December 24, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Mosaic President Billy Parish appeared on Bloomberg West to talk about Mosaic’s business model and their unique approach to funding solar projects. To date, Mosaic has facilitated $5.6 million in solar projects with zero defaults and 100% on-time payments. Pretty incredible for an investment that… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 11:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to a recent article in AllThingsD, Lending Club and Google are rumored to be in discussions about making use of Google’s cash reserves to offer low-interest loans to Google Employees. Lending Club would facilitate the loans. The idea is that the ability to refinance… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 9:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Is your Kickstarter taking off? Are you worried about having too many backers to answer to and too many rewards to ship? Wish Kickstarter had the option to set a funding maximum? They do… kind of. It isn’t an explicit feature of the platform, but… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 9:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Star Citizen has surpassed $35 million in funding. Chris Roberts announced the milestone in a recent backer update posted to robertsspaceindustries.com… Wow! When I started this journey I would have never guessed that we would have come so far in such a short time. $35M… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 5:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In applying a loose definition of the term “crowdfunding,” Rodrigo Nino stands as the undisputed king of the emerging fundraising methodology. He and his team at Prodigy Network crowdfunded a building in Colombia to the tune of over $175 million from investors both in Colombia… Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 8:10 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It was a busy 2013 for the team at crowdfunding platform RockThePost. In a recent post to their blog RockThePost shared some of the highlights of their year. Since launching the platform officially in March of 2013, the platform helped to raise over $23 million… Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 7:42 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

With 40 days left in their Indiegogo campaign, wearable device technology startup Atheer has raised over $70,000 of a stated $100,000 goal for their innovative spin on 3D glasses. The consumer-level variant is called the Atheer One, and the feature set promised by the team… Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 7:18 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Pave is encouraging everyone to chase their dreams in 2014, and they have launched an initiative called Moonshot to help encourage people to do just that. Pave is encouraging people to tweet a message including what they hope to accomplish in 2014. By including @pave in… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Gambling is a big industry both here in the United States and around the globe. The size of the US online gambling industry alone is expected to balloon to $7.4 billion by 2017. Globally, some reports estimate that the size of the global gambling industry… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 2:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo Founder and CEO Slava Rubin appeared on Fox Business recently to discuss the recently-proposed rules for Regulation A+. Due to equity crowdfunding’s cap (set at $1 million) and Regulation A+’s logical “floor” of $5 million, there is a gap. Regulation A+ arose from underutilization… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 2:07 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Some within Michigan political circles were predicting that an intrastate crowdfunding exemption in the state of Michigan could be signed into law by the end of the year. It seems that prediction may come to fruition, as the bill has now been vetted by both… Read More

December 21, 2013 @ 1:48 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UK-based renewable energy crowdfunding platform Abundance Generation has announced a partnership with CCgroup. CCgroup is a UK-based PR agency with an embedded cleantech department. That department has reportedly been briefed on Abundance Generation’s model and will help in publicizing investment opportunities on the platform. CCgroup… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 11:38 am By Charles Luzar  |  

New York-based crowdinvesting platform Return on Change provided the following infographic to Crowdfund Insider. No matter what you call it – crowdinvesting, crowdfinance, equity crowdfunding, etc. – it’s going to be big, and RoC’s infographic gives us eight reasons why, including a little bit of… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Mike Mowery and Nikhil Potdar are with Outerloop Management, a company specializing in the management of bands, specifically hardcore and metal bands. Both have helped clients launch a handful of successful crowdfunding campaigns. They’ve increasingly been using Indiegogo as their platform of choice lately, which… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 10:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The San Francisco 49ers are one of the best teams in the NFL again this year. There’s just one problem: there is one team in their division that may be better. This year’s Seattle Seahawks are something special. A chart recently published on Business Insider… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 10:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kano’s Kickstarter campaign has ended. The small, DIY Raspberry Pi-powered computer raised $1,522,160 from 13,387 backers. The raise was good enough to push the campaign to third on Kickstarter’s all-time list for design products. Kano leaped the Elevation Dock for that spot. It wasn’t quite… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 10:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jon Medved spent some time in Texas last week following a promise made to Texas Governor Rick Perry. As the CEO of OurCrowd, Medved’s mission is to connect investors worldwide with the robust Israeli tech startup scene. The short video below explains this mission. Medved… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 10:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

6This could be big. Oculus VR launched the Oculus Rift on Kickstarter and went on to grab almost $2.5 million in funding. Some are saying that Avegant’s upcoming Glyph headset could surpass it. After watching the following hands-on video from Engadget, we can see why…… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 9:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It was long-rumored and now it has come to fruition: Star Citizen and lead developer Chris Roberts have bumped the release of the much-anticipated dogfighting module. The revelation was shared in a recent backer update on the RSI web site… Originally when I first started this journey… Read More

December 19, 2013 @ 9:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter has rolled out a new advanced search feature that stands to make it much easier to find projects on the platform. This revelation was shared in a recent blog post from Kickstarter’s Michael McGregor. Today we’re excited to make a major change in the… Read More