Tagged: australia

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

March 24, 2013 @ 2:15 pm By The Age  |  

Musicians are used to numbers that measure their success, from their position on the charts to a gig’s attendance figure. But for some the most important number now is the amount they have raised for their next project through crowdfunding. Using the internet to put… Read More

March 24, 2013 @ 10:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Current SEC Chairman Elisse Walter will be delivering a speech to the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) via video this week where she will address issues of  international co-operation amongst security regulators.  According to The Australian, she was originally to attend the conference but due… Read More

March 2, 2013 @ 9:01 am By PerthNow  |  

MORE than 170 WA projects have been listed on crowdfunding site Pozible since its inception in 2010, founder Alan Crabbe said. And West Australians have enjoyed more luck than the rest of the country, with 56 per cent of projects listed reaching their funding target,… Read More

February 20, 2013 @ 8:07 am By SmartPlanet  |  

Inside an enterprising Melbourne city co-working office on Bourke Street, the Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible is preparing for DocWeek, a live documentary crowdfunding event in Adelaide. The world first pitch is planned to coincide with the release of Pozible’s mobile platform — both initiatives form part of the… Read More

February 12, 2013 @ 5:18 am By TheMusic.com.au  |  

Australian indie stalwarts Underground Lovers announced on Thursday night, at midnight, that they would be using crowdfunding platform Pledge Music to raise the revenue required to make Weekend, the follow up album to 2011’s Wonderful Things. The band reached their financial goal over the weekend, with 100 percent of… Read More

February 9, 2013 @ 7:13 am By FasterLouder  |  

Eskimo Joe have completed the most successful crowdfunding exercise by an Australian artist through the Pozible website. In November of last year the band announced they were seeking $40,000 to pay for the independent recording of their sixth album, having parted ways with their label. As of… Read More

January 13, 2013 @ 12:02 pm By Australia Broadway World  |  

The Butterfly Club announced on Friday 11 January that it had achieved its $130,000 target to relocate from South Melbourne to the city centre. The bulk of the money raised has come from two arts foundations as well as a critical $23,700 raised from hundreds… Read More

January 11, 2013 @ 8:12 am By The Australian  |  

Kidder Williams, whose client list has included companies such as Bega, Tassal and Nufarm, has launched KidderApp, an investment fund set up to help entrepreneurs take their applications — commonly called “apps” — to market. With about 13,000 new apps approved every month on the… Read More

January 2, 2013 @ 9:52 pm By Crowdfunding Down Under  |  

I believe there is some confusion over the use of the word ‘crowdfunding’ creating misuse. Let’s look at the two parts of the word crowdfunding: Funding – funds are generally considered to be money and funding is the receipt of money. I believe that is clear… Read More

December 8, 2012 @ 9:25 am By The Sydney Morning Herald  |  

Technological innovation means children are more digitally connected than ever before and, sadly, more exposed to cyberbullying. But technology does not need to make their life hell. For one creative dad, the internet has proven the catalyst for a tool to help youngsters deal with… Read More

November 23, 2012 @ 8:33 am By The Sydney Morning Herald  |  

TWO weekends ago in London, music executive Dick Miller was chilling at home. His wife asked him to listen to something that had been recommended to her on Spotify, the new internet music streaming service. It was a Melbourne band, The April Maze, so little… Read More

November 12, 2012 @ 5:57 am By JD Alois  |  

This is a podcast recorded at the Emerging Writers’ Festival Roadshow. The Emerging Writers’ Festival returned to the NSW Writers’ Centre, to present the best of their annual ten-day festival in a special one-day event, including a series of panels and discussions about writing, writers… Read More