Market Momentum Returns: July’s Crowdfunding Report

CHART OF THE WEEK 📈

By Chris Martin | Read

Crowdfunding came back swinging in July. Big raises, fast closes, and a few surprises reshaped the charts—plus, Reg A+ made its mark in a big way. Investors showed up across sectors, backing everything from quantum tech to clean energy and community food startups. Dig into the full July report to see who led, who surged, and what it means for the months ahead.

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KINGSCROWD PODCAST

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In this week’s Kingscrowd Podcast, Scott Kitun takes the host chair and joins Brian Belley, Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau, and Teddy Lyons to discuss a rapidly growing investment trend—backing individual creators and professional athletes. Platforms such as Gigastar, CrowdSurf, and Finlete allow retail investors to fund and share in the future earnings of YouTube creators and MLB players like Nick Luciano and Emmanuel Clase. The panel explores the potential upsides, including increased fan engagement and alternative capital raising, alongside significant risks like enforceability of earnings, volatile careers, and uncertain regulatory oversight.

UPCOMING WEBINARS

This Wednesday, August 6th at 3pm ET, please join CEO Sharon Samjitsingh for a live fireside chat on how Health Care Originals’ AI-powered wearable and virtual monitoring platform is reshaping asthma and COPD care—one reason our analysts named it a Kingscrowd Top Deal. Secure your spot, bring your questions, and learn whether this fast-growing digital-health play merits a place in your portfolio.

PITCH REVIEW 💸

By Teddy Lyons \ Deal Report

Brief: HEVO is building the global standard for wireless EV charging with technology designed to meet universal safety and performance benchmarks. Its chargers are vehicle-integrated and app-connected, aiming to simplify EV ownership through seamless, hands-free charging. The company has signed agreements with multiple global automakers targeting over 100,000 units, and is currently raising up to $5M on Wefunder to scale production and finalize OEM development projects.

Teddy’s Take: HEVO was my first ever investment in the equity crowdfunding market back in 2022. The company, backed by Ulu Ventures VoLo Earth Ventures, and the Dream Machine Innovation Lab, has developed a wireless EV charging system that eliminates the need for cables and plugs. Electric vehicles simply line up their car with a pad on the ground that syncs with hardware attached to the car’s battery. The charge is completely wireless, and operates at a strong 93% efficiency (better than many cable charging solutions). While the consumer benefits are obvious, I prefer to look at HEVO in the context of an autonomous driving future that we are already seeing with robo-taxis like Waymo.

Once autonomous taxi/delivery fleets become fully mainstream, autonomous vehicles will need to charge themselves without customers present. Without wireless charging, these vehicles will need to drive back to the fleet yard and a human will have to plug in the charger…very inefficient. When I first invested into HEVO three years ago, the company was in the early innings of securing development contracts with major automakers. Well, today the company is actively executing on development contracts with Stellantis and another major automaker (confidential, but I can tell you it’s impressive).

The company, despite all this progress, is only raising its valuation by 20% compared to its prior equity crowdfunding rounds. While I can’t outline all of the competitive advantages that HEVO has in this one paragraph, certainly read my in-depth report on the company to learn more about why I consider HEVO a winner.

STAFF PICKS 🌶️

Pacha

By Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau

Pacha is raising a third time and managed to double its revenues between 2023 and 2024. That's impressive, especially for a bread company operating in a competitive market, and proves that there is a strong product-market fit for its healthy bread. This fast growth could slow down in 2025 based on the current revenue run rate. But the company will start selling in a couple more large retailers by the end of the year, which may put growth on steroids one more time.

Cainspring Mills

By Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau

Cairnspring Mills is thriving in a space most people overlook: flour. The company produces premium stone-milled flour and focuses on B2B sales, mainly to bakeries and restaurants. Smart strategy. These customers are slightly less price-sensitive and the market is less cutthroat than retail. That said, revenue only grew at a low 26% rate last year. Why? Cairnspring Mills hit its production ceiling and now needs to build a new mill to unlock the next revenue tier. Too much demand is always a good problem to have.

SI8

By Teddy Lyons

Startups creating a new social networking platform usually don’t interest me, while companies creating decentralized finance platforms scare me. Sl8 is doing both, so naturally I’m skeptical. But with 500k users and $1m in revenue (profitable), Sl8 is worth a deep dive.

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