Offerings

August 19, 2015 @ 9:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

castAR, formerly known as Technical Illusions, an augmented reality gaming startup, announced this week that it has closed Series A funding of $15 million from Playground Global and the company’s seed investors. castAR previously completed a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013, meeting its target in… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Tennis champion  Andy Murray joined the Advisory Board of Seedrs earlier this year.  According to Seedrs, Murray has now shared three companies in which he has invested an undisclosed amount via the equity crowdfunding site. The three include London-based, healthier eating chain Tossed.  The company… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 12:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Tile, one of the most successful self-crowdfunding hardware campaigns of all time, has announced its 2nd generation product alongside a sizeable roll-out in over 3300 T-Mobile stores. Tile, described as the “worlds largest lost and found”, quickly raised over $2.6 million in a pretail funding… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 9:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Prodigy Network, arguably the largest real estate equity crowdfunding platform in the world, has announced a new opportunity open to investors. Assemblage / 25th Street in Manhattan is a unique project that marries collaborative work-space with short-term residential living in thriving downtown New York City. Brian… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 2:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, three Kickstarter alums, Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, inXile’s Brian Fargo, and Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart, launched a new crowdfunding platform dedicated to video games called Fig. According to Wire, the new website will bring together fans and investors alike in a system of rewards-based… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

CEO and General Manager of Companisto Tamo Zwinge began his career as a lawyer, studying law at the Freie Universität Berlin and completing his legal clerkship in Berlin and Pretoria, South Africa. Afterward, he received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in commercial law, specializing in… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 1:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, MegaBots launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $500,000 for a U.S. vs. Japan giant robot duel. The company shared: “We are MegaBots, Inc. We challenged Japan to a giant robot duel, and they accepted… but demanded that the fight include hand-to-hand combat. We say BRING IT ON. We’ve assembled… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 11:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, indie musician, Kitty, took to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with a mission to raise funds for her first “Big-Girl” record. According to the 22-year-old, her first music video “Okay Cupid” went viral in 2012 when she was living in Dayton Beach, Florida. After that,… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 10:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

EarlyShares, a real estate crowdfunding platform that gives accredited investors direct access to commercial real estate opportunities, has launched a new investment opportunity from Pillar, a respected commercial real estate lender and affiliate of Guggenheim Partners. The offering is for participation interests in a $1.4… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 4:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few months after the devastating announcement of Dez Cadena being diagnosed with throat cancer, a group of the rocker’s devoted fans launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to help pay for his health expenses. The former Black Flag and Misfit member previously wrote:… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 1:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to gain more funding momentum,  French startup Blue Frog Robotics announced it has extended the Indiegogo campaign for the family companion robot, Buddy. Blue Frog Robotics shared: “We beat our crowdfunding goal in a day, have been filmed and written about across the world… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 12:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Australian listed crowdfunding platform CoAssets Limited (“CoAssets” or the “Company”) (NSX code: CAX), confirmed on Monday that it has successfully crowdfunded the platform’s first Singapore-based real estate project.  Launched on July 1st, Mountbatten Lights, a boutique cluster bungalow development, managed to raise S$500,000 from more than… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 12:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Inkshares, a start-up crowdfunded book publisher, announced today that the Nerdist, a website, YouTube Channel, and podcast network founded by comedian and television personality Chris Hardwick, will be launching a collection on its crowdfunding platform. This collection will include books published under the Nerdist name,… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 11:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Over the weekend,  Brandon Stanton, the face behind the popular photography blog Humans of New York, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo Life to raise $100,000 for his new project, Let’s Help Fatima End Bonded Labor. Sharing details about the campaign, Stanton wrote: “Described as a modern-day Harriett Tubman,… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 10:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to build more hype for the new game, Red Ash, the creator Keiji Inafune and his team at comcept USA has launched a second crowdfunding campaign for its 92-minute feature film through website, STUDIO4℃FUN&. Inafune teamed up with STUDIO4℃ for the film’s Kickstarter last month… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startup Eat My Lunch today launched a project 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 to provide more… Read More

August 16, 2015 @ 6:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Dusan Stojanovic, a low profile early stage investor who founded True Global Ventures (TGV), recently held a competition to select top female entrepreneurs. Stojanovic funded the competition with his own money – including the cash awards. Stojanovic, originally from Sweden, won the Business Angel of the year award… Read More

August 16, 2015 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, I was researching the latest crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter when I stumbled upon this hilarious, Russian roulette concept game Exploding Kittens.  NEVER have I laughed so hard at project. Beyond the great name, Exploding Kittens raised over $8.7 million with the support of… Read More

August 15, 2015 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to unveil its latest project, Larian Studios LLC, announced the sequel of Kickstarter success Divinity: Original Sin and its upcoming crowdfunding campaign. The video game first hit the crowdfunding platform in spring 2013 and is described as an Isometric cRPG that can be played in single-player mode or cooperative multiplayer mode. The… Read More

August 15, 2015 @ 11:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Ruroc, an extreme sport brand that has created an integrated goggle/mask/helmut perfect for boarding, skiing and mountain biking, just closed its “revenue loan” campaign on Crowd2Fund.   Crowd2Fund, an FCA regulated crowdfunding platform, is an innovator in the investment crowdfunding space having created a new… Read More