Tagged: germany

January 26, 2014 @ 2:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo has undoubtedly made a concerted effort to be a leader in the global rewards-based crowdfunding market. Whereas Kickstarter has been very measured and deliberate in choosing foreign markets to become active in, Indiegogo has strived to facilitate crowdfunding transactions in as many markets as… Read More

January 24, 2014 @ 6:55 am By Klaus-Martin Meyer  |  

Germany is the single largest market in all of the European Union.  With a population of around 82 million, a highly educated population and many top global corporations it is the economic engine of Europe today. The crowdfunding industry has benefited from this significant base… Read More

January 12, 2014 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

5th Most Funded Successful Campaign Ever on Indiegogo. Berlin, Germany based Panono has won many accolades during their crowdfunding campaign including a coolest gadget shout out and tons of press especially with their trip to CES 2014 this past week.  The hot tech device that… Read More

January 5, 2014 @ 12:03 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo has been on a roll lately. The Geek Pulse just closed at over $1.1 million, and it seems a campaign in its last week on the platform is set to eclipse that total. The campaign aims to fund the Panono, and it’s an innovative… Read More

December 29, 2013 @ 5:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

The list below represents the largest investment crowdfunding campaigns in Germany during 2013.  The compilation is courtesy of Crowdstreet.de and includes the largest equity campaigns from a variety of crowdfunding sites.  Klaus-Martin Meyer is the owner and operator of Crowdstreet.de, a blog that covers the German… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A German company called e-volo has successfully raised €1,2 million in a crowdfunding offering on Seedmatch.de for a crazy 18-propeller electric helicopter. Called the “Volocopter,” the e-volo team thinks this new approach to manned aerial flight can revolutionize the way we live and travel. The Volocopter… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

After Hugely Successful Equity Crowdfunding Round, SecuGate+ Offers Rewards on Kickstarter. Secucloud, a provider of cloud-based IT-Security, has unveiled SecuGate+, their network security solution for Home & Small Business – and they are crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The rewards round follows an incredibly successful equity round in… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 2:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

On 21st of November 2013, the German-speaking Finance 2.0 sector will meet in Munich during the Crowd Dialog. With over 25 speakers, this event will bring together pioneers from the burgeoning crowdfunding industry to discuss how the crowd is disrupting conventional financing methods and what the… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 1:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hamburg, Germany based tech startup Secucloud has broken a record:  raising 500,000 euros  via crowdfunding in just one day, ten hours and four minutes on German platform Seedmatch. “We are incredibly happy about the successful financing and are very thankful to the investors for their… Read More

November 6, 2013 @ 10:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Urbanara is an “online brand for high-quality home furnishings” that recently turned to upstart German equity crowdfunding platform Bergfürst. It was the first company to be listed on the platform. They have just closed their round, having raised just short of €3 million. The team behind… Read More

October 12, 2013 @ 11:47 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Crowdfunding Network and Osborne Clarke invite have scheduled an event in Cologne, Germany to be held on October 24, 2013.  Discussion will focus on crowdfunding in Germany, along with perspective on current events with the rest of Europe.  The results of a new… Read More

October 8, 2013 @ 12:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stuanch crowdfunding advocates the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) is hosting their 2nd CrowdCon crowdfunding conference in Berlin on October 19, 2013.  The event is coinciding with a trade fair for retail stock market investors which expects to see over 4000 attendees creating a unique opportunity… Read More

October 8, 2013 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Crowdfunding Network is organising its 2nd International CrowdCon on 19. October 2013 in Berlin, Germany, as part of the Crowdbiz, the trade fair for crowdinvestors during the Boersentag Berlin. Key innovators from European crowdfunding platforms, academia and professional services will explain the potential… Read More

September 23, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Germany’s Chaos Computer Club is claiming victory in a contest to see who’d be the first to hack Apple’s Touch ID fingerprint scanning system. The system provides an extra layer of security for Apple’s new iPhone 5S and 5C. A crowdfunded bounty was offered for… Read More

June 17, 2013 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Pling is a rewards based crowdfunding platform based in Germany.  The creators of this crowdfunding application experienced some initial success early on in the German crowdfunding market – enough so to sell the platform to investors and  to move their company in a different direction…. Read More

June 13, 2013 @ 9:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The European Crowdfunding Network has published a whitepaper explaining the state of crowdfunding regulation in the UK, Spain, Italy and Germany. The document explores how all four countries are simultaneously taking their own unique approaches to implementing crowdfunding while clearly learning from one another as they… Read More

February 12, 2013 @ 3:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Crowdfunding can be an alternative to classic financing means for entrepreneurs   To date this form of financing has been deployed mostly to collect smaller sums for social projects.  Roughly 6.6 million Germans have already made online donations for social causes. That corresponds… 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 22, 2012 @ 1:10 am By Berlin BusinessOn  |  

(Staff Translation) Berlin. Online donations for the ideas and projects of others. Crowdfunding allows start-ups to present their projects and to obtain financing from crowdfunding platform users. To this date, almost 7 million Germans have donated online for a variety of projects. About 6.6 million Germans… Read More

December 17, 2012 @ 2:52 am By JD Alois  |  

From Telecompaper, Around 6.6 million Germans have supported social projects online, equal to 1 in 8 (12%) of all internet users in Germany, according to a survey by Aris for ICT industry group Bitkom. A further 22 percent are prepared to give money online for… Read More