james han headquarters new york city united states area served united states services entrepreneurship startups investment website www.seedinvest.com seedinvest is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects startups with investors online . the company was founded in 2011 and launched in 2013 . 1 seedinvest has focused on building liquidity in the platform by attracting high net worth individuals family offices and venture capital firms . 2 seedinvest screens and vets deals before allowing them to take advantage of the jobs act exemption permitting general solicitation . 3 in september 2014 the company launched a partnership with angel investing website gust . 4 the team is based in new york and is currently a resident of the wework co working space in manhattan . 5 contents 1 funding 2 capital raised on the platform 3 jobs act 4 external links 5 references funding edit seedinvest raised a significant portion of its own 4.15 million in total series a funding online in april 2014 6 from scout ventures and a mix venture capital and angel investors . 7 an earlier round of seed capital was raised in 2013 . 8 capital raised on the platform edit notable funding rounds on seedinvest have included atlas wearables 1.4 m raised snapcard 1.5 m raised virtuix 6m raised vengo labs 2m raised and knightscope 1.5 m raised . 9 jobs act edit seedinvest founders ryan feit and james han were involved in consultation with the u.s. securities and exchange commission sec and in the united states congress for the passing of the jobs act . 10 the jobs act included provisions that permit online equity crowdfunding by platforms such as seedinvest . seedinvest hosted the first testing the waters campaign under the new regulation a rules for equity crowdfunding on june 19 2015 . 11 external links edit official website official blog references edit clifford catherine june 11 2014 . crowdfunding platform raises 4 million to fund its own growth . entrepreneur . kopytoff verne february 5 2013 . crowdfunding waiting for the investor pool to deepen . businessweek . harrison j.d. october 29 2013 . new crowdfunding rules the good and bad news for entrepreneurs and investors . washington post . alden william september 18 2014 . crowdfunding site seedinvest strikes deal to widen its reach . new york times . tynion alexandra september 12 2014 . finding investors to fund your startup is easier than you think . wework magazine . kolodny lora october 2 2014 . startups advertising to raise funding more than vc firms are study says . wall street journal . lunden ingrid april 14 2014 . seedinvest raises series a . techcrunch . kolodny lora june 28 2013 . seedinvest raises 1m . wall street journal . http www.crunchbase.com organization seedinvest summers nick february 12 2013 . seedinvest launches its online crowdfunding platform . the next web . http www.crowdfundinsider.com 2015 06 69857 seedinvest lists waybetter as reg a issue to test the water retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title seedinvest & oldid 740353842 categories crowdfunding platforms navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 20 september 2016 at 14 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view