Tagged: self crowdfunding

May 19, 2015 @ 10:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ostensibly hoping to become a low cost alternative, Avatar Airlines has launched a self-crowdfunding campaign at www.HelpAvatarFly.com. The funding project allows the public to give as much, or as little as they like, with donations ranging from $5 to $9,750 for perks.  If you want a T-Shirt though you will have… Read More

May 6, 2015 @ 7:45 am By JD Alois  |  

SyndicateRoom, a UK based investment crowdfunding platform, easily funded  their own company to the tune of £1.2 million last week.  The offer was previewed to registered investors on the platform allowing the portal to measure interest prior to the offer launch.  Shares in the company… Read More

October 12, 2014 @ 7:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Several weeks ago Crowdfund Insider received an email from a new bitcoin crowdfunding site; BitPieces.  Bitcoin, and other digital currencies, have quickly migrated into state-less measures of wealth that may transfer monetary value and benefit from the fact transactions are more like cash than credit…. Read More

October 11, 2014 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Investment crowdfunding platform GrowthFunders  (Growth Capital Ventures) is scheduled to close their self-crowdfunding round tomorrow (Sunday, October 12, 2014) having beat their £150,000 initial goal.  Organizers state they raised the £150,000 in just ten minutes.  The equity crowdfunding campaign stands at £222,700 raised to date… Read More

September 5, 2014 @ 10:16 am By JD Alois  |  

GamCrowd, the UK-based equity crowdfunding platform for the gaming industry, has announced that it has closed its initial equity crowdfunding round after successfully ‘self-funding’ on its own platform, GamCrowd.com. The company overfunded by 15% and CEO Chris North is pleased to have successfully completed the… Read More

September 1, 2014 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

As we reported last week, Growth Capital Ventures was planning to raise capital via an equity crowdfunding campaign on their own platform “GrowthFunder”.  Well the pitch went live and pretty much immediately funded transitioning into over-funding mode.  The initial target was to raise £150,000 but… Read More

August 26, 2014 @ 7:04 am By JD Alois  |  

GamCrowd, a crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform that targets the gambling industry, has announced that it has “fully funded” its initial crowdfunding round via its own platform. The company has raised £200k for 10% of the Equity in the company with 8 days remaining in the… Read More

July 24, 2014 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube offered shares in their own company this past week and quickly (as in don’t blink) raised £1.2 million.  While I am not certain if they expected to raise funds at lightening speed – I was certainly impressed with the velocity in which investors rushed… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 11:29 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube is claiming a world record with their self-crowdfunding round funding in just 16 minutes.  The Series B round garnered 141 investors with an average investment of £8500 on a post money valuation of £19.5 million.  This funding round on… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 8:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity crowdfunding portal Crowdcube launched their self-crowdfunding campaign earlier today seeking to raise an additional £1.2 million.  This was on top of a recently announced investment led by well known European VC Group Balderton Capital.  The Venture group had invested £3.8 million in the young… Read More

July 8, 2014 @ 8:17 am By JD Alois  |  

In a self-crowdfunding round, Finland based Invesdor raised €290,871 for the two year old equity crowdfunding platform.  The raised was just shy of the high end target.  The offer garnered 135 investors from 13 different countries and added 121 new shareholders  to their roster.  Pre-money valuation… Read More

July 5, 2014 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gambling Specific Site GamCrowd looks to raise funds on own platform. GamCrowd the gambling-specific crowdfunding and crowdsourcing platform that launched ear lie this year has launched a self-crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for their own platform. Following in the path of several very high-profile platforms,… Read More

May 28, 2014 @ 5:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

IgnitionDeck,  a WordPress crowdfunding plugin that helps you raise money on your own site has announced a new relationship with Fundify. IgnitionDeck was launched in 201o with the single goal of assisting entrepreneurs like themselves raise money without having to ask permission from various gatekeepers… Read More

May 17, 2014 @ 11:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Tile –  the item finder device –  a product that ran a self-crowdfunding campaign and became one of the trailblazer’s in the new world of hardware startups, is now shipping their product.  In an email to backers Nick Evans, CEO and Co-founder of the young company shared… Read More

May 14, 2014 @ 10:00 am By JD Alois  |  

In less than two weeks of their self-crowdfunding campaign, MayOne has surpassed the $1 million amount raised by thousands of supporters.  Capitalizing on the profound frustration of many with the endemic problems intrinsic to the US political process, the project has easily raised this amount… Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 3:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kanishk Parashar hit the stages of Disrupt this week to demonstrate COIN: The One Card to Replace Them All. COIN ran a spectacular self crowdfunding campaign that hit their initial “goal” of raising $50,000 within minutes of launch. The pretail campaign continued to offer presales… Read More

April 22, 2014 @ 6:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

It may have failed on Kickstarter, but that isn’t stopping California-based Oak Park Brewing Co. from creating a crowdfunding campaign on its own website. While waiting for permits from the city of Sacramento, the company attempted to raise $30,000 on the Kickstarter platform earlier this… Read More

April 18, 2014 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing some news about its progress, New York based equity crowfunding platform SeedInvest announced it has already raised $2,850,000 out of its campaign goal, which recently kicked off.  Of that amount $850,000 was raised online. SeedInvest launched the campaign on its own platform to raise… Read More

April 15, 2014 @ 10:17 am By JD Alois  |  

The never ending crowdfunding campaign for video game Star Citizen from Roberts Space Industries continues to grow now standing at over $42 million for game in development.  For those of you that have not been following the odyssey of Star Citizen, back in November of… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 3:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

One of the largest self-crowdfunding campaigns ever – Tile – has announced they are preparing to ship their finder devices to early backers. The pretail crowdfunding campaign launched back in 2013 and blew past their initial $20,000 goal within minutes of launching.  The campaign closed at over $2.6 million…. Read More