Tagged: canada

November 17, 2013 @ 8:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a document published recently by the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) in Canada, the provincial regulators appear to address the issue of crowdfunding and its legality in the province.  Unlike the United States where the federal regulators have jurisdiction over regulating crowdfunding nationwide, the Canadian… Read More

November 17, 2013 @ 1:57 pm By Francis Moran  |  

The biggest mistake Canadian angel investors could make if and when equity crowdfunding is made more widely available in Canada “is to sit on the sidelines and do nothing and let crowdfunding pass them by,” says one of this country’s leading legal experts on the… Read More

November 17, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

November 20 to November 22, 2013 The Rimrock Resort Hotel, Banff, Alberta Join the National Angel Capital Organization for the largest gathering of Angel investors in Canada. Don’t miss three days of networking, workshops and knowledge sharing: Engage with Canadian Angel investors and entrepreneurs Learn… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Calgary Social Media Breakfast (SMBYYC) is pleased to announce the November Topic: Crowdfunding for Businesses With over 500 platforms that are geared towards different flavours of crowdfunding, how does a business owner decide which one to use? And even more important, how does a business… Read More

November 12, 2013 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

With only a few days left to go in this crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, LUCI, Advanced Lucid Dream Inducer was cancelled after having raised $363,302 on a goal of just $40,000.  Funds raised had reportedly broken the $400,000 mark but as allegations of fraud started… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Kairos Transmedia, a media company that develops, distributes and aggregates content on ; The Director’s Cut, The Magazine, and Spillwall.com, a social media network platform, is crowdfunding on Fundable looking to raise $1 Million in equity.  Kairos recently just surpassed the one million customer mark in… Read More

October 31, 2013 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

Toronto accounting firm Advises taxpayers that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) considers crowdfunding proceeds to be taxable. Accounting firm Mark Feldstein and Associates has released a statement to Canadian tax payers that the CRA’s stance on crowdfunding will apply to a specific scenario where a person… Read More

October 31, 2013 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Happy halloween to all of our stateside readers! USA Today | Delamaide: Crowdfunding rules help investors Do we have a “stock market rigged in favor of high-frequency traders?” According to this article yes, and it is turning investors away from the stock market. Where will… Read More

October 26, 2013 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The internet of things and a true smart home environment are coming closer to reality every day.   Energy Aware  with their Neurio Home Intelligence is one of the companies leading the way.  Crowdfunding on Kickstarter now, the project easily cruised past their $95,000 CAD… Read More

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 10, 2013 @ 7:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter officially launched in Canada on September 9th – even though they had accepted crowdfunding projects from our friends up North for some time.  The experienced a strong launch out of the gate with dozens of campaigns which quickly grew to hundreds with thousands in… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 10:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Innovative pens tend to do fairly well on rewards-based crowdfunding web sites like Kickstarter, and the Polar Pen is no exception. The “world’s first modular pen made from magnets” has raised CAD $700,000 with a week left in the campaign. To be fair, this pen… Read More

October 8, 2013 @ 10:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ll be the first in Canada to allow it, but we expect other regulators to come along, and we think this is going to be something that takes hold in all of Canada. It’s something that I think has come along because of the rise… Read More

October 6, 2013 @ 1:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Classified:  The Edward Snowden Story” has already raised $87,700 on their own crowdfunding site.  Add to that amount $746,050 raised via Bitcoin and project creators Travis Doering and Jason Bourque are well on their way to crowdfund their $1.7 Million goal. Bourque will be the… Read More

October 3, 2013 @ 10:59 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Peachy Printer is a small form factor 3D printer raising money on Kickstarter. The Canadian project launched with a goal of $50,000 CAD, but to date it has raised over 10 times that goal with 17 days left in the campaign. We want to… Read More

October 2, 2013 @ 3:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Canadian platform FundRazr wants to be known as the easy to use crowdfunding platform for everyone.  They have been doing a pretty fantastic job of achieving this goal.  Recently they were tapped for a new television show about crowdfunding.  Earlier this year, Fundrazr announced having… Read More

September 25, 2013 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Impact investing crowdfunding platform Social Venture Connexion (SVX) rang the bell last week on the Toronto Stock Exchange, thus officially launching their new platform.  The Ontario Securities Commission had issued an “exemptive relief order” earlier this year to allow the non-profit entity SVX to sell… Read More

September 25, 2013 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedUps Canada to Capture First Mover Advantage in the Canadian Crowdfunding Market Canada based Crowd Capital has signed an agreement with SeedUps to launch an investment crowdfunding platform where ordinary investors may invest in listed companies.  As part of the new agreement, the company will… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 12:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Join Kickstarter’s own Kendel Ratley and Stephanie Pereira for a primer on how to bring a Kickstarter project to life. We’ll take a look at some successful projects from across the site and discuss what kind of rewards work best, how to spread the word… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 7:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter announced today their entry into Canada was off to a booming start.  Already 125 projects have launched (This past Monday the official launch date they had several dozen) and they have 3,196 in the queue prepping to launch.  Not too bad, eh? From Medicine… Read More