New Impact Offerings, Green Innovation, Crowdfunding Favorites, Life-Saving Tech, and a Live Chat with Jen and Devin!
From clean energy investing to life-saving health tech and the power of crowdfunding portals—discover the impact stories making headlines this week.
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CGB Green Liberty Notes Featured Among New Impact Offerings - May 26, 2025
Each week, Superpowers for Good shares a list of new impact-related offerings added to FINRA-Registered crowdfunding portals and by broker-dealers. We’ll share four separate lists:
Impact offerings determined by our proprietary analysis.
Offerings with minority founders.
Deals with women founders.
Those with LGBTQ founders.
Sometimes, it takes weeks for our source to determine that a company has a social impact, a woman, minority or LGBTQ founder. When we discover an offering qualifies for our list, even if it is no longer new, we will include it. See the lists below.
Inventing Our Way to a Better Planet: Prof. Alan Arthur Tratner’s Lifelong Mission
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Alan Tratner shared his journey from the first Earth Day to launching the Green2Gold impact incubator.
He described the critical role of innovation and entrepreneurship in addressing environmental crises worldwide.
Alan emphasized the power of equity crowdfunding to democratize investment for green ventures and climate solutions.
He highlighted the importance of perseverance, creativity and passion for lasting impact in nonprofit and business work.
Alan offered actionable advice for aspiring changemakers to lead with purpose and build sustainable ventures.
Why I love Crowdfunding Portals
I love regulated investment crowdfunding and the portals that participate in the space. I’ve got gripes and complaints, but overall, I’m their biggest fan. They are fundamentally essential to the ongoing success of the industry—and its future growth.
Today, I’d like to enumerate some of my favorite things about portals operating under Regulation Crowdfunding:
9 Things I Love About Portals
Pre-Screening Investments: We all rely on portals to screen the offerings they host. They all use different criteria, but they are all required to exclude companies associated with “bad actors”—people who have been in trouble with the SEC in the past.
Regulatory Compliance: Having run a FINRA-member, SEC-registered broker-dealer, I know how hard it is to comply with the regulations. That is a big reason I don’t run a portal today! I’m grateful that they have made the effort to comply with the rules. These sometimes impose on us minor inconveniences, but the net effect is a safe and functional market.
Simplifying Small Investments: At an earlier point in my life, I was in a position to regularly consider and actually make a few old-fashioned angel investments. In those days, the process of investing was so much more cumbersome and riskier—without intermediaries pre-screening and consistently applying disclosure requirements. In the old days, a $2,500 investment was tiny! Recently, I made an investment of $5 just to see if I could. It was completely successful, quickly paid off entirely without one penny of fees to me and modest fees to the issuer.
Low Upfront Fees for Founders: Many portals charge no upfront fees at all. None. Those that do typically charge small fees relative to the target raise. The bulk of the fees are collected from the proceeds—when founders, by definition, have money. For small raises, the total fees could be lower than the fees charged by an attorney to prepare documents for an offering, but provide much more value.
Assortment of Options: Every portal I visit features a portfolio of investment options for me—and you—every single day. When I’m looking for a place to invest, I can always find an appealing opportunity.
Unique Personalities: Each portal has a personality. I confess that I like some more than others—as I like some people more than others (sorry). Those personalities are vital for a thriving industry. Not every founder would be well served to raise on SMBX, one of my favorites, any more than every investor wants to back those deals. Everyone is drawn to a roster of favorites. Isn’t that wonderful!
Supporting Founders: While all portals provide support to entrepreneurs, I love seeing the small portals often investing the time and effort to guide them at the earliest stages of onboarding an offering, helping them in countless ways to succeed. I’ll share my personal experience below. Keep reading!
Focus on Impact: Some portals avoid any mention of their social impact, choosing to focus on advertising the economics of the investments, while most embrace the difference they make in the world. But even those that seem to hide their social impact, support for diverse founders and the difference they make in communities do those things, just quietly. Others embrace and celebrate their impact, giving us a clear reminder that we, as investors, make a difference, too.
Ease of Due Diligence: Commensurate with small investments, crowdfunding portals—and the rules that govern them—make conducting due diligence easy. The required disclosures, Q&A function and updates create a forum for learning quickly, including indications of who is investing and why.
Saving Lives with Innovation: How Neopenda is Revolutionizing Healthcare in Low-Resource Settings
tl;dr:
Neopenda creates affordable medical technology like Neoguard, a wearable vital signs monitor saving lives.
Sona Shah’s passion for equitable healthcare drives her innovative solutions for underserved populations.
Neoguard is designed for low-resource settings, addressing challenges like power instability and broken equipment.
Neopenda is raising capital via a WeFunder crowdfunding campaign, democratizing investment opportunities.
Sona’s resilience and vision have propelled Neopenda’s growth, proving impact and profit can coexist.
Live with Jen and Devin
Today, I had the pleasure of co-hosting a special livestream on Substack with Jen Risley, the editor of the Main Street Journal. We're calling it “Jen and Devin Live,” and we hope it marks the beginning of a recurring series to strengthen the ties in our shared community of impact crowdfunding enthusiasts.
Jen and I both publish on Substack and share a mission to promote community capital. While we could be viewed as competitors, we see ourselves more as complementary partners. That’s why we came together—to cross-promote, build bridges, and amplify the voices in this growing movement.
What’s New at the Main Street Journal
Jen highlighted a recent MSJ Extra feature: an in-depth interview with John Abrams, author of the forthcoming book From Founder to Future. John transitioned his company—South Mountain Company, a design, building, and solar firm on Martha’s Vineyard—into a worker cooperative. Now retired, he’s focused on helping other founders do the same. Jen shared that the response to this piece was overwhelmingly positive, confirming that interest in worker ownership models is growing fast.
Updates from Superpowers for Good
On my end, I shared some exciting updates about Superpowers for Good. Our recent SuperCrowdLA event, which was livestreamed to e360tv and Substack, drove tremendous traffic. But what’s been even more rewarding is the success of our new initiative, Super Crowd Voices (read it here, submit your contribution for consideration here). This channel invites new writers to share their perspectives, and it’s working better than we imagined. In fact, one of the first posts—by Dorian Dickinson of Funding Hope—became our most-read post ever. His powerful argument for giving investment crowdfunding “a seat at the table” clearly struck a chord.
It was particularly rewarding to learn from Jen that our feature on Dorian inspired Main Street Journal to expand their platform listings in their weekly offering summaries. They had initially focused on just a few platforms—but now, they include more, making their coverage even stronger. That kind of cross-pollination is exactly what this collaboration is all about.
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Upcoming SuperCrowd Event Calendar
If a location is not noted, the events below are virtual.
Impact Cherub Club Meeting hosted by The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation, on June 17, 2025, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Each month, the Club meets to review new offerings for investment consideration and to conduct due diligence on previously screened deals. To join the Impact Cherub Club, become an Impact Member of the SuperCrowd.
SuperCrowdHour, June 18, 2025, at 12:00 PM Eastern. Jason Fishman, Co-Founder and CEO of Digital Niche Agency (DNA), will lead a session on "Crowdfund Like a Pro: Insider Marketing Secrets from Jason Fishman." He’ll reveal proven strategies and marketing insights drawn from years of experience helping successful crowdfunding campaigns. Whether you're a founder planning a raise or a supporter of innovative startups, you’ll gain actionable tips to boost visibility, drive engagement, and hit your funding goals. Don’t miss it!
Superpowers for Good Live Pitch – June 25, 2025, at 8:00 PM Eastern - Apply by June 6, 2025, to pitch your active Regulation Crowdfunding campaign live on Superpowers for Good—the e360tv show where impact meets capital. Selected founders will gain national exposure, connect with investors, and compete for prizes. To qualify, you must be raising via a FINRA-registered portal or broker-dealer and align with NC3’s Community Capital Principles. Founders from underrepresented communities are especially encouraged to apply. Don’t miss this chance to fuel your mission and grow your impact!
SuperCrowd25, August 21st and 22nd: This two-day virtual event is an annual tradition but with big upgrades for 2025! We’ll be streaming live across the web and on TV via e360tv. Soon, we’ll open a process for nominating speakers. Check back!
Community Event Calendar
Successful Funding with Karl Dakin, Tuesdays at 10:00 AM ET - Click on Events
Devin Thorpe is featured in a free virtual masterclass series hosted by Irina Portnova titled Break Free, Elevate Your Money Mindset & Call In Overflow, focused on transforming your relationship with money through personal stories and practical insights. June 8-21, 2025.
Regulated Investment Crowdfunding Summit 2025, Crowdfunding Professional Association, Washington DC, October 21-22, 2025.
Call for community action:
Please show your support for a tax credit for investments made via Regulation Crowdfunding, benefiting both the investors and the small businesses that receive the investments. Learn more here.
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