Offerings

June 25, 2015 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, photo-friendly smartphone app, STAND,  announced it has raised $2.25 million seed funding round, which was led by Resolute Ventures, with participation from Silicon Valley influencers including Jack Dorsey, Twitter/Square; Greylock Discovery (Josh Elman); Fresco Capital (Tytus Michalski and Stephen Forte); Meng Tan, Google; Doug… Read More

June 25, 2015 @ 11:00 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Investing in complex technology startups can be cause for a deep breath, but Propel(x) is helping demystify investing in these startups with the debut of its crowdsourced Diligence Insights capability, according to a recent press release. Propel(x) connects deep technology startups with angel investors and… Read More

June 25, 2015 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Checkmarx, a software application security company, announced on Thursday a $84M investment from New York-based venture capital and private equity firm, Insight Venture Partners. The new round of capital will be primarily used to further accelerate growth through product innovation and global expansion. Founded in 2006… Read More

June 25, 2015 @ 9:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to set the record straight,  Shenmue III creator Yu Suzuki revealed some details about the situation between the already successful Kickstarter game and its supporters Sony and Shibuya Productions. Shenmue III surfaced on the crowdfunding platform last week and gained over $3 million in three days. The game is… Read More

June 25, 2015 @ 8:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, video game developer Brian Fargo and his team at inXile entertainment unveiled the trailer for Wasteland 2: Director’s Cut.  Wasteland 2 is described as the direct sequel to the first ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG. The game debuted on Kickstarter back in March 2012 and successfully secured over… Read More

June 25, 2015 @ 1:06 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

As temperatures and ice cream sales rise, so does Oppo‘s lucky star: The luxury healthy ice cream company is having a scorchingly successful year. London-based Oppo was just named The Guardian‘s Startup of the Year (and there’s more), according to a recent Oppo blog post. The judging… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 7:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Two equity crowdfunding offers have successfully maxed out their offers on PledgeMe this week. This is according to a report from the funding portal.  The two companies include Auckland based Angel Food, a vegan food company that achieved its $150,000 goal and Sorbet a cosmetics company… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 5:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in April, comic book writer and artist Gene Ha, who is best known for his work with famous comic book publishers including Marvel, DC Comics, and ABC Comics, took to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with a mission to raise funds for his first ever creator-owned graphic… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 4:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks after Project CARS released, Slightly Mad Studios announced on Monday the plans for its sequel Project CARS 2, and its new crowdfunding campaign on World of Mass Development. According to Stuff, while revealing more details about the upcoming game Slightly mad Studios shared… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 3:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to unveil a new way to listen to music, Chicago startup and Kickstarter success Gramovox launched a campaign on crowdfunding giant’s platform to raise funds for its new product, the Floating Record Vertical Turntable. Within mere hours of its launch, the campaign successfully raised well over its… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 1:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than two days until its Indiegogo campaign comes to an end, military film Range 15 has successfully raised nearly $700,000 from over 5,900 backers. As previously reported, the creators, which are nine veterans, behind new movie took to the crowdfunding platform with a mission to raise $325,000 for the… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Innovation Economy Corporation, commonly referred to as ieCrowd, is launching its IPO to retail investors using TriPoint Global Equities online investment platform BANQ.  ieCrowd is a “health innovations commercializations company” and lists several known products as part of its portfolio. ieCrowd states it will use BANQ to help… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 10:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Boston-based endpoint security startup, Barkly, announced that it has closed a $12.5 million Series A financing round, led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and including Sigma Prime Ventures. Barkly has now raised a total of $17 million since the company was co-founded in 2013 by CEO Mike… Read More

June 24, 2015 @ 10:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Squadrone System, the company behind first autonomous flying camera, HEXO+, today announced it has secured an investment of $3 million from Living Water Investment Corp., bringing its total investment amount to date to $5 million. The funding will allow the company to finance the industrial development… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than three days until its Kickstarter comes to an end, famous science educator Bill Nye and The Planetary Society‘s LightSail project has successfully surpassed over $1 million thanks to nearly 20,000 backers. LightSail is described as a citizen-funded project by The Planetary Society, which is self-dubbed… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, California technology company, Keyboardio, took to crowdfunding giant Kickstarter with a mission to raise $120,000 for its new unique keyboard, the Model 01. The Model 01 consists of a hardwood body, mechanical switches and custom-sculpted keycaps. It’s described as “a keyboard for uncompromising… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Indiegogo announced that it has created new and improved shipping perks for all campaigns. The global crowdfunding platform shared: “Indiegogo is a truly global platform – every week we distribute funds to campaigners in 70-100 countries. Campaigners can easily connect with contributors on… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Returbo is a market leader within the secondary market for e-commerce products, a profitable business which will likely generate more than €6M in revenues in 2015. Returbo garners profitably by selling customer returns and other secondary market products through its more than 30 online sales channels… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

On Friday last week, Crowdfund Insider shared that SeedInvest, an equity crowdfunding platform in NYC, had launched a potential Regulation A+ issuer, WayBetter, as they “test the water” of investors. Part of the potential of Title IV of the JOBS Act, or Regulation A+, is… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 11:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nineteen of the UK’s hottest new producer/director teams have raised £40k through  – helping them to unlock £100k of match funding as part of Creative England’s iShorts initiative. The iShorts campaign, delivered in partnership with Crowdfunder, as part of the BFI NET.WORK, aims to promote some of the country’s… Read More