Tagged: slava rubin

May 25, 2014 @ 11:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin has been making the PR rounds of late. Coming off a high visibility funding round where Sir Richard Branson indicated his commitment to the company’s future, Slava shares his view of crowdfunding and market validation talking about an early campaign, Breathometer,… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The CEO of global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo continues to talk up the possibilities of equity crowdfunding in the United States.  Slava Rubin, recently interviewed by CNBC, once again expressed his interest in Title III retail crowdfunding while he chatted up the Indiegogo gospel.  Slava stated;… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has announced a new round of investors, coming just a few short months after their $40 million Series B round.  Many of the new investors include well known, high profile names including iconic billionaire Sir Richard Branson.  Specific details of the… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Island Records and Indiegogo have announced a partnership that will provide a new place to discover emerging artists on a global basis.   “Fan Republic” is being marketed as the first collaboration of its kind between a music label and a crowdfunding platform. Fan Republic… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Courtesy of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin hands out some brief, practical advice on crowdfunding.  In this short video Slava continues on the theme of democratizing funding where anyone and anybody may find funding for projects  of merit, “fixing a massive… Read More

February 2, 2014 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The rewards-based crowdfunding arms race is alive and well. In a recent interview with Bloomberg West, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang leads by pointing out that Indiegogo is the smaller of two websites currently participating in a “two-horse race,” singling out Indiegogo as the “little guy.” In… Read More

January 28, 2014 @ 9:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo, a global crowdfunding platform, has announced that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The company was launched in 2008 and is headquartered in San Francisco.  The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB)…. Read More

January 27, 2014 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The Digital-Life-Design (DLD14) conference took place last week in Munich, Germany.  DLD is self described as a “global network on innovation, digitization, science and culture which connects business, creative and social leaders, opinion-formers and influencers for crossover conversation and inspiration”. Over 150 speakers and 1000… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has announced a new strategic initiative: Outpost.  The new structure gives companies the ability to embed Indiegogo campaigns on their own web sites while maintaining the same benefits of the platforms marketing channels, analytics and network. Recognizing that some campaigners already have large intrinsic… Read More

January 3, 2014 @ 10:27 am By JD Alois  |  

CES International is just around the corner where over 150,000 people from all around the world will queue up for a dose of tech heaven.  Touted as the most important consumer electronics show in the world, the event is always evolving and always adapting to… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 2:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo Founder and CEO Slava Rubin appeared on Fox Business recently to discuss the recently-proposed rules for Regulation A+. Due to equity crowdfunding’s cap (set at $1 million) and Regulation A+’s logical “floor” of $5 million, there is a gap. Regulation A+ arose from underutilization… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 4:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

As PBS MediaShift continues to focus on crowdfunding this week, The Mediatwits held a Google+ Hangout with various players from the crowdfunding space. They include… Slava Rubin, Indiegogo CEO Ernst-Jan Pfauth of news magazine De Correspondent Todd Ruppert, co-producer of the upcoming musical “Happy Days” Zak Piper, co-producer… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 1:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Slava Rubin, Indiegogo Co-Founder and CEO, talks crowdfunding on Bloomberg Surveillance today, specifically he comments on the opportunity with equity crowdfunding. Slava has spoken about Indiegogo’s interest in popular or retail crowdfunding before in the past. This has to do with “Title III” of the… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 11:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Danae Ringelmann released an article via CNBC yesterday that lauds equity crowdfunding as a solution that could help in “making fundraising more efficient and fair.” The piece is a deep dive into the functional effects of the proposed SEC rules surrounding Section 4(a)(6) of the… Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo Cofounder Slava Rubin to ‘Demystify’ Crowdfunding in Presentation at the Kauffman Foundation View the live stream at http://new.livestream.com/kauffmanfoundation/slavarubin .

January 10, 2013 @ 8:25 pm By John Biggs, TechCrunch  |  

Slava Rubin knows a thing or two about crowdfunding. Founded in 2008, his company, IndieGogo is a major funding powerhouse, bringing together such disparate projects like the Misfit Shine and The Oatmeal’s anti-troll lawyer fundraiser. Slava told us that IndieGogo essentially tears down the gatekeepers. Whereas many great projects would… Read More

January 5, 2013 @ 6:42 pm By NYTimes.com  |  

RYAN CALDBECK was stumped. A director at a private equity firm, he was taking part in a panel discussion at a consumer goods conference last summer in New York when an entrepreneur raised his hand with a question: Where could a young company with just a few… Read More