Tagged: wakawaka

February 4, 2015 @ 8:58 am By Ludwine Dekker  |  

One month into 2015 and we’ve seen a lot of predictions being made.  But what is much harder to predict than exponential growth, is a selection of crowdfunding platforms that will be the winners of 2015! What are the platforms that we’ll have to watch… Read More

January 8, 2015 @ 10:03 am By Kevin Berg Grell  |  

“Let’s be clear… Reward- and investment-based crowdfunding are VERY different funding models. The underlying economics are simply too different to ignore, and we have to keep that in mind and be clear on what model we talk about when we discuss CROWDFUNDING.” A little while… Read More

November 10, 2014 @ 8:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Extreme energy poverty serves as a critical issue facing the global community. In fact, over 90% of residents in Liberia and Sierra Leone, which serve as hotbeds for the Ebola virus, suffer from a lack of access to electricity. In an effort to defeat extreme energy poverty and… Read More

October 15, 2014 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to have another successful Kickstarter project, while offering up a new way to stay safe during an emergency, New York City startup WakaWaka launched a crowdfunding campaign on the global platform for its power and light first aid kit, Base. Originally seeking $70,000, the… Read More