Tagged: oscar

February 12, 2019 @ 3:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

According to Innovate Finance‘s new report 2018 FinTech VC Investment Landscape, investment in UK Fintech rose by 18% to $3.3 billion in 2018. Some additional highlights from the report include: Growth private equity investment rose 57% to $1.6 billion, while venture capital dipped to $1.7 billion… Read More

March 10, 2016 @ 4:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

2015 was the year that financial technology entered the mainstream, claims the new report “Pulse of Fintech” from KPMG and CB Insights (see also the University of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance  seminal benchmarking surveys last year), which estimates that VC-backed fintech firms around the world secured $13.8 billion in… Read More

March 15, 2014 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

We have four great crowdfunding campaigns this week to share.  Before I get on with sharing these projects, I want to remind everyone of a video of Slava Rubin talking about crowdfunding tactics when he presented at Disrupt last year.  It is a crowdfunding rule… Read More

February 25, 2013 @ 8:14 pm By SGEntrepreneurs  |  

If there’s an Oscars-related story more fascinating than Anne Hathaway’s unsurprising win for Best Supporting Actress in Les Misérables, it has to be this: a Kickstarter-funded short film has won an Oscar. Inocente — which tells the tale of a 15-year-old girl in pursuit of her dream… Read More

February 25, 2013 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

There were three crowdfunded films up for an Academy Award last night and one of them came home with an Oscar:  Inocente won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short.  Crowdfunding on Kickstarter the project raised $52,527 on a goal of $50,000. The team behind Inocente… Read More