Tagged: crowdtilt

June 20, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Bryan Parker has launched a campaign on CrowdTilt, appropriately entitled “Tilting Oakland Forward,” to seek funding for his 2014 campaign for Mayor of the city of Oakland. This may be just the beginning of a long, wonderful relationship between crowdfunding platforms and political campaigns. Parker… Read More

June 13, 2013 @ 9:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Food replacement mix Soylent has announced international shipping dates for their crowdfunded product.  Recently Soylent announced stretch goals as they surpassed a half a million dollars raised on a campaign goal of only $100,000. With 9 days remaining the crowdfunding campaign rejected by Kickstarter but accepted by Crowdhoster has become… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Facebook Employee Dwight Crow (pictured) has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt seeking at least $10,000 to send to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. From the campaign page… We should set a precedent by rewarding this type of extremely courageous behavior. It’s definitely apparent that legal… Read More

June 9, 2013 @ 1:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart’s Crowdhoster campaign for Soylent launched with a goal of $100,000. Less than three weeks later the campaign is poised to cross a half a million dollars in contributions, and that feat includes a nice perk for backers of the campaign: a stainless steel… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Forbes  |  

When Rob Rhinehart sought to raise some money to expand production of his self-made superfood drink, Soylent, he asked for a humble $100,000. A little over a week into the 30-day campaign he’d raised almost $400,000. The initial goal was met within two hours. Wow!… Read More

May 24, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart’s campaign for Soylent continues to raise funds, now having neared the quarter million dollar mark. Besides being innovative in its use of Crowdtilt’s open-source Crowdhoster platform, one other aspect of the campaign is proving to be quite useful: the use of Discourse to… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart and his team have settled on Crowdhoster as the platform of choice for their crowdfunding campaign for Soylent. We wrote about Soylent in the past, a meal replacement drink that garnered both praise and criticism in the press. Click here to see the… Read More

May 1, 2013 @ 8:52 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The young man in the video above is Shawn Prince, a 23 year old noob mechanic that is taking on one of the great engine swaps of all time. If you want a fun car on a budget, a great place to start is a… Read More

April 21, 2013 @ 5:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Soon after the now infamous boat was shot up by authorities as they subdued the second Boston Marathon Bomber, the internet rallyed to help out the owner of the boat. As we all know now, the boat owner had stepped out back and noticed something… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 9:06 am By Patch  |  

Despite customer efforts that kept LagoonaMagoo Toys from defaulting on a bank loan last month, owners need to increase sales to stay in business long term. Last month community support prevented two popular St. Louis area toy stores from closingshop as originally planned–but the company still… Read More

April 18, 2013 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdtilt, a simple-to-use platform to pool money online, has announced the close of their $12 million Series A funding. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sean Parker, SV Angel, DCM, as well as CrunchFund, Alexis Ohanian, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant,… Read More

April 9, 2013 @ 2:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

As part of an April Fools joke, crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt ran a crowdfunding campaign to “Crowdfund The Debt” as a method to help pay off the exploding national debt.  The fake crowdfunding campaign picked up mentions in TechCrunch, The Daily Dot and thousands of facebook… Read More

March 23, 2013 @ 10:04 am By The Independent  |  

Subscribers to the showbiz news website Popbitch this week learnt more than the usual celebrity gossip. Alongside the truth behind those stories about Chris Huhne’s Twix bars in Wandsworth Prison were details of Popbitch’s plans to raise expansion money through a crowdfunding effort run by… Read More

March 22, 2013 @ 12:49 pm By Rip Empson  |  

Today TechCrunch announced that YC-backed Crowdtilt has raised a $12 million Series A round. From the article… Today, TechCrunch has learned from sources that Crowdtilt has raised $12 million in Series A financing. It’s the startup’s second round of funding, following its $2.1 million seed round back in… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 10:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site Crowdtilt Co-founder and CEO James Beshara is scheduled to participate in CNBC show Power Lunch on Wednesday, February 27th at 1PM ET. Along with host Tyler Mathisen and CNBC Media Reporter Julia Boorstin – AngelList founder and CEO Naval Ravikant will be present to… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 5:57 pm By CNBC  |  

Entrepreneur James Beshara has built two crowdfunding websites since graduating Wake Forest University in 2008. It’s his second one, Crowdtilt, that has caught the attention of Silicon Valley’s biggest players, including Napster’s Sean Parker and the venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz. While the crowdfunding space… Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 7:00 am By JD Alois  |  

As crowdfunding quickly evolves as an accepted form of financing for your business, project or whatever compels you – it is inevitable that alternatives to the Kickstarter / Indiegogo duopoly evolve.  There is something to be said for being first, but over time, competitors will… Read More

February 2, 2013 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding trail blazer Indiegogo received recognition as runner up for the Biggest Social Impact Crunchies Award this past Thursday.  Bested by Reddit who took the prized Crunchie.  Kickstarter was also in the running along with micro-finance site Kiva.  Last year the same award was delivered… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 9:11 pm By VentureBeat  |  

Crowdfunding is as hot right now as English-Irish boy band One Direction and everybody wants a piece. Crowdtilt has released a new product called CrowdHoster that makes it easy to build a custom crowdfunding site without having to write any code. This popular Y Combinator… Read More

January 15, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

It used to be that most organizations fundraising for charity had to do so the old fashioned way, whether that be by direct (snail) mail, specific events, or in person solicitations.  These were all methods which could be very successful, but these methods were also exceptionally inefficient… Read More