July 17, 2014 @ 9:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco resident Peter Riering-Czekalla launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign on Wednesday (July 16) for its new handheld, super-high performance Bluetooth speaker, the NudeAudio Super-M. The device is waterproof, sandproof, and fits in jeans pockets. Within the first 24 hours, the campaign smashed its initial $75,000… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 2:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter is ready for the first showing of the 2014 Film Festival in Brooklyn! The crowdfunding giant shared some details about the event, which will take place this Friday (July 18th). The festival features a selection from the platform’s favorite films, shorts, web series, animations,… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

GoldKey Resources, Inc., a natural resources development company, announced today the launch of a crowdfunding campaign with EquityNet, designed to raise US$1.5 million. Niles Helmboldt, CEO of GoldKey, stated, “Our crowdfunding initiative is part of an overall campaign to capitalize on opportunities to assist and… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Smart Crowdfunding LLC has brought mainstream crowdfunding to the younger generation. Their new platform, Crowd-Fund-Kids, launched in July 2014, and will initially be available in four countries: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada.  However, they plan on expanding their platform into more countries in the near future.  Crowd-Fund-Kids will not… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 7:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing some news about her successful new smartphone app HandUp, chief executive and co-founder Rose Broome announced to the Wall Street Journal the app has received $850,000 during seed funding round. According to the publication,  the funding came from Version One Ventures, Launch Fund, SV Angel, individual angel investors… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 7:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdnetic, a provider of technology and market data solutions to the crowdfunded securities and peer to peer lending industry, has released their second quarterly PIPR (Private Issuers Publicly Raising) data analysis report for the period ending June 30, 2014, including a focus on the crowdfunding real estate… Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 5:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

California-based OAXIS Inc. kicked off its Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday (July 15th) for its new device, InkCase Plus. The project was seeking to raise $100,000 and within 24 hours, it surpassed its goal and raised $152,673 from 976 backers. According to its campaign website, the… Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian-based crowdfunding platform GreedyGiver has launched a new program called the Perk Marketplace. It is estimated that 70% of all crowdfunding campaigns fail to reach their target goal due to a variety of reasons such as the inability to tell a compelling story or lack or reach…. Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 2:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Biospain 2014 is currently seeking and selecting projects for presentation as part of its Investment Forum, one of the most high profile in the sector, for which 25 investment funds, 70% of which are international, have already confirmed their attendance, a figure the organizers expect… Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity crowdfunding site RockThePost has announced a merger with CoFoundersLab seeking to create a one-stop shop for investors to simplify their search and due diligence process. CoFoundersLab is an online and in-person matchmaking network that scientifically builds startup teams.  The two companies have merged to create a new… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 5:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Founder and editor of Feminist Times, Charlotte Raven, announced on Monday (July 14) that the UK-based online publication would be closing its doors at the end of this week. This announcement comes just after its crowdfunding efforts fell short. Raven wrote in the website’s blog;… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 2:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Scott Jordan, Founder of HealthiosXchange (“H/X”), the equity-based crowdfunding portal of Healthios, has published a White Paper—“Self-Directed IRAs, Meet Crowdfunding!”— which explores how self-directed IRA investors may use equity crowdfunding to achieve attractive returns in private equity. Jordan noted, “Equity crowdfunding, also called ‘portals’, which leverages the… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 2:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

PropFunds L.P., having just completed its first thirty days in business in the real estate crowdfunding arena, fully funded its first investment opportunity on a five-unit apartment complex in the City of Santa Monica, one of the Southern California region’s hottest real estate markets. The… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to stop the closing of the only private abortion clinic in the Maritimes, Fredericton-based Morgentaler Clinic launched a crowdfunding campaign on FundRazr to raise $100,000. Within a week and a half, the project has surpassed half of its goal. According to The Star, the… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 9:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Liverpool set to save St Luke’s “Bombed Out Church” by raising funds on Crowdfunder. Residents of Liverpool have launched a Crowdfunder campaign to protect the future of one of the city’s most famous landmarks and community spaces. The project was created to raise £18,000 to provide a sustainable… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 8:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday (July 10), Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk announced another $1 million for creating a museum honoring the father of the electrical age. He joins the contributors from more than 86 countries who supported the initial campaign on Indiegogo. The donation from Musk was made on… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 6:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity University, the education arm of Equity Trust Company, has announced that television personality and self-directed investor Kendra Todd will be the keynote speaker at the 2014 Equity University Wealth Building Summit, to take place September in Orlando, Florida. Todd, a top-performing real estate agent and… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 6:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Speaker Sponsor has become known as an online matchmaker between speakers and the small businesses that want to sponsor them. But now they’ve added a new service, crowdfunding for speakers. “I heard so many people say they’d love to spread the word about a particular… Read More

July 12, 2014 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

As crowdfunding becomes more popular in various countries, recent reports reveal the funding option is gaining attention in the Middle East. According to the Huffington Post, a handful of Lebanese entrepreneurs are using crowdfunding to create and sustain social initiative throughout the country, some of which… Read More

July 12, 2014 @ 9:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring an alternative to white rice, UK-based Cauli-Rice launched a Crowdcube crowdfunding campaign to raise £300,000 in equity for its low calorie meal. Cauli-Rice is considered a rice replacement product that has 80% less calories but with the same level of taste and satisfaction… Read More