Is Regulation CF Relevant Today?

When I pitched Nik on writing a piece on Reg CF, his response was, “I wasn't aware crowdfunding was still much of a product these days.”

He’s not wrong that the extensive discussion of Reg CF by and among venture-capital-backed start-ups has dried up considerably. While many startups were once counseled to do it and enabled by a host of platforms (such as Wefunder, StartEngine, and Republic), you rarely hear of it today.

However, as a general citizen of the Internet, I am constantly being hit up. I’ll buy a product from a company, end up on their mailing list, and be asked to invest in a Reg CF campaign. I’ve been approached by a weather station company, a whiskey company, and a sleep device lately (now you know I snore).

A Brief History of Equity Crowdfunding