Tagged: tech

July 15, 2015 @ 11:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up his own insight on the tech industry, Crowdcube co-founder Luke Lang sat down to reveal why such companies should consider equity crowdfunding for their next funding rounds. During an interview with IDG Connect, Lang stated: “Crowdfunding not only gives businesses a platform to… Read More

June 18, 2015 @ 8:42 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Fresh from its successful late 2014 Indiegogo campaign for its Lantern reciever which raised more than $637K from 6,642 backers,  New York-based Outernet Hardware has returned to the crowd, this time on its private fundraise on Fundable.  Outernet, ‘Humanity’s Public Library,’ enables anyone to receive data anywhere in… Read More

April 23, 2015 @ 12:38 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

In conjunction with the launch of its Indiegogo campaign, Fantem announced feature additions to its Oomi smart home system which successfully pre-tailed on Indiegogo in January, including a redesigned controller and a unique multisensor. The new controller, Oomi Touch, is encased in edge-to-edge glass and… Read More

March 27, 2015 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, China-based Jide Tech, hit crowdfunding giant Kickstarter to raise $100,000 for its new Android tablet, Remix. The Remix is considered an Android 4.4.2 based, 11.6” ultra-tablet that provides “the best” mobile productivity and communication experience for all of its users. The company stated:… Read More

December 11, 2014 @ 5:15 am By Erin Hobey  |  

In November The University of Cambridge teamed up with EY, the global professional services organization, and launched the European Alternative Finance Benchmarking Survey with the support of major European industry associations. This is the largest study to date on crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and other forms of alternative finance in Europe.  This benchmarking… Read More

December 8, 2014 @ 11:47 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Mambu, a cloud banking technology platform provider that works with more than 100 financial innovators worldwide, including Banco Macro, Opportunity International,  Mentors International, and Yale University, uniquely sits at the nexus of the transformation and financial inclusion markets, where new applications and the cloud’s agility… Read More

August 14, 2014 @ 4:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunding giant, Kickstarter, announced earlier this week details about its upcoming Film Fest in Los Angeles, California. The event will take place on September 12th from 6-11pm and features the platform’s favorite films, shorts, web series, animations, documentaries and more – all funded on the site…. Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 10:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Two PhD candidates from UCLA have a campaign on Kickstarter seeking $75,000 to bring the Spinpod to market. The Spinpod promises to help users capture high-quality panoramic images and time-lapse video easily with their smartphones and full cameras. “Our goal was to develop a device that… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 9:23 am By Quartz  |  

Kickstarter has been described as the Home Shopping Network for geeks—picture an online version of the Sharper Image catalog and an investment platform for tech startups having a baby. But this is the wrong way to think about Kickstarter, because the site’s founders have actually… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 1:29 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BrickPi has a hugely successsful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The goal? To crowdfund Raspberry Pi-based brains that work with off-the-shelf LEGO® Mindstorms hardware to create your very own robots. The Raspberry Pi is a small, cheap ($25) computer that has a footprint roughly similar to… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 9:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve written numerous times about the Oculus Rift, a product by Oculus VR that gives video gamers a full virtual reality experience. Now a product called the meta 1 aims to bring virtual reality to our everyday world, and it’s crowdfunding now on Kickstarter. As… Read More

May 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

SitePoint is an online media company specializing in news geared toward software developers and other flavors of geek. As is somewhat common in these circles, they afford their staff a few days on occasion to work on personal projects on company time. Why would a… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 7:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ouya raised over $8 million on Kickstarter last year followed by a $15 million round led by Kleiner Perkins, becoming a darling of the gaming media as an example of crowdfunding’s power to democratize a gaming industry long dominated by large publishers and manufacturers. Now… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:14 am By Gadizmo  |  

Remember how we were bemoaning the fact that the original SOSCharger didn’t work with smartphones? Well guess what, SOS Ready has heard the pleas of the smartphone owners and have put up a Kickstarter campaign for their newest line of hand-crank smartphone chargers. Not only is this great for… Read More