March 13, 2017 @ 11:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Over the weekend, Indiegogo revealed the importance of diversity and inclusion on its crowdfunding platform. The company announced that over 700,000 from 223 countries and territories have used its funding portal since its launch in 2008. “We started Indiegogo because when all ideas from all kinds… Read More

March 13, 2017 @ 10:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fintech startup and practice management platform for tax professionals, Canopy, announced on Monday it raised $20 million during a Series B funding round led by Pelion Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors New Enterprise Associates (NEA), EPIC Ventures, and Deep Fork Capital. Canopy has grown by… Read More

March 13, 2017 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based Ben’s Canteen launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube last week. The company secured £150,000 from friends, family and a small group of Canteen customers before publicly launching the initiative. It is now nearing £400,000. Founded in 2011 by experienced multi-channel marketer, Ben Walton, Ben’s… Read More

March 13, 2017 @ 9:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Active Needle Technology, a medtech company that has claimed to develop a device designed to help doctors perform needle-based procedures with greater accuracy and reliability, has successfully secured £350,051 through its crowdfunding campaign on SyndicateRoom. The initiative overfunded to 140% of its £250,000 target. Active Needle was founded… Read More

March 11, 2017 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Funky Iron Company, a UK-based company that designs, manufactures, and distributes of stylish, functional electric steam irons, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. Originally seeking £100,000, the company surpassed the funding target and is nearing £112,000. While sharing details about the company’s concept… Read More

March 11, 2017 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With just 24 hours left until its second equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube comes to an end, online tutor marketplace Tutora is set to close the funding round with nearly £700,000 in funding. The company launched the initiative last month seeking £350,000. Tutora was launched… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 4:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dragons Den alum GripIt has successfully secured its second Crowdcube campaign’s initial £1.5 million funding target from 900 investors. This initiative comes less than one year after the company raised nearly £2 million from over 600 investors through its first equity crowdfunding campaign. GripIt describes itself as… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 3:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Citigroup announced it appointed Yolande Piazza as the permanent head of its fintech unit, Citi Fintech. According to PYMNTS, Piazza assumed the role as interim head in August when previous chief executive of Citi Fintech, Heather Cox, left the company.  Stephen Bird, chief… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 2:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following a series of unexpected delays, Blank Media Games, the creators of the Kickstarter-funded card game, Town of Salem, announced it will be shipping the highly anticipated card game to U.S. backers in two weeks. Town of Salem is described as a game of murder, mayhem,… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 1:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Norwegian-based CarePacks has successfully secured its minimum 700,000 NOK through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Invesdor. The initiative was launched a couple of months ago and is seeking a maximum target of 1,999,985 NOK.  As previously reported, CarePacks is seeking to make it easier for people to choose… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 12:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a week until its hilarious Kickstarter campaign was set to close, Chuck Williams’ Naked Trump Troll Doll project was pulled by the crowdfunding platform over an intellectual property dispute. As previously reported, the Trump Troll Doll surfaced on Kickstarter last month, seeking $30,000…. Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 10:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

P2P lender RateSetter announced on Friday it has updated its performance statistics. According to the lending platform, a new set of fields on the Performance by year means investors may now view the amount lent by year, which is broken down by lending type. The… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 10:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With nearly two weeks until its Crowdcube campaign comes to an end, UK-based home security company Cocoon successfully secured its new £2 million funding target (originally £2.5 million) from nearly 750 investors. Before launching the initiative, the company raised £1,025,000 from Aviva Group Holdings and Breed Reply… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 9:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo announced on Thursday it is making its way to the 2017 SXSW festival, which kicked off on Friday and will run until March 19th in Austin, Texas. “Every year, some of the coolest people doing the coolest things descend on Austin… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Currencycloud, an international payments engine, announced on Thursday it raised £20 million during its Series D funding round, which was led by GV (formerly known as formerly Google Ventures) with additional investors Notion Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Rakuten FinTech Fund, and Anthemis. The company’s total investment amount is… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 3:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

MacRebur, a UK-based company that uses waste plastics to create strong, longer-lasting roads, has competed its equity crowdfunding run on Seedrs. Originally seeking £590,000, the company closed the initiative with £1,274,140 in funding. The company, which was a participant of Voom 2016, a contest that was launched by… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 2:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

NextGen Crowdfunding announced on Thursday the third round winners of the Crowdfunding Video Awards (CVAs). As previously reported, the CVAs provides campaign organizers new ways to promote crowdfunding campaigns and products to backers as well as potential investors. Season one of the CVAs kicked off on January… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 2:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yirendai (NYSE: YRD) announced the launch of its new open technology platform, Yirendai Enabling Platform (YEP), during the 2017 LendIt USA Conference, which was held earlier this week in New York City. According to Yirendai, the new platform enables part companies to utilize its data… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 12:41 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seedrs alum and growing employee/customer engagement firm, Perkbox, announced on Thursday it has appointed former Yahoo! finance manager, Rob Gorle, as its new finance manager. According to Perkbox, the appointment forms part of its expansion plans in the UK and internationally. Perkbox reported as finance director, Gorle… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 11:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Food robotics company Chowbotics (formerly known as Casabots) announced on Thursday it has secured $5 million during its Series A funding round. Participants of the funding round were Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, Galvanize Ventures and the Geekdom Fund. Chowbotics, which was founded by Deepak Sekar, Ph.D.,… Read More