Displaying items by tag: crowdfunding

The best form of April Fool’s joke is one that is so plausible, that it could actually be a real product, with Twelve South going further in crowdfunding the Stone’r project so that if people really want it, they can fund it into life.

An Australian tech company has re-invented the baby bottle, thanks to a new mother discovering a major baby bottle sterilising paint point which led to her joining forces with the mother of invention to disrupt parenting for the better – with true innovation!

Ride-sharing platform Shebah has landed a $1 million investment from a new investor, taking its crowdfunding equity raising to a total just short of $2.4 million.

The year 2017 was an exceptionally strong one for Australian companies floating on the Australian Securities Exchange, according to a new report which reveals that IPOs during the year returned an average of 61.6% from listing.

Token-based blockchain voting and decision-making platform, Horizon State, has raised more than $1.4 million in its crowdfunding campaign in just two weeks.

Singapore-based peer-to-peer crowd-funding platform Funding Societies has launched a chatbot known as Miyu to answer queries about its services.

Equity investors are coming to the world of crowdfunded tech, according to Juniper, whose new research predicts ever bigger crowds for crowdfunding projects and the industry.

Two Australian women entrepreneurs, Yvette Adams and Katrina Lees, from crowdfunding marketing agency, The Creative Collective, have pulled off a deal to become the first agency in Australia to partner with Indiegogo, the world’s largest global crowdfunding platform.

Australian equity-based crowdfunding platform, VentureCrowd, has appointed finance industry veteran Rob Nankivell to the role of CEO, and John Ottaway as General Manager of Property.

CrowdfundUP, a Perth-based financial technology startup, has announced Australia’s first real estate crowdfunding platform, connecting investors to developers seeking capital for their next project.

Equity-based crowd funding platform, Venture Crowd, has raised $363,000 in a pre-IPO funding round for popular question–and–answer micro job network Crowd Mobile.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn to play music, but found it all too hard and expensive, or are a teacher than wants a better way of teaching music and instrument playing, a new Aussie company’s Netflix-style platform could be the very best way of doing both - and more - yet!

An Australian company has launched a crowd-funding campaign on Indiegogo to deliver a ‘Netflix-style evolution in music learning’ with ‘unlimited access to music lessons for US $4.95 per month’.

The Tenants Union of Victoria is raising funds using a crowdfunding system to build a TripAdvisor-style site for renters. The  union is using a system called Pozible to crowdfund its proposed Rate Your Rental website.

Kickstarter may be a super popular way of funding projects and building support but the platform today took a hit, with The Stomping Land, a game that hit $114,000, removed from sale on Steam.

Crowdfunding is increasingly popular as a way to finance new ideas. But there are legal and taxation implications. Get the basics right and the rest will follow, explain two leading lawyers in the field.

Melbourne-based Wi-Fi enabled lightbulb startup LIFX has raised $12 million in Series A funding, in a deal with Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia.

The 3D printer revolution is underway, and as with all tech revolutions they're only truly legimate when children can get on the action too. And, thanks to a new Kickstarter, a kid-friendly 3D printer is on the way.

Some business and technology industry heavy hitters, led by Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, have invested in crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to support its global expansion plans.

Israeli startup Modillian has come up with a Bluetooth watchband buckle that turns your 'dumb' watch into a smart watch that will compete with the Pebble and Samsung's Galaxy Gear, and possibly look even better.