New Rules for Finders? Not So Fast….
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...
CoPeace: A Pioneering Impact-Focused Holding Company
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...
Real ESG Scoring is Coming – Are Law Firms Ready to be Rated?
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...
Why Cutting Edge Partnered with SVX to Launch an Impact Platform
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...
2021: A Year of Impact
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...
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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...
How Co-ops Raise Capital
An overview of funding sources for cooperative start-up and development If you are starting or developing a cooperative, you have probably noticed that cooperatives do not use the same approach to capital-raising that standard businesses do. The standard...
Direct Public Offering Strategies: Which One Is Right For You?
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...
Testing the Waters for Securities Offerings
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...
Community Investment Funds: A Change is Gonna Come
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...
Equitable Community Solar: A Sense of Ownership
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...
Audio Interview: MedFire Innovations, Inc. Part 2
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...
Audio Interview: Meet MedFire Innovations, Inc. Part 1
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...
Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative on KALX
Listen in as Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative (BAR-C) Vice President Adam Parks speaks with KALX Method to the Madness host Lisa Kiefer about the future of sustainable ranching and the alternative meat sourcing option his collective aims to provide local consumers....
Video: Discussion on Direct Public Offerings
The Cutting Edge team specializes in working with clients interested in community capital raise solutions such as direct public offerings, also known as DPOs. In addition to the many years of experience handling DPOs for other organizations, Cutting Edge was once the...
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