Tagged: asia

February 24, 2014 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Hardware crowdfunding platform HWTrek (Hardware Trek),  will be participating along with experts from leading global entities at the Hardeggs iFuture Hardware Competition in Beijing, China on March 14, 2014. Focused on the innovative hardware trend and implementing hardware-software combinations, this event integrates world-class resources in… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 10:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jon Medved of OurCrowd recently appeared on Bloomberg’s “On The Move Asia” discussing how equity crowdfunding and ourCrowd are democratizing access to capital for Israeli startups. Specifically, he addresses an often-cited criticism of equity crowdfunding: why can’t these deals just get funding from angel investors… Read More

November 26, 2013 @ 9:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Seeks to Catalyze $1 Billion of Crowdfunded Investments in Solar by 2020. Over the next decade, SunFunder expects solar energy to leapfrog the electricity grid in developing countries much like innovation of mobile phones quickly surpassed landlines. The SunFunder crowdfunding platform is dedicated to financing… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 2:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Details have not yet been announced.

November 5, 2013 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunding has yet to take off in Asia like it has in the US, Europe and Australia. Having said that, two recent pieces of news involving Hong Kong-based crowdfunding platforms suggest that entrepreneurs are increasing their efforts at mobilizing capital in Asia via crowdfunding. These… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Tech is very hot in the crowdfunding world these days.  Devices like the ōllo clip, Pebble Smartwatch and Ouya game console have proven the power of crowdfunding a product – from concept to shipped reality.  Many successful hardware products are conceived and engineered in the… Read More

June 29, 2013 @ 12:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

The high profile Singapore based crowdfunding campaign for the 3D printer for everyone, labeled “Bucaneer”, closed today.  Starting with an original goal of “only” $100,000.00 the team at Pirate3D blew past that amount to raise an incredible $1,438.765 from 3520 backers.  Pledge levels started at… Read More

June 7, 2013 @ 8:15 am By Kristin Voinovich  |  

In mid – May a party was held in Shanghai, China, at the Hult International Business School.  The event was held in recognition of the launch of SeedAsia – the first Pan Asia equity crowdfunding platform to service the region. Many prominent business leaders were… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 4:15 am By Shanghaiist  |  

A group of Hong Kong students are raising money online to run full-page adverts opposing the “mainlandisation of HK universities”, according to their Facebook page. The campaign comes just over a year after the Apple Daily ran a full-page advert attacking mainland “locusts” for swarming… Read More

April 25, 2013 @ 7:32 am By Tech in Asia  |  

If two is company, and three’s a crowd, does seven make it crowdfunding? The seven-man team at The Spark Project would like to make it so. Though the idea of bringing the technology of crowdfunding to the Philippines has been around for a while, it was only last… Read More

April 13, 2013 @ 2:09 am By Asian Correspondent  |  

A sub-category in film genre by format, shorts were never unheard-of in Mainland China. However, it was not until late 2010 that they suddenly gained millions of Chinese fans. The watershed film is Old Boys, a 42-minute short about unfulfilled dreams and aspirations as people grow old… Read More

February 25, 2013 @ 8:14 pm By SGEntrepreneurs  |  

If there’s an Oscars-related story more fascinating than Anne Hathaway’s unsurprising win for Best Supporting Actress in Les Misérables, it has to be this: a Kickstarter-funded short film has won an Oscar. Inocente — which tells the tale of a 15-year-old girl in pursuit of her dream… Read More

January 28, 2013 @ 2:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdonomic, the latest crowdfunding site from Singapore, launches to help startups raise money. But how viable is crowdfunding as a source of financing? Earlier last week, Crowdonomic launched as Singapore’s first professionally run reward-based crowdfunding service, with 6 fundraising campaigns by home-grown start-ups, each targeting to raise up to… Read More

January 21, 2013 @ 7:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Singapore’s first professionally run reward-based crowdfunding platform launches, Crowdonomic, launches to the public on 23 January with 6 crowdfunding campaigns by home-grown start-ups, each targeting to raise up to S$ 30,000 from their supporters. Crowdonomic is unique because it is Asia’s first crowdfunding platform for… Read More

January 9, 2013 @ 12:04 am By Channel News Asia  |  

SINGAPORE: Asia-focused private equity raised roughly US$30 billion in 2011 according to a report last year by Private Equity International. However, with more than half of that goes into China and India, startups in the rest of Asia are left with fewer funding options. According… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 8:03 am By TechinAsia  |  

Yesterday, the event known as Crowdsourcing Week announced its first ever global conference on crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, and open innovation that will run from June 3 to 7, 2013. This five-day event in Singapore will focus on how “a crowd of people” can make remarkable contributions… Read More

December 11, 2012 @ 3:00 am By Jennifer James, Babble  |  

Have you heard of Catapult? It’s a new crowdfunding web site where all dollars donated go specifically to programs that benefit women and girls; not to overhead or salaries, but to the specific programs you choose to donate to. I have been periodically giving to projects in… Read More

December 3, 2012 @ 7:49 am By Tech in Asia  |  

Social Innovations Camp Asia, which was help in Kuala Lumpur last month. The event centered around developing a number of worthwhile social initiatives, including Blood Donors Network and sex-ed application ThatApp. And while it’s great to see events like SI Camp get behind this sort… Read More

October 31, 2012 @ 1:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Platformed creativity. Creative commerce. The maker movement. These words could very well become mainstream vernacular in the near future, not just in the West, but also in Asia. Several digital trends are converging to make that happen. E-commerce and smartphone adoption are on the rise, and tastes in… Read More

October 25, 2012 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

It often seems that in order to start a successful business in China you have to have the right guanxi to gain the patronage necessary to fund your dreams. Many of China’s most successful firms owe their success to good relations with the government. Chinese… Read More