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Dr. Joel Bervell’s animated medical series reaches Prime Video after crowdfunding support

Dr. Joel Bervell’s animated children’s series, The Doctor Is In, is now streaming on Prime Video. The project was first boosted by a crowdfunding campaign that raised nearly $62,000 before later partnering with YouTube Health. The show aims to make medicine easier for children to understand and improve representation in healthcare.

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LenDenClub parent Vartis Platforms highlights AI and P2P lending in India’s credit market

Vartis Platforms, the parent of LenDenClub, says India’s next credit phase will depend on better borrower understanding, fraud detection and AI-led underwriting. The article cites LenDenClub’s more than ₹22,000 crore in loans over 11 years and notes the P2P framework introduced in 2017, with clarifications in August 2024. It also frames P2P lending as a complement to banks and NBFCs.

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Nigerian court fines 21 firms for operating investment schemes without licences

A Nigerian court fined 21 companies ₦30 million each for operating investment businesses without valid SEC licences. The EFCC said the firms were linked to unlicensed investment activities and were prosecuted under the Banks and Other Financial Institutions Act 2020. The ruling highlights stricter enforcement and the need for regulatory compliance in investment and real estate fundraising.

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Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: September 14–20, 2026

Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: September 14–20, 2026

One of equity crowdfunding’s most famous success stories became its starkest cautionary tale last week, as BrewDog’s collapse left roughly 200,000 crowd investors with worthless shares. Elsewhere, donation crowdfunding showed real strain on two different continents, while the Middle East and Africa kept building targeted alternative-finance infrastructure, and the EU’s crowdfunding passport quietly expanded to […]
Read this issue: Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: September 14–20, 2026
Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 31 – September 6, 2026

Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 31 – September 6, 2026

A viral campaign to buy Spirit Airlines collapsed last week, exposing a huge gap between pledges and real committed capital. Beyond that lesson, several product campaigns closed strong, Saudi Arabia licensed new providers under its established crowdfunding framework, and Ireland’s new savings scheme drew backlash for leaving crowdfunding out entirely. Lead Story Campaign to buy […]
Read this issue: Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 31 – September 6, 2026
Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 17–23, 2026

Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 17–23, 2026

Crypto regulation set the pace last week, with the SEC and Brazil’s CVM both moving to extend the crowdfunding exemption model into tokenized assets. Underneath that headline, three platform failures put concrete numbers on investor downside, while state-backed capital-access programs in Oman, Malaysia, and across Southeast Asia kept expanding on policy momentum rather than platform […]
Read this issue: Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 17–23, 2026
Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 3–9, 2026

Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 3–9, 2026

Last week’s news operated on two levels at once: infrastructure and platforms. On the infrastructure side, tokenization kept merging with conventional finance rails and regulators started tackling crowdfunding’s oldest complaint — the lack of a secondary market. On the platform side, legacy names consolidated their business models while Southeast Asia’s lending sector grew and got […]
Read this issue: Crowdfunding Weekly Digest: August 3–9, 2026

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