Tagged: japan

December 12, 2014 @ 11:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to bring a new type of lock to the market, electronic giant Sony has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Japan-based platform Makuake for the Qrio Smart Lock. According Gizmodo, the lock is described as the smallest of its kind and is considered a retofittable… Read More

December 11, 2014 @ 9:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

SparkLabs is graduating its fourth batch of companies with a frenzied interest in its demo day. Over 900 people have registered to attend their demo day event. Senior associate at SparkLabs, Sophia Choi stated,”Even with over 30,000 startups in Korea and SparkLabs’ growing reputation in Asia, our… Read More

November 11, 2014 @ 12:32 pm By Farah Bashir  |  

  It was only a few weeks ago that CrowdFundHerLive, organized by Woomentum, hosted a live crowdfunding campaign for start-ups led by women. Founded by Mouna Lagendorf, the event attracted a crowd of over 100 women to the site of the event – the MCCAAN offices… Read More

September 10, 2014 @ 5:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Recently, Japan-based bitcoin market, bitFlyer, launched a new bit coin crowdfunding platform called fundFlyer. According to Coindesk, fundFlyer is similar to other crowdfunding platform but it is taking a significant steps to mainstream bitcoin use in Japan.  One of the fundFlyer’s first projects is from… Read More

April 23, 2014 @ 2:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to move forward with the legalization of crowdfunding, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzō Abe and his cabinet approved a de-regulation of equity campaigning to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, which will help companies, especially startups, with raising crowdfunding equity. “Abenomics” encourages small and medium enterprises… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The team behind the forthcoming, Kickstarter-backed video game Mighty No. 9 wanted to hire a community manager to increase communication between themselves and their backers. Seems to be a simple proposition, right? It just went nuclear. It all comes down to who the team picked to… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

BrewDog is in the midst of an extremely aggressive period of growth now that the Scottish brewery has managed to raise millions of euros via equity crowdfunding raises. The latest expansion project for the brewery is a BrewDog bar in the Roppongi district of Tokyo,… Read More

October 14, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Fairly recently I encountered a Japanese crowdfunding portal which I discovered due to the unique nature of a crowdfunding campaign they were operating.  Intrigued about the site, I reached out to the operators for some more insight and background on their platform. Countdown is owned… Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 11:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Heralding from Tokyo based independent studio comcept USA, a Japanese game design and dev studio launched in 2006, is potentially the next big game crowdfunding success. Mighty No. 9 just fired up their crowdfunding project last week on August 31st.  Stated goal was to raise… Read More

August 16, 2013 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Last year the FIA announced the first ever  electric car only race championship – which is scheduled to take place in 2014.  Electric cars are quite the rage these days  and the race industry is quickly adapting to this transition.  Large corporations and media have… Read More

June 25, 2013 @ 5:24 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

RAPIRO stands for RAspberri PI RObot, and is a low-cost robot that runs on open-source Arduino software. It’s already fully funded on Kickstarter, so manufacturing will be a go once the campaign ends. According to the campaign page, the robot makes use of 12 on-board… Read More

April 15, 2013 @ 9:44 pm By Japan Times  |  

In a country where a stubbornly stagnant economy has turned the adventurous away from high-risk investment, fundraising has become one of the highest hurdles a startup can overcome. Young Japanese entrepreneurs in dire need of cash, however, are now resorting to “crowdfunding” to take care… Read More