Tagged: austria

June 14, 2016 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Germany represents the fourth largest economy in the world, ahead of the UK and following  the economy of Japan.  The German economy is dominated by the Mittlestand: small and medium-sized companies, many which are family owned, that fuel prosperity with their robust productivity. These smaller… Read More

January 26, 2016 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Following a €600,000 investment, Investly has launched a peer to peer lending platform targeting UK SMEs. Investly is an invoice finance platform similar to market leader MarketInvoice. SpeedInvest, a venture capital group that has been active in the Fintech space, provided the financing to enable… Read More

December 8, 2015 @ 11:12 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Companisto, the German market leader in equity crowdfunding, has now become the first equity crowdfunding platform in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland to raise a total of over €25 million. Globally, equity crowdfunding is growing rapidly. This type of financing, based on private individuals’ teaming up and investing… Read More

October 6, 2015 @ 9:04 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Companisto,  the leading equity crowdfunding platform in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with an annual financing volume of €12 million, has published information on the business development of start-ups financed through its platform for the first time. The platform has analyzed the development of share values between… Read More

September 28, 2015 @ 4:00 am By Therese Torris  |  

Crowdfunding, in particular in its presales form, has proven an excellent channel to accelerate the process of innovation and lower its risk. It enables entrepreneurs to get early feedback and submit their prototypes and service concepts to the ultimate market test: the customers’ willingness to… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing its global expansion, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced that it has opened shop for five European countries: Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Kickstarter revealed on Tuesday: “We’re thrilled to announce that Kickstarter is now available to creators in five more European countries: Austria, Belgium,… Read More

May 17, 2015 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The German Crowdfunding Network has just published first quarter 2015 numbers for the crowdfunding market.  It is interesting to note that both debt based and equity based crowdfunding jumped significantly versus Q4 of 2014.  The association also tracks rewards based as well – this sector… Read More

March 12, 2015 @ 11:31 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Freygeist has developed a globally unique e-bike that combines all advantages of a modern e-bike with the design and weight of a conventional bicycle for the first time. Freygeist is one of the first companies to focus on the promising global market of urban mobility…. Read More

February 4, 2015 @ 7:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Switzerland’s “most successful” crowdfunding platform wemakeit is celebrating its 3rd anniversary and  has “big plans” for the future.  Since the site launched, wemakeit has financed 7.5 million Swiss Francs for diverse projects.  Having commenced operations focused more on cultural campaigns, wemakeit is now generating more… Read More

November 29, 2014 @ 1:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Chamber of Labour in Austria (AK) strives to represent the interests of 3.4 million employees and consumers in the country.  Basically the organization focuses on social and economic policy and engages in political discourse to advocate on behalf of their constituents. The below document… Read More

September 2, 2014 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Global Rockstar has been labeled the “worlds largest online music contest”.  The online competition is seeking to uncover the next music phenomena.   Any musician may submit an original track until September 30th.  Organizers state that in 2013, more than 2,400 artists from 73 different… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 5:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Come and meet the local crowdfunding ecosystem at CrowdTuesday! Below the program of CrowdTuesday Vienna, organized by 1000×1000: >Presentation by Reinhard Willfort, ECN member – current state of European Crowdfunding >Presentation by Martin Freiberger, entrepreneur – project presentation „Schneeerlebniswelt“ – „Snowexperienceworld“ >Presentation by Johannes Freudenthaler &… Read More

January 3, 2013 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Young entrepreneurs are cautiously optimistic. They worry about the bank’s reluctance to grant loans. Young Austrian entrepreneurs would like to see more emphasis on alternate means of financing such as crowdfunding in the near future. The shoe manufacturer Heini Staudinger from Waldviertel is… Read More

December 5, 2012 @ 10:34 am By Wired.co.uk  |  

To level the playing field against the enormous warrior Goliath, biblical hero David had a sling and five stones. To level the playing field against global internet powerhouse Facebook, a persistent group of Austrian law students have a crowdfunding website. The site, crowd4privacy.org, is where the… Read More

December 4, 2012 @ 9:21 pm By The Sydney Morning Herald  |  

An Austrian student group plans to go to court in a bid to make Facebook do more to protect the privacy of its 1 billion users. Campaign group europe-v-facebook, which has been lobbying for reforms at the US company for more than a year, said… Read More

November 28, 2012 @ 1:00 pm By Austrian Times  |  

In an ongoing battle with the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) over crowdfunding the shoe entrepeneur Heini Staudinger has said that he will not back down and he is prepared to go to prison. Staudinger believes that businesses should be independent from bank loans and… Read More

November 15, 2012 @ 10:29 am By Krone.at  |  

(Staff Translation) Gea (Name of Austrian Shoe Manufacturer – gea.at) Boss being targeted by the Financial Markets Authority (FMA): Austrian Chamber of Commerce Boss Chef Leitl is mediating Austrian Chamber of Commerce President Christoph Leitl is now mediating in the case of a Waldviertler (Austrian… Read More

November 15, 2012 @ 8:30 am By FinanzNachrichten  |  

(Staff Translation) Le Locle – It has only been a few weeks that DuBois et fils, the oldest watchmaking company in Switzerland, has offered company equity as part of a crowdfunding project. Already more than 150 investors have been found investing between 500 and 10.000… Read More