Offerings

February 10, 2015 @ 12:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week and a half until her band’s Kickstarter campaign comes to an end, TLC songstress Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas chats with AJC about the all-girl group’s crowdfunding success and their upcoming album. The TLC ladies, Chilli and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, took the crowdfunding giant… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gulf Wealth Management (GWM) is offering the UK public the chance to become founder shareholders in the first digital wealth management e-commerce platform focused on the investment needs of the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC*) namely Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. GWM launched a… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New Matter, a leader in consumer 3D printing, announced today the close of its Series A Funding round of $6.5M. Alsop Louie Partners led the round, with other notable investors including Arden Road Investments, Biotechonomy, Dolby Family Ventures, First Round Capital, Idealab and frogVentures, the investment arm… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fans of Rob Zombie, rejoice! Devoted followers of the musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer may now continue to help fund his highly anticipated feature length film, 31 and receive pre-sale tickets to his upcoming summer tour. According to Icon vs Icon, Zombie will be embarking on a new nationwide… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Cloud Lending Solutions, the industry’s only end-to-end lending solution built natively on Salesforce.com, today announced its new customer LendingPoint, a non-bank direct lender that aims to meet consumer demands for online borrowing options. LendingPoint has successfully used Cloud Lending as a foundation to go from concept… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 7:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Global investment crowdfunding platform OurCrowd, has announced that it led a $19.5M Series E funding round for Borro, the UK-NY based, asset-backed online lender. Borro launched in 2009 in the UK, and has gone on to open offices in New York and Los Angeles.  It is a leading… Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 3:40 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

While Camden Town Brewery is riding a wave of beer-brewing success, the London-based brewery is starting to hit a obstacle to continued growth: their original built-from-scratch building in the railway arches next to Kentish Town West overground station. It’s become too small to help the… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 1:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cell Therapy, British biotech company co-founded by Nobel Prize winner Sir Martin Evans, announced that it has raised £689,246 through crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to help cell-based regeneration medicine for heart trauma get to the market. The project’s description reads,”Cell Therapy Limited (CTL) has developed a breakthrough… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 12:31 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Today EBS Technologies launched the crowdfunding campaign on Companisto, already surpassing 22,710€ of its minimum 100,000€ goal with the help of over 60 backers. The innovative tech company is valued at 6,800,000 €. Already backed by three major investors, namely the German venture capital company Earlybird, the High-Tech Gründerfonds (high-tech… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 9:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

JamKazam, the developer of a live music platform and social network for musicians, today announced the launch of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its new product, JamBlaster. The device radically reduces audio processing latency compared to today’s industry standard computers and audio interfaces, enabling musicians… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The old saying that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach just might be true if you consider the success of GE FirstBuild’s crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for its Paragon Precision Cooktop. Whether funders are buying for their sweethearts or for themselves, Paragon… Read More

February 9, 2015 @ 7:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Atlanta-based Coffee Bluff Pictures is completing production of the highly anticipated documentary Olympic Pride, American Prejudice. History remembers one African American hero, Jesse Owens, from the 1936 Olympics, but this film shines a light on his other 17 accomplished teammates. Set against the strained and… Read More

February 8, 2015 @ 7:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

It’s a story that continues to melt hearts everywhere: a father choosing to take care of his son with down syndrome over keeping his marriage with his wife. The now-single New Zealand native, Samuel Forrest, has successfully secured over $485,000 through GoFundMe so that he… Read More

February 7, 2015 @ 3:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube  Spain shares they have broken the Spanish equity crowdfunding record in raising €450,000 for Barcelona drop company HEMAV.  The funding round closed in 6 days with the backing of 73 investors.  HEMAV added four new board members including Lluis Font the co-founder of Zyncro and… Read More

February 7, 2015 @ 2:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last year Washington, DC legalized investment crowdfunding within the confines of the District.  The exemption allows companies to raise up to $2 million per year from the general public.  Investors who earn less than $100,000 are capped at $10,000. The first offer has just received the… Read More

February 7, 2015 @ 12:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to make changes to the old, unsafe, rather scary Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s subway system, a Boston area resident has launched a $300M crowdfunding initiative on GoFundMe to help bring the transit into the 21st century. Explaining the situation (jokingly), campaign organizer, Janssen McCormick writes,”The… Read More

February 7, 2015 @ 8:13 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in October, Kickstarter-success Matchstick, the streaming stick for Firefox, finished its run on the crowdfunding platform and raised $470,310 from 17,218 backers. The company announced that the finished product would be shipped in February 2015 and the wait began. Unfortunately, the Matchstick team has… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 4:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Inventor, artist, and CEO Lorenzo Maggiore announces the launch of the new, more powerful, and deadlier than ever BUG-A-SALT 2.0 has hit global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. Inspired by his father, a veteran of the US Marine Corp, and the breakout hit film, American Sniper, Maggiore is dedicating his limited… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 3:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Setting out to create a drinking glass that stands out from the rest, Portland-based North Drinkware has launched a crowdfunding campaign Kickstarter for The Oregon Pint. The North Drinkware team stated, “We made The Oregon Pint because we wanted a glass with a connection to… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 2:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AOL’s World of Warcraft website, WoW Insider, is getting a second life – well sort of. Thanks to a $8,000 goal crowdfunding campaign on Patreon. According to the Verge, the team behind the site, now the defunct blog Blizzard Watch, hit the platform and has already… Read More