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 […]
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July 23, 2015
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pledgeme
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 […]
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July 22, 2015
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pledgeme
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. […]
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July 3, 2015
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pledgeme
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 […]
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June 19, 2015
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pledgeme
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 […]
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April 7, 2015
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pledgeme
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 […]
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November 19, 2014
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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 […]
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November 17, 2014
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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 […]
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November 17, 2014
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pledgeme
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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