Offerings

January 21, 2014 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

French crowdfunding platform WiSeed, a site that claims over 21,000 members and having raised over €6.3 million in the past years, has now facilitated OriginOil (OTCBB:OOIL) to fund Ennesys in a closed funding round.  WiSeed created a bespoke offering vehicle to allow the company to raise… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Earwig Academic Raises 128% of Goal at £180,000. Investors quickly backed Earwig software raising equity on the Crowdcube platform. The company had set a goal of raising £140,o00 but 71 investors have participated to push that amount higher.  This represented an 18% stake in the… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:19 am By JD Alois  |  

PSonar closed fully crowdfunded on SyndicateRoom having raised just over £200,000 representing 9.16% equity in the small company.  The “pay as you play” service is looking to compete with other well known music streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Rdio.  A cloud based service,… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 1:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Worlds “first citizen science project to sequence the human micro biome” – uBiome – raised $351,000 on Indiegogo in one of the largest “citizen science” crowdfunding campaigns ever.  The campaign ran from November 16, 2012 to February 18, 2013 – closing almost one year ago…. Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Well that did not take long. The crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt now stands over $105,000 on the goal of raising $80,000.  Dogecoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency, and their 1600 members put together a $30,000 donation which boosted the amount over the $100,000 level. “It is… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 4:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The crowdfunding campaign to fund the Jamaican bobsled team so they can make it to the Winter Olympics in Sochi has now become the official olympic campaign.  The project on CrowdTilt has a new administrator – Devon Harris who represents the bobsled team. In a… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 3:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hybrid Crowdfunding Campaign Easily Hits Crowdfunding Goal. The UK’s fastest growing craft beer club, Beer52, has raised £100k from the crowd to grow their online community to 10,000 members in 2014.  The Edinburgh-based startup launched on the Angels Den crowdfunding platform in December 2013 and… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Superstar comedian Will Ferrell is the next big name celebrity using the Prizeo crowdfunding platform to raise funds for his favorite charity.  Ferrell has launched a campaign to raise $100,000 for Cancer for College.  Ferrell is listed as the “celebrity spokesman” for the organization. Cancer… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The United States, The Soviet Union, China and… Penn State University? If one crowdfunding campaign can find funding, the above statement might become the list of entities that have made it to the moon. Only three of them would have had a standing army. (Nittany… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Wireless HDMI Device Stands at Over $1.1 Million in Final Hours of Campaign. As of this morning Copenhagen, Denmark based Airtame has raised $1,143,668 which is more than 7 times their initial crowdfunding goal of $160,000. Over 11,000 backers from more than 80 different countries… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Double Fine Adventure was a bit of a turning point in crowdfunded video games. When Double Fine Productions launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter seeking $400,000 in funding from the crowd, they couldn’t have imagined netting over $3 million. The road wasn’t easy from there… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 9:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

What do you do when you’ve raised almost $500,000 on a goal of just $200,000? Lumo BodyTech wants to pay it forward to a few of their favorite charities. A self-hosted crowdfunding campaign for the Lumo Lift launched earlier this month amidst the Consumer Electronics… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 12:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Sometimes reality is better than fiction.  In an interesting twist of events the Jamaican Bobsled team has just qualified for the Sochi Winter Olympics. Yes – that was a movie.  Cool Runnings hit cinemas in 1993 in a film about the first Jamaican Bobsled team… Read More

January 19, 2014 @ 6:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Asteroid Dusted Watch Blasts Crowdfunding Goal. Crowdfunding on Indiegogo, “Passages” watch by Star Trek star William Shatner and partner Egard Watches closed on Indiegogo this past week having raised $681,721 on a goal of $75,000.  This represents a 900% beat of the original fundraising objective…. Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 12:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bike System’s First-To-Market Motorcycle Heads up Display. Raises 15% Equity on Seedrs. UK based equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs allowed 156 investors to  join together to facilitate a new motorcycle heads-up display called Bike HUD.  The product will soon be delivered to customers around the world… Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Happening this weekend is one of the hottest parties in the film industry.  The Sundance Film Festival has become synonymous with independent films.  Founded in 1978 by group of film industry innovators that included film legend, demigod Robert Redford, the event has turned into one… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunded on Kickstarter where the film raised $126,020 on a $100,000 goal this past March, The Square has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This is the first Academy Award Nomination for creators Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer. The documentary film follows the events… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding Offer Set to Close Sunday.  Pay-as-you-play streaming music service PSonar is raising capital on SyndicateRoom. The equity crowdfunding offering is looking to raise £200,000 for 9.16% equity in the small company.  The offer is nearly complete and has already captured over £180,000 from… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yasumi Matsuno has teamed with California-based Playdek on a tactical RPG entitled Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians. It’s kind of a big deal. Matsuno is a huge name in video games with titles like Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII under his belt. He has… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter Project Creator Marc Barros Shares his Feedback at Campaigns Incredible Success. Moment, “Amazing Lenses for Mobile Photography” was a crowdfunding campaign we covered yesterday on their first day on Kickstarter.  The campaign set a targeted raise of $50,000.  As of today the campaign has… Read More