​DEALINDEX IN THE PRESS

​CONNECTING THE DOTS: DEMYSTIFYING THE NEW DIGITAL MARKETPLACE

​By Andy Traveller on 28 July 2015
DealIndex's Neha Manaktala is helping to shed light on the rapidly evolving digital marketplace for alternative investment.

​Alternative finance is becoming less – well –alternative. With a growing interest from institutional investors, venture capitalists (VCs) and angel networks, the myriad of platforms which now exist is overwhelming.

Private investment is moving online. Indeed, digital marketplaces are springing up rapidly, catering to the growing number and types of investors and issuers.

To help us get a grip on this rapidly evolving space is Neha Manaktala, Founder and CEO of DealIndex, a digital investment aggregator. The former investment banker turned entrepreneur caught up with Finance Magnates to share some of the insights stemming from the company’s recent research publication, which seeks to demystify alternative finance.
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​A PARADIGM SHIFT IN FINANCIAL SERVICES

By Neha Manaktala on 27 July 2015
Alternative Finance is a new phenomenon, and it is taking the world by storm. With over 1,250 crowdfunding platforms worldwide, this new model of collaborative funding is breaking boundaries and defying the status quo as to how issuers source capital.

While alternative finance is primarily known for crowdfunding and P2P lending there are entire asset classes, important functions of investment banking, including a supporting ecosystem of due diligence, risk management, and infrastructure that have transversed the offline and online world of financial services. These seemingly disparate players in alternative finance - involved in different aspects of fundraising, and from all over the world - are interrelated. Assets including alternatives and M&A, represent significantly bigger (albeit challenging) asset classes and have started moving online. Alternative finance players have already started mirroring traditional investment banking services and started collaborating with the financial services industry.
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INDUSTRY REPORT: DISRUPTIVE FINANCE IS MAKING FINANCE MORE TRANSPARENT, EFFICIENT & DEMOCRATIC FOR ENTREPRENEURS & INVESTORS​

By JD Alois on 22 July 2015
New forms of finance are poised to inalterably change the entire finance industry ecosystem we know today. Investment crowdfunding, and the various iterations of alternative finance, are still in the early stages of its evolution. The disruptive finance industry is measured in mere billions now, in stark contrast to the total addressable market which is measured in trillions. But soon the “alt” in finance will become the norm as information barriers are removed, process inefficiencies addressed, thus engendering a more transparent, efficient and democratic process in capital allocation.

DealIndex, a young alternative finance aggregator and part of the GrowVC portfolio of financial innovation, has authored a report on industry growth gathering direct feedback from 18 diverse platforms from around the globe. The document seeks to “demystify” the new online model of collaborative funding.
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GROW VC ON CNBC

3 June 2015
Jouko Ahvenainen, Co-founder / Advisor, DealIndex and Co-founder / Chairman of the Grow VC Group spoke to CNBC on Squawk Box about crowdfunding and the Grow VC Group including DealIndex
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PRESS RELEASE

DEALINDEX ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF ITS DIGITAL INVESTMENT DASHBOARD, WITH OVER A 1,000 DEALS TRACKED

1 July 2015
The pioneering global crowdfunding aggregator offers private investment opportunities from many leading equity crowdfunding platforms including OneVest, Snowball Effect, and Syndicate Room.

DealIndex today announced the launch of its digital investment dashboard, an intelligent data and deal aggregator of private companies raising capital across leading crowdfunding platforms globally. DealIndex is a pioneering global crowdfunding aggregator which allows investors to navigate and track deals in real-time, manage their portfolio of private company investments, make informed investment decisions backed by extensive analysis, data and research. The dashboard has been in private beta with select investors globally for the past 3 months and is now available as public beta.

By combining intelligent data, research, powerful analytics and filters with data visualisation, the dashboard instantly enables investors to search, analyse and compare both live and historical private company investment opportunities. DealIndex dashboard provides single sign-on access to hundreds of thousands of private companies seeking capital, bringing together, for the first time, 30 leading equity crowdfunding platforms spanning across 4 continents, some of which include: AgFunder, Angels Den, Invesdor,MyMicroInvest, OneVest, Raizers, Snowball Effect, Syndicate Room and Venture Founders.

“Through our dashboard and proprietary research, our aim is to make private company funding more efficient and transparent by combining real-time dealflow, intelligent data, powerful analytics and filters with data visualisation,” said Neha Manaktala, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of DealIndex. “With the advent of alternative finance and the rise of private investments, the fundamentals of the private investment market are constantly changing and crowdfunding has proved to be a truly disruptive force, unlocking capital in new ways, empowering entrepreneurs.”

“We are delighted to have our deals showcased on DealIndex, an aggregator of global crowdfunding opportunities from leading platforms”, said Josh Daniell, Co-founder & Head of Platform, Snowball Effect. “DealIndex's easy to use dashboard helps end users quickly source investment opportunities, as well as visualise fundraising data from the world’s most promising private companies. As New Zealand's leading equity crowdfunding platform, partnering with DealIndex broadens our outreach to sophisticated investors from all corners of the world.” 

Grégoire Linder, Co-founder & CEO France, Raizers said, “Raizers wants to become one of the leading European equity crowdfunding platform. Thus, our actual partnership with DealIndex confirms our willingness to bring more visibility abroad to the companies financed on Raizers”

ABOUT DEALINDEX
DealIndex is headquartered in London with offices in New York and Hong Kong. DealIndex is part of The Grow VC Group, a worldwide pioneer and leader in the crowd investing, peer to peer and online investment market. Together, the DealIndex team brings a wealth of finance, investment, technology, and startup experience.

​For more information on DealIndex, use the following links:
  • To sign up for beta access to discover crowdfunding opportunities, go tohttps://dashboard.dealindex.co/register
  • To explore partnership or collaboration opportunities, email [email protected]
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