Offerings

October 5, 2015 @ 10:56 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Kickstarter phenoms and Pentagram Associate partners Jesse Reed and Hamish Smith have experienced quite a crowdfunding year.  A little less than a year after raking in $802,812 on Kickstarter and setting a Kickstarter design record for their New York City Transit Authority Standards Manual project, graphic designers Reed and Smyth… Read More

October 5, 2015 @ 10:00 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  RealMassive, commercial real estate’s open data marketplace, today announced its participation in this year’s Urban Land Institute Fall Conference, October 5-8, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. During this year’s event, RealMassive will unveil Project Atlas, the next generation mapping platform for CRE… Read More

October 4, 2015 @ 9:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Synapse Development Group, along with  Kuwait  Real Estate Company is raising capital for the Yotel Hotel in San Francisco, and they are raising funds using RealCrowd. Real estate crowdfunding has probably been the hottest sector in the investment crowdfunding sector.  Tieing stable returns to a… Read More

October 3, 2015 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

UCC Shooting Survivor Chris Mintz, who reportedly rushed the shooter trying to protect others getting shot seven times in the process, now has a GoFundMe campaign created for his benefit.  The active campaign has apparently been established by Mintz’s cousin, Derek Bourgeois, and has raised… Read More

October 2, 2015 @ 12:43 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Cheers to BrewDog, one of the UK’s first craft beer brewers, for raising £10M and setting a UK record for the largest equity crowdfunded project. Listed on Crowdcube as a “first” combined debt and equity capital raise, BrewDog and Equity for Punks marketed the offer as the “World’s Biggest [funding] Round…. Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 10:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sugru launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube earlier this year and it took about 4 days to raise about £1 million.  The crowdfunding round closed at over £3.3 million having benefited from a a single investor that kicked in a modest £1 million. The new… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyMogul, the online marketplace for real estate investing, announced it is currently raising capital for Mobile Home Park (MHP) Fund which will seek to acquire, add value and reposition MHPs that are generating income but which it deems to be under-valued, under-managed, under-performing or improperly capitalized…. Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 2:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Inkshares, a crowdfunded book publisher, and Nerdist, the wildly popular digital network founded by comedian and television personality Chris Hardwick, announced today the winners of the Inkshares Nerdist Collection Contest. In a surprise decision, Nerdist shared that two, not one, of the five finalists will… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Ready to repay someone who has helped her in the past, Taylor Swift hit GoFundMe once again to donate $50,000 towards one of her dancers, Toshi Davidson, who’s nephew is sick. The campaign’s description reads: “Baby Ayden is 13 months old. He was just… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 12:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing their fight for “religious rights,” owners of the infamous Oregon bakery, Sweet Cakes By Melissa, announced that they will not pay the lesbians, they refused service to because of their beliefs, $135,000 for state-ordered  damages. This past summer, the bakery was ordered to pay a… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ben Piette, a finalist of the hit television show, MasterChef, has launched a funding initiative on Funding Tree to raise £40,000 for his soon-to-be relocated eatery, London House. Piette and his business partner Lornette Valentine created London House from the ground up and currently has eight… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 8:27 am By JD Alois  |  

eMoov, crowdfunding on Crowdcube, has jumped to over £2.282 million as two venture capital groups increased their investment in the online estate agent firm.  Both Episode 1 Ventures and Maxfield Capital Partners have added to their original commitments.  Swiss VC firm Startive Ventures has also… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 4:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Pozible announced that 10,000 projects have been launched through its crowdfunding platform and over $40 million has been pledged. The company stated: “Pozible has ticked past some pretty mega milestones recently, with our 10,000th project launching within a week of our $40 millionth… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 1:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to help the next generation of entrepreneurs, Kickstarter announced it has formed a partnership with the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh. The crowdfunding platform declared in a recent blog post: “People are getting more and more into making things. From the White House to the… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 12:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Credible, a multi-lender student loan marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan offers from its vetted lending partners, announced on Wednesday that it has closed its recent $10 million Series A funding round. This round was led by Soul Htite, founder and CEO of Dianrong.com/ co-founder… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 12:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OpenPath Investments has launched a $6 million equity offering for the purchase of Lake Tonopah Apartments, a 356-unit senior housing complex in Las Vegas, Nevada. The offering is one of the first Las Vegas multifamily projects opened to direct private investment through real estate crowdfunding…. Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 3:18 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Seeking to be “the first social network ever funded entirely by the people who use and love it,” BetterPet’s flagship product DogLand just launched their StartEngine equity crowdfunding campaign for a social network for dogs and those who love them. DogLand seeks to build the best dog community on… Read More

September 30, 2015 @ 1:10 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Those near Milwaukee, Wisc., tonight will have something new to drink to: Philly’s Premium Beverages LLC, a Grafton firm that sells readymade mixed drinks in bottles and cans is the first Milwaukee-area company to seek money from investors under Wisconsin’s year-old equity “crowdfunding” law, according to Milwaukee’s Journal… Read More

September 29, 2015 @ 11:28 pm By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Normally, the larger the bug (or worse, spider) that frisks across my path, the stronger my tendency to cringe. But a little–actually, a lot–closer, and aspects of that skittering speck become almost beautiful: a lace wing, a multifaceted eye. ioLight, maker of a high-resolution portable microscope… Read More

September 29, 2015 @ 4:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, equity crowdfunding platform, truCrowd, announced that three companies are now ready to accept Texas non-accredited and accredited investors. Taking advantage of the relatively new Texas crowdfunding exemption, the state’s non-accredited investors can now invest up to $5,000 in any equity offerings and become… Read More