Offerings

June 10, 2015 @ 9:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Dragons’ Den judge, Kelly Hoppen, and her board, took to equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to raise £1.1 million for her self-titled online affordable luxury homewares business, Kelly Hoppen London. From launch in January 2014 to February 2015, the Kelly Hoppen London attracted circa 1 million… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 8:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Christchurch-based solid cosmetics company Sorbet has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe to raise $150,000 so that it can start to expand globally. Ethique Limited, trading as Sorbet, make healthy products with sustainable and safe ingredients. The company is looking to make a solid impact on the… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Search in Mena, a Dubai based B2B marketplace originally raised equity on Eureeca in January of 2014.  The company was recently acquired by Bechr Miri.   It appears that as part of this purchase early shareholders were given the opportunity to sell their shares at a… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 8:11 am By JD Alois  |  

  A new British car company has designed a light weight sports car targeting the track and road driving enthusiast.  Their first car, the Elemental RP-1,  is a hot looking, carbon fiber roadster that will definitely turn heads. While you can’t buy one quite yet,… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 4:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to expand globally, independent brewery BrewDog, announced it has plans to acquire land in Columbus, Ohio for a first brewery outside of Scotland. Reportedly, BrewDog stated that Columbus is one of two cities it was looking at for in its U.S. operation search. It was also revealed that the brewery… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 3:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

They have returned! Creator of the highly addictive Zombicide, CoolMiniOrNot, has launched their eighteenth crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for Zombicide: Black Plague on June 8th. Less than 48 hours into the new initiative, the project has successfully raised over $1.2 million thanks to 8,100 backers. Zombicide:… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 2:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Adzuna, the UK-based job search engine today launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to raise  £1.5 million for its mission to “get Britain working.” Within just a few hours, the campaign has raised over £659,330 of its £1,500,000 targeted goal for 5.89% equity offered. Now, with only a little over three weeks until its… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 1:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform, OurCrowd, announced the launch of OurCrowd First, a specialized $10 million global early stage fund focusing on seed and Pre-A round startups. With its OurCrowd First fund, the funding portal will leverage its established infrastructure to bring equity crowdfunding to approximately 20+ seed-stage companies providing OurCrowd investors… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Coolest Cooler burst onto the crowdfunding scene hoping to raise a mere $50,000. A re-do of a failed Kickstarter project from the year prior, creator Ryan Grepper spent several months assessing what worked, and what went wrong, before re-launching his crowdfunding project that closed… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding success Tile has received a capital infusion from Khosla Ventures in the amount of $3 million. The “Series A extension” comes at a time when the young company reports it has shipped over 2 million devices as it closes in on its 2nd anniversary…. Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 11:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Daum Kakao, the mobile lifestyle platform company behind Kakao Talk, announced the acquisition of Tangram Design Lab, taking a 51% stake in the UX design agency. Tangram Factory, the partner company and maker of Smart Rope, will continue to operate as an independent brand, with… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 10:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

RealtyMogul, an online marketplace for real estate investing, announced today that it had successfully financed the Woodland Park Estates, a multi-family apartment community located in Portland, Oregon. Realty Mogul’s accredited investors used its online peer-to-peer platform to help the project’s sponsor, Trion Properties, purchase the property. Jilliene… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Money360, Inc., an online peer-to-peer (P2P) commercial real estate lending platform, announced that it has funded and closed a $3.1 million commercial real estate loan in Palm Desert, California. Money360 was able to expedite the closing of the loan in just 10 business days to… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 9:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Raising capital for a private educational institution is not necessarily an easy task. But this recently closed offer on Crowdcube Spain achieved over half of its funding goal from both teachers and students as consumers and employees became shareholders.  This is the first educational company to… Read More

June 9, 2015 @ 9:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

eFileCabinet, Inc., the paperless document management company, has secured a $14M Series B funding round led by Palo Alto-based Allegis Capital and Salt Lake’s Signal Peak Ventures. eFileCabinet’s 153,000 users include SMBs and enterprises in the accounting, financial services, insurance, medical, HR, small government verticals… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 4:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to get his latest music venture, Playground Sessions, off the ground, industry vet Quincy Jones and Chris Vance are seeking $1.5 million in capital on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder. Playground Sessions is described as a music learning software company that uses video tutorials… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 3:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lumo, a West Sussex-based apparel company for cyclist, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube, to raise £200,000 for expansion. The startup previously made an appearance on reward platform Kickstarter and secured £74,118 from 458 backers. According to the company, Lumo designs jackets and bags for cyclists that… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 1:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Colin Broderick, an author and filmmaker from Northern Ireland, has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds for his upcoming film, Emerald City.  Emerald City is described as a dramatic movie about a hard-living crew of Irish construction workers in New York City who have reached the… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last year, Wong Fu Productions, a Los Angeles-based production company, took to global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to raise $200,000 for its first feature film, Everything Before Us. During its 30-day funding round, the flick not only secured its initial goal, it also reached nearly $360,000 thanks to… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Farmdrop, an award-winning online marketplace in the UK, recently announced that it has received an investment from Alex Chesterman, the man behind Zoopla and LoveFilm. As previously reported, Farmdrop hit equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube last year and secured its initial £400,000 fairly quick. By the… Read More