Tagged: japan

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