Tagged: australia

October 25, 2013 @ 7:01 am By JD Alois  |  

BoardSuite, an integrated document management and organizational tool for directors, officers and shareholders, has announced a partnership with Australian Small Scale Offer Board (ASSOB) utilizing BoardSuite Crowdfunding Infrastructure Platform (CFIP) to help extend ASSOB’s existing commitment to cooperate transparency and compliance. ASSOB is the world’s first… Read More

October 18, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

San Francisco filmmaker Abraham Heisler is crowdfunding a film which explores the realities of the tech obsessed world of San Francisco and he is raising funds on Pozible.  The Aussie crowdfunding platform recently landed on the shores of the US launching a yankee version of their… Read More

October 15, 2013 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter has charted a course of global expansion.  Recently they launched in Canada and quickly captured an impressive list of crowdfunding campaigns from the provinces up North.  They have also been talking for some time about extending their reach into other english speaking countries and… Read More

October 9, 2013 @ 11:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Pozible, the leading Australian crowdfunding platform, recently landed on the shores of the United States – San Francisco to be exact.   Their strategic move is part of their effort to break into probably the most competitive of crowdfunding markets and they are planning some… Read More

October 7, 2013 @ 10:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Australia’s Climate Council was the victim of what some may see as austere budget cuts recently when prime minister Tony Abbott decided to shutter the agency. Professor Tim Flannery, formerly at the agency’s helm, had been displaced. However, Flannery wasn’t content to rest on his… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 3:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Australia-based Pozible is a big rewards-based crowdfunding platform on the global stage, having been in operation since 2010. Originally called “Fundbreak,” the platform was rebranded as Pozible in January of 2011. Now Pozible has set up shop in San Francisco and is set to start… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

A multidisciplinary team of historians, anthropologists and archeologists associated with several universities have set out to solve a mystery of African coins found in Australia that pre-date the current “historic” discovery of the continent. The standard view of Australian history is that British explorer Captain… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 9:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ubiquitous crowdfunding leader Kickstarter has indicated they are launching soon in both Australia and New Zealand.  The rewards based crowdfunding platform has placed a request for projects as they gear up to tackle this new market. Kickstarter also announced they will be in country hosting… Read More

July 15, 2013 @ 10:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pozible and Pebble were highlighted in World News Australia’s recent coverage of the global phenomenon that is crowdfunding. Watch below…

July 14, 2013 @ 4:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Extending reach of Crowdfunding Platform for Global Expansion of Equity Crowdfunding.  Has Formed Joint Venture for Middle East.  Plans Summer Launch. Crowdcube has formed a joint venture to launch in the Middle East – labeling the expansion “Crowdcube MENA” (Middle East North Africa).  A Joint… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Australia’s newest crowdfunding site has launched – ZoshPit.  The platform is a dedicated music crowdfunding site,  ZoshPit’s mission is to revolutionise the Australian music  industry by offering a platform tailored to the needs of artists, bands  and musicians. ZoshPit is the only crowdfunding platform based… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

An Australian researcher has taken to crowdfunding site Pozible to accept donations in an effort to create a “cultural cache,” a virtual repository of first-hand accounts and experiences directly from gamers. The PlayCache will be an evolving online archive to record, analyse and report on… Read More

May 8, 2013 @ 8:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A list of Australian crowdfunding platforms and service providers, and some can boast some pretty unique and innovative features.

May 7, 2013 @ 8:07 am By News.com.au  |  

A FORMER Sydney luxury car dealer turned heroin trafficker who was once on death row has secured his transfer home after 20 years in foreign jails by using Facebook and crowdfunding site Pozible. Martin Garnett, 45, secured the $19,287 target he needed to transfer from… Read More

April 29, 2013 @ 3:55 pm By BandT  |  

A group of 23 young Aussie entrepreneurs have launched a crowdfunding campaign to support their mission to get to the G20 Summit in Moscow in June. Shot by local production company Sambo Media, the film makes the most of the Sydney Harbour backdrop and shows… Read More

April 16, 2013 @ 10:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

StartSomeGood has partnered with leading financial services provider ING DIRECT to launch Dreamstarter, a crowdfunding initiative to boost Australia’s social enterprise sector.   Dreamstarter offers inspirational Australian entrepreneurs an online platform to raise funds towards diverse social change projects. Successful projects that capture the imagination… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 4:57 am By The Age  |  

In Colombia, it’s financing a 66-storey apartment tower that developers declare will be the “first skyscraper built by . . . common people”. And in Melbourne, it could provide specially designed dwellings for groups of like-minded owners, such as pet lovers, elderly gays and lesbians,… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 9:09 am By CNET Australia  |  

A new service has come to crowd-funding site Pozible, allowing you to select exactly who you want to be able to see a campaign. You might be wondering what could possibly be the good of that? As it turns out, plenty. The new “Private” mode… Read More

April 6, 2013 @ 7:50 am By CleanTechnica  |  

Pollinate Energy — a Sydney and Bangalore-based social enterprise NGO dedicated to using renewable resources to eradicate energy poverty in India -– has joined forces with ChipIn, a new Australian website designed to raise funds for Australian non-profits, to launch a new clean energy crowdfunding campaign. The… Read More

March 25, 2013 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Attached is the speech, in it’s entirety, as delivered by SEC Chairman Elisse Walter, presented to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) which was done by video conference yesterday for the event occurring in Sydney Australia.  While no mention of crowdfunding was directly included… Read More