Posts tagged "crowdfunding"

Above a busy street in Melbourne’s north is the headquarters of nura, a startup that, if all goes to plan, will be as big as Bose in just a few years.

SpeakSee, a speech-to-text startup to bring deaf and hard-of-hearing people back into conversations, has raised $107,660 in just 10 days.

Gig ticketing startup GiggedIn has generated 10,000 new Facebook Messenger contacts, and grown its user base by 20% every month for six months running.

Cinema ticket-pricing startup Choovie is targeting a $700,000 equity crowdfunding raise, in its mission to “put bums on empty cinema seats”.

Fashion designer Arthur Lhermitte wanted to raise €150 for his Kickstarter project. But after 18 days, he's smashed that target thousands of times over.

From recipes for cold buttered bread, to a coconut shampoo specially designed for coconuts, crowdfunding site Flopstarter is the place to go for truly terrible ideas.

Margaret River brand West Winds Gin has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign to raise $3.5 million to accelerate its growth, and while this form of fundraising is new to the Australian market, it's been on the company's radar for years. 

There was almost $1 billion worth of funding events for Australian startups in the first quarter of 2018, according to a new report that shows a continued upward trend for startup capital across the country.

If it's felt like a whirlwind start to 2018 in terms of VC funding activity in Australia's startup ecosystem, that's because it has been.

Australia’s first equity crowdfunding campaigns are now in their final stages, with founders saying the response from everyday investors has exceeded expectations. 

The daughter of a couple who invested their life savings in Aussie Farmers Direct franchises has helped them launch a crowdfunding campaign to support their financial situation after the collapse of the grocery delivery operator.

By Stephen Graw, James Cook University

New crowdsourced funding legislation for startups is meant to provide incentives for investors �…