Company type | Private |
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Industry | Oil and gas |
Founded | 2013 |
Headquarters | San Antonio, Texas |
Key people | Laura Pommer, Virginia Urban Light, Garrett Glass, Piyush Prakash, Elizabeth Finley Ryan |
Website |
energyfunders |
EnergyFunders is an energy-focused FINTECH crowdfunding company that started with oil and gas.
The company was founded in 2013 by Philip Racusin, Roger Gingell, Michael Racusin, and Casey Minshew in Houston, Texas. [1] [2] Laura Pommer currently serves as the company’s CEO. [3] It was set up as a crowdfunding platform, in accordance with US Securities regulations. [4] EnergyFunders initially provided accredited investors with access to upstream oil and gas projects from independent operators and producers. [5] Generally these are established small operators that otherwise have limited financing options. [6] The platform first went live in 2014 and was officially released in 2015. [7] In January 2018, the EnergyFunders Marketplace was accepted by FINRA to operate a crowdfunding portal under Regulation CF. [8] EnergyFunders launched an all-new upgraded platform using block-chain technology in early 2018.
The EnergyFunders platform provides crowdfunded upstream oil and gas projects to accredited investors, [1] which the company pre-vets before putting them up for offer [9] [10] through a team of various professionals in law, geology, technology, and finance. [11] EnergyFunders takes a carried interest from each investment made through its platform. [1] [12]
Company type | Private |
---|---|
Industry | Oil and gas |
Founded | 2013 |
Headquarters | San Antonio, Texas |
Key people | Laura Pommer, Virginia Urban Light, Garrett Glass, Piyush Prakash, Elizabeth Finley Ryan |
Website |
energyfunders |
EnergyFunders is an energy-focused FINTECH crowdfunding company that started with oil and gas.
The company was founded in 2013 by Philip Racusin, Roger Gingell, Michael Racusin, and Casey Minshew in Houston, Texas. [1] [2] Laura Pommer currently serves as the company’s CEO. [3] It was set up as a crowdfunding platform, in accordance with US Securities regulations. [4] EnergyFunders initially provided accredited investors with access to upstream oil and gas projects from independent operators and producers. [5] Generally these are established small operators that otherwise have limited financing options. [6] The platform first went live in 2014 and was officially released in 2015. [7] In January 2018, the EnergyFunders Marketplace was accepted by FINRA to operate a crowdfunding portal under Regulation CF. [8] EnergyFunders launched an all-new upgraded platform using block-chain technology in early 2018.
The EnergyFunders platform provides crowdfunded upstream oil and gas projects to accredited investors, [1] which the company pre-vets before putting them up for offer [9] [10] through a team of various professionals in law, geology, technology, and finance. [11] EnergyFunders takes a carried interest from each investment made through its platform. [1] [12]