Tag: Crowdfunding

Naked Wines Australia, Australia’s only wine company backed by crowdfunding, has become the country’s fastest growing online wine retailer.

Sydney startup ingogo has raised an impressive $9.1 million in a pre-IPO funding round, including $1.2 million via a crowdfunding platform.

A new study has revealed that women outperform men when it comes to online crowdfunding.

If there was any doubt that crowdfunding campaigns can be equally as successful for social entrepreneurs as commercial businesses, a new Australian record proves the naysayers wrong.

Thousands of entrepreneurs behind commercial, creative, and not-for-profit ventures have already had their ideas funded by putting it to the masses and asking for their startup capital.

As social and digital media were in 2012, crowdfunding was one of the most talked about topics in 2013.

Go back just a few years, and using the term ‘crowdfunding’ would have received some very blank stares. For Danae Ringelmann, co-founder of Indiegogo, crowdfunding represents a democratisation of access to capital.

StartSomeGood has partnered with financial services provider ING DIRECT to launch Dreamstarter, a crowdfunding initiative to help boost Australia’s social enterprise sector.

Kickstarter and Indiegogo have helped spawn a new generation of niche crowdfunding sites for everything from scientists to community organizers.

Entrepreneur Josh Abramson, co-founder of CollegeHumor and BustedTees, is moving on to a Kickstarer-esque graphic t-shirt e-commerce site.