Sarah Kaplan has joined the partnership at Cutting Edge Counsel. Sarah first affiliated with the firm in 2015 and joined as an Associate in 2021. Sarah has 10 years of experience serving a wide range of cooperatives, including worker, consumer, agricultural, platform,...

The SEC made a splash in October 2020 when it proposed a new set of rules that would allow finders to receive transaction-based compensation for introducing investors to issuers even though they are not licensed as a securities broker-dealer.  This proposal...

Cutting Edge is pleased to occasionally present a guest blog in our monthly newsletter. The following is contributed by CoPeace, a Cutting Edge Client since 2017. Short for “Companies of Peace,” CoPeace is currently conducting a Regulation Crowdfunding offering on...

Two bombshell articles landed recently. First a Bloomberg Businessweek piece titled The ESG Mirage, on how companies are rated (or maybe not) for their performances tied to Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors. The article leads with the bold...

Following the recent successful TechSoup Regulation A+ offering, SVX.US is now introducing its new cohort of impact capital campaigns, including Medwave Software Solutions and Shared Capital Cooperative, with additional listings soon to follow. This seems a good time...

Cutting Edge Capital would like to thank each and every client, partner organization, community member, and ally that helped make 2021 another impactful year. Join us in commemorating highlights that made 2021 a year we’ll never forget. Before you go, download a...

Summary of our Firm Our law firm and consulting practice help mission-driven organizations raise capital in alignment with their values and goals. We use our experience, legal knowledge, and passion to assist businesses, cooperatives, and nonprofits with innovative...

Considering a capital raise that you can publicly promote? This overview chart is designed to compare key features of direct offering strategies that permit an issuer to solicit investment from its network. None of these strategies require the use of a broker but all...

Suppose your organization needs growth capital and you’ve talked about doing a securities offering of some sort.  But you’re reluctant to commit the time and resources that it takes to gear up for a  securities offering without having some confidence that it...

In the aftermath of the protests and marches of the past year or so, community wealth building has emerged as an often-discussed strategy of economic justice. Community wealth building is really another term for community capital, and it’s been at the core of our work...

Charged with exploring sense of ownership strategies for economically-disadvantaged communities in California, Cutting Edge Capital worked in partnership with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) to identify strategies and business models that...

In our previous blog, we heard from MedFire Innovations' Founder and President, Greg Christmas who spoke about MedFire's mission to protect the lives of patients, emergency and healthcare providers through innovative, safer products. Now, check out part two of our...

MedFire Innovations' mission is straightforward: to discover simple solutions to some of the emergency services industry’s most challenging problems, and to develop products that protect the lives of patients, emergency and healthcare providers. Since launching...