Tagged: software

March 12, 2014 @ 12:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on equity platform Seedrs, SHAREIGHT has generated a new record for the platform for amount raised  and speed to funding.  Outside of the Seedrs self-crowdfunding campaign which took place late last year, the campaign, that is now at  £463,430, is the largest amount ever… Read More

March 11, 2014 @ 7:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

A team of people within publicly traded company Marvell, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.  The Kinoma Create campaign, a “javascript internet of things project”, immediately surpassed their $10,00o goal and stands just shy of $20,000 today.  The group organizing the project on Indiegogo… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 1:28 pm By Lionel Slusny  |  

Crowdfunding, we all know, is a very powerful tool to validate a business opportunity within a specific product application. As discussed in previous articles on the Startup Europe – Crowdfunding Network  site, we have seen that crowdfunding is particularly suited for web entrepreneurs who wish… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

@konklone @xor @knowtheory it’s a complex situation that is fortunately new for us. We are working hard to respond, with hopefully more soon — Fred Benenson (@fredbenenson) February 17, 2014 Kickstarter engineer Fred Benenson was vocal on this Hacker News thread about revelations that Kickstarter… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 8:16 am By JD Alois  |  

AgTech and agriculture industry crowdfunding platform  AgFunder has announced their first investment opportunity is now live on their investment crowdfunding site. Fresno, California based OnFarm is a Software as a Service (SaaS) big data company that aggregates multitudes of data—from water information to fertilizer inputs—to provide… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Earwig Academic Raises 128% of Goal at £180,000. Investors quickly backed Earwig software raising equity on the Crowdcube platform. The company had set a goal of raising £140,o00 but 71 investors have participated to push that amount higher.  This represented an 18% stake in the… Read More

October 14, 2013 @ 11:42 am By JD Alois  |  

The Ghost blogging platform launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in April of 2013.  The open source platform is totally written in javascript and promises true one button deploys.  The crowfunding campaign wanted to raise £25,000 but the interest in this new application showed considerably… Read More

September 14, 2013 @ 12:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Pax Dickinson had a bad week. Dickinson was the CTO of popular news site Business Insider. It turns out that over the years he has amassed a collection of posts on Twitter that some found offensive, and it seems it finally caught up to him… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A while back we reported on Hemlis, a messaging app Edward Snowden would appreciate. The team behind the app has kicked operations into high gear after their successful crowdfunding campaign, and they recently took to their blog to share updates with backers. Development on an… Read More

July 18, 2013 @ 2:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Bountysource, the first crowdfunding platform dedicated to supporting open-source software, has announced that it has raised a $1.1 million seed round. The total investment is a combination of contributions from Bountysource founder Warren Konkel, a longtime entrepreneur, and True Global Ventures, an investment firm comprised… Read More

July 9, 2013 @ 10:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Let’s face it: building a basic crowdfunding platform is easy. This is at least in part why the space is so exciting. Many disruptors will come and go, and those that execute best will stay. A recent post on Mozilla Hacks includes a tutorial to… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A crowdfunding campaign currently live on RocketHub aims to bring a funding solution to the dwindling discipline of long-form investigative journalism. NEWSFREED aims to bring crowdsourcing and crowdfunding aspects to journalism, and the elevator pitch outlines a pretty cool product that could have some legs… Read More

March 4, 2013 @ 12:23 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Open source software is extremely important to technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Numerous companies (including Crowdfund Insider) may not exist if it weren’t for excellent open source software being available to the public. Since open source software is free by definition, developing it can be a… Read More

January 23, 2013 @ 3:54 am By SiliconIndia  |  

Bangalore: As software developers around the country optimistically approach the new year and plan out budgets for building new products,  continued economic challenges are an unfortunate reality of the software industry. Crowdfunding with FundaGeek represents an excellent opportunity to supplement current funding sources for software… Read More

January 11, 2013 @ 8:12 am By The Australian  |  

Kidder Williams, whose client list has included companies such as Bega, Tassal and Nufarm, has launched KidderApp, an investment fund set up to help entrepreneurs take their applications — commonly called “apps” — to market. With about 13,000 new apps approved every month on the… Read More