Canada

July 18, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian-based Morgentaler Abortion Clinic may have surpassed its crowdfunding campaign goal on Fundrazr of $100,000 to keep its doors open in its New Brunswick location, but the organizers have announced the center will be closing its doors on Friday (July 19th) after all. As previously… 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 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 7, 2014 @ 7:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stepping up to help a love one in need, 7-year-old Quinn Callender has launched a YouCaring campaign to raise funds for his friend Brayden, who has been struggling with a terrible disease known. Although he was only looking to raise $20,000, the British Columbia resident… Read More

July 3, 2014 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Indiegogo has announced a new iPhone app for Canada. This is the first of what is expected to be a global roll out of mobile versions of its funding technology. According to the Globe and Mail, the global crowdfunding company stated Canada was chosen because… Read More

June 26, 2014 @ 2:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowds4Change, a crowdfunding platform for education and community initiatives supporting youth, has announced the launch of its Change Counts campaign to encourage schools and organizations serving youth to take the first step in sparking change to meet their educational objectives. Change Counts, through Crowds4Change, provides… Read More

June 24, 2014 @ 1:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Every day, entrepreneurs have turned to crowdfunding to fund their new business or product and are given two types of options for the campaign, all-or-nothing and flexible funding, also known as keep-it-all. Both possess great perks, but the key question for each campaign would be… Read More

June 20, 2014 @ 8:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canada based organic manufacturing company Eggshell Resources, has chosen Optimize Capital Markets to list its equity crowdfunding offering for a total of $3 million in growth capital and product development. Eggshell Resources,  has developed a technology that extracts the protein and calcium from eggshells to… Read More

June 18, 2014 @ 12:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdtilt, a crowdfunding platform that helps users fund experiences, purchases, and causes with help from their friends, family, and extended network, announced today that the San Francisco company is now available to the people of Canada. In just a few weeks, the local Crowdtilt team… Read More

June 13, 2014 @ 6:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mitomics Seeks $5 Million in Equity Crowdfunding on Optimize Capital Markets. Mitomics has positioned their company to be a leaders in the niche market of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) technology. They claim their unique structural and functional characteristic of mtDNA make it a highly sought after system… Read More

June 4, 2014 @ 5:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Shakespeare by the Sea (SBTS), the Halifax-based theatre group, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $20k the day after their Point Pleasant Park establishment was damaged by a fire. The unfortunate incident left the exterior and attic completely destroyed and the company is looking… Read More

June 1, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada), created to raise awareness of equity crowdfunding, will host the Ottawa leg of its 2014 Canadian Equity Crowdfunding Conference Tour on June 3, 2014. Parallel events have already taken place in Calgary (May 27), Vancouver (May 29),… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 10:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Vancouver-based Dana.io, the crowdfunding platform that charges entirely by donations, officially launched on Tuesday morning (May 27th).  Described by founder Alan Clements, a former Buddhist monk in Burma, author and lifelong activist, as a “radical experiment in global transformation,” Dana.io is the world’s first platform… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 8:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Turning to others for help, a Canadian family launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise funds for medical bills and to grant wishes from their little girl’s bucklist. Just four weeks ago, the family realized three-year-old Hadlie wasn’t as healthy as everyone thought she… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 12:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to change the way computer and tablet users save files, Canada-based Kwelea, Inc. launched their $120,000 crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its product MBLOK.  The “memory card” is known as a “pocket-sized SSD with integrated Bluetooth technology that allows you to store and access data… Read More

May 18, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

The below presentation was delivered by Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada) Co-Chair Brian Koscak a the inaugural conference in Toronto on April 24, 2014.  The deck was delivered in association with a panel that included:  Carlos Pinto Lobo  from MaRS SVX, Sandi Gilbert… Read More

May 11, 2014 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

At the inaugural conference of the Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada) held last month a panel was organized to tackle the proposed crowdfunding exemptions by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC).  Presently the proposed rules are in a commenting period where interested parties are allowed… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 7:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada has confirmed their conference dates as they take their message of investment crowdfunding on a cross country tour.  The inaugural event held in Toronto last month experienced a standing room only crowd as interested investors, industry participants and potential… Read More

May 3, 2014 @ 2:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Below is a comprehensive presentation delivered by Brian Koscak, a partner at the law firm of Cassels Brock & Blackwell.  Brian is also the co-chair of the Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada) – a representative group for the emerging industry of equity crowdfunding…. Read More

April 23, 2014 @ 6:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Equity Crowdfunding Alliance of Canada (ECFA Canada), which was created to raise awareness of equity crowdfunding, is hosting the 2014 Canadian Equity Crowdfunding Tour. The tour’s events will take place in Toronto (April 24), Calgary (May 27), Vancouver (May 29), and Montreal (June 4)…. Read More