Offerings

April 4, 2014 @ 2:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

4NRg just launched their crowdfunding offer on SyndicateRoom and they are already 52% completed.  The unique business is raising £240,000 for a 30% stake in the company.  4NRg is a portfolio business that invests in patentable renewable energy and disaster relief engineering businesses.  4NRg brings… Read More

April 4, 2014 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Last October Pressy  “the Almighty Android Button” – crushed their crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter raising just under $700,000 on a $40,000 goal.  The Pressy team had designed an elegant android button to facilitate manual actions on Android phones.  With a simple approach and an integrated… Read More

April 3, 2014 @ 5:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

AgFunder’s first live investment opportunity on their investment crowdfunding platform, OnFarm is on it’s way to success.   OnFarm has now reached $705,000 in investor commitments, exceeding their original target goal of $400,000 in just over 30 days. The round is capped at $800,000, and will… Read More

April 3, 2014 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

So not too long ago I was searching for a standing desk and I encountered the exact same issue that Steven Yu discusses in his pitch video.  Standing at your desk is known to be good for your health and productivity, but most good ones… Read More

April 2, 2014 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

German equity crowdfunding site Companisto has announced a platform record.  The readfy funding campaign listed on Companisto raised €100,000 in just 24 hours and half a million Euros within six weeks.  Over 1300 investors came together to back the company that offers free access to ten… Read More

April 1, 2014 @ 9:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

First Equity Crowdfunding Offering in Italy Closes Overbooked. The equity crowdfunding portal Unicaseed has announced the first ever, successful share offering following the legalization of investment crowdfunding in Italy.  Unicaseed, a subsidiary of Unicasim, is the first Italian crowdfunding portal to be authorized under the… Read More

April 1, 2014 @ 8:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Dash has closed their funding round having raised $3,390,551 as 15,998 backers came together to fund this innovative product.  Dash is a wireless, smart headphone that bests any device in the market today (at least that I know about). The Dash… Read More

March 31, 2014 @ 12:09 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Fundrise recently announced their entry into the Washington DC real estate market as a crowdfunding intermediary. If deal number three is any indication, there is certainly some interest among the non-accredited crowd even as participation remains limited to investors in Maryland, Virginia and Washington DC. The… Read More

March 31, 2014 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Grammy-winning recording artist Imogen Heap has toured the world and released several hits, known for her melding of airy vocals and digital soundscapes. Now she’s taking that latter bit to a pretty incredible conclusion via a new music making device and, appropriately, a currently-running Kickstarter… Read More

March 31, 2014 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently TED corralled a group of crowdfunding cognoscenti including Yancey Strickler, Amanda Palmer, Tim Schafer (Double Fine), Ivan Askwith (Veronica Mars), Neil Gaiman, Max Temkin and several others to talk about crowdfunding their creative projects. This is an interesting discussion as each participant shares their… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sori Brewing, a Finish – Estonian startup craft brewery, is going the equity crowdfunding path to finance their small company.  Following the lead of pioneer trailblazer BrewDogs – who famously could not find money to expand their business,  the young company raised over €100,000 their first… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 5:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sian’s Plan, a meal-planning website that wants to change the way Brits buy and consume groceries has hit their crowdfunding target of raising £100,000 for 12.5% ownership in the small business. Having launched in Ireland, the business looked equity through the UK’s active crowdfunding community…. Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 3:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Abe’s Market, an all natural online retailer, raised funding on OurCrowd back in early 2013.  At that time they were doing a $5 million funding round with a portion of that via crowdfunding.  Recently they raised another $10 million as they size up to compete… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 2:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Pono Music team must be elated.  Their crowdfunding campaign that was set to raise $800,000 – not a small amount – has not surpassed $5,000,000 in crowdfunding.  Almost 15,000 supporters have backed this crowdfunding project on Kickstarter – and as we recently reported –… Read More

March 29, 2014 @ 12:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

This past week, Reddit did something previously unthinkable yet again, and it’s thanks in part to a crowdfunding campaign. At an upcoming NASCAR race at Talladega, Josh Wise’s #98 car will don Dogecoin livery. Yes, Dogecoin… the niche cryptocurrency created by a marketing junkie and… Read More

March 29, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

If there was any doubt as to whether consumers were looking for an alternative to the image currently available dolls portray for young women, shelve said doubt. More than 13,000 people want to see a new doll – Lammily – happen, and thanks to their… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 10:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Pono Music campaign continues to ascend Kickstarter’s all-time most funded list. The “end-to-end ecosystem for music lovers” has garnered nearly 15,000 backers at the time of writing and had raised just short of $5 million. Thanks everyone for all of your support. It has… Read More

March 27, 2014 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

LinguaSys has launched an equity crowdfunding round on EarlyShares and the company has already captured some high profile interest from well known investor Mark Cuban. The small company is currently looking to raise $250,000 in equity but in a prior funding round Mark Cuban jumped… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 5:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Brooklyn based Spelt Right Foods has won the Grand Prize in FreshDirect’s Next Big Food Thing contest, a crowdfunding contest launched by FreshDirect in collaboration with RocketHub to “find the next food idea, product or innovation that could change the food world.”   Spelt Right produces bagels,… Read More

March 26, 2014 @ 12:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

UK based real estate crowdfunding platform CrowdPower is raising capital on Seedrs.  The company is seeking £150,000 in shares representing 19.1% equity in the small company. CrowdPower states they want to “Revolutionise” property development. The startup intends on offering a platform where developers may list… Read More