Tagged: germany

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

December 10, 2012 @ 10:58 pm By Grunderszene  |  

(Staff Translation) The Crowdfunding portal Seedmatch (www.seedmatch.de) is making further innovations: Going forward, start ups are able to launch follow-up financing campaigns via Crowdfunding. The Freiburg based start up Leaserad is the first enterprise seeking Seedmatch’s assistance for the 2nd time in a row. It already collected 100.000 Euros… Read More

December 10, 2012 @ 10:52 pm By Die Welt  |  

(Staff Translation) In Alt-Sachsenhausen, a 1.3 Million Euro Art Studio-House is being financed thanks to Crowdfunding. For the real estate branch, this concept is unique on a national level. “The first ones to conquer a location are the Creatives”, says Steen Rothenberger. The entrepreneur owns… Read More

December 10, 2012 @ 6:02 am By Screen Daily  |  

Christmas has come early this year for Germany’s producers as national and regional funds paid out a total of more than €12m production support to such filmmakers as Fatih Akin, Feo Aladag, Rosa von Praunheim and Simon Verhoeven in their last funding sessions for 2012…. Read More

December 7, 2012 @ 3:14 pm By Leonhard Dobusch  |  

Staff Translation Krautreporter: Crowdfunding-Plattform for journalism By Leonhard Dobusch The journalists Sebastian Esser and Wendelin Hübner have launched today a beta version of the project “Krautreporter”. The goal of the platform is to establish Crowdfunding for journalism in German speaking countries. A nice video is available at the start of… Read More

December 7, 2012 @ 1:07 am By The Hollywood Reporter  |  

COLOGNE, Germany – The German version of BBC’s cringe comedy The Office will go where Ricky Gervais‘ clueless manager David Brent could never have imagined: onto the big screen. A feature film take on Stromberg, the German version of the fly-on-the-wall office sitcom created by… Read More

December 5, 2012 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

World’s Largest Crowdfunding Platform Launches New Currencies, Languages & Localized Experiences SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Indiegogo, the largest global crowdfunding platform, announces new offerings in key global markets — including local currencies, languages and localized search and discovery experiences. Some of… Read More

December 1, 2012 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

With Crowdfunding still in the throes of regulatory purgatory within the United States it was quite interesting to read this recent interview on the German Crowdfunding blog Crowdstreet.  Klaus Martin Meyer interviewed the CEO of Fidor Bank AG – Matthias Kröner.  Fidor Bank is a licensed,… Read More

November 29, 2012 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Video: From a self designed crane camera to a shop supporting crooked vegetables – in this online video creators explain their ideas and search for investors. Crowdfunding Platforms develop. (Note: For English Translation turn on Closed Caption and select English)

November 21, 2012 @ 6:04 am By Fashion Insider  |  

(Staff Translation) There are very few people of our generation who do not have a pair of chucks (converse) in their closet. These days, we can buy many different models of the cult shoes but an architect from Berlin wants to go a different and… Read More

November 21, 2012 @ 3:13 am By Der Computer Oiger  |  

(Staff Translation) Concert, Lectures and Survival Party to celebrate Mayan transition on December 21st 2012 Dresden, November 19th 2012: Scientists, Librarians and Musicians want to wait for the Mayan apocalypse on December 21st 2012 inside the University Library SLUB in Dresden, together with 200 guests… Read More

November 13, 2012 @ 11:25 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) From niche to general public / Fundsters is Europe’s first universal Crowdfunding Platform/ Founder, Projects and Ideas requiring capital meet Investors, Fans and Supporters. Today, the first european wide universal crowdfunding platform FUNDSTERS is being launched. Whether for entrepreneurs, project initiators or idea… Read More

November 12, 2012 @ 2:21 am By JD Alois  |  

(Staff Translation) Whether through foundations, crowdfunding or financial transaction systems such as flatter or kachingle, these all are models showing how journalism can be financed going forward. Two years ago this was a topic of discussion at the local committee of the German Journalism Association… Read More

November 11, 2012 @ 12:33 pm By GigaOm  |  

We all know the German stereotypes: efficient, focused, deliberate, perfectionist. It’s a cliche that many apply to the whole of German culture, including its entrepreneurs and companies, who often stand accused of lacking t But that stereotype may just be flat out wrong — at… Read More