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...

HTEC hopes to raise at least $1,000,000 to support the build-out of retail hydrogen refueling networks across Canada​VANCOUVER--HTEC (Hydrogen Technology & Energy Corporation) launched a direct-equity campaign on Vancouver-based crowdfunding platform, FrontFundr....

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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’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...

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...

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...

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...