Offerings

April 17, 2017 @ 12:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts announced on Friday it completed the second and final phase of allocation of Oakland Fire Fund and achieved a total of $1,295,007 from 12,105 donors. The initiative was launched on crowdfunding platform YouCaring after the devastating fire at the Ghost… Read More

April 17, 2017 @ 11:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just two weeks after launching its Pico C Kickstarter campaign, PicoBrew unveiled its latest product, the distilling attachment PicoStill, which is compatible with the company’s Pico countertop brewing appliances and Zymatic professional grade appliance. According to the Seattle-based startup, PicoStill is described as a device topped with… Read More

April 17, 2017 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Nearly two years ago, GOKey launched a perk-based crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The concept was fairly simple: a piece of hardware that you keep on your key-ring to replace all those different cables we constantly carry to charge and connect our smartphones. The targeted funding… Read More

April 16, 2017 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

First Successful Arbitration Settlement Against a Crowdfunding Scofflaw Prominent crowdfunding marketing firm Funded Today is perhaps the most successful agency in their space today. Having helped to direct more than 300 perk-based crowdfunding campaigns to financial success, Funded Today has now been instrumental in raising… Read More

April 15, 2017 @ 12:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With nearly two weeks until the Gloomhaven second printing Kickstarter campaign is set to close, Isaac Childres’ latest board game project has surpassed $2 million thanks to more than 22,000 backers. Gloomhaven is described as a cooperative card-drive game of combat of 1-4 players. The game’s… Read More

April 15, 2017 @ 11:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online florist marketplace, Floom, successfully completed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. The platform successfully secured its initial £390,000 funding target last week and finished the round with £520,000 from 343 investors. Floom, which was founded by Lana Elie, is designed to solve the problem… Read More

April 14, 2017 @ 3:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a year and a half after raising over $5.7 million through crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return finally made its debut on Netflix.  Back in November 2015, Joel Hodgson, the creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000, launched a crowdfunding campaign… Read More

April 14, 2017 @ 3:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Online lending platform, iBAN, has successfully secured its initial £100,000 funding target through Seedrs. The lender, which was founded last year, launched the initiative in early January, seeking to raise funds for its new crowdlending app, iBAN Wallet. As previously reported, the London-based company stated its… Read More

April 14, 2017 @ 11:00 am By Cole Lyons  |  

The Wales-based car company Riversimple closed its crowdfunding campaign on April 9th, totaling £1.14 million and exceeding their £1 million goal (with a stretch goal fo £3 million). This crowdfunding project was conducted in the attempt to match a £1.7 million grant from the European Union to hand… Read More

April 14, 2017 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a couple days after launching a Kickstarter for its Jim Henson exhibit project, New York’s Museum of Moving Image has successfully secured its initial $40,000 funding target and is nearing $70,000 thanks to over 930 backers. The campaign was launched earlier this week and… Read More

April 14, 2017 @ 10:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nutrition app developer Nutrifix is set to complete its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with more than £200,000 in funds from over 380 investors. The initiative was launched last month and was seeking £150,000. Nutrifix, which was founded by qualified personal training and former semi-professional rugby player, Joel… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 4:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, all-girl music group TLC premiered the first single from their Kickstarter-funded album. The new song, which is called “Way Back,” features Snoop Dogg. Bandmate, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, shared on her Twitter. Yes The Time Has Come #WAYBACK Single f/ #SnoopDogg Tomm #iheart #BigBoi Show 10am/pst… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 3:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Skipping Rocks Lab, the company behind the product, Ooho!, successfully completed its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube less than a week after its debut. The company reported it raised £850,000 in funds (although the campaign reports that the company only raised£799,990). As previously reported, Skipping Rocks Lab described… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 3:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival set to kick off next week in New York City, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced the funded film projects that are making their way to this year’s event. According to the funding portal, fourteen Kickstarter-funded films will debut at the… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

BrewDog released impressive news this week. The UK-based craft brewery received £213 million for a 22% investment from private equity firm TSG – an entity with $5 billion in assets under management. The investment delivered a £1 billion valuation on the fast growing brewery –… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 12:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two years after securing more than £1 million through its first Crowdcube campaign, cycling clothing brand Vulpine has returned to the equity crowdfunding platform seeking £750,000. As previously reported, Vulpine was founded in 2012 by cyclist, Nick Hussey. The company stated it is hoping… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 9:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

OFF3R, a UK based aggregator of alternative finance platforms, released its latest installment of the OFF3R Index that revealed more than £40 million was invested in early stage businesses in March 2017 through equity crowdfunding platforms in the UK. The company states this new record-breaking figure smashes… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Assetz Capital, a UK-based peer-to-peer finance platforms, has raised the interest rate on its 30 Day Access Account (30DAA) by 0.5% to 4.75% for a limited time.  The 30DAA allows peer-to-peer lenders to invest automatically in loans and features automatic diversification to spread risk. The… Read More

April 13, 2017 @ 7:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube has announced the completion of its first batch of secondary transactions on their crowdfunding platform. The serviced was initially tipped for release last year during Crowdcube’s self-crowdfunding round that raised £6.6 million.  Incorporating secondary transactions is an important step in the crowdfunding platform as… Read More

April 12, 2017 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Berlin-based Solar crowdfunding platform ecoligo has quickly funded its first project. Taking just 6 days, ecoligo raised €107,000 from 54 investors to help finance a 66kWp solar installation in Thika, Kenya. The platform added that all investors received an early-bird investment bonus that was valid in the first 7 days and… Read More