Tagged: features

December 1, 2015 @ 4:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

BillGuard, a personal finance analytics application and a subsidiary of Prosper Marketplace, on Tuesday announced significant updates to its pricing plans. The website is now offering several features of its money monitoring mobile application for free, enabling consumers to better control and protect their finances… Read More

November 30, 2015 @ 12:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Krowdster, a data powered web app for crowdfunding campaign optimization and promotion, announced the addition of two new features to make it easier for crowdfunders to find targeted influencers and trending content in their industries. Josef Holm, the founder of Krowdster, stated: “Building a targeted,… Read More

November 19, 2015 @ 4:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, social media giant Facebook unveiled its new feature, Fundraisers, that provides fundraising tools for nonprofits. Facebook’s VP of Product Management, Naomi Gleit, shared: “With more than 150 million people around the world connected to a cause, Facebook is a global community of volunteers, donors… Read More

November 4, 2015 @ 1:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just days after PicoBrew’s newest product offering, the Pico, surpassed $700,000 during its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, the company announced that in addition to brewing top-quality fresh craft beer, the appliance  also will support “modernist cuisine” sous vide cooking. Bill Mitchell, CEO of PicoBrew, explained:… Read More

October 30, 2015 @ 12:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to make changes to its popular crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo announced it has rolled out some new features for backers and campaign creators. In a recent blog post, the Indiegogo team revealed that backers can now request refunds: “For the last two months, we’ve been… Read More

October 26, 2015 @ 4:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday during the Money2020 conference, real estate lending marketplace Groundfloor introduced three new tools that expand peer-to-peer real estate lending. These tools enable quick comparison of loans, automated investing and in-depth analysis of loan grading factors. Since announcing its historic qualification by the SEC on… Read More

October 26, 2015 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

ReadyforZero, a company that was acquired by marketplace lender Avant, announced on Monday that that free credit monitoring is now available to all users with personal financial tools. With this new feature, users can manage both their personal debt and credit from a single web and… Read More

October 1, 2015 @ 2:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Crowdfunder announced new follows and messaging tools that will help investors and companies to be more in touch on its crowdfunding platform. The Crowdfunder team shared: “Investing is inherently social. Investors are investing in the founders and their team just as much… Read More

September 24, 2015 @ 10:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just one year after debuting InDemand, crowdfunding platform Indiegogo announced tips and tricks on how campaign organizers can take advantage of this feature. The Indiegogo crew shared: “When we first launched InDemand in September 2014, we wanted campaigners to be able to keep raising funds for… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 2:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, crowdfunding platform Kimbia announced a planned release of its next generation Salesforce integration. Aligned with Salesforce Foundation’s commitment to improving how nonprofits engage and connect with supporters, the Kimbia platform can now integrate with virtually any Salesforce solution, including NGO Connect, Nonprofit Starter Pack (NPSP)… Read More

September 17, 2015 @ 11:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, co-founder and chief strategy officer of GiveForward, Desiree Vargas Wrigley, announced that the crowdfunding platform was getting new features.  The “new GiveForward” expands the product way beyond crowdfunding into a community platform that enables people to help in different ways. The main features… Read More

August 28, 2015 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Ready for an upgrade, crowdfunding platform Tilt announced the top five new features for its smartphone app. Co-founder and CEO of Tilt, James Beshara, declared in a blog post: “Tilt Nation! We’ve taken your feedback over the last few months, and we’re excited to announce… Read More

July 11, 2015 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, global crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, announced a new feature that is now available for all backers. “Shipping Now” is described as a new way to explore perks from popular Indiegogo campaigns. The platform shared: “We know individuals contribute to campaigns for several different reasons, one being… Read More

April 30, 2015 @ 2:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to offer crowdfunding campaign organizers more ways to see how their project is doing with backers, Kickstarter announced a new Google Analytics feature that will show who’s checking out the pitch. The crowdfunding giant revealed in its blog: “If you’ve never launched a… Read More

April 13, 2015 @ 11:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to increase transparency and trust, popular reward-based crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has launched new feature: campaign profile cards. Sharing details about the feature, Indiegogo’s Julian Wong stated: “At Indiegogo, we routinely gather feedback from users and use this information to help determine what features… Read More

April 10, 2015 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending Works, the first peer-to-peer lender to have insurance against borrower default risk, announces that its new features for the UK pensions market are now live.  The multiple launches come as Lending Works is well on target to hit their forecasted £25m milestone of loans this… Read More