Tagged: new zealand

November 29, 2015 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

New Zealand based Brave New Coin and Australia based Smartbit have formed a partnership to create a new cryptocurrency index. The duo have launched the BNC Bitcoin Liquid Index (BNC-BLX) in an attempt to create the “first provable index” for financial markets. According to information provided… Read More

November 19, 2015 @ 9:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wellington-based craft beverage distributor and bottle store, Crafters & Co. is looking to raise up to $1 million to expand its business with an equity crowdfunding campaign launched on PledgeMe today. Crafters & Co’s CEO Hadleigh Petherick stated the soon-to-be expansion will help take suppliers to… Read More

November 4, 2015 @ 12:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UrbanSherpa, an on-demand delivery service, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Snowball Effect to raise $300,000 to continue its expansion in New Zealand. This campaign was launched nine months after the company captured $750,000 during its first funding initiative. The company revealed: “Our goal… Read More

October 29, 2015 @ 9:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Equitise, operating in Australia and New Zealand, has partnered with Auckland-based Syndex to create a secondary market to trade crowdfunded securities. The “Trans-Tasman” market is said to deliver “a new degree of maturity and sophistication to the nascent crowdfunded equity market in New Zealand”.  … Read More

October 19, 2015 @ 6:28 am By JD Alois  |  

New Zealand based Snowball Effect has provided an update on the companies that have successfully raised capital on its investment crowdfunding platform. Snowball Effect was the first platform to receive a license by the FMA a little over one year ago.  Since that time Snowball… Read More

October 14, 2015 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

Harmoney, the first peer to peer lender to launch in New Zealand, has added some big names to its advisory board.  Accord to a release published by the P2P site, Jon Barlow, founder of Eaglewood Capital and Phin Upham of Thiel Capital have signed up… Read More

October 12, 2015 @ 11:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Market Authority in New Zealand is increasing the amount of competition in the online lending space. The FMA has now approved the application of Lending Crowd – the 4th P2P lender to join the arena alongside other established lending platforms. Lending Crowd will… Read More

September 29, 2015 @ 9:38 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ooooby, a New Zealand-based local food delivery tech platform, recently closed its equity crowdfunding campaign today on PledgeMe raising $285,256 of impact investment. Ooooby founder Pete Russell shared the campaign was a great experience that created a solid base of support for the social enterprise: “The exposure and… Read More

September 23, 2015 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, gluten-free food startup Kumara Fusion launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe seeking up to $90,000 for expansion. The company was started when co-founders Olga Fernandez Txasko and Carlos Martinez became gluten intolerant and were starved for good gluten-free options. Now they are ready… Read More

September 21, 2015 @ 11:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Harmoney, the first peer to peer lending platform in New Zealand, is welcoming some new competition. Recently the Financial Markets Authority authorized two new platforms; LendMe and Squirrel Money.  According to a report in the Stuff.co.nz, both platforms expect to launch before the end of… Read More

September 15, 2015 @ 8:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startup Eat My Lunch has officially smashed the goal of $120,000 during its crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe to support the work it is doing to alleviate child poverty in New Zealand. Eat My Lunch operates a ‘buy one give one’ model for lunches, which has allowed them… Read More

September 12, 2015 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, New Zealand crowdfunding platform PledgeMe announced that it has hired Mikey Clarke as its new “Tech Wrangler.” The PledgeMe crew shared: “Mikey is a developer extraordinaire who joins us from working for Globa.li, a hotel booking data aggregation app, where he was the… Read More

September 10, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday morning, Ooooby, and their crowd, have shown equity crowdfunding can be about more than financial returns when the social enterprise hit their minimum target of $200,000. Last month, the New Zealand-based local food delivery service took to equity crowdfunding platform, PledgeMe, to raise $800,000 for expansion. Founder… Read More

September 9, 2015 @ 4:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Happy Birthday, Harmoney! The peer-to-peer (P2P) platform celebrated a successful first year as a New Zealand’s operating P2P lender, achieving unprecedented growth, creating jobs in New Zealand, Australia and Fiji and is currently preparing to launch in Australia. Harmoney highlights: Facilitated $100 million of personal loans in less than 12 months… Read More

August 31, 2015 @ 9:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ooooby, a New Zealand-based local food delivery tech platform,  has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe to raise $800,000 so to start expanding its services. Founder of Ooooby, Pete Russell, stated: “Ooooby is a farmers market in a box delivered to your door. We make… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startup Eat My Lunch today launched a project crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe to support the work it is doing to alleviate child poverty in New Zealand. Eat My Lunch operates a ‘buy one give one’ model for lunches, which has allowed them to provide more… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 8:23 am By Will Mahon-Heap  |  

The Australian government has recently released a consultation paper seeking feedback on their proposed framework for “crowd-sourced equity funding” (CSEF). The “CSEF” label is inaccurate, and likely to confuse both investors and companies. Instead, Australia should be adopting the globally-accepted term “Equity Crowdfunding”. The term, crowd-sourced equity… Read More

August 12, 2015 @ 8:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Christchurch-based online marketplace for cottage industries, Felt.co.nz, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign through New Zealand platform PledgeMe on Wednesday. Felt founder Lucy Arnold stated: “Felt is super excited to be taking the site to the next level with the help of our crowd. Rather than follow… Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 2:09 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

Syndex, welcome to the world of peer-to-peer lending. The New Zealand-based company today launched one of the country’s first online exchanges for buyers and sellers of proportionally-owned assets, according to a press release from farm investment company MyFarm. Shares in MyFarm’s $550 million of rural assets under… Read More

August 9, 2015 @ 2:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

In the fast changing world of equity crowdfunding Equitise, with offices in both New Zealand and Australia, is charting new territory with a “ground breaking” offer to partially crowdfund an initial public offering (IPO) on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).  This is another sign of the… Read More