General News

October 6, 2014 @ 9:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Publication of the second State of the Crowdfunding Nation report reveals the massive progress that has been made since the first report quarterly report, according to the Crowdfunding Centre.  Not only does crowdfunding continue to grow at prodigious rates but it’s viral spread across the… Read More

October 6, 2014 @ 1:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

International educational partner Free the Children, and Vancouver-based social enterprise, Change Heroes, have teamed up in an effort to create change in a revolutionary way, with an unprecedented online funding platform. Deep in the Amazon jungle of Ecuador, there is a small, remote, indigenous community called Mondaña, which… Read More

October 6, 2014 @ 12:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two weeks ago, Comedy Central’s South Park debuted its hilarious Kickstarter spoof episode titled, “Go Fund Yourself.” The show took aim at the crowdfunding giant, along with the funding method, the NFL, and of course controversial football team, the Washington Red Skins. Now, Kickstarter’s CEO, Yancey… Read More

October 6, 2014 @ 10:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

While video games continued to be a huge hit on the crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, it seems not everyone believes that the category is actually as successful as it seems. Despite the platform helping game developers raise $57,934,417.74 in 2013, UK-based firm ICO Partners revealed that the gaming campaigns have struggled… Read More

October 6, 2014 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has told the Aussie parliament that rewards based crowdfunding campaigns, like those listed on Pozible, Kickstarter and Indiegogo, may be required to pony up taxes on rewards purchased by campaign backers.  This is a question that has surfaced not only… Read More

October 5, 2014 @ 11:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Peer to Peer Lender Funding Circle Leads Claims Largest Deal for 2014. According to a report from London & Partners, tech in London is booming and setting record levels of investment.  So far for 2014 technology firms have captured over $1 billion in aggregate investment…. Read More

October 5, 2014 @ 5:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

One Spark, “the Worlds Crowdfunding Festival”, has quickly become a defining event for Jacksonville, Florida (where it all started) and the crowdfunding world. The city wide event has grown each year – something organizers expect to occur again in 2015.  As part of the festival… Read More

October 5, 2014 @ 4:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Here at Crowdfund Insider we are unabashed fans of peer to peer lending.  It should be easy to understand why too.  As an investor you can generate risk adjusted returns far higher than you can easily generate elsewhere.  With interest rates at an historic low… Read More

October 5, 2014 @ 3:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

As retail investment crowdfunding has stalled in regulatory limbo at the federal level, many states have moved foreword with homegrown initiatives to bring investment crowdfunding to companies operating within their state borders.  The old media maven Chicago Tribune has shown they are interested in bringing the… Read More

October 4, 2014 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Title II of the JOBS Act of 2012 is a game changer.  For over 80 years it was illegal to advertise private placement securities offers.  Think about it; a company was not allowed to promote the fact it wanted to raise capital from investors.  How… Read More

October 4, 2014 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

KC iFund announced on Saturday (October 4th) the launch of its innovative real estate investing funding tool in a beta test phase. The founders have a vision of creating a new real estate investment market place, where individuals with eager capital can access investment opportunities previously… Read More

October 4, 2014 @ 9:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

It’s the crowdfunding campaign that just won’t end and now Star Citizen is hitting the record books! Not only did the campaign reach $54 million last month, the project has set the Guinness World Record for “Insane Crowdfunding Haul.” Star Citizen has been dubbed the largest crowdfunded game of all time… Read More

October 3, 2014 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing their keen interest in Kickstarter’s campaigns with the rest of the world, a group of the crowdfunding platform’s fans have created a new club for the most active and influential backers. According to Beta Beat, Backer Club is a private community dedicated to those… Read More

October 3, 2014 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

The infographic below was created by Financement Participatif France, a relatively new association in France that advocates for crowdfunding.  The creative team at FPF has put together some pretty interesting information on crowdfunding in their country showing some pretty impressive growth.  It certainly helps that… Read More

October 2, 2014 @ 2:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Navdy, a Heads Up Display or HUD for your car has announced a $6.5 million seed round investment led by Upfront Ventures.   It was reported the funding round was “highly oversubscribed” closing at about 3 times the original goal of $2.4 million. Navdy ran… Read More

October 2, 2014 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding is booming.  The synergies between matching investors with investment opportunities online are incredibly compelling.  Real estate is a multi-trillion dollar industry on a global basis and the efficiencies delivered by crowdfunding will grow the pie – not just slice it up further…. Read More

October 1, 2014 @ 4:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Great news for crowdfunding giant, Kickstarter! Not only was the thief who was responsible for the robbery at its headquarters last Wednesday was arrested, he is also facing other burglary charges as well.  According to DNAinfo New York, the thief, who was identified as 16-year-old Raymond Mersier,was busted… Read More

October 1, 2014 @ 3:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Despite the success of his Wish I Was Here crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, actor Zach Braff revealed he will never use the funding method ever again. Screen Daily reported that during a recent interview at the Zurich Film Festival, the former Scrubs start admitted he was… Read More

October 1, 2014 @ 2:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring his new project to life, Kickstarter’s co-founder and former CEO Perry Chen debuted a philanthropy service called Dollar a Day on Wednesday (October 1st). According to Re/Code, the platform is a email newsletter that features one nonprofit organization on a daily basis. Subscribers can sign… Read More

October 1, 2014 @ 2:44 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Youbetme, a new social app that aims to make it fun and easy “to make bets with friends about anything, anytime and anywhere,” has secured $1.2M on Fundable.  The company hopes its app becomes the modern day handshake, “the fun, social way to make everyday… Read More