Tagged: crowdtilt

June 1, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Forbes  |  

When Rob Rhinehart sought to raise some money to expand production of his self-made superfood drink, Soylent, he asked for a humble $100,000. A little over a week into the 30-day campaign he’d raised almost $400,000. The initial goal was met within two hours. Wow!… Read More

May 24, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart’s campaign for Soylent continues to raise funds, now having neared the quarter million dollar mark. Besides being innovative in its use of Crowdtilt’s open-source Crowdhoster platform, one other aspect of the campaign is proving to be quite useful: the use of Discourse to… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart and his team have settled on Crowdhoster as the platform of choice for their crowdfunding campaign for Soylent. We wrote about Soylent in the past, a meal replacement drink that garnered both praise and criticism in the press. Click here to see the… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 9:06 am By Patch  |  

Despite customer efforts that kept LagoonaMagoo Toys from defaulting on a bank loan last month, owners need to increase sales to stay in business long term. Last month community support prevented two popular St. Louis area toy stores from closingshop as originally planned–but the company still… Read More

April 18, 2013 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdtilt, a simple-to-use platform to pool money online, has announced the close of their $12 million Series A funding. The funding round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sean Parker, SV Angel, DCM, as well as CrunchFund, Alexis Ohanian, Elad Gil, Naval Ravikant,… Read More

April 9, 2013 @ 2:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

As part of an April Fools joke, crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt ran a crowdfunding campaign to “Crowdfund The Debt” as a method to help pay off the exploding national debt.  The fake crowdfunding campaign picked up mentions in TechCrunch, The Daily Dot and thousands of facebook… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 10:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site Crowdtilt Co-founder and CEO James Beshara is scheduled to participate in CNBC show Power Lunch on Wednesday, February 27th at 1PM ET. Along with host Tyler Mathisen and CNBC Media Reporter Julia Boorstin – AngelList founder and CEO Naval Ravikant will be present to… Read More

January 13, 2013 @ 8:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Check out the photos from CrowdTilts Crowdfunded New Years Eve party on the pages at BusinessInsider.  Or go straight to the source for Up All Night Las Vegas NYE 2012.  CrowdTilt is a site that allows y0u to Group Fund Anything You Love Simply and Socially…. Read More

December 31, 2012 @ 9:45 am By Kym McNicholas, PandoDaily  |  

When I first saw the horrific images on television a week ago Friday… Twenty young kids shot and killed in their classroom, I froze. I was speechless. I felt helpless. All I wanted to do was to muster up a superpower and teleport over to… Read More

November 22, 2012 @ 3:03 am By AllThingsD  |  

Crowdtilt today will start offering tax-deductible donations for nonprofits. The company says it is the first crowdfunding site to fully support charity fundraising. Here’s how it works: Anyone can already start a Crowdtilt group with a funding goal. Now they can select a 501(c)(3) organization from Crowdtilt’s… Read More

November 17, 2012 @ 1:54 am By HuffingtonPost  |  

Each time the Empire City has been faced with a disaster — whether natural or otherwise — New Yorkers have shown remarkable resilience, rallying together to help affected communities, organizing food and clothing drives, opening their doors to friends and neighbors less fortunate and beginning… Read More

November 8, 2012 @ 8:54 pm By Venture Beat  |  

Nobody wants to attend a concert or a sporting event alone, but buying tickets for a number of people is a hassle. PayByGroup has added a “fixed price” feature today to make it easier to collect funds for group ticket buying. PayByGroup is payment platform where people… Read More