MOUNTAIN VIEW JUNE 26, 2014 — 500 Startups, the most active venture capital fund and startup accelerator program in the world, is announcing that it has filed with the SEC under the new rules allowing
for general solicitation, and is now publicly fundraising for its third flagship fund, targeted at $ 100M.
Do a Regulation Crowdfunding offering for the unaccredited investors and at the same time a Title II offering, which allows
for general solicitation of accredited investors and does not have the $ 1 million cap.
Not exact matches
(
For more on Title II and
general solicitation, check out some earlier pieces on the subject.)
Private placements
for startups have long gone without registration, so long as relatively small groups of sophisticated (or «accredited») investors were involved and no
general solicitation advertised.
But, given the Security and Exchange Commission's lifting last week of an 80 year ban on «
general solicitation,» which prohibited entrepreneurs from publicly discussing private investment offerings, these two archetypal entrepreneurs shed light on the challenges entrepreneurs seeking funds face and how,
for some of them, the ban's lifting might be transformative.
The startup fundraising landscape saw its most significant change in eight decades when the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to lift the ban on
general solicitation, a move which allows entrepreneurs to tell potential investors that they are seeking funding
for their companies.
On July 11, the Securities and Exchange Commission voted to lift the ban on
general solicitation, or the ability
for start - ups to advertise the fact that they're looking to raise capital.
But the
general mood today among many entrepreneurs is cautious optimism —
general solicitation opens up a number of new possibilities
for companies seeking funding.
«As we read all the news with what the SEC is doing with
general solicitation — and there has obviously been a good bit of debate as to how effective that is going to be, how valuable that is actually going to be
for the ecosystem — what was clear to us was that it is definitely not going to be valuable if verifying the accreditation of investors is not easy and efficient and reliable,» says Nicholas Thorne, Basno's CEO and co-founder.
I think that the lifting of the ban on
general solicitation is a transformative event
for capital - raising.
The lift on the
general solicitation ban is separate from the measure that would make equity crowdfunding legal
for unaccredited investors.
Yesterday, I wrote about the Securities and Exchange Commission's vote to lift the ban on
general solicitation, an 80 - year - old rule that prevented entrepreneurs from speaking publicly about raising funds
for their businesses.
It's that piece that we've built our
general solicitation product around because we believe it's the piece of regulation that creates the most friction
for founders.
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for general information, and should not be considered a
solicitation for the purchase or sale of any security.
The comments, opinions and analyses are the personal views expressed by the investment manager and are intended to be
for informational purposes and
general interest only and should not be construed as individual investment advice or a recommendation or
solicitation to buy, sell or hold any security or to adopt any investment strategy.
Rule 506 (b) remains unchanged following the adoption of Rule 506 (c) and continues to be available
for issuers that wish to conduct a Rule 506 offering without the use of
general solicitation or that do not wish to limit sales of securities in the offering to accredited investors.
The SEC has clearly said many times that posting of information behind a password protected site (like SeedInvest) only available to accredited investors, subject to some other conditions, will not constitute
general solicitation so that may be safe ground
for angel groups and other that may be concerned.
The comments, opinions and analyses are the personal views expressed by the investment managers and are intended to be
for informational purposes and
general interest only and should not be construed as individual investment advice or a recommendation or
solicitation to buy, sell or hold any security or to adopt any investment strategy.
Rule 506 (b) allows
for issuer's to raise an unlimited amount of money, from an unlimited number of accredited investors, so long as no «
general solicitation» is conducted in connection with the offering, and that each investor has a substantive, pre-existing relationship with the issuer or person offering the securities of its behalf.
We've written about and discussed
general solicitation for a number of years now on this blog.
In addition to the
general solicitation rules, the JOBS Act eased the rules about Exchange Act registration
for companies with more than a certain number of shareholders of record.
For those of you who don't have an hour to watch our webcast on
general solicitation with Jim Fulton at...
Since the
general solicitation provisions
for offerings to accredited investors of the JOBS Act went into effect, the online marketplace
for alternative investments has expanded tremendously.
My opinion in this blog are
for general information use only and are not intended as an offer or
solicitation with respect to the purchase or sale of any futures or option contracts.
Previously,
general solicitation for private placements was explicitly banned by the SEC, making media exposure of any kind related to raising capital taboo.
Accredited Verification Automated, patent pending verification system; fully compliant
for 506 (c)
general solicitation offerings
The Site is only intended to provide you with
general information and is neither an offer to sell nor a
solicitation of an offer to purchase any products or services of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, security or investment fund, or engage any investment manager and may not be relied upon
for investment purposes.
However, it may be possible to conceive of contemporaneous offerings if the issuer offered different securities, such as a non-convertible preferred stock in one offering and common stock in the other offering, and if the investors in the two offerings were different —
for example, preferred stock being offered to an existing venture or private equity investor (or other investors with which the issuer has a pre-existing substantive relationship), while common stock is being offered to a broader range of investors in a separate offering using
general solicitation.
For example, an issuer contemplating a private placement in close proximity to a public offering should consider whether the public offering may have been a «general solicitation» that renders the private placement exemption unavailable for the new financi
For example, an issuer contemplating a private placement in close proximity to a public offering should consider whether the public offering may have been a «
general solicitation» that renders the private placement exemption unavailable
for the new financi
for the new financing.
Norm Boersma's comments, opinions and analyses are personal views and are intended to be
for informational purposes and
general interest only and should not be construed as individual investment advice or a recommendation or
solicitation to buy, sell or hold any security or to adopt any investment strategy.
That was the same year that Title II of the JOBS Act launched allowing
general solicitation (SEC lingo
for advertising) under Regulation... Read More
It might be that a preference
for casual sex results in more sexual
solicitations in
general, including undesirable ones, but the researchers have not yet examined this hypothesis.
This position is responsible
for promoting and growing the 1680 Club; coordinating corporate partnership fulfillment; providing financial reporting, assisting in the development of marketing materials and
solicitation campaigns; and providing
general administrative support to the Corporate Partnerships program.
(5) the purchase or lease by such entity of a new van with a seating capacity of less than 8 passengers, including the driver, which is to be used to provide specified public transportation and
for which a
solicitation is made after the 30th day following the effective date of this section that is not readily accessible to or usable by individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs; except that the new van need not be readily accessible to and usable by such individuals if the entity can demonstrate that the system
for which the van is being purchased or leased, when viewed in its entirety, provides a level of service to such individuals equivalent to the level of service provided to the
general public;
(3) the purchase or lease by such entity of a new vehicle (other than an automobile, a van with a seating capacity of less than 8 passengers, including the driver, or an over-the-road bus) which is to be used to provide specified public transportation and
for which a
solicitation is made after the 30th day following the effective date of this section, that is not readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs; except that the new vehicle need not be readily accessible to and usable by such individuals if the new vehicle is to be used solely in a demand responsive system and if the entity can demonstrate that such system, when viewed in its entirety, provides a level of service to such individuals equivalent to the level of service provided to the
general public;
Heather Arnold's comments, opinions and analyses are personal views and are intended to be
for informational purposes and
general interest only and should not be construed as individual investment advice or a recommendation or
solicitation to buy, sell or hold any security or to adopt any investment strategy.
At the bottom the order sheet, the small print says «This is a
solicitation for The Independent Adviser
for Vanguard Investors, a monthly
general interest newsletter which is not liable
for the suitability or future investment performance of any securities or strategies discussed.
(15)(a) Making or causing to be made an unsolicited telephone
solicitation call if the residential number
for that telephone appears in the current publication of the zero call list maintained by the Office of the Attorney
General, Division of Consumer Protection.
Third Party Content is
for general informational purposes only and does not constitute a recommendation or
solicitation to purchase or sell any binary options or spreads, or make any other type of investment or investment decision.
The materials on this website are
for general information only and are not intended as an offer to sell or the
solicitation of an offer to buy a franchise.
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The information contained within the devinlaw.com website is
for general information purposes only and does not constitute legal advice or
solicitation of legal services.
In contrast, a lawyer's communication typically does not constitute a
solicitation if it is directed to the
general public, such as through a billboard, an Internet banner advertisement, a website or a television commercial, or if it is in response to a request
for information or is automatically generated in response to Internet searches.
The postings on this site were created
for general informational purposes only and do not constitute legal advice or a
solicitation to provide legal services.
In a Delivering Alpha segment on CNBC this morning, Second Market CEO Barry Silbert commented on the SEC's revocation of the ban on
General Solicitation, or advertising,
for certain equity offerings.
The
General Services Administration was slated to announce Tuesday morning its decision to cancel its
solicitation for a consolidated headquarters to be built in Greenbelt, Landover or Springfield.
Second, mail or other forms of written
solicitations of prospects whose properties are exclusively listed with another REALTOR ® when such
solicitations are not part of a
general mailing but are directed specifically to property owners identified through compilations of current listings, «
for sale» or «
for rent» signs, or other sources of information required by Article 3 and Multiple Listing Service rules to be made available to other REALTORS ® under offers of subagency or cooperation.