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Macro-market developments affecting capital formation by pre-IPO private and public emerging growth companies
Panelists discussing Regulation D crowdfunding platforms at Growth Capital Investor’s Growth Capital Expo last month in Las Vegas indicated that deal distribution remained one of the the industry’s primary challenges amid a plodding adoption rate among cautious investors.
After a sluggish start in 2015, growth equity private placement (EPP) issuers and investors set a brisk pace of deal making in February and ratcheted it up even more in March.
It’s been 457 days since the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed regulations under Title IV of the JOBS Act but now emerging growth companies will have the ability to raise money from any kind of investor without needing an expensive investment bank.
A California state assemblyman from Fresno is spearheading a new bill aimed at allowing non-accredited investors to invest in emerging growth companies. The bill would allow people who are not considered wealthy by federal definitions to invest up to $5,000 or 10% of their assets into a business trying to raise up to $1 million.
