Tagged: chance barnett

March 3, 2017 @ 12:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder announced on Thursday it has formed a partnership with virtual startup Pinkubator to provide support for women-led/focused entrepreneur businesses. The duo revealed that the partnership aims to streamline start-to-finish business processes for entrepreneurs. From accessing Pinkubator’s membership services, which includes national mentorship… Read More

December 13, 2016 @ 1:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

California-based eyeCam, Inc. has successfully secured $1.5 million in reservations through Crowdfunder. The startup was originally seeking $500,000 for its wearable platform. The company stated its patented 3-D interfacing and adaptive display system would change the way consumers use wearables to communicate, perform tasks,  and interface with the… Read More

November 16, 2016 @ 11:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Crowdfunder announced it signed a partnership agreement with IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, which is described as a $5 million artificial intelligence (AI) global competition that challenges teams to develop and demonstrate how humans can collaborate with powerful AI technologies to tackle the world’s greatest… Read More

August 2, 2016 @ 10:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Indiegogo alum, ieCrowd, announced the launch of its Crowdfunder equity crowdfunding campaign. The company’s key focus is to bring health innovations to the marketplace and its previous Indiegogo campaign was dedicated to its DEET-free mosquito repellent, Kite Shield. The company revealed: “ieCrowd’s commercialization process… Read More

May 13, 2016 @ 12:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, Crowdfunder co-founder and CEO, Chance Barnett sat down at the Milken Global Conference to discuss crowdfunding platform’s growth and development over the years. Crowdfunder now provides unprecedented access, for both experienced institutional investors and everyday investors, to early-stage deals from many of Silicon Valley’s leading… Read More

April 28, 2016 @ 12:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, equity crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder announced that it has appointed Steven McClurg as its new president and chief operating officer. Prior to joining Crowdfunder, McClurg served as managing director at global investment and advisory firm, Guggenheim Partners. He was responsible for various areas of the investment… Read More

April 7, 2016 @ 2:50 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Crowdfunder now provides unprecedented access — for both experienced institutional investors and everyday investors — to early-stage deals from many of Silicon Valley’s leading VC firms.  Crowdfunder has launched a VC Index Fund which co-invests with a select list of leading VCs (the Index), investing $100,000 per deal… Read More

November 18, 2015 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Mobile live video platform, Hang w/, has launched a funding round through equity crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder.  The company is a startup whose investors and advisors reportedly include 50 Cent, Timbaland, Jared Leto and more. Hang w/ offers patent-pending technology, which is ready to scale… Read More

June 8, 2015 @ 4:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to get his latest music venture, Playground Sessions, off the ground, industry vet Quincy Jones and Chris Vance are seeking $1.5 million in capital on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder. Playground Sessions is described as a music learning software company that uses video tutorials… Read More

May 7, 2015 @ 9:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digitzs  a new merchant payment platform, announced the launch of an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder to raise $500,000. Digitzs founders, Laura Wagner and the first CFO of PayPal, David Jaques, will use the funds to complete the Digitzs’ suite of payment solutions, which will launch this… Read More

April 22, 2015 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder has now funded 50 companies, according to information received from the company.  No total dollar figure was available but Crowdfunder states its investor / entrepeneur network is now over 100,000 individuals – an impressive sum.  Crowdfunder did release total numbers for… Read More

October 7, 2014 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Funding Follows High Profile Success of Neil Young’s Pono Equity Crowdfunding Offer. In an oversubscribed offer, equity crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder.com has raised a Series A round of financing from a combination of VC funds, notable investors like Tim Draper, along with a crowd of individual accredited investors…. Read More

August 20, 2014 @ 4:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

While the crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter was pretty amazing the equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder has rocketed through expectations.  PonoMusic, the vision of famed recording star Neil Young, took only 7 days to raise $6 million in equity.  On Kickstarter it took 35 days to… Read More

August 13, 2014 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

PonoMusic raised over $6.2 million on Kickstarter this past April, a campaign that saw just about every living rock star endorse the innovative product. Now with strong consumer demand, Pono has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder seeking to raise a minimum of $2.5 million… Read More

June 27, 2014 @ 7:05 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

IssuWorks, a new venture by the former Vice-Chairman of NASDAQ David Weild, has recently launched its Series A funding round on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder. David Weild has been referred to as the “father of the JOBS Act” due to his role in providing data,… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 4:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Platform Looks for Future Growth in Latin America as Market Heats Up. Crowdfunder, a Venice, California based investment crowdfunding platform, has raised an additional $1,000,000 in seed financing. This brings the total financing raised by Crowdfunder to date to roughly $2,000,000.  Crowdfunder lists over… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 1:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

The first annual SocalTech 50 list was just announced.  This list of represents their 50 up and coming people in Souther California’s tech world.  The team at SocalTech received over 700 nominations this year and somehow they whittled it down to only 50 who their… Read More

November 7, 2013 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Roozt.com, a popular social commerce platform for social good, which has become a destination shopping site for fashion-forward, Gen Y consumers,  has opened an equity fundraising round for accredited investors via investment crowdfunding platform, Crowdfunder. The announcement comes in the wake of Title II of the… Read More

November 6, 2013 @ 3:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Law firm Dorsey & Whitney is sponsoring an event in Palo Alto titled Ether Dollars: A Tale of Four Sites.  The gathering is organized by the VC Taskforce, a group that seeks to address issues and concerns of the Venture Capitalist community.  The event is… Read More

May 24, 2013 @ 3:59 am By Forbes  |  

Equity crowdfunding has a large and growing base of global supporters and advocates. Every few months we see new developments in securities-related legislation, and activity kicking off in countries around the world that are advancing crowdfunding for businesses. On the flip side, equity crowdfunding has… Read More