Crowdfunding is now a permanent fixture of the financial ecosystem because founders and investors see it as a vital risk mitigation system, said Danae Ringelmann, founder and chief development officer of Indiegogo. Today, Indiegogo ranks alongside Kickstarter as one of the chief means by which start-ups, activists, artists and non-government bodies attempt to crowdfund projects…. Read more
Every day in Colombia we can find new projects, contests and events oriented towards supporting new IT based endeavors. November 5th is the deadline for presenting business ideas aiming to solve real life problems and to contribute to improve extreme poverty conditions in our country. It is not only a contest, it´s a world wide… Read more
The massive crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, is to open an Irish website soon according to the Irish Independent. The site, set to bring creative projects to life through individual small scale donations, will be welcomed by a growing number of Irish entrepreneurs. So far they’ve had to go through US or UK sites. Relatively unknown in Ireland, Kickstarter will go up… Read more
Gustavo Palacios, our Global Curator based in Bogota, Colombia, shares with us a collaborative lifestyle guide for his country. Colombia, known as a great cultural centre in South America by travellers, now also has a growing entrepreneurship ecosystem. The country has signed trade agreements with more than 40 countries and is now becoming very attractive… Read more
Tomás de Lara is the co-founder of O Sujeito (“The Subject”), a crowdfunding channel for independent journalism, which was released on March 12, 2014 in Brazil. Tomás shares his ideas and inspirations for O Sujeito with Brazil Curator Arthur Felizzola. Tell us about O Sujeito and how it began We believe that the possibilities created by the internet… Read more
Amsterdam, April 17. During the last two months, p2p car sharing community SnappCar raised a total of €560,125 ($771,796) from 481 crowdfunders. The Dutch company not only broke the record for equity-crowdfunding, but also proved the potential of collaborative investment in the collaborative economy. The amount raised will be used for SnappCar’s European rollout. Within… Read more
KissKissBankBank is a crowdfunding platform that fosters connections between projects creators and potential contributors passionate about creativity. Belgian Curator Marco Torregrossa had a chat with Vincent to get the latest scoop about KissKissBankBank and what new developments are on sight, affecting the realm of collaborative finance. We all have different interpretations of crowdfunding, what is – in… Read more
liwwa is the latest crowd investment platform to come out of the Middle East. The service was created by two Palestinian entrepreneurs, Ahmed Moor and Samer Atiani, who “decided to develop a way to use the power of the internet to work on the chronic unemployment and underdevelopment problems.” The platform is not your run… Read more
When Abdallah Absi, Zoomaal founder and CEO, tried touting big ideas to Lebanese backers, he was met with a frosty reception. One venture capital firm, he recalls, told him flatly that “we do not invest in students.” While Absi went on to take internships in finance to figure out the investors’ sweet spots, he believes… Read more
¡No somos lo que tenemos! (We are not what we have) is the title of the editorial on the July/August issue of Es Posible magazine in Spain. “Collaborative consumption implies a revolution that involves a regulatory change, a technological change and, above all, a profound cultural change. Therefore collaborative consumption is becoming an emerging and prolific… Read more