General News

September 10, 2014 @ 5:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mayday PAC, the crowdfunded Super PAC created by Lawrence Lessig, lost a battle for the New Hampshire primary yesterday following significant spending that Mayday staff described as tight race just a few days prior.  The former Senator from Massachusetts Scott Brown, who became a New… Read More

September 10, 2014 @ 3:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Popular Internet search engine, Google, announced on Wednesday (September 10th) it has fully funding the classroom requests of every Greater Kansas City area teacher on the education crowdfunding site DonorsChoose.org. As a result of Google’s $194,370.90 donation, 152 Kansas City area teachers will receive materials for their 13,842 students — ranging from paper,… Read More

September 10, 2014 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

The One Spark crowdfunding festival takes its first trip abroad this week by taking their successful model and crowdfunding focused event to Germany.  One Spark Start – Berlin kicks off Friday evening and is open to the public all day Saturday.  According to organizers, 50… Read More

September 10, 2014 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

For the second time in a week, search giant Google has swept into crowdfunding site DonorsChoose and fully funded requests for every teacher – this time in Austin.  Last week, Google did the same for teachers in Washington, DC funding over $230,000.  Google has done… Read More

September 10, 2014 @ 12:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Volpit, a startup investment crowdfunding platform that makes investing in startups simple, is launching a new tool that completely transforms the way startups pitch to investors, by turbo-charging the process. The fully-FCA authorized platform has debuting its  PitchBuilder this week, which enables startups to invite… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 10:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a public release the Crowdfunding Professional Assocation (CfPA) announced a new initiative providing two new certification programs.  The programs are to be provided at no additional charge to CfPA members and for a fee for non-CfPA members. The two different certifications are described as:… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Attorney and crowdfunding trailblazer Doug Ellenoff, from law firm Ellenoff Grossman & Schole, will be receiving the 2014 Crowdfunding Visionary Award to be presented at the 3rd Annual Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp taking place in Las Vegas this October. A note from organizers stated… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 8:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Former head of Google’s consumer-product marketing, Brett Crosby has teamed up with once lawyer of VirtualTourist, which was acquired by TripAdvisor Inc., Brew Johnson to launch a new Los Angeles-based real estate crowdfunding platform called Peer Street Inc. According to Bloomberg News, Crosby and Johnson are… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 3:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Estimates Indicate this Number Could Rise to $250 Million By End of Year. A recent report indicates that interest and associated investments in the nascent crowdfunding industry is taking off.  Apparently over $140 million has been funneled into crowdfunding infrastructure just this year alone.  This… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

The investment opportunity generated by new, innovative peer to peer lending platforms is becoming more and more apparent to mainstream finance.  Today Blue Elephant Capital Management has announced that Brian Weinstein, a former head of fixed income at BlackRock, has joined their firm as a… Read More

September 9, 2014 @ 8:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Trackr Bravo raised over $1.2 million crowdfunding on Indiegogo this past August.  The “thinnest item tracking device” joined a growing list of successful item finders that was rocketed into the public eye with the hugely successful Tile pretail crowdfunding campaign.  As an owner of several… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week Re/Code posted that Android gaming platform Ouya was on the sales block. It sounded like it was almost a matter of time before an acquiring company swept in and scooped up a twitching carcass of a gaming platform.  To quote Re/Code; “Ouya, the… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 2:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yogventures backers, rejoice! Your patience is finally being paid off. According to GameStop, the makers of the failed video game have finally reached an agreement that will make everyone that supported the game super happy. According to the video game shop, along with the free codes they… Read More

September 7, 2014 @ 9:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a conversation about peer to peer lending in the United Kingdom with Cormac Leech, the financial analyst was quoted saying that,  “It [P2P lending] would redeploy resources equivalent to £32 billion into the wider economy. People would have more disposable cash. Everyone would have… Read More

September 7, 2014 @ 5:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

University of Connecticut graduate Manolis Sfinarolakis, recently shared details about his RealityCrowd TV, which is all about crowdfunding. The show aims to share exactly what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur and what is needed to run a successful funding campaign, specifically highlighting crowdfunding as… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nesta, an “innovation charity” that also produces some pretty interesting research reports, recently published a document addressing the UK collaborative economy.  Of course the document encompasses a good part of crowdfunding because crowdfunding is all about collaboration.  Nesta publishes some pretty solid data and perspective…. Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 11:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Honoring its mission to discover and cultivate emerging photography talent, non-profit organization, Lucie Foundation, has launched a brand new crowdfunding platform that is exclusively for photo-based projects, Fotofund. Media Bistro reports that Fotofund was created “to provide financial backing to photographic projects through online contributions… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 9:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA), a not-for- profit, 501(c)(6) trade association for stakeholders in the crowdfunding industry, has announced the availability of a recommended “Termsheet template” for use by participants in JOBS Act Title III (Section 4(a)(6)) Crowdfunding equity offerings. According to a release, this… Read More

September 6, 2014 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Mayday PAC has paid for and released a television and radio ad with former New Hampshire Senator Gordon Humphrey, a 2 term US Senate Republican, endorsing the Maday selected candidate Jim Rubens.  The final weeks of the New Hampshire Senate campaign show a rapid improvement… Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 4:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a couple months after its controversial crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo broke records, the production team for the film Gosnell has announced they have hired bestselling novelist Andrew Klavan to write the script about the infamous abortion doctor, Kermit Gosnell. According to the Hollywood Reporter,… Read More