Crowd funding to drive the creative industry in South Africa
3rd annual conference on the African Creative Economy underway in Cape Town South Africa the conference offers a platform to different talents to showcase so…
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Crowd Equity – Funding small businesses
A video about how crowd funding and crowd equity funding can help local communities, local economies, to finance their continued existence and prosperity. Mo…
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Master Class Crowd Funding par Adrien Aumont Co fondateur de KissKissBankBank www.twitter.com/adrienaumont www.facebook.com/supdeweb.
David Fisher Lecture: Intro To Crowd Funding
Today David Fisher presented a lecture on crowd funding at Maui County Business Resource Center inside Maui Mall, Kahului, Hawaii. We had about a dozen participants including two video crews recording the event. The following nine minute video is available in numerous quality settings from mobile phone quality up to 1080P full HD on the video sharing website vimeo.com Check out David Fisher’s site mauiventure.net
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devilsangelsanddating.ning.com www.indiegogo.com Our Story: We’re developing a short computer generated film called ‘Devils, Angels and Dating’ purely for the love of animated filmmaking. This film is being made with the internet in mind, fully aware of modern interests and trends. Synopsis: While Devil, Death and Cupid set about their daily tasks of masterminding our love lives here on Earth, they find themselves in the midst of an afterlife love triangle involving high tech visions of the tools we might be using to date on the internet many years from now. This is a love triangle with cosmic repercussions! We’re a large team of online animation professionals creating this film in our free time. At the time of writing we have 380 members signed up. You can see everything we’re doing as we do it from the over 2700 online videos and images to our direct discussions. We have video critiques, tutorials, artwork, work in progress animation, tech videos and all kinds of goodies to look at. What’s more is we’ve been building this archive of knowledge for anyone to view… for free (or at our own expense, at any rate). This is fine to a point as we love what we do and no-one expects to get rich doing this. But if there were some funds available it would make many things possible beyond the current scope of the project and it would ensure a solid film that would reward everyone that’s poured their heart and souls into over the last few years, not to mention the wider world who …
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Shide – Crowd Funding "The Director's cut"
And so…The director’s cut! Visit our Official website: www.shide.it IndieGoGo Campaign Page here: www.indiegogo.com/shide-btw Visit our official Facebook page: www.facebook.com/shideofficial
Learn more about GrowVC by visiting our website at: www.growvc.com You can also look at this post related to this podcast on our blog at www.growvc.com Or listen and download for free the full episode of this podcast on iTunes, at the link indicated below. itunes.apple.com — What’s most appealing about Grow VC, what is it that gets us out of bed in the mornings and how does the future look from our point of view? In this episode, our new team member from NY, Marc shares his take on what’s going on in the world and what potential is waiting to be unlocked with the Grow VC model. Member Highlight: Roozz.com GrowVc and future of crowd funding. “Easily makes any software run in the browser”
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Geek Speak: Kimberly Voll, lead developer for PepperDev Studios
Vancouver's PepperDev Studios is raising money on the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter to develop the iPhone game Hungry Fins. By Stephen Hui, April 20, 2012 Kimberly Voll is a lecturer in computer science at UBC. Kimberly Voll says PepperDev Studios …
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10 Tips: Crowdfunding in a Half Shell, Twitter Power!
Social media acts as the perfect tool for crowdfunding and allows for creative ideas to gain increased exposure and maximise social interaction. You could even argue that social-media made crowdfunding possible (along with the Internet!).
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Anadigm® Secures $15M In Third Funding Round Led by Atlas Venture. Investment to Fund Business Growth and Further Programmable Analog IC Developments
(PRWEB) October 4, 2003
CAMPBELL, CA (PRWEB)October 2, 2003 Anadigm®, the programmable analog company, today announced the closing of a new round of financing worth $ 15 million.
This C round of funding, led by Atlas Venture with ongoing investment from 3i, Quester and NIF Ventures, points to Anadigm®s success in winning market acceptance for its field programmable analog array (FPAA) integrated circuits, which offer an analog equivalent to the digital field programmable gate array (FPGA).
Anadigm® was founded in January 2000 as a spin-off from Motorola. More than 140 customers are designing Anadigm® FPAA technology into their products to provide complex filtering, signal conditioning, and closed loop control functions in consumer audio, industrial, and communications systems.
The companys product offering combines programmable silicon with easy-to-use software tools that drastically reduce the time needed to design, verify, and bring to market embedded systems with analog interfaces. Anadigm®s FPAAs are moreover the industrys first such chips that can adapt on the fly to perform multiple functions, adjust to different environmental and electrical conditions, or compensate for equipment aging.
Anadigm® offers one of the few analog technologies that is both innovative and disruptive, said Gerry Montanus, Senior Principal at Atlas Venture. The recent launch of the companys Anadigmvortex product line has brought the company industry-wide attention, and demonstrates the markets readiness for a technology that will reduce the cost of analog circuit design, manufacturing, and innovation. Real-world interfaces are essential to a very wide range of electronic systems, and we are delighted to be part of Anadigm®s ambitious project of revolutionizing the way they are conceptualized and implemented.
The funding will be used to continue to expand Anadigm®s business in all geographical markets and support ongoing product development activities. The investment will also support additional enhancements to the software used to program the companys Anadigmvortex FPAAs, which remove the complexity from analog design and reduce the time for analog implementations from months to minutes.
We are excited to be moving forward with the support of these leading venture capital firms. 3i and Quester have been very supportive of the business and were instrumental in bringing in Atlas Venture, said Bill McLean, Anadigm® President and CEO. Our FPAA solutions continue to gain traction in the marketplace and customer engagements are validating our technologys value-add. The investment will allow us to implement the next stage of our product strategy and to further penetrate our target markets.
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About Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture is the leading international early-stage venture capital firm, investing in communications, information technology and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the United States and Europe. Founded in 1980, Atlas Venture has organized six international funds, and currently manages more than $ 2.1 billion in committed capital. The Atlas Venture investment team is comprised of seasoned operating executives and career venture capitalists that have been deeply involved in the formation and development of more than 300 companies worldwide. Visit Atlas Venture on the Web at http://www.atlasventure.com.
About 3i
3i brings capital, knowledge and connections to the creation and development of businesses around the world. It invests in a wide range of opportunities from start-ups to buy-outs and buy-ins, focusing on businesses with high growth potential and strong management. 3i invests in businesses across three continents through local investment teams in Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA. To date, 3i has invested over £15 billion (including co-investment funds). In the 12 months to 31st March 2003 an average of £3.7 million (including co-investment funds) was invested each working day. 3is current portfolio is valued at almost £4 billion. http://www.3i.com
About Quester
Quester is one of the UK’s leading independent venture capital groups specialising in the provision of finance and management support for growth companies at all stages of their life. Questers focus is on early stage investments in information and communication technology, healthcare and life science companies. With its first rate track record, Quester has earned a reputation as one of the best UK based sources of venture capital. The Quester investment team manages approximately £300 million on behalf of major institutional investors, leading UK universities, and five quoted venture capital trusts. http://www.quester.co.uk.
About NIF
NIF Ventures Co Ltd manages approximately $ 1.5 billion in venture capital funds, and has invested in over 1,400 companies since its establishment in 1982. With offices in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States, NIF offers worldwide representation. Its primary investment focus is in the information and communications technology industries. http://www.nif.co.jp
About Anadigm®
Anadigm® brings platform-based design to the analog world with pre-qualified software and hardware components that allow complex analog circuits to be implemented in an analog equivalent to the FPGA. Designed to implement signal conditioning, filtering, data acquisition, closed-loop control, and other analog functions in a wide range of embedded systems, Anadigm® FPAAs are first programmable analog ICs that can adapt on the fly to perform multiple functions, adjust to different environmental conditions, or compensate for equipment aging. Founded in January 2000 as a venture-backed technology spin-off from Motorola, Anadigm® maintains U.S. headquarters in Campbell, Calif., and European headquarters in Crewe, U.K. For further information, visit Anadigm® on the Web at http://www.anadigm.com.
Anadigm® and AnadigmDesigner® are registered trademarks of Anadigm®. All other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
Anadigm® Secures $15M In Third Funding Round Led by Atlas Venture Investment to Fund Business Growth and Further Programmable Analog IC Developments
(PRWEB) October 4, 2003
CAMPBELL, CA (PRWEB) October 2, 2003 Anadigm®, the programmable analog company, today announced the closing of a new round of financing worth $ 15 million.
This C round of funding, led by Atlas Venture with ongoing investment from 3i, Quester and NIF Ventures, points to Anadigm®s success in winning market acceptance for its field programmable analog array (FPAA) integrated circuits, which offer an analog equivalent to the digital field programmable gate array (FPGA).
Anadigm® was founded in January 2000 as a spin-off from Motorola. More than 140 customers are designing Anadigm® FPAA technology into their products to provide complex filtering, signal conditioning, and closed loop control functions in consumer audio, industrial, and communications systems.
The companys product offering combines programmable silicon with easy-to-use software tools that drastically reduce the time needed to design, verify, and bring to market embedded systems with analog interfaces. Anadigm®s FPAAs are moreover the industrys first such chips that can adapt on the fly to perform multiple functions, adjust to different environmental and electrical conditions, or compensate for equipment aging.
Anadigm® offers one of the few analog technologies that is both innovative and disruptive, said Gerry Montanus, Senior Principal at Atlas Venture. The recent launch of the companys Anadigmvortex product line has brought the company industry-wide attention, and demonstrates the markets readiness for a technology that will reduce the cost of analog circuit design, manufacturing, and innovation. Real-world interfaces are essential to a very wide range of electronic systems, and we are delighted to be part of Anadigm®s ambitious project of revolutionizing the way they are conceptualized and implemented.
The funding will be used to continue to expand Anadigm®s business in all geographical markets and support ongoing product development activities. The investment will also support additional enhancements to the software used to program the companys Anadigmvortex FPAAs, which remove the complexity from analog design and reduce the time for analog implementations from months to minutes.
We are excited to be moving forward with the support of these leading venture capital firms. 3i and Quester have been very supportive of the business and were instrumental in bringing in Atlas Venture, said Bill McLean, Anadigm® President and CEO. Our FPAA solutions continue to gain traction in the marketplace and customer engagements are validating our technologys value-add. The investment will allow us to implement the next stage of our product strategy and to further penetrate our target markets.
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About Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture is the leading international early-stage venture capital firm, investing in communications, information technology and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the United States and Europe. Founded in 1980, Atlas Venture has organized six international funds, and currently manages more than $ 2.1 billion in committed capital. The Atlas Venture investment team is comprised of seasoned operating executives and career venture capitalists that have been deeply involved in the formation and development of more than 300 companies worldwide. Visit Atlas Venture on the Web at http://www.atlasventure.com.
About 3i
3i brings capital, knowledge and connections to the creation and development of businesses around the world. It invests in a wide range of opportunities from start-ups to buy-outs and buy-ins, focusing on businesses with high growth potential and strong management. 3i invests in businesses across three continents through local investment teams in Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA. To date, 3i has invested over £15 billion (including co-investment funds). In the 12 months to 31st March 2003 an average of £3.7 million (including co-investment funds) was invested each working day. 3is current portfolio is valued at almost £4 billion. http://www.3i.com
About Quester
Quester is one of the UK’s leading independent venture capital groups specialising in the provision of finance and management support for growth companies at all stages of their life. Questers focus is on early stage investments in information and communication technology, healthcare and life science companies. With its first rate track record, Quester has earned a reputation as one of the best UK based sources of venture capital. The Quester investment team manages approximately £300 million on behalf of major institutional investors, leading UK universities, and five quoted venture capital trusts. http://www.quester.co.uk.
About NIF
NIF Ventures Co Ltd manages approximately $ 1.5 billion in venture capital funds, and has invested in over 1,400 companies since its establishment in 1982. With offices in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States, NIF offers worldwide representation. Its primary investment focus is in the information and communications technology industries. http://www.nif.co.jp
About Anadigm®
Anadigm® brings platform-based design to the analog world with pre-qualified software and hardware components that allow complex analog circuits to be implemented in an analog equivalent to the FPGA. Designed to implement signal conditioning, filtering, data acquisition, closed-loop control, and other analog functions in a wide range of embedded systems, Anadigm® FPAAs are first programmable analog ICs that can adapt on the fly to perform multiple functions, adjust to different environmental conditions, or compensate for equipment aging. Founded in January 2000 as a venture-backed technology spin-off from Motorola, Anadigm® maintains U.S. headquarters in Campbell, Calif., and European headquarters in Crewe, U.K. For further information, visit Anadigm® on the Web at http://www.anadigm.com.
Anadigm® and AnadigmDesigner® are registered trademarks of Anadigm®. All other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
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Is CrowdFunding A Boon, Or A Disaster?
The most interesting feature of the JOBS act is legalization of “CrowdFunding”, which allows private companies to raise capital from any investor (not just deep-pocketed “accredited” investors) subject to simple rules: no more than $ 1 million per year, …
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New Funding Option Opens Up for London Businesses
(PRWEB) October 16, 2005
London-based management consultancy, Onset management Ltd, has become the gateway into a new capital market opened up by recent changes to financial regulations by HM Treasury. The changes allow the free flow of information between capital-starved early-stage businesses, and the successful entrepreneurs who want to invest in them. Onset management acts as the quality control over business plans and assists in preparing fund-seeking clients for the due diligence which is always conducted by investors. They then post the investment opportunity to the Development Capital Exchange (DCX) through which incoming inquiries from prospective investors are taken.
Simon Paul, Director of Onset Management said, We see the new early-stage investment market as a superb opportunity to widen our service to clients. We are now in a position to assist aspiring entrepreneurs and, even, established businesses raise informal equity funding, instead of having to rely on debt. This is an activity thats been popularized by the BBCs Dragons Den programme, although I have to point out that the real-world Dragons Den which we work in is far removed from the entertainment we see on the television.
The early-stage investment market enables successful entrepreneurs to off-set their capital gains liabilities through exploiting the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trusts (VCTs). For fund-seekers, the investor will usually join the company as a director and contribute not only his capital but priceless business experience to the growing enterprise. It is estimated that there are between 20,000 and 50,000 early-stage businesses seeking funding and as many as 150,000 entrepreneurs who want to invest in them at any one time across the UK.
Funding deals range between