Offerings

January 9, 2016 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nima by 6SensorLabs was fortunate enough to close CES on a rather positive note. The company was a finalist in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield 2016 and they triumphed over 3 impressive competitors. The victory was made just that much sweeter with a check of $50,000…. Read More

January 9, 2016 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the announcement that Kickstarter backers were officially getting the Oculus Rift headset, founder of the highly anticipated system, Palmer Luckey admitted that he knew that electronic giant Sony was preparing to enter the virtual reality world. During his recent interview with International Business Times, Luckey… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 3:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, CEO of Indiegogo, Slava Rubin, sat down to with Forbes to discuss the global crowdfunding platform’s growth while revealing his predictions for the funding method. While revealing the differences between Indiegogo and other crowdfunding platforms, Slava explained: “There’s three things that separates us… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

The long anticipated Bragi Dash and its creator Nikolaj Hviid are at CES once again. But this year they showed up with the production version of the Dash.  For backers of this product that supported Bragi on Kickstarter in early 2014, you are well versed… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 2:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to expand its already successful business, Crowdcube success Camden Town Brewery announced this week that it has appointed Ian Jones as Director of Brewing and hiring two new sales reps. The brewing company shared: “Overseeing all this will be our new Director of Brewing, Ian Jones,… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 1:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, UK’s equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube, announced the winners of the 2015 Crowdcube Awards. The Crowdcube team declared: “It’s that time of year again when we celebrate the many businesses that have funded on the site by holding our own awards.   “The categories range from… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 1:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdcube has completed a record-breaking 2015, which saw the first two successful crowdfunding exits, a total of £83 million invested in over 166 pitches via the equity  platform and a £6 million investment in the company itself.  Crowdcube was also crowned the UK’s top crowdfunding company… Read More

January 8, 2016 @ 9:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, new independent music and arts festival, Samphire, launched a campaign on Crowdfunder UK. Within a matter of days, the project surpassed its initial goal and has been dubbed the fastest ever successfully funded festival on the crowdfunding platform. The event organizers, Flora Blathwayt… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 4:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Revealing somewhat bad news to its Kickstarter backers, Nextbit announced to both early adopters and GSM models will be shipped next month. The Nextbit team stated in an update: “We’ve got some news Rebels. Unfortunately, it’s bad news but not as bad as you might think…. Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 3:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Jelly Belly inventor and original “Candy Man” David Klein took to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter to raise a mere $10,000 so he can make his “comeback” with a new type of candy. Klein stated: “Many years ago I developed, created, manufactured, sold and distributed… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 3:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Crowdfunder UK offered up two types of advice for the How to Crowdfund series. Recently, the reward-based crowdfunding platform revealed how important communication really is for campaigns. The Crowdfunder UK team declared in a blog post: “When you have done a good job on something,… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 1:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Crowdcube alum Camden Town Brewery announced it has been acquired by mega brewer AB InBev. This made the small business the equity crowdfunding platform’s second exit. Now, Crowdcube is ready to share details about the future of the food and beverage industry: “As you may have… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 1:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

VPC Specialty Lending Investments PLC (LSE:VSL) states it continues to execute on its investment objectives and delivered NAV returns of 0.69% on the ordinary shares and 1.49% on the C shares for the month of November. Additionally, on 12 November 2015, the Company declared an… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 12:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Indiegogo success Bluesmart, announced that it will be debuting its the larger version of its luggage at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The company shared that the Bluesmart Check-in uses smart technology that provides people with the ultimate in hassle-free traveling, including real-time… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 11:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week until its crowdfunding campaign on Fig ends, Double Fine’s Psychonauts 2 has successfully secured its initial $3.3 million target. According to the video game developer, The original game follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin in his quest to join… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Virtuix rocketed out of the gate on SeedInvest during its Test the Waters (TTW) campaign in preparation for a Regulation A+, mini-IPO type offer.  Virtuix, creator of the Omni motion – a device that puts the movement into the hot sector of virtual reality (for… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 10:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyShares announced on Thursday that an offering involving an office building in Phoenix has been successfully exited. This is considered one of the largest crowdfunded real estate investments in the city’s metropolitan area and has reportedly performed better than expected. Investors in the transaction are being… Read More

January 7, 2016 @ 8:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, serviced apartments provider, thesqua.re, announced it has closed an investment round of $2 million from Crowd2Fund and OakNorth Bank. thesqua.re, which was previously known as House of Modern Living or MoLi, was founded in 2009 and has grown profitably at 80% CAGR to cross $10… Read More

January 6, 2016 @ 5:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Indiegogo is targeting a new audience and it is not early stage firms. Indiegogo is going big by leveraging its experience and tool-kit with product launches and marketing of large corporations.  Indiegogo has already seen several successful corporate crowdfunding campaigns but as of today, they… Read More

January 6, 2016 @ 3:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celebrating Oculus’ recent announcement about backers finally receiving their Rift headsets, Kickstarter revealed on Wednesday the most innovative crowdfunding campaigns that hit its popular platform over the years. The crowdfunding giant shared in a recent blog post: “If you check out the projects on Kickstarter… Read More