December 23, 2014 @ 9:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Caterham F1 racing team launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £2.3 million to get to the season finale in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The project became super popular and even raised 1.1 million during its first three days on the platform…. Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, London-based POD Point launched a crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £1.2 million for its network of electronic car chargers. According to its campaign website, POD Point has designed and manufactured electric vehicle (EV) charge points that are able to be used in… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 3:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only a week and half until the world rings in the new year, UK-based platform Crowdfunder presented its Top 12 British Crowdfunding Projects of 2014. Sharing details about the successful campaigns, the platform’s staff stated, “In the last 12 months we’ve seen some amazing… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blurb, the independent book and magazine publishing platform, today announced that wine blogger and Blurb author Alder Yarrow’s first book, The Essence of Wine: Celebrating the Delights of the Palate, made the New York Times’ Best Wine Books of 2014 list which is compiled by wine writer, Eric… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Docupace Technologies, a Straight-Through Paperless Processing (STP) digital company, announced today it has appointed John DeVincent as Executive Vice President of Marketing. DeVincent brings thirteen years of marketing leadership, previously serving at a wealth management software company, eMoneyAdvisor, LLC, where he was Executive Vice President of Marketing…. Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 10:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing his thoughts about crowdfunding and its benefits, Adam Blaskey, founder of a chain of private member businesses clubs in London known as The Clubhouse, sat down with the Telegraph and revealed that the funding method offers room for growth for startups as well as established… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 10:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring a whole new security system to the market, Amsterdam-based Amaryllo International, Inc. recently hit Indiegogo to raise funds for its new product, the iCamPRO FHD. The device is considered the first domestic robot that tracks intruders that enter a home. iCamPRO FHD… Read More

December 20, 2014 @ 12:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, the Missouri State University Foundation announced it has partnered with CrowdIt to create a brand new crowdfunding platform that is specifically for the university’s use. According to the university, Missouri State University Crowdfunding is a pilot initiative to provide an online crowdfunding platform for Missouri State… Read More

December 20, 2014 @ 11:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Del Marth LLC, the manufacturers of StoneTether, a new wireless tracking device, has experienced staggering success crowdfunding on  Kickstarter.  The campaign launched with a goal of  only $15,000 but closed over $366,000 as nearly 7000 backers helped to fund the project. As previously reported, StoneTether is a micro-device that… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 5:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Las Vegas-based Funforge, LLC. launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $80,000 for its new cooperative survival boardgames called ZNA. According to its campaign, ZNA takes place in Boston. The year is 2015 and the city has been struck by a storm of… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 3:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from her successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, co-creators of StyleLikeU and the web series I Am What’s Underneath, Lily Mandelbaum sat down with BUST to share details about the project and today’s body image issues. As previously reported by CrowdfundInsider, I Am What’s… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 10:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RCS Capital Corporation (“RCS Capital”), in light of recent market developments, issued the following statement: CEO of RCS Capital, Michael Weil stated,”The fundamentals driving the success of our business remain strong and unchanged.  Our confidence in the long-term prospects for the company is resolute. There… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With 3721 backers for a total of $275,420 collected on crowdfunding platform Tilt, the functional and elegant Vesper vibrator necklace becomes the most successful (having shipped to all its backers) sex toy project on a crowdfunded pre-order platform. As CoolHunting raved, “Wearable tech has never been… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 9:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stephen Amell, star of The CW hit series Arrow, recently partnered with Represent, a rapidly growing platform for creating and selling custom merchandise, to generate $947,380 in sales in support of the F&ck Cancer charity. The campaign initially lasted three weeks and sold 21,351 shirts, but… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 5:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Clearing the air of any confusion and accusations, CEO of San Carlos-based Logbar, Takuro Yoshida, addressed the issues that backers of Kickstarter-success Ring Wearable Tech through a new YouTube video. Previously, Yoshida revealed his thought about the comments that Gizmodo had made about the ring. The website, which… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Retake, the new gay indie film starring Luke Pasqualino (UK’s Skins, The Borgias) as a male prostitute has been given the greenlight.  Nick Corporon, director of the LGBT festival favorite short film Barbie Boy is directing from his own screenplay, with a story by Corporon, Gareth Dutton, Collin Brazie,… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 3:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With 2015 just around corner, RateSetter announced on Thursday (December 18th) that it has taken on the loan book of GraduRates, a fellow peer-to-peer (P2P) lender which helps students finance their education, funding loans for postgraduate study. GraduRates, which launched in 2010, has decided to… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Litigation funder Bentham IMF is ending 2014 on a strong note in the U.S., with robust dispute recoveries, a set of freshly completed cases and the addition of an experienced new member to its U.S. investment management team. The firm’s calendar-year performance for dispute funding in the… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BlockTrust, a trust system that bridges angel investment and development, has launched a new crowdfunding platform that brings blockchain related projects and their investors together in a mutually beneficial manner. Projects are certified by a team of capable individuals who verify developer identity, review the source code,… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 11:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last year, the very popular (and delicious) Pizza Rossa launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube and took home £440,000 in just 17 days. Since then the company has opened a shop at London Wall, along with a pop-up at Leadenhall Market. Now, the startup… Read More