Industry Crowdfunding Website www.seedinvest.com Founders Ryan Feit, James Han | Area served United States Founded 2011 | |
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Headquarters New York City, United States Services Entrepreneurship, startups, investment | ||
Seedinvest equity crowdfunding platform
SeedInvest is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects startups with investors online. The company was founded in 2011 and launched in 2013. SeedInvest has focused on building liquidity in the platform by attracting high-net-worth individuals, family offices and venture capital firms. SeedInvest screens and vets deals before allowing them to take advantage of the JOBS Act exemption permitting General Solicitation. In September 2014 the company launched a partnership with Angel Investing website Gust. The team is based in New York and is currently a resident of the WeWork co-working space in Manhattan.
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Funding
SeedInvest raised a significant portion of its own $4.15 million in total Series A funding online in April 2014 from Scout Ventures and a mix venture capital and angel investors. An earlier round of seed capital was raised in 2013.
Capital raised on the platform
Notable funding rounds on SeedInvest have included Atlas Wearables ($1.4M raised), Snapcard ($1.5M raised), Virtuix ($6M raised), Vengo Labs ($2M raised) and Knightscope ($1.5M raised).
JOBS Act
SeedInvest founders Ryan Feit and James Han were involved in consultation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and in the United States Congress for the passing of the JOBS Act. The JOBS Act included provisions that permit online equity crowdfunding by platforms such as SeedInvest. SeedInvest hosted the first Testing The Waters campaign under the new Regulation A rules for equity crowdfunding on June 19 2015.