Tagged: us

April 28, 2015 @ 3:56 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

“… the American market should be much easier for European platforms: one law, one interpretation and ca. 320 million customers. A perfect opportunity for scaling up the business.” The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US government and the European Commission will have multiple… Read More

April 28, 2015 @ 9:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced that their campaign creation process is officially open to German project creators. Kickstarter’s Yancey Strickler wrote: Hallo Deutschland!   My name is Yancey, I’m the CEO of Kickstarter, and it’s my pleasure to welcome all of you to the Kickstarter community.  … Read More

February 10, 2015 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Gulf Wealth Management (GWM) is offering the UK public the chance to become founder shareholders in the first digital wealth management e-commerce platform focused on the investment needs of the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC*) namely Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. GWM launched a… Read More

December 23, 2014 @ 11:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the 2014-2015 winter sports season underway, some athletes have decided to turn to crowdfunding for upcoming events. According to New York Times, one of the skiers using the funding method is freestyle skier, Keri Herman. The 32-year-old is ranked No. 1 in slopestyle and is… Read More

October 21, 2014 @ 5:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last month, CEO of Kickstarter, Yancy Strickler announced the exciting news that the crowdfunding giant would be opening its platform to Scandinavia and Ireland startups. Kickstarter’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… Read More

July 20, 2014 @ 11:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New York-based musicians, Lucy Kaplansky and Richard Shindell, launched a Kickstarter campaign on Thursday (July 17th) for their new album“Tomorrow You’re Going.” The project consists of their cover songs, which were produced by Larry Campbell. Initially seeking to raise $40,000, the project received 99% of… Read More

July 17, 2014 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Smart Crowdfunding LLC has brought mainstream crowdfunding to the younger generation. Their new platform, Crowd-Fund-Kids, launched in July 2014, and will initially be available in four countries: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada.  However, they plan on expanding their platform into more countries in the near future.  Crowd-Fund-Kids will not… Read More

July 7, 2014 @ 10:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Webydo, one of the fastest-growing designer communities in the world, has raised a $7,000,000 game-changing investment for its professional website-creation cloud platform. The investment was led by OurCrowd; Magna Ventures affiliate from Spain; and a group of strategic investors from the US and UK. Webydo provides a full B2B… Read More

June 20, 2014 @ 7:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

It is an accepted norm that one has to be in Silicon Valley to make it big in an internet startup or New York City to get to the top of the finance industry or Los Angeles for the movie business. One of the reasons… Read More

June 13, 2014 @ 3:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Over the last few years, consumers have been able to purchase their favorite wines online with just one click. It’s easy to order it, but what if you can help with financing and producing of your favorite Australian wines? Naked Wines Australia has taken the traditional… Read More