Tagged: italy

November 6, 2015 @ 11:05 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Milan-based Assiteca Crowd, one of the first platforms equity crowdfunding authorized by Consob, launched “Assiteca Crowd Startup Showcase,” a contest offering startups and innovative SMEs the opportunity to finance itself on the platform also receiving assistance with accompanying free path.  The crowd will help determine the… Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform Symbid has received approval from Italian securities regulatory CONSOB to launch Symbid Italia.  The new venture by Symbid is in partnership with Banca Sella and is expected to go live in Q4 of 2015.  The news of the strategic expansion was revealed… Read More

July 29, 2015 @ 1:38 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

You might not have the time to thoroughly read a fact-check of a politician’s statements, but a 90-second animated video with what appears to be an adorable and clumsy chicken might be harder to resist. That’s what the young professionals behind Pagella Politica, an Italian independent fact-checking project… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing its global expansion, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced that it has opened shop for five European countries: Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Kickstarter revealed on Tuesday: “We’re thrilled to announce that Kickstarter is now available to creators in five more European countries: Austria, Belgium,… Read More

May 24, 2015 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

We all want to be able to charge our smartphones faster so when I saw the crowdfunding campaign for ChargeDoubler I thought this was a pretty cool campaign. The “original accelerator” claims up to 2X charging speeds for your iPhone or Android phone by allowing a… Read More

March 17, 2015 @ 5:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

Thanks in part to Global Entrepreneurship Week, an entrepreneurial ecosystem has started to take shape around the world, connecting people across borders to unleash their ideas and transform innovation into reality—in turn growing economies and expanding human welfare. To support the burgeoning initiative, the Kauffman… Read More

March 10, 2015 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Netherlands based Symbid has formed a partnership with Italian bank Gruppo Banca Sella to create an italian investment platform called Symbid Italia. Marco Bicocchi Pichi, Italian Business Angel of the Year 2014, has been appointed  to lead the new firm as Managing Director.  Symbid explains the… Read More

February 20, 2015 @ 3:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gianfranco and Serena Cordero, a father-daughter team who are winemakers specializing in the production of extravagant wines from Italy’s Piedmont region, raised $750K in crowdfunding from NakedWines.com wine enthusiasts to develop wines under their own family label Today, they’re producing Barolo, Barbaresco and Barbera wines… Read More

January 30, 2015 @ 5:23 pm By Alessandro M. Lerro  |  

    The equity crowdfunding market has been slow to take off in Italy largely due to intrinsic limitations with the environment and regulations. But Italy is pivoting once again and adapting to the new world of capital formation. Just 18 months after having enacted (first… Read More

January 21, 2015 @ 9:39 am By Erin Hobey  |  

As many Crowdfund Insiders know, The University of Cambridge teamed up with EY and launched the European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey, the largest study to date on crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and other forms of alternative finance in Europe. This benchmarking survey, which closed on 6 January 2015,  seeks to capture the size, transactional… Read More

January 15, 2015 @ 10:25 am By Erin Hobey  |  

European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey UPDATE Since late November, the University of Cambridge teamed up with EY, the global professional services organization, and launched the European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey with the support of major European industry associations. As readers may know, this is the largest study to date on crowdfunding,… Read More

January 13, 2015 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

  Following the launch of Swiss-Crowd, entrepreneur Augusto Vecchi has announced the launch of Italy-Crowd: a real estate crowdfunding platform for Italy.  Italy-Crowd, operating out of the same offices in Switzerland, is the first real estate crowdfunding site targeting the Italian market. In a recent… Read More

January 8, 2015 @ 7:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Italian and international speakers will gather in Venice for this two-day conference to share how crowdsourcing is shaping their industries and is transforming organizations today. The summit will be an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and knowledge with Italy’s innovators and change makers.

December 30, 2014 @ 7:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Swiss Crowd Launch to be Followed by Italy Crowd Real Estate Site The first real estate crowdfunding platform targeting Switzerland has launched.  As previously announced earlier this month, Swiss Crowd is now live with a diverse group of investment opportunities. Founded by Swiss Crowd President… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 9:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

After, Paris, London, Bruxelles and Vienna CrowdTuesday hits Italy for the first time.  On the 4th of November, at the accelerator TIM #WCAP in Milan the crowdfunding ecosystem of the area is invited to get together for two hours of presentations, informal discussions and networking around drinks…. Read More

September 17, 2014 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Workshop Gratuito durante il Festival Supernova presso l’ Università degli Studi di Brescia, 03 Ottobre 2014 h 15. L’ obiettivo di questo workshop è quello di analizzare, attraverso l’esperienza di alcuni dei principali attori dello scenario Italiano, quali sono i vantaggi per una startup nella raccolta di… Read More

September 15, 2014 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding record label MusicRaiser.com is now offering selected projects on their site free promotional services. According to a release the music crowdfunding platform will offer the service only to bands who the site’s music specialists believe have genuine potential for either signed and unsigned bands…. Read More

August 28, 2014 @ 2:42 pm By Marco Bicocchi Pichi  |  

Following the white paper “Restart Italia”, at the end of 2012 prepared by a task force of experts for the Minister of Economic Development, the Italian Parliament issued a law on startups including equity crowdfunding that was finally made possible by CONSOB (the Italian Authority… Read More

June 25, 2014 @ 8:30 am By Simone Casavecchia  |  

From niche phenomenon to a driving force of the economy: how crowdfunding changes things and what are the future prospects for the startup and businesses. Claudio Bedino joined the world of entrepreneurship back in 2002, at only 19 years old.  He created a web agency… Read More

June 24, 2014 @ 5:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Milan-based music crowdfunding platform Musicraiser has received over €1,000,000 in contributions since its launch and that amount has continued to grow. The platform generates revenue from its prolific list of artists and bands looking to receive funding for pre-planned projects. As interest in their crowdfunding model… Read More