We chose CircleUp, an accredited investor
equity crowdfunding portal for consumer goods that has helped companies to raise more than $ 40 million from accredited investors.
Press Release — FINRA Accepts Membership of its
First Equity Crowdfunding Portal Exclusively for Investments in the Energy Industry, Opening Oil and Gas Investments and Clean Tech Startups to the Public.
It's also one of the roadblocks to mainstream,
equity crowdfunding portal sites — currently start - ups are required to present sales of securities of their companies through official financial channels — like angel investor groups or advisory firms.
We expect there will be significant sampling and attrition
among equity crowdfunding portals in Canada similar to that experienced in the mutual fund and discount brokerage businesses in the early 1990s.
This requirement
places equity crowdfunding portals operating under this exemption under the same capital and bond requirements as exempt market dealers and recently approved restricted dealers in Ontario.
Therefore, the right way to handle such questions is to answer them on the message board on
your equity crowdfunding portal and direct potential investors to it.
I would like to operate
an equity crowdfunding portal.
Bay Street Cannabis, as its name suggests, plans to act as
an equity crowdfunding portal for cannabis companies.
Klondike Strike plans to act as
an equity crowdfunding portal for mining companies.