Tagged: crowdtilt

March 20, 2014 @ 3:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A decision-making platform with roots in the Occupy Movement is being crowdfunded on Crowdtilt right now, and it just closed out a great first week of funding. The campaign raised over $34,000 and has a good head start toward a $100,000 goal. So what is… Read More

March 6, 2014 @ 1:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pozible Calls Out Other Crowdfunding Platforms to Share Numbers. According to publicly available information put together by Pozible, the Australian platform has the highest crowdfunding success rate in the USA at 45%.  Globally, Pozible’s campaign success rate is 56%.  With pledges of over $1million a… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

CrowdTilt has an interesting crowdfunding campaign on their platform,  “Cross Country Love” is raising money to fly New York based women to San Francisco to bridge the gender disparity between the two coastal communities.   According to the campaign their are  100,000 single women in… Read More

March 1, 2014 @ 10:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A bit of history: Flappy Bird was an annoyingly difficult and incredibly addictive game for iOS and Android. I played it once on a friend’s phone, and after ten frustrating minutes I handed the phone back and swore not to download it lest I spend… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 10:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Paul Graham will take a step back from famed Silicon Valley tech accelerator Y Combinator to focus on his writing, although he will still consult startups. Over nine years at Y Combinator, Graham has built the organization into one of the most desirable entrepreneurial experiences… Read More

February 22, 2014 @ 3:33 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdtilt made a big announcement this week when they dragged their white label crowdfunding solution out of beta and rebranded it as CrowdtiltOpen. Before moving on, Crowdtilt took a look back at the top ten campaigns to run on Crowdhoster while it was in beta,… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 11:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdtilt has announced the rebranding of Crowdhoster as CrowdtiltOpen today, and it packs what the platform is calling the “most robust feature set of any crowdfunding tool in the world.” A statement from Crowdtilt CEO James Bashara makes it clear both why the platform was… Read More

February 16, 2014 @ 9:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

#CoolRunnings2: The Jamaican Bobsled team that crowdfunded their way to the Olympics in Sochi did their qualifying rounds today and unfortunately did not make the final cut ending up in 30th place.  Only the top 20 advanced to the final and unfortunately it was not… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

TechCrunch has an awards series every year called the Crunchies, and Kickstarter just won the biggest Crunchie of them all. Kickstarter is TechCrunch’s “Best Overall Startup” for 2013. Kickstarter wasn’t the only winner from the wonderful world of crowdfunding in 2013. Oculus VR took home… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 8:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

NationBuilder Users Can Quickly Add Political Crowdfunding Campaigns. NationBuilder, a “Community Organizing System”  that helps leaders grow and organize communities has partnered with Crowdtilt to integrate their crowdfunding functionality on the NationBuilder platform.  With this integration, any NationBuilder nation can supplement fundraising efforts by adding,… Read More

January 23, 2014 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve reported on Balanced pretty extensively here at Crowdfund Insider. If there is one thing to know about this innovative online payments company, it’s that they take a really unorthodox approach to building their product, leaning heavily on the tenets of the open source software… Read More

January 22, 2014 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

In an attempt to aid the Jamaican Bobsled Olympic team get to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, sports fan Lincoln Wheeler innocently set up a CrowdTilt crowdfunding campaign to assist in raising the necessary $80,000.  The campaign was set to “Tilt” at $10,000 (the amount… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Well that did not take long. The crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt now stands over $105,000 on the goal of raising $80,000.  Dogecoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency, and their 1600 members put together a $30,000 donation which boosted the amount over the $100,000 level. “It is… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 4:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The crowdfunding campaign to fund the Jamaican bobsled team so they can make it to the Winter Olympics in Sochi has now become the official olympic campaign.  The project on CrowdTilt has a new administrator – Devon Harris who represents the bobsled team. In a… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 12:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Sometimes reality is better than fiction.  In an interesting twist of events the Jamaican Bobsled team has just qualified for the Sochi Winter Olympics. Yes – that was a movie.  Cool Runnings hit cinemas in 1993 in a film about the first Jamaican Bobsled team… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has invested $20 million in Teespring, an innovative crowdfunding platform for t-shirts. RELATED | Teespring Crowdfunds T-Shirt Preorders Teespring is a Y Combinator alum and has seen some pretty insane growth early in its lifecycle, so it is no huge surprise that… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Food replacement drink Soylent which was originally rejected by Kickstarter and went on to become Crowdhoster’s very first crowdfunding offering raising over $1.7 million from more than 10,000 supporters, has delayed shipping by several weeks due to the need to alter some ingredients.  First shipments… Read More

January 7, 2014 @ 10:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Watsi, CrowdTilt Also Up for Awards along with Oculus VR. Rewards based crowdfunding platform Kickstarter is up for the Best Overall Startup of 2013 Crunchie Award. This is the 7th Annual event which is put together by TechCrunch along with partners GigaOm and VentureBeat.  One… Read More

December 16, 2013 @ 9:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Platform Crowdtilt Raises $23 Million in Series B Funding. Crowdtilt, self-described as “the fastest and easiest way to pool funds from family and friends” thas raised $23 million in Series B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.  The new funding will be utilized for building… Read More

December 10, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Reddit has donated ad space to 250 crowdfunding projects via an initiative that was launched yesterday. Space was taken up within 24 hours. 250 campaigns will be allowed to participate in the initiative with each receiving 100,000 donated ad impressions on the Reddit homepage. This… Read More