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May 21, 2015 @ 10:11 am By Erin Hobey  |  

FreeAgent, the multi-award winning cloud accounting provider, today launched a £1M crowdfunding round with Seedrs to accelerate its vision of “Democratising Accounting” for UK micro-businesses and freelancers. The cloud accounting pioneer will use funding to to accelerate development of its  product and introduce more micro-businesses and freelancers to… Read More

May 21, 2015 @ 9:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Adzuna, the UK-based job search engine today launched its £1.5 million crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube for its mission to “get Britain working.” In just a few hours, the campaign has raised over £659,330 of its £1,500,000 targeted goal for 5.89% equity offered. Nearly 70 investors helped Adzuna hit 43% of its goal…. Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to help musicians make their way to the spotlight, Indiegogo announced that Spotify is now supporting multiple music projects on its crowdfunding platform. Earlier this week, Indiegogo revealed: “As a global platform focused on bringing people together to make big things happen, our… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Retailer loyalty App Loyalzoo has raised over £251,395 in funding on its equity crowdfunding on Seedrs, having raised £170,000 in just three days in late April. To date 157 investors have helped the small company exceed its £250,002 goal for 12.15% equity in the company.  This campaign marks the second time… Read More

May 20, 2015 @ 9:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced that it was ready to open its doors to Spanish inventors that are looking to crowdfund for their projects. The platform revealed in its blog: “We’re so excited to announce that Kickstarter is now open to Spanish makers,… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 10:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ostensibly hoping to become a low cost alternative, Avatar Airlines has launched a self-crowdfunding campaign at www.HelpAvatarFly.com. The funding project allows the public to give as much, or as little as they like, with donations ranging from $5 to $9,750 for perks.  If you want a T-Shirt though you will have… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seedrs has carved out a nice little niche in becoming the crowdfunding site of choice for crowdfunding platforms.  Seedrs recently added another funding platform to their growing list; LandLordInvest. Described as the UK’s first “near prime property peer to peer lending” LandlordInvest is hoping to… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 12:32 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

OurCrowd set a new Australian funding record, closing out a $1.5 million round of funding for Global Kinetics Corporation (GKC), an Australian medical IT company . To recap from an earlier post, GKC was established in 2007 to commercialize innovative technology developed by Professor Malcolm Horne, from the Florey… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 11:37 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Ideas Britain, a mobile platform wherein people submit an idea in less than a minute and compete for support, expert advice and real world commercial backing, has chosen Crowdcube to power its next phase of growth. Aiming to raise £300,000 on Crowdcube, Ideas Britain has already secured over… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 9:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, mobile phone app startup KIJINI, INC. debuted its Indiegogo campaign to finalize the development of its eponymous KIJINI, an iOS and Android program with a set of apps capable of deciphering the user’s voice to provide highly accurate information about critical aspects of… Read More

May 19, 2015 @ 9:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Novalogy, a wearable tech company, unveiled AYO, an advanced, scientifically backed wearable device which uses clinically backed lighting technology to actively improve sleep, increase energy levels and minimize jet lag. In tandem with its U.S. debut at Wearable World Congress 2015, an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign has launched to… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 9:55 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Following a successful Seedrs round last Spring, London-based Octer (formerly called Shareight) has returned to Seedrs to raise a second round of funding. The company, previously known as Shareight, raised £600,000 in just 24 hours on Seedrs back in May 2014.  The campaign seeks raise £700,000, in exchange… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 9:18 am By Erin Hobey  |  

That most people keep their mobiles with them at all times is not a surprise.  As one might expect, the mobile market is enormous and growing rapidly. Gartner, a leading information technology research and advisory company, has estimated that there will be 20 billion connected mobile… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 9:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Carlson Wireless Technologies, a global leader in TV White Space (TVWS) technology, announced the development of the newest generation of its TVWS radio, the RuralConnect. With three times the speed and at half the cost, RuralConnect Generation 3 will be superior to other products currently… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 8:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Blue & Green Tomorrow, the fastest-growing sustainable lifestyle magazine in the UK, and GreenWise Business, the independent UK green business-to-business (B2B) online news and information publisher, are merging to create the leading online independent publishing powerhouse dedicated to consumers, businesses and investors that want to live,… Read More

May 18, 2015 @ 7:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Angels Den is raising capital for a new niche crowdfunding site, WhiskyInvestDirect. The live investment offer for the new funding portal wants to capitalize on a consumable that has seen an average annual return of 5% since 1980. WhiskyInvestDirect was founded by Paul Tustain and Rupert… Read More

May 16, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

More corporations are recognizing the efficacy of capturing consumer feedback by using crowdfunding to pretail forthcoming products.  General Electric, a multi-national corporate behemoth is one of these companies. They don’t need your money – they want your advice. FirstBuild is GE’s “co-creation community”.  Described as a… Read More

May 16, 2015 @ 11:42 am By JD Alois  |  

It is enlightening to go back and review some past crowdfunding campaigns that generated excitement, captured backer interest, and then unfortunately fail to deliver.  This happens all too frequently in rewards based crowdfunding. A highly marketed product with promising features turns to vapor as project… Read More

May 15, 2015 @ 9:07 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Something to smile about… According to a Fundable brief, Smyle has raised $300K on its private fundraise.  The Smyle app connects with Dropbox, Amazon Drive and Google Cloud Services for it one-stop shop for photo and video capturing, organizing, sharing, and storing.   Daily problems the Smyle… Read More

May 15, 2015 @ 8:27 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Glass full: London wine bar Vini Italiani  has raised over £308,215 on its Seedrs  equity crowdfunding campaign with its equity offering of 11.63%.  Funding will be used to continue the brand’s undivided focus on Italian wines with the goal that Vini Italiani will be recognised and identified as the… Read More