Offerings

July 23, 2014 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

FarmDrop launched their equity crowdfunding project just a few weeks back but the online farmers market has not had any problems finding investors.  Raising capital on Crowdcube, FarmDrop was hoping to raise £400,000 for 17% equity in the young company.  FarmDrop has quickly passed that… Read More

July 23, 2014 @ 8:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than 10 days following the launch of its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Jibo, noted as the world’s first ever family robot, has raised over $1,075,00 from more than 2,300 backers. Has reached the top 15 most funded ever on Indiegogo and has been recognized… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 10:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

West Games’ Areal, one of Kickstarter’s weirdest crowdfunding campaigns to date, hit its $50,000 goal earlier this week and then was shutdown by the crowdfunding platform today (July 22nd). The video game, created by senior ex-S.T.A.L.K.E.R. developers,  features a massive and intricately detailed open world environment… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 5:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

StarHub’s Crowdtivate, a new crowdfunding platform based out of Singapore, has officially launched with 11 projects that are from across Asia – from assistive tech products to mechanical smart watch. The platform also offers mentorship and consulting to help aspiring entrepreneurs design an effective crowdfunding… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 9:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Looking for a new way to buy a luxury watch without the high end costs? Leonard & Church are ready to bring fancy timepieces to consumers for half the price of any retail stores. The company decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform Realty Mogul, along with Kittridge Hotels & Resorts, has announced that stakes in the Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs have sold out. The Hard Rock Hotel in Palm Springs is the first operating hotel in the United States to successfully… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks following the closing of his “Reading Rainbow” campaign on Kickstarter, former host of the PBS children’s series LeVar Burton discusses his initial reaction to the project’s launch and success on the crowdfunding platform. Over 105,000 backers pledges a total of $5.4… Read More

July 21, 2014 @ 11:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Actor Zach Braff’s new film and successful Kickstarter campaign “Wish I Was Here” hit theaters last week, but now backers of the famous project reveal they are still waiting for supposed perks ranging form a free t-shirt to a live online screening hosted. The “Wish… Read More

July 21, 2014 @ 11:17 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The Ventured Life Co-Founder Tim Drager explains his team’s project, “The aim is to publish one medium-form article per week for 12 weeks in a TV-season style format. With each issue or episode, we will also publish side-content in the form of Q&As with the writers… Read More

July 21, 2014 @ 9:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Birds Patented Shuttlcock Seeks £130,000 on Equity Crowdfunding Platform SyndicateRoom. Designing a better synthetic shuttle is a big deal in the Badminton industry. In the United Kingdom there are over 2000 local clubs and roughly five million players just in the UK. For those of… Read More

July 21, 2014 @ 7:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Innovative social enterprise ‘30 Seconds Change’ is raising funds to deliver a new charity fund raising platform to your mobile phone. 30 Seconds Change, a new social enterprise, announced today the launch of its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. The funds raised, will be used to launch… Read More

July 21, 2014 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

He had big dreams of owning his hometown football club, the Doncaster Rovers, unfortunately One Direction bandmate, Louis Tomlinson, might have to let go of the idea of owning the UK-based team, at least for now. Last month, the famous singer and football player for… Read More

July 21, 2014 @ 11:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cleveland-based real estate crowdfunding platform, Vestor,  is seeking to help hotel developers to transform three neglected buildings into a LeMeridien hotel in the downtown area. According to Crain’s Cleveland Business, hotel consultant Lonnie Burghardt was close to ending a five-year quest to turn part of the stretch of… Read More

July 20, 2014 @ 9:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Setting out to bring the best and healthiest foods to the online market without being overpriced, FarmDrop has launched a £400,000 equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube to grow its business. FarmDrop is an award-winning online marketplace that allows local food producers to sell direct; a… Read More

July 20, 2014 @ 6:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

There have been more than a few crowdfunding campaigns to help finance a brewery.  One of the largest equity crowdfunding campaigns ever was the Equity for Punks campaign that came from BrewDog in Scotland.  Well now the United States may have their very own iconic… Read More

July 20, 2014 @ 5:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

It appears that New Zealand will have their very first equity crowdfunding campaign on Snowball Effect later this month, at least according to a tweet from Ripper Crowd Loyalty;   Guys! We have a launch date for our #equitycrowdfunding campaign on @snowballnz. 28/07/14. Rippr will… Read More

July 20, 2014 @ 4:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

A crowdfunding campaign launched on maverick crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt is seeking support for a mystery product.  Yep – you can back the campaign now without having any idea what you are backing.  Even better the campaign “Tilted” (became funded) when 250 mystery products were “sold”…. Read More

July 20, 2014 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

The breakaway success crowdfunding project of the summer is here:  Coolest Cooler is now the 4th  3rd most funded campaign EVER on Kickstarter.  The dark horse campaign has blasted past mega-crowdfunding hits like Veronica Mars and the campaign has not even broken a sweat.  The… Read More

July 20, 2014 @ 11:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New York-based musicians, Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell, launched a Kickstarter campaign on Thursday (July 17th) for their new album“Tomorrow You’re Going.” The project consists of their cover songs, which were produced by Larry Campbell. Initially seeking to raise $40,000, the project received 99% of… Read More

July 19, 2014 @ 11:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With over a month left over its Crowdcube campaign, new fitness concept 1Rebel has surpassed its initial £1,150,000 goal and has raised £1,225,600 from 203 investors. As previously reported by Crowdfund Insider,  1Rebel is a new fitness venture by the same team that founded Fitness First and… Read More