The California Commissioner of Business Oversight is require to prepare an annual report summarizing the data collected from issuers that were granted permits to offer and sell securities pursuant to Corporations Code ยง 25113(b). The Commissioner recently issued the 2018 report. The report includes:
In 2017 (the year covered by the report), the Commissioner issued 126 permits to issuers in the following categories: agriculture, banking, church debt, church extension funds, cooperatives, country clubs, educational services, financing hard money lenders, manufacturing, media, mobile home parks, mutual water companies, real estate investment trusts (REITs), retail, sports and recreation, and technology. The amount that these companies sought to raise was sizable, totaling $7,157,281,235:
It should be noted the Commissioner's report does not cover offerings qualified by coordination or notification. Nor does it include offering exempt from qualification under the California Corporate Securities Law.