April 5, 2016 @ 4:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Football INDEX, a football gambling platform, recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £800,000 as it seeks to become the world’s first football stockmarket. The company revealed that its key mission is to establish a Tradable Market in football by issuing “Virtual Shares”… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 4:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, payment service provider, PayU, announced it conducted an analysis on ecommerce customs and fintech potential in Latin America, Central/Eastern Europe, India, and Africa at Money20/20 Europe. Findings that are featured in PayU’s report included: High growth of ecommerce in Africa. More than 65%… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 3:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Newcastle-based Tyne Bank Brewery took to equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to raise £150,000 as it seeks to continue growth and build a second brewery. Since its launch in 2011, the Tyne Bank Brewery has continued to growth thanks to its craft beer’s popularity. The company’s “Core… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 1:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Chicago-based startup Gramovox announced shipment details for its Kickstarter project, Floating Record. Floating Record is described as a high-performance turntable that plays records vertically through built-in, dynamic, full-range stereo speakers (or through an RCA line out). Each Floating Record sits on a wood base and… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 12:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Seed&Spark, crowdfunding platform for independent films, announced it made direct distribution deal with cable and digital distributor, iN DEMAND. The portal hopes that the agreement will help expand its domestic distribution reach by 50%. Now, CEO and founder of Seed&Spark, Emily Best, is ready to… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, a small business financial technology platform, Biz2Credit, released its latest Small Business Lending Index, which revealed that loan approval rates at big banks and institutional lenders have hit new highs in March 2016. According to the report, big banks ($10 billion+ in assets) approved 23% of funding… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Med-X declared this week that its StartEngine equity crowdfunding offer was already “full steam” ahead.  The offer is now accepting investors. Back in February, the Med-X received SEC approval to raise funding under Regulation A+. The company considers itself the first company engaged in cannabis cultivation and technologies… Read More

April 5, 2016 @ 9:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, South African crowdfunding platform, Thundafund, announced the launch of its new website, which will debut on Wednesday April 6th. According to the funding portal, the new website was build in Africa for Africa and will be easy-to-use and 100% mobile-responsive. The new site offers… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 5:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the long search for PledgeMe’s new board member, CEO of the New Zealand crowdfunding platform, Anna Guenther, announced on Monday that it has appointed Jessica Venning-Bryan to the vacant spot. According to Guenther, Venning-Bryan has spent nearly 15 years advising organizations on how to engage… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 4:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to share more details about Rock Band 4 for PC, the team from studio Harmonix took to Reddit to chat with fans and answer questions in regards to the game. Last month, Harmonix launched a campaign on crowdfunding portal Fig to raise $1.5 million for… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 3:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, crowdfunding platform PledgeMe announced that its new feature, CrowdfundingU, is now registered under the Regional Business Partners Network. This network reportedly helps New Zealand businesses innovate and grow by making it easier to access early stage business support. CrowdfundingU offers a structured 6-week program… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 2:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In celebration of this year’s #MuseumWeek, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter revealed its top eight most memorable collaboration it has done with various institutions throughout the world. The Kickstarter team shared: “In the nearly seven years we’ve spent helping new creative projects come into the world, we’ve seen… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 1:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Crowdcube announced that one of its #FundedClub members, The Good Egg, has been name one of the eleven great places to eat in Hackney by Bloomberg’s chief food critic Richard Vines. #FundedClub @TheGoodEgg_ listed in @Richardvines great places to eat in Hackney https://t.co/B03DvJIKqJ… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 11:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from his duties at Indiegogo, co-founder of the site Slava Rubin sat down with Times of Israel to share details about the global crowdfunding platform and the funding method. Back in 2008, Rubin alongside other co-founders Danae Ringelmann, Eric Schell teamed up to launch… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Brewgooder, a new craft brewer that is seeking to provide clean water to the masses, has formed a partnership with famed brewery BrewDog to produce its new beer line. BrewDog’s co-founders James Watt and Martin Dickie have reportedly been named two of BrewGooder’s trustees. Last month, Brewgooder aunched an Indiegogo… Read More

April 4, 2016 @ 9:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder UK announced that it has partnered with online marketplace, NotOnTheHighStreet to launch a search for UK’s future food and drink innovators. This partnership will provide food inventors, producers, and gastro aficionados with the opportunity to raise funds and also gain… Read More

April 2, 2016 @ 11:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With its Kickstarter set to close in less than a week, PrimoToys has successfully secured over $1.2 million for its hand on coding toy, Cubetto. The initiative first surfaced on the crowdfunding giant last month to raise only a sum of $100,000. Within days of… Read More

April 2, 2016 @ 10:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With their campaign for the “Airlander” continuing to be a huge success on Crowdcube, the team at Hybrid Air Vehicles sat down with the equity crowdfunding platform to discuss what they have been up to since their last initiative and why they decided to use crowdfunding once… Read More

April 1, 2016 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With his Indiegogo success film Miles Ahead hitting selected theaters  in New York City and Los Angeles today, Don Cheadle headed to the Today Show in New York City to share details about the biopic. Miles Ahead captured a grand total of $344,582, which went towards the production… Read More

April 1, 2016 @ 3:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to be a smashing hit on Indiegogo, Robbie and Stephen Amell’s action-packed film Code 8 has secured nearly $400,000 in less than two weeks on the global crowdfunding platform. The Arrow stars took to the funding platform for the movie. Its description reads: “The film takes place in… Read More