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Macro-market developments affecting capital formation by pre-IPO private and public emerging growth companies
Steven Muehler is no stranger to securities regulators, despite never having a securities license. The SEC has tracked his involvement in the sale of unregistered securities dates back to at least 2008.
A California securities offering promoter who was the subject of the very first SEC enforcement action taken against a participant in the newly reformed Reg A market has been linked to a group of websites claiming to offer capital-hungry companies and their investors a soup-to-nuts money raising experience in exchange for cash fees and shares, despite lacking the necessary securities licenses to do so legally, and in seeming defiance of a recent ban imposed by the agency.
Courtesy of Morrison Foerster, an infographical overview of the 2016 PIPE market. via JDSupra
Boston-based craft beermaker Hopsters has become the fourth company (and second brewer) to break the $1M level in equity crowdfunding on WeFunder, the market-leading platform for offerings under the recently-implemented Reg CF. Notably, Hopsters topped up the capital barrel with a large dollop of funds - $550,000 - from accredited investors. The hybrid retail-institutional strategy boosted the confidence of both investor types, resulting in WeFunder's fastest close of a $1M round yet. via BostInno: Hopsters Clears $1M in Equity Crowdfunding for Fort Point Brew Pub
