Mainvest's Collapse: What the Synapse Banking Failure Teaches Reg CF Investors About Platform Risk
Mainvest, a Salem, Massachusetts funding portal that let retail investors buy revenue-share notes in local restaurants and breweries, told users in May 2024 it was dissolving the company, partly becau
Rentberry's Reg CF-to-IPO Stack: What a $5M Crowdfunding Cap and a 2027 IPO Target Reveal
Rentberry has raised $4.98 million from 838 investors on Republic, sitting $20,000 short of the $5 million cap regulators put on Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) offerings in any 12-month period, acco
Reg CF's $22.9M July Slowdown: What the Platform Concentration Data Actually Shows
TL;DR: Reg CF platforms raised $22.89 million in July 2026, down 19.1% from June and down 34.2% from July 2025, according to KingsCrowd's July 2026 market report . The obvious story is the decline....
SEC Sues Netcapital: What the Reg CF Fraud Case Teaches Investors About Vetting Platforms, Not Just Startups
TL;DR: On August 10, 2026, the SEC sued Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL), the Boston-based Reg CF crowdfunding portal, alleging its consulting arm booked roughly $14 million in sham revenue from...
Manhattan Street Capital Review 2026: Reg A+ for Growth-Stage Companies
TL;DR: Manhattan Street Capital is a technology platform, not a broker-dealer, and it does not run Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) campaigns at all. The company states plainly on its own site that...
Republic Review 2026: Fees, Volume, and the Accredited-Only Pivot
Republic raised only $15.6 million through Reg CF in the United States in 2024. Wefunder raised $99.4 million. StartEngine raised $85.6 million, according to Kingscrowd's 2025 crowdfunding exits and...
Regulation A+ Offerings Explained: The Accredited (and Non-Accredited) Investor Guide for 2026
Regulation A+ is the SEC exemption that lets a private company raise up to $75 million in a 12-month period from both accredited and non-accredited investors without running a full-blown IPO regi
7 AngelList Alternatives That Actually Work in 2025: A Platform-by-Platform Breakdown
AngelList changed the game, then got complicated. What started in 2010 as a scrappy investor-founder matching board morphed into a layered ecosystem of syndicates, rolling funds, SPVs, and venture funds—each with...
Regulatory Arbitrage in Reg CF: How Crowdfunding Portals Are Pushing Boundaries
Regulation Crowdfunding has evolved far beyond its original intent, with portals raising $1.2 billion in 2025 through increasingly creative — and sometimes questionable — deal structures. A deep dive into the regulatory gray zones.
The SEC's 2026 Regulation Crowdfunding Overhaul: What Angel Investors Need to Know
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been quietly working on the most significant update to Regulation Crowdfunding since the framework launched in 2016, and the proposed changes — expected to be finalized by mid-2026 — could fundamentally alter the landscape for both angel investors and the s