Tagged: whiskey

August 31, 2023 @ 7:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online capital formation or investment crowdfunding has created a new paradigm for all investors seeking access to private securities as well as novel assets that were previously challenging to purchase. Today, it is common for platforms to allow individuals to invest in early-stage private firms,… Read More

February 1, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Dr. Amrit Kumar, President and Chief Scientific Officer of Zilliqa, an enterprise-grade blockchain development platform. Many of the more popular iterations of blockchain are not sufficiently robust to handle the high transaction rates needed today – not to mention what businesses… Read More

December 30, 2019 @ 3:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nc’nean, a UK-based independent distillery that is on a mission to drive sustainability and innovation in Scotch whiskey, has successfully secured its initial £1 million funding target through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs. As previously reported, Nc’nean, which comes from Neachneohain’​ the Queen of… Read More

December 6, 2019 @ 10:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nc’nean, a UK-based independent distillery that is on a mission to drive sustainability and innovation in Scotch whiskey, is now seeking £1 million through its equity crowdfunding round on Seedrs. Started in 2017, Nc’nean, which comes from Neachneohain’​ the Queen of Spirits in Gaelic legend,… Read More

November 27, 2018 @ 8:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Oamaru based New Zealand Whisky Collection has surpassed its equity PledgeMe crowdfunding campaign goal of NZ$500,000 last Wednesday from 212 investors. New Zealand Whisky has now extended its equity crowdfunding campaign until 17 December to meet investor demand; just over NZ$565,300 has been secured at this… Read More

January 11, 2018 @ 10:19 am By JD Alois  |  

  Recording star Drake has partnered with Brent Hocking, a successful veteran from the spirits industry, to create Virginia Black, an aged Bourbon whiskey. The company is looking to raise $30 million and the founders have decided to leverage the Reg A+ crowdfunding exemption thus… Read More

July 15, 2017 @ 2:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Ironclad Distillery, a Virginia-based whiskey distillery, is now seeking to raise growth funding through Indiegogo and Microventures’ equity crowdfunding platform. The brand’s story reads: “In 1862, a year into the American Civil War, the first two ships to be clad in a force field of iron… Read More

August 9, 2016 @ 11:44 am By Erin Hobey  |  

“Traditional whiskey can take 6 to 12 years to passively age in a barrel yet emerging markets are creating shortages that established distilleries simply can’t manage. With disruptive technology, our process uses pressure variations and oxygenation that reduces maturation time to less than 24 hours,” stated… Read More

July 6, 2016 @ 9:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, GlenWyvis Distillery celebrated the next milestone of its highly successful crowdfunding campaign on Crowdfunder UK.The distillery took the funding portal last month to secure £1.5M as it prepared to build the very first community-owned craft whiskey distillery in Scotland. After raising the initial goal,… Read More

June 15, 2016 @ 3:25 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The crowd has a habit for raising its glass (and opening its wallets) for crowdfunding campaigns offering spirits, beer and wines. Whiskey is the focus of today’s campaign. Scottish whiskey. Think Poet Robert Burns.  GlenWyvis Distillery Community Benefit Society, based in the historic Highland town… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 8:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

For those of us that have been known to enjoy a glass of whiskey from time to time, there are seemingly no shortages of alcohol-related tchotchkes on crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter. Recently I wrote about Whiskey Rox, whiskey chilling rocks made from soapstone. Now iceDrops… Read More