PledgeMe Blog

December 31, 2018

2018: Wow, just… wow!

The other day, I was out tramping with my family. After an hour of mirthful skipping along the track marvelling at Mother Nature (just kidding, it was a hot day and my family includes small grumpy children who needed to […]

December 20, 2018

Posted by anna

SleepDrops campaign – what happened and next steps

Sleep Support System Limited, one of the companies in the SleepDrops group, is equity crowdfunding through PledgeMe to fund their expansion plans. So far they have had $784,034 pledged, exceeding their $500,000 goal. You can view their campaign here. […]

December 13, 2018

Posted by Jess

Here at PledgeMe, we’ve been thinking a lot about how to make an impact outside the confines of what we do every day to help people fund the things they care about. We see a need to help grow and […]

August 24, 2018

Posted by anna

Whakangungu Wahine Maori Me Kohatia Au papa hou tuku Koha-a-Iwi // Māori Women’s Development Inc and PledgeMe launch new crowdfunding programme

Kei te mahi tahi a Te Roopu Whakawhanake i ngā wāhine Māori arā – Māori Womens Development Inc me Pledge Me, me te hīkaka o te ngākau ki te tuku i tēnei hōtaka Koha-a-Iwi hou tukanga hoki – Tā Koha […]

August 10, 2018

Posted by Barry G

Tā Koha Bunch: Manawa from Ngahere Communities

Our Tā Koha Bunch blog series continues as we sit down with Manawa Udy from Ngahere Communities at their soon-to-be-opened co-working, event and makerspace in the heart of Manukau City, to discuss their crowdfunding campaign. Manawa’s got a creative spark. […]

August 7, 2018

Posted by anna

Day one: over 80% funded!

It’s crazy to think this time yesterday we weren’t sure how our crowd would react to our latest campaign. We’d had all the normal good signals (people registering their interest to invest, feedback on our posts, and the normal good […]

July 31, 2018

Posted by Jessie

Tā Koha Bunch: Joe from Flo

Over the coming months as our mahi on Tā Koha continues, we’ll be profiling some of the awesome entrepreneurs who are planning to use the platform to take their business to the next level. First up is Joe Harawira, the […]

July 19, 2018

Posted by anna

What it means to equity crowdfund in Australia

Equity crowdfunding has been happening around the globe for the past few years. Over $2.5 billion was raised in 2015 through equity crowdfunding, from the UK (arguably the grandparent of equity crowdfunding) through to PledgeMe’s home country, New Zealand, where […]

July 19, 2018

Posted by anna

We want to make equity crowdfunding equitable.

I have some news to share with you. Six years ago we launched PledgeMe into the world, as New Zealand’s first crowdfunding platform. Since then, over 1,200 campaigns have raised funding through PledgeMe, helping Kiwis fulfil their plans and add richness […]

July 4, 2018

Posted by Jessie

The Wellington Resilience Fund

Wellingtonians are all too aware that we’ve grown up on a faultline, and right at the edge of an unpredictable ocean. But despite this, we’re not always good at planning for disasters. Experiences of the Christchurch earthquakes made it clear that […]