Offerings

July 13, 2015 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Now offering community shares, Crowdfunder’s first issue, Positive News, has raised £263,000 from its readers, supporters and journalists. The public support for this project reflects the growing trend for social investment across the UK – where communities are coming together to save their local pubs, develop community… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 2:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to honor one of the most popular scientists in the world, New York City producers David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg have hit Kickstarter to raise $650,000 for a new documentary dedicated to Bill Nye. While sharing details about the project, the duo wrote: “Bill Nye is on a… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 12:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a week until the game’s incredibly successful Kickstarter campaign comes to an end, Shenmue III’s creator Yu Suzuki and his team unveiled its website that is specifically for the online community. The website reads: “14 years have passed since the previous installment of Shenmue went on… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 12:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Real Estate Value Advisors (REVA), based in Richmond, has listed REVA Raleigh Colonnade DST on EarlyShares as it seeks to raise $10,212,500 in equity crowdfunding. The building was originally purchased in January for $27.54 million. According to the offer page, investors are expected to see… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Giving Hannibal fans a bit of hope after their beloved series was cancelled by NBC, executive producer Martha De Laurentiis stated crowdfunding campaign plans are possibly in the works. According to The Drum, Laurentiis confirmed at San Diego’s Comic Con this past weekend that Kickstarter has contacted her about the… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 9:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Toronto’s Influitive announced it has closed $30.5M in a Series B round of funding led by Georgian Partners. Other investors in this round include OurCrowd, Atlas Venture, Docomo Capital, BDC Capital IT Venture Fund, and previous investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Illuminate Ventures, Resolute Ventures, Relay Ventures,… Read More

July 13, 2015 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Sugru, a unique type of mouldable glue that was listed by Time Magazine as one of the worlds top inventions in 2010 (beating the iPad no less), has closed its crowdfunding round on Crowdcube at over £3.5 million.  According to Crowdcube, 2700 investors from 68 countries… Read More

July 12, 2015 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Commercial radio is under duress around the world. The advent of internet everywhere that allows easy streaming of the music you want to hear, where ever you may be, is crushing broadcast radio. Pitch in a few dollars and the commercials go away too.  Between… Read More

July 12, 2015 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfund Insider has published several articles on crowdfunding campaigns that appear to be repackaged Alibaba products. While not illegal, we believe this is not a transparent approach to crowdfunding and should not be tolerated. Today most creators operated in good faith and are attempting to be innovative… Read More

July 12, 2015 @ 11:09 am By JD Alois  |  

  Commercial air travel really sucks these days. You pay high fares to wait in long lines, to sit in seats sized for children, only to endure endless hours of delays.  I fly a good amount and I could go on. I love to travel… Read More

July 11, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, Katy Perry’s Super Bowl performance, which featured dancing sharks, took the Internet by storm and inspired environmentalist David Lam to launch a campaign on Indiegogo to create costumes for fans everywhere. This was also to raise funds for the World Wildlife Fund, Wildlife Conservation Society… Read More

July 11, 2015 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Pin shape, a 3D printing community and marketplace, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Fundable to raise $500,000 so that it may continue expansion of its printable model repository. Pinshape provides a global platform that is dedicated to any consumer that is looking to find and download… Read More

July 11, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, global crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, announced a new feature that is now available for all backers. “Shipping Now” is described as a new way to explore perks from popular Indiegogo campaigns. The platform shared: “We know individuals contribute to campaigns for several different reasons, one being… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 4:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Looking to add more optimism into the world, artist and creator of “Things Could Be Worse” mugs Don Moyer launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $25,000. These porcelain mugs feature Moyer’s drawings of a traditional blue-willow paradise discombobulated by more than a dozen calamities, perils, and… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 4:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last year, Zach “Danger” Brown, took Kickstarter by storm when he launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $10 so he could make… a potato salad. Although he quickly gained popularity for his salad project (and even used the funds for a big event in Columbus,… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 3:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to build up some hype for its online premiere, the Con Man crew hit up San Diego’s Comic Con this week alongside global crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. Earlier this year,  Firefly duo, Nathan Fillion and Alan Tudyk took to Indiegogo with a mission to raise funds for the web… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 1:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Axanar Productions, a film studio located in California, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo this week to raise funds for the first studio-quality independent film in the Star Trek  franchise. According to its description, Star Trek: Axanar is a feature film, but will be broken down into four… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 10:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding platform, announced on Friday that WayBetter, which runs the social dieting website, DietBet, successfully conducted one of the first “testing the waters” fund-raising campaigns under the new mini-IPO rules, which went into effect on June 19th. The company received $9.3 million of investment interest… Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 9:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CoolMiniOrNot announced that Zombicide: Black Plague has raised more than $4 million from 21,000 backers through Kickstarter. This makes Zombicide: Black Plague the highest funded board game in Kickstarter history. After launch on June 8th, Zombicide: Black Plague raised $1.2 million from eager backers in under 24 hours…. Read More

July 10, 2015 @ 1:32 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

A Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for new solar technology to build an underground park in New York has exceeded its goal, making the Lowline one of the most-funded public art projects on the platform, according to the campaign’s page. Here’s how the Lowline team envisions the project: It turns out… Read More