February 2, 2016 @ 9:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Crowdcube caught up with one of its members, Rick Fish, to discuss his investing experience through the UK-based crowdfunding platform. The Crowdcube team shared: “Our next investor is Rick Fish, who is 39 and lives in North London. After spending almost 20 years… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 6:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, UK-based studio, Mantic Games, took to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter to raise $50,000 for its new game, The Walking Dead: All Out War. Within hours of the launch, the project smashed through the initial goal and is now nearly $200,000. The game, which is based on… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Inkshares, a start-up crowdfunded book publisher, announced on Monday it will be expanding its partnership with Nerdist to include sister site, Geek & Sundry, for six fan-driven publishing contests throughout 2016.  According to the website, these contests will seek submissions in genres that speak to… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 3:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Honesty is the best policy… even when the truth is actually pretty ugly. According to lead programmer of Kickstarter alum Ant Simulator, Eric Tereshinski, the video game and some of his other projects were unfortunately not meant to be – especially since some of his teammates weren’t… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With Blue Mountain State: Rise of Thadland set to be unleashed to the world tomorrow (February 2nd), Alan Ritchson sat down to discuss the highly anticipated film. Eric Falconer, the creator of the popular television series, launched a crowdfunding campaign in early 2014 to help… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 12:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Crowdcube announced #FundedClub members, ioLight and The Eden Project, have teamed up for a special collaboration. The equity crowdfunding platform stated: “Eden Project are enthusiastic supporters of fellow #FundedClub member ioLight and were excited by the opportunity to test the ioLight microscope. ioLight,… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 11:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from her recording studio schedule, singer and songwriter Monica Rizzio sat down to discuss her crowdfunding experience through PledgeMusic. Monica took to PledgeMusic to raise funds for her new album, Washashore Cowgirl. The album is set to release on March 6th. She noted that… Read More

February 1, 2016 @ 10:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Bad news, Sailfish Tablet backers, Jolla has pulled the plug on its Indiegogo project. The Finland-based startup made the announcement last week that the device just wasn’t meant to be. Back in Fall 2014, Jolla launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise $380,000 for… Read More

January 30, 2016 @ 1:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to offer up an update to Indiegogo backers of the high anticipated Super Troopers 2, actor and director Jay Chandrasekhar, announced the movie’s filming progress. Chandrasekhar shared: “Happy Winter.  It’s Jay here, and I know what you’re thinking: Where’s the f**king movie?   “Don’t worry…. Read More

January 30, 2016 @ 1:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, Crowdcube #FundedClub member, StaySafe, announced that it was named a finalist for the Surrey Digital Awards in the “Best App” category for the second year running. The Surrey Digital Awards is considered the “first and only” digital awards scheme in Surrey. It celebrates… Read More

January 30, 2016 @ 12:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Tech City UK announced the first thirty companies to join its Upscale. This program is described as a 6-month pilot program that provides some of the fastest growing UK tech companies world class advice from scale coaches, entrepreneurs and operators who have… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 4:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Creative England announced the latest milestone. The company revealed it is planning to launch an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £1 million for the venture capital fund Creative Seeds. Creative England has reportedly invested £25 million into 440 of the UK’s most exciting creative… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 3:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, newly Indiegogo success Hunky Dory premiered at the 2016 Slamdance festival. The event, which was held on January 22nd-29th in Park City, is described as a showcase for raw and innovative filmmaking self-governed –By Filmmakers, For Filmmakers.  The creators hit the crowdfunding platform last month with… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 2:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up some advice for those looking to use crowdfunding, CoAssets revealed four potential problems to using the funding method (and how they should be handled). The Singapore-based real estate crowdfunding platform shared: “Crowdfunding has forever changed the way people look at fundraising whether for… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 1:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from his work on the set of Mystery Science Theater 3000, creator of the cult-classic Joel Hodgson sat down to discuss the show’s return and its crowdfunding success. During a recent interview with Blastr, Hodgson discussed the possibility that the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Kickstarter… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 11:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunding marketing and analytics platform, Krowdster, recently shared how campaign organizers can find super backers through platform giants Kickstarter and Indiegogo. As previously reported, Krowdster launched its very own searchable database of backers and super backers on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Now the company is ready to share details… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 10:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dot London recently announced the winners of London’s Small Business Awards. Among the winners was Seedrs alum, Wonderush. The company was dubbed New Business of the Year 2015 recipient. Sharing details about Wonderush, Dot London stated: “Aiming to improve the lives of hardworking Londoners, this lifestyle… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 10:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the launch of Wriggle’s second crowdfunding campaign, founder of the startup Rob Hall revealed the five things he’s learned from crowdfunding on Seedrs. Hall shared: “Here we are, 18 months down-the-line on Wriggle’s journey. As the Wriggle team prepares for phase two of growth,… Read More

January 29, 2016 @ 9:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the publishing of the announcement of, Learning Enterprises Organisation (LEO)’s crowdfunding platform, it was brought to the attention of Crowdfund Insider an article on CoinDesk concerning the company’s founders, Dan Andersson and Atif Kamran, being linked to an alleged pyramid scheme in the past.  CoinDeck’s Pete Rizzo wrote… Read More

January 28, 2016 @ 2:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday,  marketplace lender College Ave Student Loans announced it secured $20 million in financing from Comcast Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Comcast NBCUniversal, with participation from Fenway Summer Ventures (headed by former CFPB Deputy Director Raj Date), DW Partners, former SLM Corp. CEO… Read More