Offerings

August 5, 2015 @ 2:26 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  London-based Stockflare has become the first fintech startup to gain an investment pledge from the London Co-Investment Fund (LCIF), supported by the London Mayor’s office, as it raises seed capital on Crowdcube. The company, which makes it easier for private investors to pick stocks that are right… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 4:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With a little over three weeks until its Kickstarter comes to an end, Jide Technology’s new device, Remix Mini, has successfully surpassed $1 million thanks to over 13,600 backers. The Beijing-based startup described Remix Mini as a simple to use computer that connects to any screen, keyboard and mouse, allowing… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 2:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ovation, an arts network, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with crowdfunding platform RocketHub to develop a new program called Creative Studio, which is dedicated to creators and artists. Ovation’s CEO Charles Segars and Brian Meece, CEO of RocketHub revealed the program is set to go live this October…. Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mass Fidelity, the creators of the Indiegogo alum The Core, announced on Tuesday its selection and participation in Amazon Launchpad, a new program that showcases cutting-edge products from today’s brightest start-ups, to offer the Core to millions of Amazon customers. Amazon Launchpad was launched last week… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last fall,  San Jose-based startup Matchstick launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for its self-titled streaming stick that was built on Firefox OS. This project immediately hit the spotlight due to being the next “big thing” against Google Chrome. By the time its campaign closed, the streaming stick… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 12:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ascendia Drive, a Maidstone, UK-based airbnb for cars, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to secure £140,000 to disrupt the $60bn car hire industry. Ascendia is described as a peer-to-peer car rental platform that allows users to own their driving experience, without owning the car. It helps drivers to find, review… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The winners of the inaugural Crowd2Shelf Contest debut on Staples’ new entrepreneurial store. Created by Fundable and sponsored by Staples, the Crowd2Shelf Contest drew thousands of startups across the country competing for a chance to crowdfund their way to Staples. Contestants demonstrated demand for their innovative… Read More

August 4, 2015 @ 9:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

APE Mobile, an established Australian software company that has developed an innovative paperless site app for the Construction, Mining and Oil & Gas industries to enable greater efficiency in managing on-site documents on iPads and web devices, is pleased to announce the raising of $2 million in… Read More

August 3, 2015 @ 4:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

It’s official: Consumers are crazy for nugget ice, the soft, chewable ice especially favored in the South and associated with restaurant chains and convenience stores. This theory is based on the recent activity of GE’s FirstBuild’s Opal nugget ice maker campaign on Indiegogo. The project,… Read More

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