May 16, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

An Australian researcher has taken to crowdfunding site Pozible to accept donations in an effort to create a “cultural cache,” a virtual repository of first-hand accounts and experiences directly from gamers. The PlayCache will be an evolving online archive to record, analyse and report on the digital game play habits of Australian gamers: from YouTube… Read More

Read more in: Offerings  |  Tagged australia, gaming, pozible, research, video games

May 8, 2013 @ 8:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A list of Australian crowdfunding platforms and service providers, and some can boast some pretty unique and innovative features.

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, Featured Headlines  |  Tagged assob, australia, chipin, citiniche, crowded, everydayhero, fieldtheory, ipledg, jet fuel, paul niederer, pozible

May 7, 2013 @ 8:07 am By News.com.au  |  

A FORMER Sydney luxury car dealer turned heroin trafficker who was once on death row has secured his transfer home after 20 years in foreign jails by using Facebook and crowdfunding site Pozible. Martin Garnett, 45, secured the $19,287 target he needed to transfer from a prison in Indiana to NSW on Sunday afternoon. His… Read More

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May 4, 2013 @ 12:34 pm By Twitch  |  

Andrew Morgan is an experimental filmmaker, with his feature debut Yes No Yes Yes Go a sort of documentary-fiction hybrid, so it’s fitting that he’s also decided to release the film in an experimental way. It’s a variation of what we’ve seen before, releasing a film online for a pay-per-view fee, but instead of using an iTunes-style… Read More

Read more in: Offerings, Strategy  |  Tagged andrew morgan, australia, film, indiegogo, movies

April 29, 2013 @ 3:55 pm By BandT  |  

A group of 23 young Aussie entrepreneurs have launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their mission to get to the G20 Summit in Moscow in June. Shot by local production company Sambo Media, the film makes the most of the Sydney Harbour backdrop and shows delegates who intend to go to the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’… Read More

Read more in: Politics  |  Tagged australia, enterprise network for young australians, g20, jeremy liddle

April 16, 2013 @ 10:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

StartSomeGood has partnered with leading financial services provider ING DIRECT to launch Dreamstarter, a crowdfunding initiative to boost Australia’s social enterprise sector.   Dreamstarter offers inspirational Australian entrepreneurs an online platform to raise funds towards diverse social change projects. Successful projects that capture the imagination and support of the community will receive additional funding from… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals  |  Tagged australia, dreamstarter, ing direct, startsomegood, tom dawkins

April 12, 2013 @ 4:57 am By The Age  |  

In Colombia, it’s financing a 66-storey apartment tower that developers declare will be the “first skyscraper built by . . . common people”. And in Melbourne, it could provide specially designed dwellings for groups of like-minded owners, such as pet lovers, elderly gays and lesbians, and weekend rockstars. A spin-off from the concept of crowdfunding… Read More

Read more in: Global  |  Tagged australia, citiniche, real estate

April 11, 2013 @ 9:09 am By CNET Australia  |  

A new service has come to crowd-funding site Pozible, allowing you to select exactly who you want to be able to see a campaign. You might be wondering what could possibly be the good of that? As it turns out, plenty. The new “Private” mode isn’t really designed for crowd funding start-ups necessarily. As the… Read More

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April 6, 2013 @ 7:50 am By CleanTechnica  |  

Pollinate Energy — a Sydney and Bangalore-based social enterprise NGO dedicated to using renewable resources to eradicate energy poverty in India -– has joined forces with ChipIn, a new Australian website designed to raise funds for Australian non-profits, to launch a new clean energy crowdfunding campaign. The campaign will start by raising funds to establish five new… Read More

Read more in: Crowdfunding Portals, General News, Global  |  Tagged australia, chipin, green, india, solar

March 25, 2013 @ 8:30 am By Staff Reports  |  

Attached is the speech, in it’s entirety, as delivered by SEC Chairman Elisse Walter, presented to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) which was done by video conference yesterday for the event occurring in Sydney Australia.  While no mention of crowdfunding was directly included in this hot button topic, Chairman Walter did touch upon… Read More

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March 24, 2013 @ 2:15 pm By The Age  |  

Musicians are used to numbers that measure their success, from their position on the charts to a gig’s attendance figure. But for some the most important number now is the amount they have raised for their next project through crowdfunding. Using the internet to put a modern spin on the traditional concept of patronage, crowdfunding… Read More

Read more in: General News, Global  |  Tagged australia, eskimo joe, kickstarter, music, pozible

March 24, 2013 @ 10:07 am By CFI Correspondent  |  

Current SEC Chairman Elisse Walter will be delivering a speech to the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) via video this week where she will address issues of  international co-operation amongst security regulators.  According to The Australian, she was originally to attend the conference but due to budget cuts or the “sequester” she canceled the trip…. Read More

Read more in: Featured Headlines, Global, Politics  |  Tagged asic, australia, elisse walter, greg medcraft, iosco, sec

March 2, 2013 @ 9:01 am By PerthNow  |  

MORE than 170 WA projects have been listed on crowdfunding site Pozible since its inception in 2010, founder Alan Crabbe said. And West Australians have enjoyed more luck than the rest of the country, with 56 per cent of projects listed reaching their funding target, compared with an Australia-wide average of 52 per cent. Crowdfunding… Read More

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February 20, 2013 @ 8:07 am By SmartPlanet  |  

Inside an enterprising Melbourne city co-working office on Bourke Street, the Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible is preparing for DocWeek, a live documentary crowdfunding event in Adelaide. The world first pitch is planned to coincide with the release of Pozible’s mobile platform — both initiatives form part of the team’s 2013 strategy. Alan Crabbe, Pozible co-director and founder, says they’re… Read More

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February 12, 2013 @ 5:18 am By TheMusic.com.au  |  

Australian indie stalwarts Underground Lovers announced on Thursday night, at midnight, that they would be using crowdfunding platform Pledge Music to raise the revenue required to make Weekend, the follow up album to 2011’s Wonderful Things. The band reached their financial goal over the weekend, with 100 percent of the finance required raised in just days. “Many of you… Read More

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