Latest update: 7 December 2014. This post will continue to be updated as I add new platforms, or delete those that disappear. Australian Platforms ASSOB (AUSTRALIAN SMALL SCALE OFFERINGS BOARD) Focus: Capital Raising Platform for Unlisted Companies Fees: Listing fee of $900 for application to apply. If accepted fee of $3960 to raise … Continue reading
Tag Archives: crowdfunding
Interview with Technoevangelist Fee Plumley about her crowdfunding project Really Big Road Trip
Fee Plumley is an artist, writer, consultant, speaker, and self confessed ‘technoevanglist‘. Plumley recently ran a project on Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible to get a bus and drive it around Australia. Through this trip Plumley will use the bus as a mobile digital arts space and create and share ‘geek … Continue reading
Australia produces world’s first crowdfunded TV series
After a successful fundraising campaign on Mobcaster, two twenty-somethings in Melbourne are busy producing the world’s first crowdfunded TV series, The Weatherman. Crowdfund it! spoke with the show’s co-creator and executive producer, Lucas Crandles, to find out more. Crowdfund it!: Hi Lucas. Your production company, Dark Heart Productions, raised $72,500 on Mobcaster (a … Continue reading
Giving ebooks to the world – Unglue.it
The Unglue.it platform has been set up to ‘Give ebooks to the world’. It aims to make it clearly legal for a digital book to be used, distributed, archived and preserved by libraries. They run crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds to reward the creators of the book and allow their … Continue reading
Crowdfunding for a better world
Crowdfunding is not just the domain of business entrepreneurs. Dutch social enterprise and crowdfunding platform PIFworld (“PIF” stands for “Play it forward”) has shown that crowdfunding can also be used for social good. The site allows users to raise money for charities or humanitarian campaigns, as well as volunteer their time. How’s this … Continue reading
Zombie shooting game sets new high for Australian crowdfunding
If the worldwide craze for Zombies needed a local flavour then this record-setting project on Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible will deliver it! IRL Shooter Presents: Patient 0 is a live action videogame set in a building overun with Zombies with teams fighting for survival. Along the way players will need to … Continue reading
PPL brings crowdfunding craze to Portugal
As entrepreneurs and businesspeople continue to realise crowdfunding’s potential, new platforms are appearing in almost every corner of the globe. Portuguese crowdfunding website PPL (People with Portugal) is one such platform. While it is targeted at the Portuguese market, anyone can create or contribute to its projects. At just over one year old, it … Continue reading
Crowdfund it! at Gleebooks
Sydney’s first ever ebook launch Expert panellists on the latest in crowdfunding Where: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe NSW When: 3.30pm for 4pm, September 23, 2012 Who: Anna Maguire, author, Crowdfund it!; Alan Crabbe, co-founder, Pozible; Tom Dawkins, co-founder, StartSomeGood; Bryan Vadas, co-founder, iPledg; writer and successful Pozible campaigner … Continue reading