JOBS act

A push to grow crowdfunding with a tax break for U.S. backers of companies could help boost jobs and the economy, according to supporters of the effort. TRUMP Jobs Act: The TRUMP (Targeting Resources To Unleash Market Prosperity) Jobs Act is the push to add to the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business...

Plain Sight, a social media app geared toward in-person networking, has launched a funding campaign on Republic, a robust system for private investing in pre-seed to pre-IPO companies. Benzinga chatted with Plain Sight CEO and founder James Chapman about the development. About:...

NYCE, a fintech geared towards real estate investing, formally announced it became the fastest real estate company to raise $1 million through the Regulation CF, on the Wefunder and Republic investing platforms. About NYCE Companies In light of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the wealth...

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The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. The IPO market is at a bit of a crossroads. On one hand, a record 16 unicorns—companies privately valued at over $1 billion—...

Genfit S.A. (GNFT) wants to splice the loose ends of your portfolio as the gene editor hits the Nasdaq this week. The stock could debut as soon as Wednesday, according to IPO Scoop. The Offering Genfit is expected to issue 5 million shares at $26.33 apiece representing 13.8 percent of its...

Though the government shutdown threatened to stall the 2019 major IPO market before it even had a chance to get off the ground, there is one sector that is hoping to keep its IPO momentum going in 2019: community banks. Eleven community banks held initial public offerings in 2018 according to data...

File sharing and storage company Dropbox priced its IPO through an amendment made Monday to its Feb. 23 S-1 filing. This year could bring a number of tech IPOs, with a deep bench of tech unicorns that prepared for years for public offerings, according to IPO expert Renaissance Capital. Low...

"Our ability to review hundreds of unique data points on each project we underwrite allows us to more accurately determine and price risk in a national market." – CEO Jason Fritton Real estate crowdfunding was kicked off by the JOBS Act in 2012, but its recent acceptance by both retail and...

"Real estate crowdfunding is a fundamental change in investment paradigm."— Ben Miller, CEO Fundrise Fundrise.com co-founders Dan and Ben Miller were industry pioneers, pushing for the JOBS Act in 2012, with a goal to democratize commercial real estate (CRE) investment. Fundrise has quite a...

Box, the online cloud-storage company, has quietly filed for an initial public offering, according to a report from Quartz and confirmed by Forbes. Box, one of the main competitors to the extremely popular cloud-storage service Dropbox, took a page out of Twitter's playbook by opting to secretly...