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Beverage Distributor Crafters & Co Seeks $1M on PledgeMe For Business Expansion

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

On-Demand Delivery Service UrbanSherpa Seeks $300,000 on Snowball Effect For New Zealand Expansion

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

Equitise Joins with Syndex to Create Secondary Market for Crowdfunded Securities

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

Status Report: Snowball Effect Provides Update on Funded Companies

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

Harmoney Adds Prominent Names to Advisory Board

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

New Zealand Now Has 4 P2P Lenders as FMA Approves Lending Crowd

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

Food Delivery Platform Ooooby Captures $285,000 of Impact Investment During PledgeMe Campaign

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

New Zealand Gluten Free Startup Kumara Fusion Seeks $90,000 Through PledgeMe Initiative

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

Harmoney Provides Update as Two New P2P Platforms Enter NZ Market

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

New Zealand Startup Eat My Lunch Hits PledgeMe Crowdfunding Goal

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

New Zealand Crowdfunding Platform PledgeMe Hires New “Tech Wrangler”

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

Ooooby Captures $200,000 on PledgeMe; Dubbed New Zealand’s First Crowdfunded Impact Investment

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

Peer-to-Peer Platform Harmoney Celebrates First Birthday; Achieves $100M Lending Milestone

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

New Zealand Food Delivery Tech Platform Ooooby Seeks $800,000 Through PledgeMe Initiative For Expansion

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

Eat My Lunch Seeks to Raise $180,000 on PledgeMe to Help Eliminate Child Poverty in New Zealand

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

An Australian Misnomer: Crowd-Sourced Equity Funding

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

Felt Launches PledgeMe Initiative to Raise $250,000 For Online Marketplace Growth

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

Just Launched: Syndex, Among New Zealand’s First Online Exchanges For Proportionally-owned Assets

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

Equitise Launches Equity Crowdfunding Offer for Dongfang Modern’s IPO on the ASX

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

Neil Roberts Harmoney Founder & CEO Leaves Board of Directors without Explanation

Neil Roberts, founder of New Zealand based peer to peer lender Harmoney, has unexpectedly stepped down as his role as a member of the platform’s Board of Directors.  Reportedly Roberts will remain as CEO. Roberts launched Harmoney as the first P2P platform in the country… Read More

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