Offerings

May 31, 2016 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Garage Beer, a Barcelona based craft brewery, has closed their equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube Spain having raised €500,000 with the support to 228 investors. According to information provided by Crowdcube, 90% of the investments were under €1,000 with many being current Brewer Garage customers.  Investors were… Read More

May 30, 2016 @ 12:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Flow Hive, the most successful campaign ever on Indiegogo, has received the coveted Good Design Award for 2016. Quite an accomplishment for a project that hoped to raise just $70,000. Flow Hive closed on Indiegogo having raised $12,489,141 on April 20, 2015.  Backers number over 37,000 and is… Read More

May 28, 2016 @ 10:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just days after securing £500,000 through its Crowdcube campaign, UK fitness brand, énergie Fitness, announced on Saturday that it has decided to extend its highly successful initiative. énergie, which has three brands of fitness clubs in 93 locations across 5 countries, currently has over 110,000 club members and is looking… Read More

May 28, 2016 @ 10:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The HOPE Association, a nonprofit service organization based in Washington D.C., recently launched a campaign, called Run For Hope, on crowdfunding platform Crowdrise to raise funds for its new pediatric mobile health clinics, which will serve low-income families in the Washington D.C. and Los Angeles areas. According… Read More

May 27, 2016 @ 10:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

StartMart Cleveland, an Ohio startup and coworking community, has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on SeedInvest under the new Reg CF investment crowdfunding rules. The company is currently seeking a minimum of $200,000 and a max of $1 million as it prepares to expand. Launched… Read More

May 27, 2016 @ 9:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Seattle’s Inspirus Credit Union announced it has donated a total of $30,944 to Spokane-area classrooms in a surprise 100 percent “flash fund” of teachers’ school-supply requests posted on the crowdfunding platform, DonorsChoose. The credit union revealed that 2,943 students and 34 teachers will benefit from the… Read More

May 27, 2016 @ 9:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Success! With less than two weeks until its Crowdcube campaign comes to an end, Photocrowd, a global photography community, has surpassed its initial £450,000 funding goal and is currently sitting at £544,250 thanks to 431 investors. The company’s platform, which is looking to become the Etsy for photography, connects, inspires,… Read More

May 26, 2016 @ 1:50 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Bioprognos, a Barcelona-based biotech company that seeks to improve both clinical outcomes and quality of life for cancer patients ―as well as other diseases (cardiovascular, neurological or endocrine)― through the development of innovative tools for non-invasive, accurate detection from biomarkers found in a simple blood… Read More

May 26, 2016 @ 10:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Cleveland Whiskey is a boutique distillery that uses technology to create craft Bourbon whiskey.  The company seeks to minimize the amount of time it takes to age Bourbon – typically 6 years and up – to just a few days. Cleveland Whiskey matches the aging… Read More

May 25, 2016 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, tech company Pebble once again returned to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter for 3 new products Pebble 2, Time 2 and Pebble Core. Within 24 hours, the new campaign not only smashed its initial $1 million goal, it has already surpassed $6.7 million from nearly 36,000 backers. Last year, Pebble… Read More

May 25, 2016 @ 10:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over two weeks after launching its Kickstarter campaign, Rooster Teeth’s Million Dollars, But… board game has successfully secured $1 million from nearly 22,000 backers. The initiative originally sough to raise $10,000 and secured the initial goal within minutes of its debut. Million Dollars, But…… Read More

May 25, 2016 @ 10:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Indiegogo announced it has joined forces with Dutch brewing company, Heineken, for a new project known as The Cities Project. The global crowdfunding platform stated residents in New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Honolulu are invited to submit projects they care about through Heineken’s Facebook page…. Read More

May 25, 2016 @ 9:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, crowdfunding platform GoFundMe released new data highlighting the giving community in Iowa. Iowans have started over 15,000 GoFundMe campaigns, raising $13.1 million from nearly 215,000 total donations. The GoFundMe team stated that the Des Moines Metro Area is considered the largest funding community in Iowa and has… Read More

May 25, 2016 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Sweden-based investment crowdfundin platform FundedByMe messaged its intent to start operations in Southeast Asia with the opening of an office in Singapore several years back. FundedByme became the first European-based platform to receive a license to operate in the region when the Securities Commission Malaysia approved… Read More

May 24, 2016 @ 1:28 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Frost & Sullivan views Australia’s development as a leader in Fintech innovation will require concerted effort from government agencies and established financial institutions and will involve partnerships and research collaboration between banks and startups, presenting many diverse and lucrative growth and development opportunities for ICT… Read More

May 24, 2016 @ 10:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Knix Wear, an active intimates company, announced on Tuesday that the crowdfunding success, 8-in-1 Evolution Bra, is now commercially available for purchase through its website. Designed to combat some of the most common complaints women have about bras, the 8-1 Evolution Bra “evolves” with the active woman throughout… Read More

May 24, 2016 @ 10:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

JumpStartFund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced on Tuesday a base technology of the HyperloopTM System, Vibranium, which is described as a smart material that was developed specifically for the Hyperloop application.  According to the company the new smart material is made out of sensor-embedded carbon fiber and… Read More

May 23, 2016 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to expand its coffee brand, UK-based Tap Coffee recently launched a Crowdcube with a mission to raise a total of £400,000. Starting in 2010 by Richard Lilley, the company was created to fix what he believed to be a “lack of cafe culture” in the UK. The company stated it… Read More

May 21, 2016 @ 6:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom is preparing to close its self-crowdfunding round tomorrow (May 22nd).  The offer was launched earlier this month seeking  £2.3 million in growth capital. The intended use of the proceeds are for business expansion as it readies to deliver its brand of internet finance to a… Read More

May 21, 2016 @ 5:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With just a few months until Kickstarter success Yooka Laylee is set to be delivered to backes, the creators of the highly successful game, Playtonic Games, announced some new details, which included info on the villains and the demo launch of standalone gameplay experience, The Toybox.  Yooka-Laylee is an all-new… Read More