StartEngine

Where venture capitalists (VCs) and billionaires invest their money in the startup world can be a strong indicator of some of the next big sectors.  It’s often flashy things like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, but Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has recently been...

During recessions, the focus tends to be on the worst performers — the biggest names now in the news are Bitcoin and FTX, as their respective prices crash or go bankrupt.  Meta Platforms Inc. and Netflix Inc. have both had terrible years, and many have been happy to kick them...

Warren Buffett arrived in Sun Valley, Idaho, with an unpopular warning — one the visionaries in the room were in no mood to hear. The tech leaders gathered there were bent on changing the world and had already made fortunes doing it. And in a year where some tech stocks were surging as much...

Throughout history, there are a few inventions that have changed everything in a moment and defined periods of time in human history.  The atomic bomb dictated decades of foreign policy, ended what was arguably the largest war ever and still influences the modern political landscape. The...

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook had an estimated wealth of $1.5 billion as of January this year. That made him the 2,083rd richest person in the world, far behind the fortunes of Mark Zuckerberg ($142 billion) and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, with $189 billion to his name.  But...

No one could predict what President Donald Trump would do in the last days of December 2020, and stunned onlookers could only wait and hope.  One lobbyist recalled how he didn’t dare to bring up the elephant in the room as Trump debated signing the $900 billion COVID recovery stimulus...

Bird Global Inc. (NYSE: BRDS), Lime and other ride-share scooter brands began taking over streets and sidewalks seemingly overnight.  They became a semi-viral sensation, even landing their own satire episode on the popular comedy show “South Park.”  But the model is quickly...

California-based startup NowRx recently announced that it sold its patient files to Alto Pharmacy and Capsule Corp. The move comes as a result of the company's inability to raise additional capital because of "the current economic climate," according to a statement from NowRx....

Interested in investing in the StartEngine campaign? Click here to get started. Earlier this year, equity crowdfunding giant StartEngine teamed up with its reward-based crowdfunding counterpart Indiegogo. The deal will carve a path for Indiegogo’s over 800,000 alumni to transition to...

StartEngine is the largest equity crowdfunding platform in the U.S. so it often boasts some big raises on the platform. Startups can be risky and typically require funding for quick growth. People tend to invest together because more money can mean quicker growth.  While StartEngine is...

The numbers are in, and they do all the talking. Corporate insiders’ stock purchases have beaten the S&P 500 by an average of 5% from 2015 to 2020, according to an analysis by TipRanks.  If that doesn’t sound like much, consider that the typical equity investor has managed an...

With its most recent equity crowdfunding raise, StartEngine is officially a unicorn. The company has been entirely funded by retail investors, with some of them sitting on massive gains. With the company's monumental rise to being one of the biggest equity crowdfunding portals on the planet,...

What if a company solved the traffic and parking crises of America’s biggest cities while lending a huge helping hand in the fight against climate change? That’s exactly what Eli Electric, a niche electric vehicle company, is setting out to do. The company’s mission is to...

Venture capitalists (VCs) have prided themselves for the past several decades on funding the democratization of dozens of industries.  Robinhood Markets Inc. allows anyone to become a stock market investor, and Shopify Inc. allows anyone to have their own online store. But it seems venture...

More than 363 billion pounds of plastic pollution is in the ocean. As these numbers continue to grow, some startups are finding their own sustainable ways to fight back. Solgaard is a startup making tons of cool and innovative products — with one catch. The company’s products are built...