Tagged: san francisco

August 12, 2014 @ 7:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco-based Scribble Technology launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its innovative pen, Scribble. The pen can scan colors from any object and instantly reproduces the color on paper or a digital screen (using the Scribble stylus). With Scribble, scanning and capturing any color is… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 6:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

NakedWines.com, a crowdfunding platform that removes the middleman between winemakers and wine drinkers, has rolled out a same-day delivery service for wine orders from San Francisco. Wine enthusiasts who submit orders by 1 p.m. Monday through Friday can have their cases delivered the same day, making that evening’s… Read More

July 19, 2014 @ 9:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to film a documentary about one of the cutest “superheroes” in the world, non-profit organization Moving Train, Inc. has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for “Batkid Begins.” The project is seeking a total of $100,000 and has so far raised over  $37,319 from… Read More

July 11, 2014 @ 4:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Next Friday (July 18), reward-based crowdfunding platform Local Lift, formerly known as Equity Endeavor, will be opening a brand new site for San Francisco Bay entrepreneurs. The platform itself already features campaigns from Austin, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. Local Lift allows business owners to… Read More

June 12, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

San Francisco-based Mark One officially launched the pre-tail of its intelligent cup Vessyl on Thursday to raise $50,000 to validate consumer demand and begin production. Co-founded by Justin Lee and Yves Behar, along with the Fuseproject team, Mark One is the consumer brand company behind Vessyl,… Read More

May 5, 2014 @ 5:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday morning, Patch of Land and WealthForge announced on a collaboration to help make online real estate investing, specifically into real estate loans, more accessible for accredited investors. Patch of Land, a real estate crowdfunding platform and online lending marketplace, which to date has… Read More

May 5, 2014 @ 9:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Hoping to bring new technology to the market, CENTR Camera launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its up and coming new interactive panoramic video camera. The product generates 360° HD video in real time on a device that fits in the consumer’s pocket. The… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 3:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In the ever-growing crowdfunding community, peer lending reigns supreme. A TD Economics report we covered last week estimates the size of the global crowdfunding industry at somewhere between $3 and $5 billion in 2013. Of the sites responsible for this emergent shift in capital access,… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

MTVu recently posted a short video interview with Lending Club Chief People Officer Angela Loeffler in which she shares some tips on hiring. She also gives some insight into the company culture at Lending Club, including the story of her interview in which Chief Financial… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 10:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The San Francisco 49ers are one of the best teams in the NFL again this year. There’s just one problem: there is one team in their division that may be better. This year’s Seattle Seahawks are something special. A chart recently published on Business Insider… Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 10:13 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowd Valley is a white label crowdfunding service provider providing end-to-end solutions for those looking to launch crowdfunding platforms. The company has now announced a partnership with Sapphire Capital Partners LLP, an FCA-authorized firm specializing in alternative invesments, and specifically EIS and SEIS compliance. This… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 10:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending Club is on a roll. The company has announced that they’ve faciliated over $3 billion in loans originated on their P2P lending platform since their launch in May of 2007. The site is on pace for over $2 billion worth of loan originations in… Read More

December 5, 2013 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Technical Machine is a startup that up to now has been based at Olin College. They’re also the outfit behind the Tessel, a device we’ve reported on in the past. The Tessel is a small microcontroller that interfaces with real-life objects and can be programmed… Read More

November 15, 2013 @ 11:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

99designs is a San Francisco-based crowdsourcing web site for graphic and web design work. The site boasts a community of over 250,000 participating designers. Many of these participating designers are based in the Philippines, which was just ravaged by Typhoon Haiyan. Now the team at… Read More

November 14, 2013 @ 12:24 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending Club has appointed two indivials to their advisory board: Michael S. Barr, law professor at the University of Michigan and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and at the Brookings Institution, and senior Google executive Jeff Huber. Barr served from 2009-2010 as the U.S. Department… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 11:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A recent question on Quora asked respondents what they “hate most about equity-based crowdfunding?” The incindiary question produced some really interesting responses, not the least of which was the most-upvoted response by Gil Silberman. Silberman is a San Francisco-based startup lawyer. His response is as… Read More

September 13, 2013 @ 3:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Australia-based Pozible is a big rewards-based crowdfunding platform on the global stage, having been in operation since 2010. Originally called “Fundbreak,” the platform was rebranded as Pozible in January of 2011. Now Pozible has set up shop in San Francisco and is set to start… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 7:35 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdtilt is working on a mobile app that will allow anyone to create or back projects directly from their smartphone. Those interested in the app can sign up to be notified of the app’s release on Crowdtilt’s homepage. The announcement was made today at TechCrunch… Read More

August 16, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier in 2013 we reported on San Francisco-based payment startup Celery, who had launched an initiative targeting successful Kickstarter projects. Celery’s Peter Shih recently took to Medium to share 10 things he hates about the city he works in. Kevin Montgomery followed up by completely… Read More

July 25, 2013 @ 9:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Balanced was created to increase the global economy through payments. As we built Balanced, it troubled me that we had adopted the closed-off culture common to the financial services industry, where everything was locked up for the sake of “competitive advantage.” That wasn’t the kind of… Read More