October 16, 2014 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vincent Pilot Ng, founder of Halo Belt, and his Bomber Barrel design team have hit Kickstarter to raise $15,0000 to create a timeless and stylish everyday bag suitable for carrying anything. Within only two days, the project surpassed its initial amount and have so far raised $46,730 thanks… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 2:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Virgin Media Pioneers (VMPs), an online community for entrepreneurs that aims to support British business, hosted an award-winning web show, On The Line. As a valuable member of the VMPs, Volpit, a startup investment platform was delighted to speak about their journey as a startup… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 1:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, UK-based Pi-Top decided to turn to global crowdfunding giant Indiegogo to raise $80,000 for its new self-titled raspberry pi laptop. According to the campaign, the Pi-Top provides a platform to expand your knowledge in hardware creation. Its kit takes you through each… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 10:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RCS Capital Corporation (NYSE: RCAP), Realty Capital Securities, LLC, a FINRA-member broker-dealer subsidiary of RCAP, and JMP Securities LLC (NYSE: JMP), the investment banking and capital markets division of JMP Group Inc., announced on Thursday (October 16th) an agreement that provides the over 9,700 financial advisors at Cetera… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Historical Concord, Massachusetts’ Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, which is known as the home of Little Women, launched a crowdfunding campaign last month on Kickstarter to raise $150,000 for a new documentary. The project has already raised $104,759 from 454 backers. The film will be an hour-long, PBS… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 8:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking a page out of University of Colorado and UC Berkeley’s book, University of Southern California (USC) has launched their very own crowdfunding program called Ignite USC. This pilot platform debuted earlier this month for faculty, staff and students. According to the university’s newspaper, Daily… Read More

October 16, 2014 @ 2:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mobbr, the crowd payments company that makes crowdsourcing online work rewarding for everyone, today announced the launch of Mobbr Crowd Payments, a crowd payments platform for the collaborative economy.  Mobbr’s unique, comprehensive, and technologically driven crowd payments platform unlocks the true potential of crowd-sourced labor…. Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 4:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Former Google product manager, Pierre Lebeau, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for what’s considered the world’s first ever HomePod, the KEECKER. Aiming to raise $100,000, the project has already gained a ton of popularity and has reached $78,812 from 87 backers with the first… Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 2:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Rooster Teeth, the creators of the Indiegogo-success Lazer Team, announced this week that it has kicked off the production. The famous YouTube channel also revealed more details about the film, including its cast. Rooster Teeth’s Barbara wrote, “Lazer Team is a sci-fi comedy directed by Matt Hullum… Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 1:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With more and more Ebola cases continuing to appear throughout the world, a scientist at California-based Scripps Research Institute has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $100,000 to continue her search for the deadly disease’s cure before even more people become infected. According to the campaign’s website,… Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 12:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Sunday (October 12th), Chico, California resident, August Germar, hit Kickstarter with a crowdfunding campaign for his new for hardware router, the anonabox. The project, which was only seeking $7,500, has become so popular within the first three days that it has raised $527,572 from 8,137 backers…. Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to have another successful Kickstarter project, while offering up a new way to stay safe during an emergency, New York City startup WakaWaka launched a crowdfunding campaign on the global platform for its power and light first aid kit, Base. Originally seeking $70,000, the… Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 9:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kiva.org today announced the results of “Matter to a Million,” a philanthropic collaboration with the Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation (“HP Co Foundation”) aimed at lending millions of dollars to entrepreneurs around the world. Kiva.org, is a renowned non-profit with a goal to connect people through crowdfunded… Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 8:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to expand its growing platform, university crowdfunding website Hubbub launched an equity campaign on Crowdcube to raise £250,000. In order to raise the funds, the company decided to offer 8.12% ownership for each backer. Not only did it raise the initial goal, the campaign finished… Read More

October 14, 2014 @ 4:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gillian Anderson believes the truth is still out there! While chatting with Bloomberg TV about her new book, A Vision of Fire, The X-Files beauty revealed that crowdfunding might help bring the show’s third film to the big screen. Anderson, who appeared on the hit series from 1993… Read More

October 14, 2014 @ 2:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This past May, Los Angeles-based Rufus Labs launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for its invention, the Rufus Cuff. At the end of the campaign, the product easily surpassed its initial $200,000 goal and raised  $359,463. Now, the project has been announced as one of… Read More

October 14, 2014 @ 1:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sqor, Inc., the editorial and social platform focused exclusively on sports, announces the launch of a new crowdfunding platform that allows athletes to easily raise money via the site. Crowdfunding on Sqor may be used by athletes to finance training and upcoming competitions, or to bring… Read More

October 14, 2014 @ 9:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Newsweek may be heading to court soon! Earlier this year, the media outlet alleged that California resident, Dorian Nakamoto, is the creator of the Bitcoin. The 65-year-old man revealed that the article revealed false information about him and he is not the creator of the… Read More

October 13, 2014 @ 4:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few days after its cat ear headphones’ crowdfunding campaign hit Indiegogo, Axent Wear, which was created by two UC Berkeley alums, has not only surpassed its initial $250,000 goal, but has reached over $796,000 thanks to 5,000 backers. Now the project’s organizers are offering… Read More

October 13, 2014 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Film director and son of the Superman actor Christopher Reeves, Matthew Reeve, has teamed up with his parent’s organization, The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, to launched a new online campaign to fund a treatment option for those who have spinal cord paralysis, which his father… Read More