Tagged: pledgeme

June 17, 2015 @ 11:40 am By JD Alois  |  

PledgeMe, one of several investment crowdfunding platforms operating in New Zealand, has shared that things are picking up on the site.  Just in the past two weeks, two offers on the platform have hit their minimum funding targets and “are blazing forward looking for more… Read More

June 10, 2015 @ 8:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Christchurch-based solid cosmetics company Sorbet has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe to raise $150,000 so that it can start to expand globally. Ethique Limited, trading as Sorbet, make healthy products with sustainable and safe ingredients. The company is looking to make a solid impact on the… Read More

June 2, 2015 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Snowball Effect recently surveyed their registered users and they received a lot of feedback on providing liquidity for investors. The equity crowdfunding platform initially researched the issue prior to their launch in 2014 but in the last 6 weeks the New Zealand based company has… Read More

June 2, 2015 @ 9:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

A Hawkes Bay-based company with reportedly new technology to treat wastewater has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe so it can help clean up New Zealand’s environment. Liquid Waste Treatment Systems (LWTS) has developed new technology using aerobic granular sludge to treat wastewater. LWTS spokesperson Tony Hocking… Read More

May 25, 2015 @ 11:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Back in 2013 before equity crowdfunding was legalized in New Zealand,  Auckland based Angel Food launched a very small rewards based crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe. Tomorrow Angel Food will return to PledgeMe but this time the funding is for equity in the small company and… Read More

May 25, 2015 @ 9:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to expand its services, Queenstown-based taxi app, Tapp a Taxi launched its equity crowdfunding campaign on PledgeMe earlier this morning. The app works by using peoples mobile phones and GPS location to make hailing a taxi more efficient. Unlike other taxi apps, Tapp works across… Read More

April 7, 2015 @ 2:04 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

SellShed, a New Zealand-based social marketplace app, just hit its $250,000 crowdfunding target in less than four weeks, according to the company’s press release. Currently, 43 investors have pledged $377,600, with two days remaining in the campaign and a maximum possible investment of $1,000,000. Investment opportunities went… Read More

August 12, 2014 @ 9:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Snowball Effect is the first equity crowdfunding platform to offer shares in a New Zealand business and they started off with a jump as Renaissance Brewing offered interested investors the chance to own shares in their craft Brewery. Hardy Michel from Snowball Effect said in… Read More

August 4, 2014 @ 8:19 am By JD Alois  |  

So last week we reported on the news that SnowBall Effect had received their equity crowdfunding license in New Zealand but there was another platform that also their license as well (and most likely on the very same day).  PledgeMe shared in an update that… Read More

July 3, 2014 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With entrepreneurs continuing to wait to take advantage of equity crowdfunding in various countries, New Zealand’s Financial Market Authority (FMA) announced some exciting news about the funding option. In a report by Stuff, FMA spokesperson Andrew Park declared the financial regulator is ready to grant… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 6:30 am By JD Alois  |  

As regulation to legalize investment crowdfunding takes hold PledgeMe, based in New Zealand, will be ready to offer equity crowdfunding to Kiwi’s. In a statement on their site that presently offers rewards based crowdfunding the company stated;  Yes, New Zealand is finally making the long-awaited move… Read More

October 21, 2013 @ 12:06 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Simeon Burnett and Richard Allen are hoping that when equity crowdfunding becomes legal in New Zealand, which is expected in April of next year, that it will result in a snowball effect of successfully funded small businesses. That is the ethos behind their equity crowdfunding… Read More

January 26, 2013 @ 5:26 am By Stuff  |  

When Wellingtonian Anna Guenther needed a thesis topic for her masters degree, she chose the new phenomenon of crowd funding. It was a good idea for a business, so she went ahead and started it. Last year, her website raised more than $750,000 for 175… Read More

December 4, 2012 @ 5:10 pm By The New Zealand Herald  |  

Shem Phillips has his own game publishing label, Garphill Games. His most recent, game Plethora, was funded through PledgeMe. Another of his designs, Saqqara got picked up by a European publisher and was released at SPIEL in Essen this year, the largest board gaming convention… Read More