Tagged: australia

March 13, 2014 @ 10:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Australian employment website CareerOne has announced their intention to launch a crowdfunding platform sometime this year, but they won’t go it alone. CareerOne CEO Karen Lawson told Business Insider Australia that the platform is looking to team with an existing rewards-based crowdfunding site. Her comments allude… Read More

March 6, 2014 @ 1:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pozible Calls Out Other Crowdfunding Platforms to Share Numbers. According to publicly available information put together by Pozible, the Australian platform has the highest crowdfunding success rate in the USA at 45%.  Globally, Pozible’s campaign success rate is 56%.  With pledges of over $1million a… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 12:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australia based crowdfunding platform Pozible has opened their doors in the most populous country in the world.  Having recently launched country specific iterations of their crowdfunding portal in Singapore, Pozible has now launched a Mandarin version powered by an international team to support project creators… Read More

February 19, 2014 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Australia based equity crowdfunding platform VentureCrowd has officially opened for business today.  The platform, which allows wholesale investors to take equity positions in innovative high growth-potential startups, opened this morning with over 200 registered investors and 36 startups which have been pre-screened by the best… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 3:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Israel based equity crowdfunding company OurCrowd has announced they are moving into the Australian market to extend their investment platform.  OurCrowd, led by founder Jon Medved, has hired a local team to develop the new market.  David Shein, Nathan Cher and Geoff Levy will be… Read More

February 16, 2014 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

Petitious, a crowdfunding site for pets and animals has announced their forthcoming launch scheduled for March 1, 2014.  The Australia based crowdfunding platform was founded by Monika Mileva. Petitious is a new way of raising money for pet and animal projects, ventures, non-profits, start-ups, products… Read More

February 15, 2014 @ 2:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

DocWeek, Australia’s international documentary film festival takes place in Adelaide, March  4-9, 2014.  The Aussie crowdfunding platform is once again slated to partner on the event with the Pozible Pitch. Four crowdfunded films have been selected by Pozible and DocWeek for the Pozible Pitch.  The… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Pozible just recently moved into their new offices in Melbourne where apparently they have quite a bit of extra space.  So what better way to put that space to work than screening some really cool films that were funded on the Pozible crowdfunding platform.  Pozible… Read More

February 5, 2014 @ 9:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Australian rock band Twelve Foot Ninja took to Australia-based crowdfunding platform Pozible in an effort to crowdfund a music video. The campaign ended in May of 2013 after raising $52,600 on a goal of $45,000. The big news at the time was that the campaign… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 11:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

If you are interested in launching a crowdfunding campaign and need a place to hang out while putting in those 20 hour days this could be for you.  Aussie crowdfunding platform Pozible has announced “The Pozible Residency” which is similar to doing a medical residency:… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 9:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Multifaceted crowdfunding platform Pozible is now offering musicians the opportunity to have their crowdfunded albums, singles (yes both physical and digital) plus merchandise orders fulfilled by MGM’s retail subsidiary, Waterfront Records.  As described by Pozible this allows music crowdfunders to: Fulfill the crowdfunding orders of your album, singles (physical and digital) and/or merchandise…. Read More

January 9, 2014 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Previously announced this past September, Australia based crowdfunding platform Pozible has announced their version of embeddable, self-hosted, crowdfunding is today live and available.  Pozible’s self-hosted approach is designed for users who have their own web presence, who want to use their own branding and who… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 10:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading Australia based crowdfunding platform has announced they have “spread their wings” and hit the shores of both Malaysia and Singapore in Southeast Asia.  Crowdfunders in both of these countries are now able to crowd fund in their own currencies:  Malaysian Ringit and Singapore Dollars…. Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Super Awesome Micro Project is a basically a car built out of Lego.  With the exception of the wheels and a few load bearing elements the entire car, which has a top speed of about 20 to 30 KMh, has been constructed with Lego…. Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

SocietyOne is changing the way loans are funded in Australia.  The company launched their first fully compliant Peer-to-Peer lending platform back in August of 2012.  SocietyOne operates their own proprietary loan management platform called ClearMatch which provides safe and secure online loan applications and document… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Coming from our friends in Australia (Glen Innes to be exact) is a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo which raised 50% of its goal in only 8 hours.   SmarterPlay, created by Australian entrepreneur Brendon Watson plays music from a mobile phone to any FM stereo. For… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 1:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The competent operation of the crowdfunding platform or portal is essential for the prevention of fraud in equity crowdfunding. Based on my experience with the ASSOB platform we have learned that it is very unlikely that fraudsters would be bothered jumping through all the hoops… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 12:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Paul Niederer | Crowdfunding and Innovation Paul Niederer is the founder of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB) and an equity crowdfunding pioneer. On his blog, he explains that crowdfunding is about more than just raising money and goes on to explain how crowdfunding… Read More

November 17, 2013 @ 5:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coming out of Sydney, Australia, Ninja Blocks have logged their second success using the Kickstarter to launch a new product.  In March of 2012 they raised $102,935 on a goal of $24,000 for their first step in creating a dynamic interconnected world with their Ninja… Read More

October 28, 2013 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

With Bitcoin virtual currency growing in popularity, global crowdfunding platform Pozible has become the first major crowdfunding platform to accept Bitcoin as pledges on their site.  One advantage of Bitcoin is the extremely low transaction costs, particularly suited to large pledges or international pledges otherwise… Read More