Offerings

February 6, 2015 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last November, Caterham Formula One racing team took to crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to raise £2.3 million to get to the season finale in Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The project became super popular and even raised 1.1 million during its first three days on the platform. Unfortunately, Reuters reported… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 12:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AMPL Labs today announced the launch of its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to support its innovative self-titled SmartBackpack, the first product of its kind to integrate an advanced portable charging system directly into the fabric of a bag. The SmartBackpack, which is slated for availability in September 2015 and… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Storm eBike is crowdfunding on Indiegogo now. The campaign has rocketed to over $2.7 million on a goal of just $75,000.  But now in light of the growing exposure of an erstwhile inexpensive electric back questions have been raised from vendors already in the space…. Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Auckland, New Zealand native and first time father, Samuel Forrest, was so excited when his wife told him that they were expecting a child. Everything went well during the pregnancy and there were no worries what’s so ever on the delivery day. Unfortunately, Forrest’s life… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 10:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  With less than two weeks left until its Kickstarter campaign comes to an end, Exploding Kittens is gearing up to hit another milestone in its successful crowdfunding experience. The project has raised $5,463,316 from 138,284 backers (as of this morning). Exploding Kittens captured over a million the first… Read More

February 6, 2015 @ 9:52 am By JD Alois  |  

PathoMap ran a small crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in 2013. While the organizers did not fare so well in raising funds from the crowd, that did not deter the project from moving forward. The flexible crowdfunding campaign by Weill Cornell Medical College only raised $757… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 4:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Not only do I get the chance to embed some really cool animated Gifs but I get to let you know that Giphy is open for investors right now.  Crowdfunding via Alphaworks, if this offer is like the other ones it will subscribe very quickly… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 4:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Keeping the excitement of the Super Bowl XLIX alive, fans of singing sensation, Katy Perry, have taken to Indiegogo in an effort to get their very own Super Bowl halftime show shark suit. Adding some fun with his charity efforts, environmentalist David Lam launched a campaign… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

This equity crowdfunding campaign is so cool.  Silo is a “zero waste” restaurant, coffee house and bakery that promotes “a pre-industrial food system”. They have just closed a small funding round on Crowd2Fund.  This is described as the “first zero waste restaurant ever in the UK”. To… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 2:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Airtame, company that went from obscure Danish startup to crowdfunding hit, has closed a seed financing round for $1.4 million.  Lead investors included Danish investment firm SEED Capital and Libratone founder Tommy Andersen.  The new capital will be used to expedite a broad market release… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 9:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Thanks to her determination and supporters, cyclist Nicola Noble is set to represent Great Britain in the Sprint Duathlon at the European Championship 2015. The athlete raised more than she needed with the help of Crowdfunder UK and Plymouth University. The second year occupational therapy student qualified to compete at the championships… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 9:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Swedish brand Intimina launched its funding project for the world’s first collapsible menstrual cup, Lily Cup Compact, on crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, which recently finished with 8530 backers from over 50 countries worldwide and reached 4000% over the original crowdfunding target. This places the campaign in the top 2% of… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 11:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Compare & Share, a website that aggregates the sharing economy, has returned to the pages of Crowdcube for a second round of funding. The young company first raised capital on Crowdcube back in October of 2013.  The first crowdfunding round sought a raise of £50,000… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, a woman named Katie Cutler launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to help raise funds for Hillside Place resident Alan Barnes, an older handicap man that was knocked to the ground by the thug who attempted to rob him. In result of the mugging, Barnes… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 3:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Casetext, a free legal research website where users can read legal texts annotated by a community of practicing attorneys, announces today it has raised $7 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation from Formation 8, and former Thomson… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 2:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to stop its June 2015 closure, a supporter of the Middletown, New Jersey’s Mater Dei Prep launched a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe to raise $1 million. The campaign’s description reads, “Facing a sever multi-year financial deficit, Mater Dei Prep, Middletown will close its door in… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 1:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

A Detroit resident named James Robertson made headlines when the story about his rough work commute surfaced this week. The 56-year-old man walks from his home on Woodward Ave to catch his morning bus to Somerset Collection in Troy before he walks to his job… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 12:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community of designers, engineers and appliances users dedicated to developing and manufacturing the next generation of home appliances, launched the Paragon Induction Cooktop earlier this week with discount pricing through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Paragon enables home cooks to achieve restaurant… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 11:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wired recently reported that CNBC and Crowdnetic are teaming up to release a new crowdfinance index that aims to give the investing public an insight of how the market is evolving. Vice president and senior executive product at CNBC, Steve Lewis stated, “This is a seas… Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Storm Electronic Bike is on a trajectory to be one of the most successful rewards based crowdfunding campaigns of the year. Launched on February 1st (3 days ago), Storm eBike immediately jumped out of the gate to over a quarter million dollars and has since… Read More