Offerings

April 3, 2015 @ 2:08 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

MoneyPlace, Australia’s newest P2P lending market, has confirmed that it plans to begin trading in the June quarter, joining current popular platforms SocietyOne, RateSetter and ThinCats, according to BankingDay. The Melbourne-based company will focus on the personal loan market, with a minimum loan of $5,000 on three-year… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 4:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With nearly a week until their Con Man crowdfunding campaign comes to an end on Indiegogo, FireFly co-stars, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion has successfully raised nearly $2.7 million for their new television show. Now, the fan favorite duo has unveiled a new funding goal, along with a surprise… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 3:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Team Impression Pi, a San Juan tech startup, took to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter last month to raise $75,000 for its virtual and augmented reality headset, Impression Pi. Within the past few weeks, the project has surpassed its initial goal and is currently nearing $160,000. Now… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 2:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Codie, a startup with the mission to teach children the principles of coding, launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to produce toy robots that make learning coding tangible, real and fun. Co-founder and CEO of Codie, Adam Lipecz stated: “We believe that learning to code shouldn’t stop… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 1:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just over a week ago, fans of Super Troopers received the exciting news that the film’s production crew, Broken Lizard, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise only $2 million for the upcoming sequel. Now, thanks to nearly 34,000 backers, the project has surpassed $3.2 million… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 11:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Smart toy and technology developer Elemental Path, creator of CogniToys, the first toys powered by IBM Watson, has surpassed its Kickstarter goal by 550 percent. Launched on February 16th, the campaign raised $275,000 and received support from 2,256 campaign backers. As a result of exceeding several funding stretch goals, Elemental Path will… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Electric scooter technology startup company Johanson3 has taken in its first tranche of funding — announcing a $1.3 million Investment on Crowdfunder. The company aims to make commuting easier and safer; currently, the company is taking on new investors for launching its startup internationally from the… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 10:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SnapPower announced that just 24 hours after debuting the SnapPower Charger campaign on the crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, the project has raised more than $350,000 from more than 8,500 backers, 10 times the company’s goal of $35,000. The SnapPower Charger is a USB charger built into the… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 8:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

GenYrator, a millennial focused and founded equity crowdfunding platform, has launched its private beta concentrating initially on startups from USC, the alma mater of co-founder Sean Nasiri. GenYrator looks for emerging generation-y founded businesses with revenue that are not quite ready for institutional investors, and… Read More

April 2, 2015 @ 2:38 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Burgundy winery Domaine Chanzy, which was set to launch what Seedrs CEO Jeff Lynn called “the first crowdfunding campaign for a company’s IPO,” has postponed its campaign on the leading investment crowdfunding portal, according to a recent story on Harpers.co.uk. As Crowdfund Insider reported in February, the… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Featuring fan favorite Kevin Sorbo (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Gene Rodenberry’s Andromeda), the first chapter in the three-movie series Mythica premiered on Monday exclusively on the multi-platform digital network CONtv. Filled with explosive action, magic, and drama, the first episode in the epic trilogy from sci-fi and action-adventure powerhouse… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 4:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perhaps this is in recognition of the multiple Mars Mission crowdfunding campaigns that have circulated in the past few years. Fundrise, a real estate crowdfunding platform, has posted an offer to invest in a Mars Colony.  So if you looking for some preferred equity in… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 3:48 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to introduce a new stress-free service for online shopaholics, Windsor, UK-based CornerDrop took to equity crowdfunding platform, Seedrs, with a mission to raise funds for a parcel collection point service that will be available to all online retailers, locations and customers. According to its campaign, CornerDrop seeks… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 1:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Celebrating the first of April with some unusual news (or prank), global crowdfunding giant, Indiegogo unveiled a new service called Indiegogo Heat, which is dedicated to all “hot sauce” campaigns. The platform stated: “Building off the success of Indiegogo Life, we’ve decided to expand into the… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 12:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With Star Citizen’s campaign continuing to be the most well known crowdfunding project on the web, creator Chris Roberts sat down with Wired to share details about the initiative and its success. As previously reported, when Star Citizen surfaced in 2012, it immediately hit the spotlight and became one of… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 11:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Remember the days when working full-time and taking care of your kids wasn’t the biggest priorities in your life or when your morning started at 11 a.m.? Well, those days are not just things of the past now, at least that’s what two ambitious college students, Stu and Jon, are… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 10:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

WAIT FOR IT … April Fools DAY! – It’s really a whopping 7%! Even on this day of practical jokes, it’s no laughing matter how few women can attract funding for their tech startups. Advocacy organization Women Who Tech revealed women-led tech startups attract only 7%… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 10:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

JD.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:JD), China’s leading online direct sales company, today announced its launch of a series of initiatives to help finance, develop and promote the creation of start-ups in China. The new JD Equity Crowdfunding platform, which builds upon JD.com’s success in the area of Internet finance, is expected to… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 10:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Happy April! You know what that means – warmer weather, flowers blooming… practical jokes. On April 1st (known as April Fool’s Day) more pranks are pulled on and offline. With that said, I would like to share my favorite, funny and incredibly “Is this for real?”… Read More

April 1, 2015 @ 3:29 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Bigger than a football field, the largest aircraft in the world is a low-carbon, low-noise, low-pollution wonder that soars high. Hybrid Air Vehicles, its manufacturer, is hoping that Airlander 10’s crowdfunding campaign will also reach great heights. On investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube, London-based Hybrid Air Vehicles on Tuesday launched a… Read More