Crowdfunding crowdfunding

November 18, 2015

It’s one year ago today that we had our first successful equity campaign – for us. It was a scary move, going out with our own campaign and asking our crowd to join us on our journey. I joke that […]

July 23, 2015

Posted by Will Stewart

Equity Crowdfunding doesn’t sleep

Remember the movie Wall Street? It’s that 126 minute long(fictional/realistic) summary of what’s completely wrong with the finance industry. There’s this particularly famous quote by the main character Gordon Gekko: “Money never sleeps, pal!” I’ve heard this quote recycled by Investment Bankers […]

July 22, 2015

Posted by Jackson

Bill on investing in PledgeMe

With our equity campaign drawing to a close on Friday (so you better go pledge now!), we’ve been receiving a bunch of feedback about why people have helped crowdfund crowdfunding. This particularly nice email came from Bill who runs Vapour. […]

July 13, 2015

Posted by Jessie

Ain’t no party like a PledgeMe party

So PledgeMe recently turned three (and a third). And we figured, what better way to celebrate our third anniversary than with THREE awesome parties, with all our wonderful supporters?? First stop was Ivy Bar in Wellington, where people ran in […]

July 3, 2015

Posted by Jessie

Crowdfunding crowdfunding 2.0

For those not yet aware, PledgeMe has just launched its second equity crowdfunding round!!! And we wanted to give you guys the down-low on why we’re crowdfunding crowdfunding once more. Since our last crowdfunding round, the amount pledged through our platform […]

June 19, 2015

Posted by Jackson

Crowdfunding crowdfunding: ROUND TWO!

Last night at our three and a third birthday* we announced that we’re doing a second equity crowdfunding round. We want to grow crowdfunding in New Zealand and to do that we need our crowd’s help — that’s you! Our first round […]

April 7, 2015

Posted by Will Stewart

Our Equity world is pretty crowded… and we love it

Equity Crowdfunding turned one year old on the first of April (no fooling). It’s been a crazy year in the PledgeMe office, which has included: Us successfully getting our license from the FMA; PledgeMe crowdfunding – crowdfunding when we did our […]

November 19, 2014

Posted by Anna

Cheers to you, new Shareholders!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you to everyone who pledged to our campaign yesterday. It was a mix of family, friends, past successes, companies we love, and people we don’t even know. One pledger who we’ve never met before pledged […]

November 17, 2014

Posted by Anna

Wanted: Equity Champion

Crowdfunding is going gangbusters in New Zealand. Over the past two years we have helped 700 projects raise over $3.1 million dollars and by expanding into equity crowdfunding, PledgeMe is set to grow – but we need the right people […]

November 17, 2014

Posted by Jackson

Crowdfunding Crowdfunding: Episode I

We love crowdfunding so much that we are walking our talk to crowdfund ourselves! We just launched our very own equity crowdfunding campaign so we can grow and you can own a little part of us (Anna’s elbow or perhaps […]

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