It still has 12 days to go, but the team behind Boona , a buzzy new tandem shower head, blasted through its $10,000 Kickstarter goal last month, collecting $619,733 in funding so far. While that kind of response is the dream of every founder who goes the crowdfunding...

"Shenmue" is one of the most beloved games ever. Released in 1999 on the Sega Dreamcast, "Shenmue" slowly but surely developed a cult following thanks to its immersive worldbuilding and storytelling. It was one of a few open-world games on the...

New IRS guidance addresses the tax consequences of raising money through crowdfunding. What is crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is an increasingly popular method of raising money. Funds are typically raised by soliciting small individual contributions from many people...

By Al Barbarino (May 4, 2022, 5:20 PM EDT) -- The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority fined two California-based crowdfunding portals a combined $1. 75 million on Wednesday after finding that one misled investors about the "exaggerated" proficiency of a...

Search current offerings based on your criteria with Benzinga's New Alternative Investments Screener . When crowdfunding began, it was a great concept that caught on like wildfire. Suddenly, people were using the internet to raise money for everything from dream...

Web3 promises to advance crowdfunding far beyond what Web2 is capable of. To fulfill this promise, we must fully embrace the trust-minimization ethos of Web3 as well as its technology. With Web2 platforms like Kickstarter, GoFundMe, and WeFunder, individuals,...

Alone Editions usually gives you single-player games (hence the name). But they're expanding out, doubling the number of players for Dreamers , their new card game up on Kickstarter now. From the campaign: Welcome to this new Alone Editions Crowdfunding campaign. For...

Andrew Adcock, CEO of Crowd for Angels - Interview Series Andrew is the Chief Executive Officer at Crowd for Angels an equity crowdfunding platform. He often attends and speaks at events on Crowdfunding, Alternative Finance and Investment. Previously, he worked at...

The research report on the Art Crowdfunding Market offers a comprehensive study on market share, size, growth aspects, and major players. In addition, the report contains brief information about the regional competitive landscape, market trends, and drivers,...

For the last 12 years Bath Comedy Festival has brought some of comedy’s biggest stars to Bath, including Greg Davies, Jon Richardson, Paul Merton, Rory Bremner and Henning Wehn, alongside international stars such as Doug Stanhope and David Crowe. The festival has...

According to a recent filing, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has reduced its staff by nearly 40%, following a sharp decline in the number of projects launched on the site in the wake of the pandemic-fueled economic downturn. The company has laid off 25 employees,...

A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to try to save Forever Books in downtown St. Joseph. Store owner Robin Allen tells WSJM News the business is struggling to stay afloat during the COVID-19 shutdown with less in sales and all of the normal events being...

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...

More than 4,200 crowdfunders lit up the Kickstarter campaign for the DanForce G1, investing over $400,000 to make the G1 the most-funded tactical flashlight in Kickstarter history, as crowdfunding continues for the world’s first modular, customizable flashlight that...