Offerings

August 3, 2015 @ 3:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in May, Edinburgh-based cloud accounting provider, FreeAgent, took to equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs with a mission to raise funds for its vision of “Democratising Accounting.” Since its launch in 2007, FreeAgent has grown into an established, highly-regarded technology innovator, with customers in 100 countries and… Read More

August 3, 2015 @ 2:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

A little over a year ago, Harmonix, the studio behind the forever addicting video game Guitar Hero, launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Amplitude. The video game is known as a “rhythm-action music game” for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation that is based on… Read More

August 3, 2015 @ 1:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

GovX.com, an online shopping platform for verified military and federal, state and local government personnel, announced the completion of a $11.5 million Series A and Series B financing rounds  to expand its service offerings. This brings the total invested capital in the company to just over… Read More

August 3, 2015 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the previous announcement of Exploding Kittens being shipped to its backers, co-creator Elan Lee reveals a bit of an insight of the famous Kickstarter project. While sharing details about the funding process, Lee admitted to CNN: “The biggest lesson for me is that Kickstarter is a… Read More

August 3, 2015 @ 11:44 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Sydney brand Poor Toms Gin made its appearance on the new series The Cult of New.  The new craft gin distillery has opened in Sydney earlier this year and its first batch was snapped up on Australia’s crowdfunding platform, Pozible.  The young business raised $25,000 in one day. It… Read More

August 3, 2015 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Data and Mobile Telematics company, Driveway Software, Inc., has closed a $10 million funding round led by Ervington Investments, representing prominent Russian businessman Roman Abramovich.  The funds will be used to further strengthen Driveway’s position as the best in class telematics solution, create new markets for telematics solutions and grow… Read More

August 2, 2015 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Back in May of 2014, Crowdfund Insider reported on the first state Attorney General to file suit against a rewards based crowdfunding campaign that had failed to deliver on its crowdfunding promise. This was no big, multi-million dollar crowdfunding project either. It was for a… Read More

August 1, 2015 @ 2:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this summer,  YotaDevices launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise funds for its dual-screen smartphone, YotaPhone 2. The YotaPhone 2 is described as the “world’s first” dual-screen always-on smartphone has arrived. Fully customizable always-on screen. It offers AMOLED display with hands-free messaging, e-reading for up… Read More

August 1, 2015 @ 12:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

And… the wait continues for backers of highly anticipated Kickstarter Alum Mighty No. 9. Multiple sources have revealed that the game’s release date has been pushed back once again from Fall 2015 to … sometime in 2016? The creators, Comcept USA and video game developer Keiji Inafune, took… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 5:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to gain more support for its Neil Armstrong spacesuit project, the Smithsonian has successfully raised nearly $600,000 on Kickstarter thanks to over 7,500 backers. The project hit the crowdfunding platform last week with a mission to raise $500,000 to bring the famous spacesuit back… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, leon-nanodrugs GmbH announced that it completed the first closing of its Series A preferred stock offering at EUR 18.5 million. The financing was led by TVM Capital Life Science with participation from Signet Healthcare Partners (USA), LifeCare Partners (Switzerland), CD-Venture (Germany), and Albany Private Equity… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 2:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly two weeks after the close of the Crystal Maze Indiegogo campaign, the game’s former host Richard O’Brien announced he will officially be returning to the set of the popular UK show. The Crystal Maze campaign kicked off on the platform this past June and… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 1:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Playtonic Games, the creators of the Kickstarter success Yooka-Laylee, announced it has teamed up with Team17 to publish the highly anticipated video game. Yooka-Laylee is an all-new 3D platforming adventure for consoles and PC. During its run on the crowdfunding giant’s platform, the video game successfully… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 12:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fueled by $6.5M USD in Series A financing in April, TradeGecko, a cloud-based inventory and multichannel management platform for apparel and accessories, is leveraging its resources to become one of the fastest growing startups in Singapore. Since this spring, TradeGecko has increased its headcount by 25% and added… Read More

July 31, 2015 @ 11:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SlamData Inc., commercial developer of the SlamData open source project, today announced the company has raised a significant seed funding round led by True Ventures. The financing will be used to enhance the visual analytics and Enterprise capabilities of the project as well as expand… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 4:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only three more days until Red Ash’s Kickstarter comes to an end, it looks like the game will not receive its full $800,000. But no worries Keiji Inafune fans, the project will still get off the ground thanks to Chinese digital entertainment company FUZE Entertainment. The game, which… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 4:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Curiosity Kills Ltd., the production firm behind the upcoming film Welcome to Curiosity, recently launched a third equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise another £30,000 following a series of problems on the set. According to Insider Media, Welcome to Curiosity is first hit the crowdfunding platform in June 2014… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Catchpoint Systems, Inc., a provider of web and infrastructure performance monitoring solutions, announces it has completed a $16 million Series C funding with proceeds earmarked to accelerate the company’s rapid growth. The funding includes $6 million from Battery Ventures, which has provided the capital in… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 1:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

While backers continue to wait for the highly anticipated Kickstarter project, Exploding Kittens, the creators of the project have announced exciting news. Exploding Kittens is a highly strategic kitty-powered version of Russian Roulette. Players take turns drawing cards until someone draws an exploding kitten and loses the… Read More

July 30, 2015 @ 1:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Optoro, a platform for returned and excess inventory, connecting buyers and sellers worldwide, today announced that it has received a $40 million debt financing commitment from TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corporation, a non-bank venture debt provider, and Square 1 Bank, the premier banking partner to entrepreneurs… Read More