Tagged: france

February 15, 2014 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

French politician Fleur Pellerin, who is the minister delegate with responsibility for SME’s, innovation and digital economy, has stated the new reforms for crowdfunding will allow the nascent industry to thrive. Speaking at the Ministry of Finance, Pellerin reviewed the new regulations regarding crowdfunding or… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 11:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to reports, French President Francois Hollande came away from a recent visit to Silicon Valley bullish on equity crowdfunding – so bullish, in fact, that he is rumored to be considering an executive order in March that would allow startups and small businesses the… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 9:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Midem is the place where music makers, cutting-edge technologies, brands and talents come together under one roof to source, sell and sign new music, digital solutions and innovative ideas. Today, the music industry is at the tipping-point of a new era of growth. Recognising this, the Midem 2014… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Anime fans rushed to fund this crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.  France based Ankama launched on January 20th, the project hit their $80,000 CAD goal on January 21st.  Many initial backers rushed in at the higher reward levels with the $1000 CAD quickly being sold out…. Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

French crowdfunding platform WiSeed, a site that claims over 21,000 members and having raised over €6.3 million in the past years, has now facilitated OriginOil (OTCBB:OOIL) to fund Ennesys in a closed funding round.  WiSeed created a bespoke offering vehicle to allow the company to raise… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 9:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lima: Brain of your Devices, which ran an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign Kickstarter that closed September 2013, posted a backer update today which mollified many of their critics. In September the hot tech device, which effectively allows users to create their own virtual cloud storage with… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 6:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lima, marketed as the “Brain of Your Devices” has announced a shipping delay which has pushed back delivery for all supporters until sometime next Spring.  Lima, which was originally called “Plug” but was forced to change their name, is the 7th most crowdfunded campaign ever… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 8:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Organized by  Loft Solutions, European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) , La finance participative or “crowdfunding” will be discussed by industry authorities at an event to be held at the Intercontinental, Paris on November 19th.  The gathering is specifically to… Read More

November 7, 2013 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

The leader on the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending market in France, PRÊT D’UNION has raised €10 Million in a new financing round led by Schibsted, owner of Leboncoin.fr and a shareholder in 20 Minutes France. This brings PRET D’UNION’s total funding to over €18 Million since… Read More

October 16, 2013 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Paris based bank BNP Paribas and French crowdfunding platform Ulule are working together to sponsor an outreach tour in France.  The roadshow will visit 30 French communities and will aid in growing public awareness about the power of crowdfunding.  The tour runs from October 9th… Read More

October 10, 2013 @ 3:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perfect Match for Apple iPad. As soon as we watched the Kickstarter pitch video provided by the ISKN team you could see the product was going to be a crowdfunding hit.  This smart iPad cover does everything you want it to do.  Their goal was… Read More

September 19, 2013 @ 11:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Simplon.co is “an accelerated factory for web developers and digital entrepreneurs” based in France that aims to empower youth through web development apprenticeships. The outfit has now raised over $21,000, meeting their goal in a crowdfunding campaign on Ulule. Paying those who have been trained or… Read More

September 8, 2013 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lima – which was previously called “Plug”-  closed today on Kickstarter having crowdfunded an amazing $1,229,074 with the support of almost thirteen thousand backers.  The device had an original goal of $69,000 which seems paltry in retrospect. The Kickstarter project had to alter the name… Read More

June 3, 2013 @ 8:29 am By LeMonde  |  

As everyone knows, the current recession is more tolerable than the one in 2008 and France will soon be better, the unemployment curve is going to reverse and confidence will return . But beyond the “wishful thinking” and hype, there is no urgency to continue and expand the structural reforms in favor of growth? Naturally. Among… Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 2:05 pm By Rude Baguette  |  

KissKissBankBank has long been a success story of the French startup world – its crowdfunding platform for creative projects is doing well, and their business model is working well for them – revenue from the projects themselves (they keep a percentage), plus sponsorship. When we spoke… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

French Crowdfunding Guide Released. The government of France has released a guide to crowdfunding.  Pierre Moscovici, Minister of Economy and Finance; Arnaud Montebourg, Minister of Productive Recovery, and Fleur Pellerin, Minister for Small and Medium Enterprise, have jointly announced the publication  of the Guide du… Read More

April 30, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding is trendy. This new means of finding funds to see a project trough is developing fast thanks to the internet. In the beginning the movement benefited artists and writers who saw their music or literary compositions rejected by advisors and publishing houses. From this… Read More

January 11, 2013 @ 6:23 am By RFI  |  

French museums and monuments are some of the most visited in the world. None of them is getting any younger, and many need restoration and renovations. With budget cuts across all parts of the government, French cultural institutions are turning to new ways of raising… Read More

December 25, 2012 @ 9:14 am By NYTimes  |  

PARIS — In the early rush to turn crowd-funding online into a new source of public revenue to buy everything from medieval ivory statues in France to a gallery for dinosaur bones in Canada there’s a cautionary tale: It doesn’t always work. The Louvre is… Read More

December 24, 2012 @ 8:15 am By New York Times  |  

PARIS — The crass term for it is begging, but the French prefer a loftier description: “participatory financing.” For as little as a single euro even the most ordinary art connoisseur can join the fund-raising fraternité that is working to restore the dome of the… Read More