Crowdfunding Moves Toward Mainstream

LOS ANGELES—Over just the last few months, crowdfunding has moved away from the frontier toward the mainstream, according to Adam Hooper, founder and CEO of the crowdfunding platform RealCrowd and a panelist on the Opportunities in Crowdfunding platform at the upcoming RealShare Investment and Finance conference. Hooper will join panelists, including Christopher Rising, president and COO of Rising Realty Partners, and Elizabeth Braman, chief production officer at Realty Mogul, at the California Club on June 25 to discuss the current crowdfunding sector.

“The most exciting thing with our business and the industry in general is the change in attitude over the last two to four months,” Hooper tells GlobeSt.com. “This method of raising capital has gone from being on the fringe to a legitimate source of capital. I think that is reflective in the operators that we are dealing with and the interest that we are getting.” For Hooper, the platform is about providing investors and sponsors access to opportunities across the country that they wouldn’t otherwise have.