Offerings

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

June 23, 2015 @ 11:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing details about his Kickstarter success Wasteland 2, video game developer Brian Fargo sat down to chat about the highly anticipated RPG and his experience with the crowdfunding giant at last week’s E3 event. According to its campaign, Wasteland 2 is described as the direct sequel to… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mapme, a plug and play community visualization platform, announced the completion of a seed funding round of $1 million dollars from investors Gigi Levy, Daniel Recanati , Kima Ventures and the DRW Trading Group and others. The funding will be used to further product development and… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 8:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

    Known for sporting a natty brown fedora, Stewart literally wears many hats. Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dave Stewart is a producer, author, director, photographer, filmmaker, and philanthropist whose music career spans three decades and more than 100 million album sales, highlighted by his collaboration with Annie… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 4:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, Swedish-based startup Cinemeet  launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on FundedByMe to raise €190,000 for its Tinder-like app that’s set to help singles go on a date at the movies. Cinemeet started in Sweden 2014 and is now headquartered in California. The company secured a crowd funding… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 3:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Dacuda launched its PocketScan product to the public. The limited Kickstarter edition of PocketScan is now available on shop.dacuda.com. Until July 19th, a limited amount of PocketScans will be sold at $99 instead of $169 as a special launch promotion. The public launch happens exactly one year after PocketScan’s successful Kickstarter campaign,… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 2:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from his record-breaking Shenmue III Kickstarter campaign, creator of the franchise, Yu Suzuki, conducted a Reddit AMA over the weekend to chat about the upcoming game. Shenmue III surfaced on the crowdfunding giant just a week ago and gained over $3 million in… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 1:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Dropoff, Inc., the company dedicated to reinventing on-demand, same-day delivery logistics for businesses, today announced that it has closed $7.0 Million in Series A funding. The investment was led by Greycroft Partners, with participation from new and existing investors, including Correlation Ventures, Texas Atlantic Capital, and Wild Basin Investments…. Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 12:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Same sex couple Kirk Shepard and Anthony Szabo are turning to crowdfunding with an Indiegogo campaign to help them achieve their dream of fatherhood. Married since 2013, the couple is committed to becoming parents of a child that is genetically theirs, and therefore must engage in the… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 11:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter poster-child, Pebble Smartwatch, states that Pebble Time, its next iteration of the smartwatch, is now available for pre-order for anyone. The wearable company stated that Kickstarter rewards were nearly completed and they were shifting to retail sales.  Pebble Time is available via Best Buy… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CropX, provider of advanced adaptive irrigation service, announced it has completed the first close of its $9 million Series A financing. Led by Finistere Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, and GreenSoil Investments, each investor in the Series A round is dedicated to agriculture technology innovations. OurCrowd also… Read More

June 22, 2015 @ 10:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

After finalizing their first round of funding for $750,000 in April, Arena Online and its team lead by Alan Hubbard, are building an online platform to bring competitive Electronic Sports (eSports) tournaments to a powerful world of online gamers – beginning with League of Legends by Riot… Read More