General News

April 13, 2015 @ 9:47 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Scottish film industry members will come together today for the launch of Beamshare, a product which aims  to revolutionise video production workflows. Crowdfunding to raise £100,000 investment in return for 9% equity in Onecodec Ltd on on Crowdcube, the Aberdeen-based video streaming experts, Beamshare, will showcase their video… Read More

April 13, 2015 @ 9:15 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Manos Accelerator, a startup accelerator  in Silicon Valley targeting global Latino entrepreneurs, and Entrepreneurs for Google has announced the selected startups that have joined the Manos Accelerator program for the 2015 spring batch.  Manos Accelerator, an organization that is supported by Google for Entrepreneurs, is a… Read More

April 13, 2015 @ 8:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gridmates announced a new donation-based, energy crowdfunding site that will allow donors to browse through a directory of distressed electricity customer profiles and then donate energy assistance. The site seeks to help low-income customers such as single moms with young children, elderly couples, disabled veterans, storm/hurricane survivors and… Read More

April 11, 2015 @ 12:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, GoFundMe pulled the plug on a campaign that was dedicated to South Carolina police officer, Michael Slager, after he was charged for the murder of an unarmed man, Walter L. Scott. The charges were filed after a video of the event revealed Slager shooting… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 5:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Alphaworks, the crowdfunding offshoot of innovation factory betaworks, recently published a series of postings on Regulation A+: How it came to be and what they anticipate it to become going forward. Broken up into three different segments, the first part reviewed the origin and history surrounding… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fresh off the debut of his Danny Fields documentary, Danny Says, director Brendan Toller sat down with Kickstarter to share details about the crowdfunded project. During the interview, Toller revealed how he became interested in documentaries: “I got into documentary filmmaking because I see it as writing… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 9:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PeerIQ, a financial information services company that connects peer-to-peer lending to the capital markets by helping institutional investors analyze, access and manage risk, today announced that it has raised $6 million of seed funding. Uprising and John Mack, former chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley, led the… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending Works, the first peer-to-peer lender to have insurance against borrower default risk, announces that its new features for the UK pensions market are now live.  The multiple launches come as Lending Works is well on target to hit their forecasted £25m milestone of loans this… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

VPC Specialty Lending Investments has invested $11.7 million by way of a balance sheet loan in Avant a Chicago based company that offers consumer credit. VPC will now have committed more than 37% of the net IPO proceeds. Victory Park Capital Advisors, VPC’s investment manager,… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 12:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Jamie Dimon is probably the most respected banking CEO on Wall Street today. And he should be.  He was the guy that really didn’t need the bail-out money but took one for the team when asked to do it by the Secretary of the Treasury…. Read More

April 9, 2015 @ 10:54 am By JD Alois  |  

This one falls under the category of recently discovered. Ethan Mollick, a well known researcher in the crowdfunding space and Professor at Wharton, was videotaped this past  February talking about why established firms should keep an eye on crowdfunding.  Mollick is one of a select… Read More

April 9, 2015 @ 9:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

An initial £750,000 of funding from Virgin StartUp will be available for up to 100 businesses that successfully run a campaign on the UK’s No 1 rewards-based crowdfunding platform. As part of the pioneering partnership, those who raise funding through Crowdfunder UK, could be automatically eligible for a Virgin… Read More

April 9, 2015 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Hamburg, Germany based Kreditech has added to its executive team with the hire of Oliver Prill as Chief Operating Officer. Oliver is said to have over 15 years experience in the wholesale and retail financial service industry. Before joining Kreditech he served as an advisor to… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 4:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, popular reward-based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter unveiled its Transparency Report 2014 that shared details about the year’s trademark claims, DMCA requirements, and government and law enforcement requests. The platform shared: “Kickstarter’s mission is to help bring creative projects to life. As part of that mission, we work… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 2:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to share some details about his company and its popular invention, SkyCloud Vaporizer, CEO of Kandypen Graham Gibson sat down with Tech.Co to discuss the project’s success and an investment it received from Just Develop It. During the interview, Gibson revealed the key goals of the… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 11:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cogobuy Group, an e-commerce company dedicated to serving China’s electronics manufacturing industry, announced it has implemented a strategic cooperation with JD.com, Inc. to jointly build out an intelligent hardware ecosystem. Last month, JD.com announced its crowdfunding platform’s official launch while pulling together domestic enterprises to jointly build an Internet ecosystem…. Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 8:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

PointNurse, a new telehealth and telemedicine startup company, has announced a partnership with Palo Alto based Swarm Fund to help create the first Global Telemedicine and Telehealth Distributive Collaborative Organization. PointNurse joined four other companies selected by the Swarm Fund community in their incubator and… Read More

April 8, 2015 @ 2:15 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

To officially launch the Draper Ecosystem’s “Fintech Connection,” the company’s new mentoring program targeting early stage fintech start-ups, the Fintech Connection Forum will take place on the afternoon of Monday, April 20, at Hero City in San Mateo, Calif. The invite-only event will offer fintech start-ups and investors to… Read More

April 7, 2015 @ 3:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Indiegogo’s Campaign Specialist and writer of Crowdfunding for Filmmakers: The Way to a Successful Film Campaign, John T. Trigonis, offered up his funding advice during a TEDx event in Jersey City. The discussion’s description reads: “Ever since the Statue of Liberty, crowdfunding has been bringing people together in… Read More

April 7, 2015 @ 9:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to roll out new ways to make its global crowdfunding platform easier to use, Kickstarter has introduced new subtitles and captions features for both backers and campaign organizers. The crowdfunding giant’s Nitsuh Abebe, wrote: “Creativity is for everyone. That belief’s central to what we do here at Kickstarter… Read More