The All-New Kuaifit Wireless Earphones With Microphone
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...
Where’s my drone? A crowdfunded startup’s long quest to deliver
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...
Developer gives up on crowdfunded game
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...
Circle Cuts Deal to Buy Crowdfunding Platform SeedInvest
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...
DanForce G1 Flashlight that Lit Up Kickstarter to Raise $400,000…
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...
HTEC, Canada’s Hydrogen fuel supply solutions, launches equity crowdfunding camp
HTEC hopes to raise at least $1,000,000 to support the build-out of retail hydrogen refueling networks across CanadaVANCOUVER--HTEC (Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation) launched a direct-equity campaign on Vancouver-based crowdfunding platform, FrontFundr....
Gender Bias Appears To Boost Female Entrepreneurs Seeking Crowdfunding
Male entrepreneurs tend to enjoy an advantage in securing traditional venture capital, but common gender biases appear to work in women's favor when it comes to crowdfunding, recent research suggests. Acting on a common societal stereotype that women are more...
Crowdfunding Builds a Buzz among Heavy-Metal Fans
It’s rare for someone to be an expert in both heavy metal and crowdfunding, but documentarian Sam Dunn qualifies as both. The music expertise comes from making films and TV shows about the genre through Banger Films Inc., his Toronto-based production company. His...
ALLDOCUBE X Campaign
The Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the new ALLDOCUBE X tablet has been officially marked as a huge success and with almost $300.000 raised so far it exceeded the expectations. And with just 7 days left in the campaign the makers decided to move the project into...
Seven Tips For Writing A Compelling Crowdfunding Pitch
After promoting over 4,000 crowdfunding campaigns with my company, it has become very clear to us that a significant part of the success of a crowdfunding campaign lies in the pitch. It’s the way you present your campaign that makes it stand out. Be it a wallet or a...
Money on our mind: The rise of crowdfunding for a good cause
MILLIONS of euro has been raised in the last two years in Ireland through crowdfunding websites, with one in 15 people donating to more than 10,000 causes. Crowdfunding is the relatively new phenomenon of raising funds for causes, start-ups, or artistic endeavours...
BrewDog Extends Equity for Punks V on Crowdcube
Just days before its equity crowdfunding round was set to close on Crowdcube, UK-based BrewDog announced it was expanding the campaign for an additional 18 days. The news comes after the initiative secured its initial 22 million funding target. As previously reported,...
Segway takes to Indiegogo for their new skates- the Drift W1 e-Skates
Segway’s new Drift W1 e-Skates look hella fun. Just step on, adjust your center of gravity slightly by leaning and you’re away. I basically lived on my rollerblades as a kid so the Drift W1 e-Skates feel like a grown-up version of that. There’s all of Segway’s...
6 crypto crowdfunding platforms you need to know about
Crowdfunding is a relatively new way to raise money for causes, businesses and people. However, there’s an even more modern option that lets you use cryptocurrencies to fund those things. Let’s look at some crowdfunding platforms that allow that method of making...
Cannabis Crowdfunding Offer Allows Investors To Inhale For As Little As $300
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Transatlantic Real Estate, LLC, a diversified investment vehicle that acquires and leases specialized real estate assets, such as cannabis farms, is announcing a Regulation Crowdfunding (Regulation CF) offer combining real...
100 – £1 Million Crowdfunding Rounds: Crowdcube Goes Large
Investment crowdfunding platform Crowdcube has shared a new milestone: 100 issuers have now raised £1 million or more on their platform. While it is nice to note accomplishments like this, the fact that crowdfunding platforms are listing larger offerings is a natural...
Crowdfunding: What is It, When Can Small Businesses Use It – and When Doesn’t it Make Sense
Traditional crowdfunding was originally very different from raising money using other investment sources. It is important to clarify what kind of crowdfunding is being discussed because the term is being applied to diverse types of fundraising. Defining Crowdfunding...