Startup Canada Podcast: Lessons in crowdfunding with Viktor Grabovskyy
Crowdfunding and marketing genius Viktor Grabovskyy is often asked how the ForeverSpin campaign gained so much support and…
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Fundrazr partners with education savings provider to establish education crowdfunding
As crowdfunding grows in popularity, it seems it was only a matter of time before organizations working in the education sector…
Tilt releases new metrics on Canadian micro-groupfunding
Tilt’s Canadian branch isn’t even a year old, but already the company is reporting huge growth among its Canadian…
Canadians pledged $27.65 million to Kickstarter in 2014
Kickstarter has published a brief year-in-review presentation on its website about the crowdfunding marketplaceâs 2014 growth.…
Crowdfunding for Charities. Do you Giveffect?
Toronto startup Giveffect just launched a custom, white-label crowdfunding solution for charities, a much needed initiative…
Hardware Projects on Kickstarter Raised Over Five Times More Investor Funding as Those on Indiegogo
A new report has revealed some interesting facts about crowdfunded hardware projects that graduate from Kickstarter and Indiegogo.…
Jack Astor’s to Bring Potato Salad Kickstarter Guy to Canada
In what can only be described as this week’s terrible branding initiative, Jack Astor’s restaurants is bringing…
Here’s Five Tricks To Help Your Crowdfunding Project Win
The Next 36’s Chris Grouchy recently took to the Financial Post to drop a bit of knowledge about how crowdfunding projects…
Toronto Man Crowdfunds Mystery Product, and Yes, People Have Almost Funded It
A 22-year-old Toronto man has nearly hit his funding target for a new product on Crowdtilt. What the product actually is remains…
Indiegogo Taps Canada As First Dance Partner in Mobile App Deployment
Indiegogo, the San Francisco-based crowdfunding platform, has opened its new app up to Canadians users first. The move comes…
Group-Funding Platform Crowdtilt Expands to Canada
Crowdtilt, a crowdfunding platform hailing from San Francisco that helps users fund experiences, purchases, and causes with…
Crowdfunding as the Pre-Equity Investment and Validation Tool
Typical tech start-up funding starts when all personal savings have been exhausted, and credit cards and lines of credit have…
Toronto Tool Library Turns One
Toronto Tool Library had much to celebrate on the night of its one-year anniversary. When its co-founders Ryan Dyment and Lawrence…
Fundica and FundRazr Team Up for the $10K “Fundees Awards”
Montreal-based Fundica, creators of the 10-city, 2014 Funding Roadshow that began today in Toronto, is teaming up with crowdfunding…
70% of Wearables Are Under $300 Finds Vandrico Wearable Report
Vancouver-based Vandrico is fast becoming a go-to resource for the wearable space. In February the wearable tech research and…