company. “The addition of Classy accelerates opportunities to service the nearly $500 billion U.S. philanthropic market as GoFundMe aims to be the most helpful place in the world,” the company said...
August 01, 2023
Picture an entrepreneur pitching their business to a panel of investors to convince them that their idea is worth funding. That’s the concept of the popular TV series “Shark Tank,” which Columbia Business School professor and 37 Angels founder Angela Lee says has contributed to the rapid surge in angel networks and full-time angel investors in recent years. […]
July 13, 2023
For smaller businesses, the lending spigots are tightening — at least at traditional financial services providers, the big banks that now are cautious amid rocky macro trends. And that’s spurring...
December 18, 2020
There may be 1.3 billion people in India, but when it comes to domesticated pets, there’s currently only about 23 million dogs and 4 million cats. It’s just one of...
December 11, 2019
When it comes to lending — to say nothing of the wider world of payments — innovation and disruption have been on the rise in recent years thanks to digital...
April 17, 2022
Ukrainian journalists have been looking to the crowdfunding site Patreon to help finance their own coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Financial Times reported Saturday (April 16). This includes Olga Rudenko, the editor of The Kyiv Independent, who fled the capital to go to western Ukraine in response to the possibility of having to work […]
January 13, 2022
The online fundraising giant GoFundMe says it will acquire Classy, a nonprofit fundraising software company. “The addition of Classy accelerates opportunities to service the nearly $500 billion U.S. philanthropic market...
December 28, 2021
In today’s top crypto news, the metaverse took the spotlight as metaverse identity issuance protocol Kudo Money raised millions to bring on-chain identity to mainstream cryptocurrency. Elsewhere in the metaverse,...
December 28, 2021
China’s Ant Group plans to close its Xiang Hu Bao mutual aid platform next month, a move that comes as the country’s government continues its crackdown on FinTech companies. As...
