Offerings

September 18, 2015 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Nextbit, a mobile developer that was created by former Google, Apple, Amazon, and HTC employees, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its new Android smartphone, Robin. Within just three days after its launch, the funding initiative secured a total of $800,000. The company… Read More

September 18, 2015 @ 11:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Brave runners, unite! ROCKSOLID, a themed-obstacle course racing event held in Exeter and Milton Keynes, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise £350,000 to expand its lifestyle brand. Much like Tough Mudder and The Warrior Dash (both of which I have participated in), ROCKSOLID… Read More

September 18, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, San Francisco tech startup OpenROV launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $50,000 for its new underwater drone, Trident.  The project is pretty much killing it having quickly topped $450,000 with the support of 685 backers. The funding effort has 42… Read More

September 18, 2015 @ 1:09 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  To writers of fiction and nonfiction alike, TechCrunch editor John Biggs has this to say: “I’m looking for things I love.” Biggs, who has written reams on the intersection of book publishing and tech, recently launched an imprint on Inkshares called Ray Bridge Press. Ray Bridge Press is the… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 4:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Electrospinning Company, a UK SME that was established in 2010 to develop products utilizing the world-class electrospinning platform, has launched an crowdfunding campaign on SyndicateRoom to raise £450,000 for what it believes to the world’s first synthetic corneal epithelial transplant. The company noted that corneal blindness affects around… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 3:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

One of the most controversial Indiegogo campaigns of the year has gone over to the other side. The Sondors eBike (né Storm eBike) is now crowdfunding on Kickstarter offering a “new design”ebike for just $499.  Launched just today, the project has already generated $65k on… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 9:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ys Net Inc, as represented by Yu Suzuki, has announced today the start of an additional “Slacker Backer” funding campaign through a special page on the official Shenmue III website. This campaign will be both in English and in Japanese, and will accept PayPal as… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 6:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rewards-based crowdfunding has become a vibrant eco-system of diverse and creative funding campaigns. From thousands of dollars to multiple millions, platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo have become an important variable in the startup space. Some VCs have asked businesses to validate their products via crowdfunding… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 4:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Rare Genomics Institute (RG), announced that the launching of ten separate crowdfunding campaigns to help patients with rare diseases pinpoint the causes of their illnesses. All amounts raised will go towards exome sequencing, which is a method of partial genome sequencing to find… Read More

September 16, 2015 @ 12:44 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

For Alquity, a $100m high-growth UK-based asset management company, the road to becoming a $1 billion fund runs through Crowdcube. The company is raising £500k via the crowdfunding platform to support its growth objective of becoming a $1 billion fund by 2019. Funds raised will be used… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 11:54 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Readers may now be familiar with Jimmy Kimmel’s viral Mean Tweets on YouTube.  If you haven’t joined the over 47M viewers who watched these funny clips, treat yourself to a laugh. Berlin-based Fanmiles taps into the crowd’s desire to reach out (ideally in a positive way, not like Mean Tweets) to… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 11:14 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Bavarian-based noDNA, Europe’s biggest online seller of robotics components for research and education,  launched a financing campaign on Companisto, offering venture loans bearing annual interest of 8%.  noDNA is the second venture loan offered on Companisto, following Sawade which has raised over 442,880€ of its 1M€ goal…. Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Rare Genomics Institute (RG), announced that it is launching ten separate crowdfunding campaigns to help patients with rare diseases pinpoint the causes of their illnesses. All amounts raised will go towards exome sequencing, which is a method of partial genome sequencing to find… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wealth Migrate, the tenth-largest global real estate crowdfunding platform as reported by research firm Massolution, today announced that it has raised $3.99 million (USD) in a seed round of funding from real estate, technology and other investors. The funds raised will help Wealth Migrate to… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this summer, Patch of Land announced the release of its long-anticipated secured debt investment structure, effective for all its offerings in the past and into the future. Although the new structure took Patch of Land over a year of extensive research and consultation to… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 8:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startup Eat My Lunch has officially smashed the goal of $120,000 during its crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe to support the work it is doing to alleviate child poverty in New Zealand. Eat My Lunch operates a ‘buy one give one’ model for lunches, which has allowed them… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 4:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, Parking innovator JustPark launched its equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube and immediately gained not only funding but a ton of attention. JustPark is seeking to lead the disruption of the £50 billion global parking market by allowing its customers to book off-street parking spaces online wherever and… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 4:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

uSens, Inc., a Silicon Valley pioneer providing full 3D interactive solutions for virtual reality and augmented reality, announced today that it completed a $5.5 million round of pre-Series A financing co-led by IDG Ventures, Lebox Capital and Maison Capital in June. Also participating were Stone… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 9:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week until its “Support Team USA in the Giant Robot Duel” Kickstarter comes to an end, robotic company MegaBots has officially scored its original $500,000 goal thanks to over 7,000 backers. The company launched its campaign last month with a mission… Read More

September 14, 2015 @ 8:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Autism Society, an organization celebrating 50 years of improving the lives of all those affected by autism through education, advocacy, research and support, selected crowdfunding platform Kimbia to help maximize the success of The Big Give for Autism, its first-ever giving day event to… Read More