Offerings

March 8, 2014 @ 5:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

St Pancras based Sourced Market Stands Over £750,000 via crowdfunding CrowdBnk, has announced that funds raised to date for Sourced Market, a farmer’s market style retailer based at St Pancras station, have surpassed £750,000 and demand for investment remains high. The project, which is CrowdBnk’s… Read More

March 7, 2014 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Microcosm launched a crowdfunding round on Seedrs in September 2013.  In what may be the fastest equity crowdfunding ever, Microcosm raised £100,000 almost immediately on the day they launched.  It took just 2 hours to fully fund with individuals investing anywhere from £100 up to £12,000…. Read More

March 7, 2014 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Campaign Generates Incredible Trajectory. The objective was to raise $12,000 to help finance a simple guide light incorporated into a standard electrical outlet cover.  Crowdfunding on Kickstarter was launched on March 4th and as people discovered the project – the campaign rocketed past the $12K… Read More

March 6, 2014 @ 9:57 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

goodz’ CEO & Founder Jeffrey van Ede, the former VP of Sony Europe & CEO of Sony Germany, is leading a Seedmatch campaign that has already raised € 53,750, with 81 investors on board, surpassing their initial goal by 7% with 39 days remaining.  Seedmatch is the first German Crowdfunding… Read More

March 6, 2014 @ 10:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In what is probably the most overdue thing in the toy space, someone is trying to disrupt Mattel’s Barbie doll, often criticized for presenting a completely ridiculous and unrealistic image of the female body. The campaign is for Lammily, and it’s Barbie’s more realistic doppelgänger; a… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 10:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is a pretty cool product that offered up a pretail crowdfunding camaign on Kickstarter almost a year ago.  Lightpack is an ambient backlight system for your display.  Best thing to do is watch the pitch video and you will get it, but in brief… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 11:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, DC is almost here. The event has been celebrated for over 90 years, and the bloom is the most popular time of the year to visit DC. In the past the event has been supported by sponsors, but this… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 11:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Fundrise has slowly but surely been expanding their ability to offer shares of real estate-backed securities to non-accredited investors. The equity crowdfunding platform has just crossed a major hurdle in that fight, and it could spell a big opportunity for Maryland’s Main Street investor class…. Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdTilt has an interesting crowdfunding campaign on their platform,  “Cross Country Love” is raising money to fly New York based women to San Francisco to bridge the gender disparity between the two coastal communities.   According to the campaign their are  100,000 single women in… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

We all know that wearable tech is hot.  A future where tech is used but not seen is getting closer every day.  Today from San Carlos, California based Logbar, we have Ring crowdfunding on Kickstarter where the project almost immediately rocketed past their $250,000 goal…. Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 7:33 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With less than 60 hours to go, Sarah Mabrouk, Amy Thomasson and their Upwind Pictures team has exceeded their stretch goal and raised over $102,232 for their documentary “The Food Cure.” To date, 1,336 backers have supported their documentary.  Their  Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, highlighted two weeks… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 9:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Time for Medicine, a small company originating from the University Hospital of Wales, is crowdfunding on SyndicateRoom where they are looking to raise £300,000 to grow their innovative business. The company is addressing one of society’s most challenging issues; meeting the growing demand for quality… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 11:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Tabletop games continue to be a strong driver of growth for Kickstarter thanks in no small part to a tight-knit community of gamers and their voracious appetite for innovative games to play. Apparently Inceptor has struck a chord, because the game has raised over $50,000 with… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

The first Arab social network for books, Abjjad, has successfully crowdfunded equity in their startup on Eureeca. The small company intended on raising $120,000 USD but surpassed that goal closing at $161,776 this past week.  The Amman, Jordan based company was funded by 43 investors… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Play-i was founded by Vikas Gupta, Mikal Greaves and Saurabh Gupta — inventors, designers, programmers and parents.  The company was created to  build delightful robots for children to program and learn, developing needed skills at a very young age.  Over 30 days the Play-i raised… Read More

March 3, 2014 @ 10:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lawbite, an online legal service that offers an affordable, virtual law firm service catering to small companies, has successfully raised £172,100 on equity crowdfunding portal Crowdcube.  The offer had originally targeted a raise of £120,000 but closed at 143% of goal –  well over-funded. The… Read More

March 3, 2014 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Moov is crowdfunding now in a self-hosted effort, and it has seen some pretty impressive early success. The wearable fitness tracker surpassed a $40,000 crowdfunding goal in just 90 minutes. The device promises to be more than just a tracker, though. This actually plays… Read More

March 3, 2014 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

WebStart Bristol, an internet incubator based in Bristol, England, opened up for operations in January 2014 following a successful crowdfunding round on Seedrs in 2013.  The incubator just recently launched their next crowdfunding round to raise funding for their second fund. The first “Fund of… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 12:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Pro tip: If you want to leak out pictures of your company’s new and improved smartwatch, make sure you don’t have a bunch of crowdfunding deliveries hanging over your head. This is the problem Omate is forced to deal with now. The following Facebook post… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A Saskatoon man weighing about 600 pounds has a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe launched in his name. The campaign is seeking $30,000 to fund a weight loss surgery that he says could save his life. In an interview with Metronews.ca, 21 year old Luke Deitner explained… Read More