General News

December 5, 2013 @ 8:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

JOBS Act Expected to Transform Medical, Healthcare Crowdfunding. OneMedForum has announced  two panels featuring early entrants in the emerging areas of crowdfunding and online investment banking in healthcare.  Panelists will offer insights on their experiences thus far, along with their outlook on this new approach… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Technical Machine is a startup that up to now has been based at Olin College. They’re also the outfit behind the Tessel, a device we’ve reported on in the past. The Tessel is a small microcontroller that interfaces with real-life objects and can be programmed… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:50 am By JD Alois  |  

The Small Business Administration, Office of  Advocacy, has scheduled a roundtable discussion of crowdfunding for Wednesday, January 15, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon.  A call in option is expected to be available as well. The Small Business Roundtable on Crowdfunding will be held at the U.S. Small… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables has raised $15.2 million in a round led by Horizons Ventures. According to an article in TechCrunch, all previous investors in Misfit Wearables also participated in the round. It’s a big vote of confidence for this emergent wearable tech company from Silicon Valley…. Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 4:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Film crowdfunding super-start Veronica Mars, created by Rob Thomas has announced the Kickstarter hit will be released on March 14, 2014.  One of the largest crowdfunding campaigns ever, the film closed on Kickstarter  this past April having raised over $5.7 Million creating a title wave… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 10:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Adam Chapnick is a high-energy evangelist at Indiegogo, and he was recently featured on an episode of the Innovation Crush podcast. The hour-long interview gives some really interesting insight into topics like the early days of Indiegogo and how the platform formed. Chapnick also shares… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

The Women’s Foundation of California has announced they have created a new video that shows the challenges facing low-income women in California, while proposing solutions to improve their lives.  Simultaneously the Foundation is raising funds through the Razoo crowdfunding platform. To incentivize giving, an inspired giving circle member… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 10:15 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This week, PBS MediaShift is running a series of articles on various aspects of the topic of crowdfunding. The first article, a birds-eye view of proposed rules for equity crowdfunding, was published today by Paul Spinrad. RELATED | How the SEC Listened to the Crowd for… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Haytham Nasr is a co-founder of mygroup.me, an entertainment group based in Beirut, Lebanon. In an equity crowdfunding raise, he and his team crowdfunded a “million-dollar bar” in Lebanon called mybar. The bar was a huge success initially, and within a year of opening investors… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 8:52 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the United Kingdom’s regulatory entity which has oversight over the booming crowdfunding industry, released a consultation paper (CP) this past October reviewing the new, innovative industry.  The CP is one of a series of consultation papers that will determine their… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 1:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

PayPal Adds $5.25 to Every Donation over $25. PayPal wants to “Stamp Out Checks for Good” while aiding in the drive to raise $500,000 from #GivingTuesday through December 31, 2013.  The payment platform provides resources for non-profits on a year round basis but this year… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 11:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Boyce to Become ZenPrint CEO, Remains, Chairman of Fundly. ZenPrint, a cloud printing platform, has announced that Dave Boyce has been selected as their  Chief Executive Officer.  Prior to ZenPrint, Boyce was the Founder and CEO of Fundly based in Mountain View, California. Boyce will… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Misfit Wearables launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in November of last year for the Misfit Shine, a wearable activity tracker that aimed to compete with other stalwarts in the space like offerings from Nike and Fitbit. The campaign raised over $800,000, which makes it… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Polygon | How devs manage the energy of their crowdfunding communities Managing crowds during crowdfunding campaigns can be tricky business. Polygon explores that reality in this piece by interviewing a dozen game developers who successfully raised money on Kickstarter, focusing specifically on their experiences in… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The second annual Global Crowdfunding Convention and Bootcamp for 2013 has come and gone. Ruth Hedges was the primary organizer of the event, and she was interviewed by Doug Atkin of “From the Cloud to the Crowd” about her background and how her experience as… Read More

December 2, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A new method of capital raising that is gaining increasing interest is crowdfunding. Generally, the term “crowdfunding” is used to describe a form of capital raising whereby groups of people pool money, typically comprised of very small individual contributions, to support an effort by others… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 2:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Craig Asano, Executive Director of the National Crowdfunding Association of Canada (NCFA – Canada) has responded to the growing amount of queries regarding the status of equity crowdfunding in Canada by putting together a list of FAQs – and then asking the crowd to augment…. Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 2:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

John Trigonis, Indiegogo’s Campaign Specialist for Film and Video, was caught on video giving a brief pitch for his book on “Crowdfunding for Filmmakers: The Way to a Successful Film Campaign”.  The publication shares his tactics for how to launch a successful film campaign which… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UK alternative energy crowdfunding platform Abundance shared the preceding trailer on their blog this week. The trailer is for an upcoming documentary called Transforming Finance. The film is sponsored by The Finance Innovation Lab and aims to “inspire a financial system that sustains people and planet.”… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 1:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdsourcing Week Looks to Empower Transformation Through Crowds. Crowdsourcing Week announces its second annual global crowdsourcing conference, taking place in Singapore from April 7-11, 2014. The week-long platform of events will convene an expanding and highly networked community from around the world who are shaping the future… Read More