Early-stage businesses have a great opportunity to use equity crowdfunding to raise funds, grow brand awareness, and build a loyal crowd of supporters, even before the product launch. However, while it may look simple to set up and run an equity crowdfunding campaign...

Released in the spring of 2017, the Light Phone was shaped like a business card, weighed less than a stack of seven quarters, and felt like a hollow wedge of plastic. But when you pressed the phone’s only button, its tiny keypad lit up in a soft white glow. [...]...

Amanda Palmer was one of the first artists to make big headlines with a crowdfunding campaign, thanks to her 2012 Kickstarter campaign which raised nearly $1.2m for an album, art book and tour. Since then, she’s switched to ongoing fan-funding on Patreon, where she...

The first impression of a crowdfunding campaign lies in its copy. Whether you write a compelling title or a narrative description, the key to making it powerful lies in balancing all the elements together. A great copy has a balance of all the editorial elements What...

Fintech Curve knocked it out of the park this week in an investment crowdfunding round that crushed multiple records on the Crowdcube platform. Crowdcube reports that many of the prior records were also held by Fintech companies, a popular category on Crowdcube and a...

Interested in real estate investment but not ready to purchase an entire property? Real estate crowdfunding platform, Rich Uncles, may be for you. Rich Uncles 8.5 Table of Contents If you’re a small investor, and you want to participate in real estate crowdfunding,...

Kickstarter is the holy-grail of crowdfunding for many entrepreneurs with fantastic ideas and concepts. It’s a place where people with cash find unique projects to back with the hopes of picking up world-class products. Another young company by the name of Kuaifit...

In early 2014, Klever Freire left his job as an aircraft performance engineer at Bombardier Inc. to focus on his startup, DreamQii Inc., a company that aimed to build a drone for aerial photography. The Toronto entrepreneur, then 30, set up shop at Ryerson...

Space sim Limit Theory has been cancelled, six years after a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter after the main developer ran out of steam. Josh Parnell said that he was exhausted from working on it for so long and "circumstances have reached a point that...

Goldman Sachs-backed cryptocurrency platform Circle announced on Friday it had agreed to acquire equity crowdfunding firm SeedInvest to help startups issue digital assets and provide its own clients with exposure to a wider variety of tokens. According to Circle’s...