Tagged: sweden

March 18, 2015 @ 8:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Appropriately – international funding platform FundedByMe is now accepting Bitcoin.  The announcement has been matched with the launch of an equity crowdfunding campaign for Safello, a Bitcoin trading platform that is already halfway funded. FundedByMe is using the Safello offer as a Pilot Program to test… Read More

February 22, 2015 @ 7:01 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Newly opened Centre for Alternative Finance of University of Cambridge Judge Business School reports European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey study results.  The European market could top €7 billion in 2015 The European alternative finance market grew 144% last year to €2,957m The UK is the largest European country for alternative finance,… Read More

February 17, 2015 @ 8:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

International crowdfunding platform FundedByMe, has jumped into the debt space thus rounding out their funding options on their global platform.  The loans will initially be available for SMEs in Sweden but investors from all over the world will be able to loan money in the… Read More

February 5, 2015 @ 9:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Swedish brand Intimina launched its funding project for the world’s first collapsible menstrual cup, Lily Cup Compact, on crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, which recently finished with 8530 backers from over 50 countries worldwide and reached 4000% over the original crowdfunding target. This places the campaign in the top 2% of… Read More

February 2, 2015 @ 8:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Sweden based NOA Relaxation, an all natural beverage, launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on FundedByMe and raised USD $ 180,000 in the first 3 minutes of going live on January 29th. The goal of raising $640,000 was quickly beat in two days and by day… Read More

December 22, 2014 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Cross border crowdfunding offers have only recently started to percolate up on various crowdfunding platforms.  While there have only been a few to date, one would expect these dynamic offers to be foreshadowing a future of crowdfunded securities  that are not constrained by national borders.  Tracemyfile, a cloud… Read More

December 12, 2014 @ 12:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Well, this is a first. Earlier this week, British journalist Vaughan Smith has hit Kickstarter to raise £100,000 so that he may build life-like statues of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange along with Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. These statues are known as being part of… Read More

November 18, 2014 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Sweden based FundedByMe’s says their strategic decision to focus mainly on business building crowdfunding has proven to be a success.  The hybrid crowdfunding platform claims a surge in membership and new funding campaigns.  FundedByMe’s experience is exemplified by Finnish interactive yoga platform Yoogaia, a young… Read More

November 7, 2014 @ 2:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

FundedByMe, an investment crowdfunding platform based in Sweden but with operations in Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Spain, Germany, Italy & Norway, recently launched a self-crowdfunding campaign to raise capital for their expansion.  In March of 2014 the campaign hit the pages of the funding platform with… Read More

September 18, 2014 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler announced this past Monday that his crowdfunding platform was opening up shop in Scandinavia and Ireland.  The expansion into Ireland was known for quite some time, but the move into Denmark, Norway and Sweden, while not surprising, was new.  The nordic countries have… Read More

September 15, 2014 @ 12:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday (September 15th), Kickstarter’s CEO Yancey Strickler announced that the crowdfunding giant has opened its platform to Scandinavia and Ireland. The platform’s team wrote, “We’re so excited to announce that Kickstarter is now available to creators in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Ireland — four countries with amazing cultural histories and creative… Read More

September 8, 2014 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Having opened an office in Singapore last year,  Sweden based crowdfunding platform FundedByMe has revealed an investment by Singapore based investment group Link2Ventures for an undisclosed amount.  The additional funding is expected to be used to boost further growth in the Asia Pacific region.  FundedByMe will be… Read More

June 18, 2014 @ 2:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The search for small, wireless headphones is over! Sweden-based Earin earbuds launched its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter last week. Within a week, the campaign surpassed its initial goal of £179,000 and raised £415,687 from 3,818. Earin’s nearly invisible earbuds function as one Bluetooth headset. There’s… Read More

May 28, 2014 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Moonhouse, the world’s first art project on the moon, is now set to receive an additional boost in the form of crowdfunding to launch the red house with white corners into space. The project will serve as a symbol for making space accessible to… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 12:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Since 2009, people from all over the world have been talking about crowdfunding giant Kickstarter, and now the company’s VP of community, Cindy Au, revealed there’s more to it than just being considered as a “funding option.” While speaking at the 2014 Nordic Game in… Read More

March 18, 2014 @ 7:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sweden Based Crowdfunding Platform Raises Capital for Expansion. Stating that 2013 has been their best year to date, equity crowdfunding platform FundedByMe is now inviting the public to own shares in their Northern European investment platform by launching a self-crowdfunding campaign.  Based in Sweden, but… Read More

March 7, 2014 @ 8:01 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Interview with Arno Smit, Co-Founder & CTO of FundedByMe. Launched by Arno Smit and Daniel Daboczy in 2011, FundedByMe quickly found an international niche as both an equity and rewards-based crowdfunding platform.  According to Smit, this “unified experience on our platform allows entrepreneurs to feel secure in… Read More

December 27, 2013 @ 10:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kung Fury is part comedy, part action and – from the looks of the trailer – completely hilarious. The movie is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter and the film’s creator is seeking $200,000 from the crowd to turn the movie into a feature length film. With… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundedByMe has relaunched their crowdfunding platform with an improved look and feel. The site offers both rewards- and equity-based crowdfunding models. Over the past couple of months the team has been hard at work creating a web and brand experience that is focused on our… Read More

October 30, 2013 @ 7:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Invesdor is a successful crowdfunding platform founded by the necessity of budding entrepreneurs and their search for startup capital.  The story is unfortunately a rather common one.  Great idea hits the wall of no funds.  At the time in 2011 six friends, Lasse, Miikka, Petteri,… Read More