Tagged: developing countries

March 23, 2016 @ 9:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, UK-based craft brewery, Brewgood, launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise £50,000 to turn its beer into clean drinking water. The company’s co-founders, Alan Mahon and Josh Littlejohn, revealed that they created the concept one evening while drinking a pint and discussing one of the… Read More

December 15, 2015 @ 11:40 am By Sam Raymond  |  

If you are an entrepreneur in emerging markets, you have probably heard a lot about crowdfunding, but wondered how it could be useful for your early-stage business. In developed markets, crowdfunding is swelling the ranks of early-stage entrepreneurs and bolstering the pipeline of enterprises that… Read More

November 12, 2015 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

AlliedCrowds has published a new report about how developing countries have raised a total of $37.4 million through the crowdfunding method during the month of October. The data analysis company stated: “While equity crowdfunding currently makes up a relatively small portion of crowdfunding activity in… Read More

October 20, 2013 @ 12:23 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

For the better part of a year we’ve been anticipating a report that was to be the product of a joint venture by thought leaders and researchers in the crowdfunding space, distributed and supported by The World Bank. That report, entitled “Crowdfunding’s Potential for the… Read More

May 2, 2013 @ 10:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Initiative Gives The Gift Of Life This Mother’s Day Kangu.org, a philanthropic crowdfunding platform that enables donors to crowdfund safe birth environments for pregnant women in developing countries, announced the launch of a new gift-giving feature, just in time for Mother’s Day. The tool allows… Read More