Tagged: seed capital

February 5, 2015 @ 2:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Airtame, company that went from obscure Danish startup to crowdfunding hit, has closed a seed financing round for $1.4 million.  Lead investors included Danish investment firm SEED Capital and Libratone founder Tommy Andersen.  The new capital will be used to expedite a broad market release… Read More

February 22, 2014 @ 3:06 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Heatworks Model 1 just closed a successful Kickstarter round less than a week ago, raising over $400,000 and over three times their stated goal. Before the company can even finish celebrating, news has broken that they’ll have even more capital to complete delivery fulfillment… Read More

January 8, 2014 @ 9:38 am By Kendall Almerico  |  

The SEC’s 90-day comment period for the proposed JOBS Act equity crowdfunding rules ends in late January 2014. There is a chance that we could see the first JOBS Act crowdfunding campaigns as early as April, although I am not holding my breath on that… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More

September 28, 2013 @ 12:50 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Ministry of Supply has made great use of Kickstarter over the past 18 months, having launched and executed two successful crowdfunding campaigns for their innovative spin on fashion. The first campaign for the Apollo dress shirt raised over $400,000 used technology developed by NASA to create shirts… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 5:42 pm By Arctic Startup  |  

What time is it in Denmark? No one’s sure, because their watches haven’t shipped yet. Leikr, the GPS sports watch we mentioned briefly on our Crowdfunding roundup has hit their ambitious quarter of a million dollar goal three days before their deadline, coming to a final… Read More