Tagged: canada

September 3, 2014 @ 1:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Setting mood lighting  just got easier, at least that’s what Toronto-based inventors Gimmy Chu, Tom Rodinger, and Christain Yan state anyway. The three self proclaiming “tree-huggers” launched a $30,000 crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for Nanoleaf Blooms, the dimmable light bulbs that do not need a dimmer…. Read More

August 11, 2014 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdfundSuite is a new funding hub that has been launched to enable both existing crowdfunding channel players and interested private capital industry stakeholders to successfully navigate and profit from the exploding Alternative Funding sector. CrowdfundSuite seeks to provide platform access, services and education across the… Read More

July 18, 2014 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian-based Morgentaler Abortion Clinic may have surpassed its crowdfunding campaign goal on Fundrazr of $100,000 to keep its doors open in its New Brunswick location, but the organizers have announced the center will be closing its doors on Friday (July 19th) after all. As previously… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Smart Crowdfunding LLC has brought mainstream crowdfunding to the younger generation. Their new platform, Crowd-Fund-Kids, launched in July 2014, and will initially be available in four countries: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada.  However, they plan on expanding their platform into more countries in the near future.  Crowd-Fund-Kids will not… Read More

July 16, 2014 @ 2:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian-based crowdfunding platform GreedyGiver has launched a new program called the Perk Marketplace. It is estimated that 70% of all crowdfunding campaigns fail to reach their target goal due to a variety of reasons such as the inability to tell a compelling story or lack or reach…. Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to stop the closing of the only private abortion clinic in the Maritimes, Fredericton-based Morgentaler Clinic launched a crowdfunding campaign on FundRazr to raise $100,000. Within a week and a half, the project has surpassed half of its goal. According to The Star, the… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Potato Salad Kickstarter campaign has quickly become an internet meme and will soon become an urban legend.  The thought that a $10 crowdfunding campaign to make … Potato Salad.. could raise over $40,000 (and depending on the time and day much more) is pretty… Read More

July 7, 2014 @ 7:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stepping up to help a love one in need, 7-year-old Quinn Callender has launched a YouCaring campaign to raise funds for his friend Brayden, who has been struggling with a terrible disease known. Although he was only looking to raise $20,000, the British Columbia resident… Read More

July 5, 2014 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

 Crowdfunding – Igniting Entrepreneurship in Canada! European Union Chamber of Commerce | Marie Larsson | July 3, 2014   Speaker: Craig Asano,  Executive Director & Founder, National Crowdfunding Association of Canada (NCFA Canada) Crowdfunding is an innovative way to access start up funds for new projects and… Read More

July 3, 2014 @ 3:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Indiegogo has announced a new iPhone app for Canada. This is the first of what is expected to be a global roll out of mobile versions of its funding technology. According to the Globe and Mail, the global crowdfunding company stated Canada was chosen because… Read More

June 24, 2014 @ 1:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Every day, entrepreneurs have turned to crowdfunding to fund their new business or product and are given two types of options for the campaign, all-or-nothing and flexible funding, also known as keep-it-all. Both possess great perks, but the key question for each campaign would be… Read More

June 24, 2014 @ 11:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Journalism Crowdfunding Campaign Finds Success on Indiegogo. There have been more than a few crowdfunding campaigns launched in support of independent journalism and frankly many have failed but this one out of Canada just closed and beat their goal on Indiegogo. As most people know,… Read More

June 20, 2014 @ 8:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canada based organic manufacturing company Eggshell Resources, has chosen Optimize Capital Markets to list its equity crowdfunding offering for a total of $3 million in growth capital and product development. Eggshell Resources,  has developed a technology that extracts the protein and calcium from eggshells to… Read More

June 20, 2014 @ 7:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

It is an accepted norm that one has to be in Silicon Valley to make it big in an internet startup or New York City to get to the top of the finance industry or Los Angeles for the movie business. One of the reasons… Read More

June 18, 2014 @ 12:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdtilt, a crowdfunding platform that helps users fund experiences, purchases, and causes with help from their friends, family, and extended network, announced today that the San Francisco company is now available to the people of Canada. In just a few weeks, the local Crowdtilt team… Read More

June 16, 2014 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is something that doesn’t happen to often. The MBLOK campaign on Kickstarter hit their $120,00 CAD crowdfunding goal last Thursday, June 12th – only to see backers abandon the project as questions arose to the viability of the device. MBLOK, a hardware device we… Read More

June 16, 2014 @ 9:44 am By Tessa MacDougall  |  

Large companies operate differently than startups and entrepreneurs, but can still use the same tool – crowdfunding. There is a global push towards Corporate Social Responsibility and creating shared value, which has been embraced by many companies like Cisco, Nestle, and Intel (to name a… Read More

June 13, 2014 @ 6:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mitomics Seeks $5 Million in Equity Crowdfunding on Optimize Capital Markets. Mitomics has positioned their company to be a leaders in the niche market of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) technology. They claim their unique structural and functional characteristic of mtDNA make it a highly sought after system… Read More

June 8, 2014 @ 8:57 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Pulsar Capitalizes on Fast Growing LED Industry. It’s an exciting time for Pulsar, a well-established UK-based manufacturer of LED lighting, which has raised over £356,000 in its equity crowdfunding campaign on Syndicate Room.  A significant portion of funds raised to date, £250,000,  has notably been… Read More

June 4, 2014 @ 5:50 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Shakespeare by the Sea (SBTS), the Halifax-based theatre group, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $20k the day after their Point Pleasant Park establishment was damaged by a fire. The unfortunate incident left the exterior and attic completely destroyed and the company is looking… Read More