In 2017, you invested more than $25 million in the startups you love on Wefunder. Together, we are shaping America's future.

In 2017, you invested more than $25 million in the startups you love on Wefunder. Together, we are shaping America's future.

Grab a cup of tea and skip around our chat with Coup at My Trail. Find timestamps below: 0:10 Can you introduce yourself? What do you do at My Trail?0: 0:20 Give us the short timeline of My Trail 2:11 Tell us what's been happening with My Trail. 5:34 How's the response been so far from customers? 7:24 Can you tell us about the new store on Pearl Street? 9:45 What are the plans for the future? ...

Find out how Sam, Teddy and Mahbod (Founder of Rap Genius) met and started Everipedia. Sam also sends a thank you message to his investors.

Get a tour of Barrow's Intense in Brooklyn, NY and catch up with Founder Josh. He'll show you around the facility and tell you about the latest growth numbers and partnerships. Skip around the video and watch your favorite topics: 0:10 What's happened since the campaign closed? 0:45 What's the strategic decision behind 15mL bottles? 6:30 How has the rest of the business been going? 8:41 What...

Watch Everipedia's Sam Kazemian give his Wefunder investors an update about how they used the funds and the new features they've added since the campaign closed. Learn more about Everipedia at https://wefunder.com/everipedia

We interview via Skype for the first time! In this episode, Colorado's pride My Trail's founder Coup explains where the funds in his new campaign will go to. Watch him show you the new packs My Trail's designed! Check out My Trail's Wefunder campaign at: https://wefunder.com/mytrail

In this video, Alfred tells us about fun-gi's soft launch of House Flip with Chip and Jo in Australia and New Zealand. Find out when the US version is launching and what the fun-gi team's been up to since their Wefunder campaign last year. Check out fun-gi's Wefunder profile at https://wefunder.com/fungi

Meet Alfred, the founder of fun-gi and maker of House Flip with Chip and Jo. Check out fun-gi's Wefunder profile at https://wefunder.com/fungi

Wefunder got an invitation to meet the fans and founders of Legion M at its Hollywood Hills Stan Lee Party. Watch this short clip to see snippets from the party. You can invest in Legion M at wefunder.com/legionm

Tampon Tribe is a subscription service where women receive a monthly package of organic tampons, pads and panty liners in a mix of their liking. Gaby and Jennifer founded the company after realizing how wasteful the female hygiene space was and falling in love with the Dollar Shave Club's business model. Learn more at wefunder.com/tampontribe

TAXA's got a new project and they are shipping in two weeks! Hear all about TAXA's latest project Orbella and Antony's message to his Wefunder investors .

The Financial Services Committee in the House of Representatives is marking up the Fix Crowdfunding Act. If all goes well, it will be voted on in Committee on June 15th. This bill is vital to protect investors who participate in equity crowdfunding.We are honored that we’ve been asked to write a letter in support, and hope the legislators find our on-the-ground experience useful.Over the past six ...

The people of Southside Chicago work quietly, fervently. They are the boots-on-the-ground: building a better community one meal, one child, one story at a time.“The City within a City” & “The Black Metropolis”Bronzeville is a neighborhood in Southside Chicago, a once thriving epicenter of black music, politics, and commerce. Bronzeville was where Nat King Cole went to high school, where Louis Arms...

On May 16th, the law changes: startups can raise up to $1 million per year from their friends and supporters, who can invest as little as $100 each. (Before, companies could sell products on Kickstarter, but not stock).This is part of the “Regulation Crowdfunding” portion of the JOBS Act, a bill passed by Congress in 2012, which is just now being fully implemented four years later (the government ...

It’s odd walking into The Speakeasy at eleven in the morning. It’s hidden in the middle of nowhere Chinatown and the only hint of the Speakeasy you see are maybe the charming old Italian bakeries lined up in North Beach. As the mastermind behind The Speakeasy, David Gluck, welcomes us in, we are reminded of our late night at The Speakeasy. Memories come flooding back, as we re-enter the cabaret, t...

Martin and Rich are typical outdoor geeks. Every time I see them, they greet with the most Californian-chill smiles and ask if I want to join them on their next rafting trip. Inside their cozy studio, they’re usually tinkering around in bright Patagonia shorts and suntanned toes peeping out of their well-worn leather sandals.When you walk into Slingfin’s HQ, you quickly realize that the fabrics an...

Today, we take you to Red Bay Coffee’s HQ in Fruitvale, Oakland CA. Red Bay Coffee is one of the most coveted specialty coffee roasters in the Bay Area, a region notorious for its espresso snobs.Keba Konte is Red Bay Coffee’s founder and CEO. He’s not only a coffee evangelist, but most of all, he loves growing his team of future coffee shop owners. Red Bay Coffee’s mission has always been to roast...

Founders often get stumped when coming up with perk ideas for their campaigns. So today, we want to tell you to stop worrying about coming up with the greatest perk ever and just think of the best way to make your investors feel involved.Perks are just a fun way of thanking investors for investing. But most importantly, it’s the most creative way of connecting with your greatest fans. Perks should...

Exactly one year ago, on May 16th 2016, Regulation Crowdfunding was rolled out. Now that we have a year of experience and data, we wish to share our experience with the SEC.https://medium.com/media/3c31d4159de5f6e26b0138ee31a3a292/hrefOur letter to the SEC was originally published in Wefunder Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Our mission is to defend the American DreamAs of today, Wefunder is a Public Benefit Corporation. We are now known as Wefunder PBC, not Wefunder Inc.I’m proud that over 200 Wefunder shareholders signed our Charter. This is akin to our new Constitution.What is a Public Benefit Corporation?A PBC is a new form of company that 31 states have enacted since 2010. The most well-known —Kickstarter — becam...

Four months ago, I wrote Do or Die in 54 Days as open letter to Team Wefunder. We didn’t die, so let’s continue the tradition.Dear Mike, Greg, Dylan, Linlin, Omar, Jiwon, & Theresa:We’ve dominated the opening act and stand alone at the top. Those we expected to be tough competitors turned out to be paper tigers. Yet, this is bad for America. Competition is good. It forces everyone to be better, fa...

Today, we meet Lynn Johnson, co-founder and CEO of Spotlight Girls. She tells us what Spotlight Girls is all about and tells us their biggest challenges, plans for franchising and their new Youtube channel.