Tagged: software

June 12, 2015 @ 9:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Utah-based insurance reimbursement company, Zane Benefits, announced that it has closed a $1.5 million equity financing from existing investors, with participation from Kickstart Seed Fund and Royal Street Investment and Innovation Center. The equity round will provide funding to accelerate Zane’s rapid revenue growth and the… Read More

May 13, 2015 @ 4:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

PENSCO, an alternative asset custodian for self-directed IRA investors, announced its new paperless deal funding technology — PENSCO Alt-Nav. The dubbed “first-of-its-kind” technology has been designed to help retirement investors who would like to invest in non-traded alternative assets using their retirement accounts, as well… Read More

February 26, 2015 @ 7:07 am By JD Alois  |  

JustPark has broken a funding record on Crowdcube. The App company has captured over 2400 investors attracting 3x more backers than any other offer in Crowdcube’s history. JustPark, a company that already lists BMW and Index Ventures as early investors, had sought a funding round… Read More

January 20, 2015 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Lighthouse Bitcoin crowdfunding App is now available for download for Mac, Linux and yes even Windows.  The Alpha version was released by Mike Hearn, based in Zurich, last September and after many bug fixes and a reported 18 updates the public beta version is ready… Read More

January 14, 2015 @ 2:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

BlockCypher, a block chain web services company, has raised $3.1 million in seed funding.  The San Mateo based company was founded in 2014. The  over-subscribed round included; Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), AME Cloud Ventures (Jerry Yang), Tim Draper, Upside Partnership, Streamlined Ventures and Fenox Venture… Read More

September 16, 2014 @ 6:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cloud-based enterprise innovation management platform Brightidea announced on Wednesday (September 10th) the availability of the Fall 2014 version of its corporate collaborative platform. The company reported that the upgrade was developed over the past year and incorporates numerous updates in configurability, pipeline management tools and application… Read More

August 27, 2014 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

GNS3 Technologies has to announces that their crowdfunding campaign on Tilt Open has achieved record breaking status. GNS3’s modest $35,000 goal was surpassed by 1400%, raising over $600,000 from 13,000 contributors from more than 80 countries. The funding will help to further develop the GNS3… Read More

August 12, 2014 @ 11:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

British cloud accounting software company, Clear Books, is aiming to raise £3.3 million on its own equity crowdfunding offering.  This follows its first oversubscribed crowdfunding offer from last year. The company is offering 275,000 shares at a subscription price of £12 per share. Whereas its competitors… Read More

July 14, 2014 @ 8:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Powered Now Raises Equity on Crowdfunding Platform Crowdcube. Tech start-up Powered Now, a mobile administrative app for tradesmen, has cruised by its equity crowdfunding target of £350,000 after just 12 days and is now overfunding. The additional capital will be used to further market and… Read More

July 2, 2014 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding Platform OurCrowd Joins Seed Round Investment. Parko, an Israeli startup, has raised $1.1 million in a seed round to fund their technological approach to fix parking problems.  The company has developed a “parking ecosystem” to assist drivers in discovering parking spots and leverages… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 9:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Devon, UK based tech start-up, Powered Now, has announced the launch of its investment pitch on Crowdcube equity crowdfunding platform. Aiming to raise £350,000 from the crowd, the pitch is open to anyone interested in supporting Powered Now’s new technology. The young company will use… Read More

June 28, 2014 @ 10:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

iOS dating app rendeevoo has raised £33,830 on its Seedrs’ equity crowdfunding campaign for the 6% equity offered, with 123 investors helping the dating app startup to surpass its £25,000 goal. rendeevoo is an iOS dating app that embraces spontaneity in the online dating world, quickly… Read More

June 25, 2014 @ 11:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

P2Binvestor (P2Bi), a Denver-based crowdlending platform that offers businesses a middle path between bank financing and expensive subprime lending, added three Colorado companies to its portfolio in June. The companies include In The Telling, a Boulder-based software and services provider of documentary-style online courses for… Read More

June 13, 2014 @ 2:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring a new type of network-attach storage (NAS) device to the market, California-based Sher.ly has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for Sherlybox. It is a private and shareable cloud that sits right on the user’s desk. According to the campaign’s website, the Sherlybox is… Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 7:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Having secured $250,000 in the early stages of its RockThePost equity crowdfunding campaign, SpeechTrans aims to raise up to $750,000 more to develop and market its lauded advanced Speech to Speech (S2S) Language Translation software. Partnering with HP, Microsoft and Intel, according to their RockThePost… Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Maily is an email application for kids.  Children are almost immediately introduced to the digital world these days and Maily wants to provide the proper environment for communication – accompanied by sufficient parental control.  Face it – fibbing about the child’s age and setting up… Read More

April 30, 2014 @ 7:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

London-based Minicabit has raised nearly 68% of its £150,000 funding goal, securing over £101K to date on its Seedrs’ equity crowdfunding campaign.  By setting the minimum investment level at a lowly £10, Founder and CEO Amer Hasan incites investments from cab owners, cab operators, cab… Read More

April 29, 2014 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Funds Raised Will Go For Development of Tinder Style App to Connect Users. Car-sharing startup GoCarShare has launched a second Seedrs campaign with the aim of crowdfunding a Tinder-style app, but for car travel.  The company is looking to raise £75,000 for their second equity… Read More

April 11, 2014 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Fantoo ran an equity crowdfunding round on Crowdcube at the end of 2013 raising £173,000 for the small company.  Fantoo, “the future of email”, has now become one of the first two winners of Dell’s “Start-up in Residence” competition and will soon work out of… Read More

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