Are Student Run VC’s Outperforming the real VC’s?
I was reading this interesting article in ReadWriteWeb about the Oxford survey that examines student-run VC funds. If there’s any truth in these numbers then these student run VC’s seem to be...
View ArticleInvesting In Startups – The Time Machine Factor
Remember those time travel and science fiction movies when they get into those amazing time machine contraptions, select the era and the year they want to travel to, turn a few knobs, pull the lever...
View ArticleJoin us for Crowdfunding Investors & Workshop in Boston
The first anniversary of US President Barack Obama signing the JOBS Act will see Grow VC Group Chairman Jouko Ahvenainen and other top crowdfunding platform leaders at Thomson Reuters’ Innovative...
View ArticleMini-bonds: worth the risk?
Considering that a three-percent return on common bonds is seen as high, there is no reason to doubt why individual investors are flooding to seven-percent return rates provided by mini-bonds. A...
View ArticleEcosystems for private market digital investing and lending
Jouko Ahvenainen, Founder and Chairman of Grow VC Group, gave speeches yesterday and today in Washington D.C. and New York to financial professionals and top institutions about the new digital...
View ArticleChina: the Emerging Online Equity Investing Market and Regulations
Crowdfunding is a growing phenomenon that in less than a decade is reaching a global dimension. It is thus no surprise to find out that this phenomenon is promisingly developing in China too: the World...
View ArticleEquity Crowdfunding Syndicates – Filling a Gap on the Equity Crowdfunding Market
Investing in start-ups without knowing the team, is often mentioned as a problem for investors. Even though online investing has made the process of investing in start-ups easier, there is still a gap...
View ArticleThe Rise and Future of FinTech
FinTech has broken into the last bastion of financial markets, Wall Street. From New York to London, Frankfurt to Hong Kong, industry insiders are peering up from behind monitors. They’re witness to a...
View ArticleThe Online Investing Market is Developing in Brazil
Online investing has been spreading fast in Western countries and now it’s gearing shifts also in Asia. However not much has happened in Latin America, although Crowd Valley has always recorded in its...
View ArticleIntroduction to building online finance marketplaces with the Crowd Valley API
Are you a developer or a technical project manager looking to start building your online finance marketplace’s front-end as soon as possible? Crowd Valley offers a free webinar, entitled “Introduction...
View ArticleThe Transition Towards a More Data-driven Investment Process in the Private...
Not until too long ago, the private investment market had been shrouded in a cloak of secrecy, brought about by the guarded nature of the industry. Precisely because of the lack of access to accurate...
View ArticleSoftware is eating the world, now financial services. What else is new?
Imagine yourself the CEO or Chairman of a prominent, success financial services firm. You’ve got decades under your belt of amazing success, boom years through to the technological advances and...
View ArticleSix Recommendations for Digital Investing Market by IOSCO
The International Organization for Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has released a statement on online investing and its existing and potential legal frameworks, after having surveyed twenty three...
View ArticleHow To Make Young Companies Financeable
One best way to accelerate the growth of the economy is to help SME’s to get capital for growth. European Financial Forum’s panel just highlighted that a better access to capital for SMEs is a key...
View ArticleCrowd Valley: Serving Financial Services to Future Generations
Since we set out to modernize financial services in 2012 as Crowd Valley Inc (a Grow VC Group company), and even earlier in 2008 as early entrepreneurs in what’s been now called fintech, we’ve come a...
View ArticleGlobal Trends in Digital Finance Portals
US/UK/EU More established markets like the US, UK and Europe have followed a similar evolution. Due to more transparent regulations, it has allowed players to enter the market and try new models. Asia...
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