Offerings

December 26, 2014 @ 3:52 am By JD Alois  |  

As reported earlier this week, Mill Residential became the first successfully crowdfunded REIT to publicly trade shares on the LSE’s AIM market.  The company raised capital on Syndicate Room with the intent of listing soon after the offer closed on the equity crowdfunding platform.  According… Read More

December 24, 2014 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Future Make, a Wilmington startup that invents new technological things to make life safer and colorful, recently hit crowdfunding giant Kickstarter with its brand new cool-ink 3D pen called Polyes Q1. According to the campaign, Polyes is considered the first 3D printing pen with blue light and… Read More

December 24, 2014 @ 10:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to help a homeless person in need, a California man by the name of Josh Lin has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise funds for Thomas, the man in the new video How Does a Homeless Man Spend $100. The video was created to see what… Read More

December 24, 2014 @ 4:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Kiwi equity crowdfunding site Snowball Effect started offering investments online this past August launching with crowd favorite Renaissance Brewing followed by film project The Patriarch and CarbonScape.  Each crowdfunding campaign successfully surpassed its minimum funding target closing over-funded.  The three investment offers raised in aggregate… Read More

December 23, 2014 @ 2:34 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

With the support of over 103 investors, Bitreserve, the money service that makes using digital money easy, fast and free,  reached its £6M goal and is currently overfunding for the 10.70% equity offered through Venovate Marketplace, a U.S.-based brokerage platform for alternative investing, and London-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube.  Earlier… Read More

December 23, 2014 @ 9:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, Caterham F1 racing team launched a crowdfunding campaign on 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…. Read More

December 23, 2014 @ 8:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Seven crowdfunding projects were launched by Gujarat Technological University (GTU) Innovation Council and Indian online platform, Start51. The projects selected for crowdfunding are for an online portal for collection of leftover food,  Gujarat’s first Parkour academy, an electric circuit with a paint brush,  an open virtual classroom… Read More

December 23, 2014 @ 7:45 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The London Stock Exchange has today seen its first “combined IPO”, after a company successfully floated with investment from both crowdfunding and institutional investors. The Mill Residential REIT invests in buy-to-let property and has listed on AIM with a market capitalization of £3.5million.  According to… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 1:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Blurb, the independent book and magazine publishing platform, today announced that wine blogger and Blurb author Alder Yarrow’s first book, The Essence of Wine: Celebrating the Delights of the Palate, made the New York Times’ Best Wine Books of 2014 list which is compiled by wine writer, Eric… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Cross border crowdfunding offers have only recently started to percolate up on various crowdfunding platforms.  While there have only been a few to date, one would expect these dynamic offers to be foreshadowing a future of crowdfunded securities  that are not constrained by national borders.  Tracemyfile, a cloud… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 10:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring a whole new security system to the market, Amsterdam-based Amaryllo International, Inc. recently hit Indiegogo to raise funds for its new product, the iCamPRO FHD. The device is considered the first domestic robot that tracks intruders that enter a home. iCamPRO FHD… Read More

December 20, 2014 @ 11:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Del Marth LLC, the manufacturers of StoneTether, a new wireless tracking device, has experienced staggering success crowdfunding on  Kickstarter.  The campaign launched with a goal of  only $15,000 but closed over $366,000 as nearly 7000 backers helped to fund the project. As previously reported, StoneTether is a micro-device that… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 5:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Las Vegas-based Funforge, LLC. launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $80,000 for its new cooperative survival boardgames called ZNA. According to its campaign, ZNA takes place in Boston. The year is 2015 and the city has been struck by a storm of… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 3:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Taking time away from her successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, co-creators of StyleLikeU and the web series I Am What’s Underneath, Lily Mandelbaum sat down with BUST to share details about the project and today’s body image issues. As previously reported by CrowdfundInsider, I Am What’s… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 11:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter staff pick and space fan favorite Lunar Mission One successfully hit its crowdfunding goal raising over $1 million with the support of over 7200 backers.  Called the “most inspirational mission to the moon since the Apollo landings” the crowdfunded project hopes to send a… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With 3721 backers for a total of $275,420 collected on crowdfunding platform Tilt, the functional and elegant Vesper vibrator necklace becomes the most successful (having shipped to all its backers) sex toy project on a crowdfunded pre-order platform. As CoolHunting raved, “Wearable tech has never been… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 9:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stephen Amell, star of The CW hit series Arrow, recently partnered with Represent, a rapidly growing platform for creating and selling custom merchandise, to generate $947,380 in sales in support of the F&ck Cancer charity. The campaign initially lasted three weeks and sold 21,351 shirts, but… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 5:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Clearing the air of any confusion and accusations, CEO of San Carlos-based Logbar, Takuro Yoshida, addressed the issues that backers of Kickstarter-success Ring Wearable Tech through a new YouTube video. Previously, Yoshida revealed his thought about the comments that Gizmodo had made about the ring. The website, which… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Retake, the new gay indie film starring Luke Pasqualino (UK’s Skins, The Borgias) as a male prostitute has been given the greenlight.  Nick Corporon, director of the LGBT festival favorite short film Barbie Boy is directing from his own screenplay, with a story by Corporon, Gareth Dutton, Collin Brazie,… Read More

December 18, 2014 @ 11:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last year, the very popular (and delicious) Pizza Rossa launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube and took home £440,000 in just 17 days. Since then the company has opened a shop at London Wall, along with a pop-up at Leadenhall Market. Now, the startup… Read More