Israel at the Forefront of Business Innovation: Alternative Finance Conference in Tel-Aviv

March 5, 2013 - PRLog -- After the exceptional success last year, The Alternative Finance Conference returned to Israel on March 4-5, 2013 at the Dan Tel Aviv Hotel. This Deal Flow Media event offered a forum for discussion on avant-garde and unconventional sources of raising capital for businesses.

The Soho Loft sponsored this premier conference which offered company management teams, institutional investors, investment bankers, fund managers, analysts, structured finance investors, corporate lawyers, deal advisors, and accountants a two-day program of education and networking for Israeli companies around alternative public offerings, crowdfunding and the use of social media, digital media incubators, trends in fund raising for early growth companies, how the JOBS Act will affect capital raising and much more.

David Drake, founder and CEO of The Soho Loft believes in paving a path to economic sustainability and financial innovation. “We have seen a range of new financing models emerge in the last few years and we are focused on educating about the most ethical and sustainable of these,” Drake said.  

Why and how is crowdfunding catching up with mainstream methods of raising funds? What motivates funders to contribute? What are the strategies and best practices for increasing the probability of gaining project funding? How will the full implementation of the US JOBS Act impact businesses as they try to raise equity with the help of the crowd? These and other questions were discussed during the two-day conference.

Drake, who is a fervent supporter of the JOBS Act  signed into law by President Barack Obama last April 5, added, “In a short period of time, crowdfunding has helped transform many people's dreams into reality. Crowdfunding is a great financial tool in supporting entrepreneurs and innovators as it allows everyone in society, regardless of how much money they possess, to choose to support innovations which appeal to their values and ideas.”


The Alternative Finance Conference’s main objective for this event was to educate Israeli companies by pairing them up with international experts on cross-border finance. The team worked with an interesting array of strategic partners and companies that range from pharma to biotech to technology.

True to its innovative form, the Alternative Finance Conference tackled topics on tracking new deal strategies, innovative programming, unique content and exciting networking opportunities for finance professionals. Burning topics on crowdfunding and the JOBS Act were included in the conference, including How the JOBS Act will Affect Capital Raising for Israeli Companies; Crowdfunding: Social Media Meets the Capital Markets, and Alternative IPOs: How to Position Your Company Favorably to Overseas Investors

Jon Medved of OurCrowd spoke on the topic “Start-Up Nation: For Better or For Worse”. He discussed the role of international funding in the Israeli VC scene and other issues pertaining to Venture Capital.

“Crowdfunding: Where Social Media Meets the Capital Markets” had Lloyd Rothenberg of Loeb & Loeb as moderator. The panelists for this topic included Dan Marom, author of “The Crowdfunding Revolution” among others.

Times have changed and business is rife with fresh and new ideas. Participants learned more about crowdfunding and other alternative tools of finance in this groundbreaking event.

Check out this site for more details on this event:
http://alternative-finance-conference-telaviv-israel-mar4...

Visit www.thesoholoft.com/innovative-investing-symposium-2013 for upcoming events in Boston, April 3-5 where The Soho Loft partners with Thomson Reuters in its PartnerConnect East Conferences to showcase the best investor event this year on alternative investment management and related financial innovations.

About The Soho Loft (www.thesoholoft.com)

The Soho Loft Capital Creation Events (”TSL”) is a corporate strategy  and advisory services company specializing in financial innovation and economic sustainability. Through its global events and media platform it advances diligent mainstream and alternative investing for start-up entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises. TSL provides visionary leadership and relevant education in the areas of capital formation, crowdfunding, angel networking, non-conventional funding, eb5 green card programs, micro-finance, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds.

TSL is a subsidiary of LDJ Capital based in New York USA. Its founder and Chairman, David Drake, is a founding member of Crowdfund Intermediary Regulatory Advocates (CFIRA) and of Crowdfunding Professional Association (CFPA). He played a key role in the passing of the JOBS Act (Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act) in the United States. His advocacy for financial innovation has taken him to the global stage when he joined the U.S Commerce Department’s delegation to Brussels and Rome at the Transatlantic Economic Forum for SME Policy last July 2012 where he met with European ministers and national legislators. He is an international speaker and prolific writer on these topics.

Overall, TSL’s mission is to bring global awareness and develop infrastructure to facilitate innovative capital formation and access and spur job creation. As such, The Soho Loft operates as the leading global corporate strategy adviser on financial and economic policy.

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