CarbonScape, the developers of a green alternative to coking coal used in steel making, has raised its minimum $400,000 target through online equity crowd funding.

The Christchurch-based company is looking to raise up to $1.5 million through equity crow

Fancy a slice of a New Zealand company with its sights set on growth? Backing businesses in their first growth phases were once for mega-wealthy angel investors but since the Financial Markets Conduct Act made crowdfunding investment possible it has opened

The equity raise for feature film The Patriarch has closed just $46,200 short of the offer’s funding cap of $500,000

For Roger Kerrison of Renaissance Brewing Company, equity crowdfunding is not only a method of sourcing capital but also a way to raise an army of beer lovers.

The Marlborough craft brewer has been the first to test the waters, becoming the inaugural Ne

New Zealand’s first ever equity crowdfunding offer was successfully completed in August when Renaissance Brewing raised $700,000 through Snowball Effect.

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A multimillion-dollar business growth fund is set to begin investing in ambitious companies through a crowdfunding initiative.

Using the newly launched crowdfunding platform Snowball Effect, the University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs' Challenge has evolved this year to offer handouts to boost governance available to young entrepreneurs.

The man who directed Once Were Warriors is seeking $500,000 from the public for his next film through a crowdfunding scheme.
Lee Tamahori's producer Robin Scholes says anyone who helps contribute to the director's new film The Patriarch will get a stake i

A new film to be directed by Lee Tamahori is hoping to raise the final 5.3 per cent of its $9.4 million budget via equity crowd funding on the Snowball Effect platform, offering investors preferred shares with a 20 per cent per annum return.

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A week after new Zealand’s first foray into equity crowd funding, proponents say the signs are good this could provide a much-needed additional funding source for SMEs.

Blenheim boutique beer brewer, Renaissance, has wooed small investors to fill its order for $700,000 of new capital in just a week and a half, a quarter of the time the novel offer was open for punters to commit funds.

Renaissance plans to invest the capital in boosting its production capability and developing new markets in Australasian and overseas territories, including the US, Canada, Britain, mainland Europe, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Japan.

A new film to be directed by Lee Tamahori closed its equity crowd-funding offer overnight, coming in just shy of its maximum $500,000 target.

Investors will soon be able to take stakes in small Kiwi businesses through an online crowdfunding system which hopes to "liberate the New Zealand economy".

Equity crowdfunding platform Snowball Effect has just updated their investor agreement in light of significant demand from overseas investors.

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Snowball Effect was founded by Simeon Burnett, Francis Reid and Richard Allen in 2012. All three founders hold various positions with Fonterra and also remain involved day-to-day with Snowball Effect in a par

Snowball Effect today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with the founders of Backable, which will see Backable referring all its members to New Zealand’s leading equity crowdfunding platform.

Cabinet has approved the regulations for equity crowdfunding and a firm which has been heavily involved in the processes says this is great news for companies and investors alike.

Small businesses should find it easier to raise money from April after the Government gave the green light to new regulations for crowd funding and peer to peer lending.

Burnett says the crowdfunding platform will help businesses gain easier access to capital, including from New Zealanders living overseas.

Josh Daniell will lead Snowball Effect as it begins trading in April following a law change allowing peer-to-peer investment called equity crowdfunding.

The business matches local investors with small- to medium-sized New Zealand businesses in need of a

Bill O'Boyle discusses the funding gap challenges that New Zealand businesses face, and how increased allocation of private funds into Kiwi growth companies will deliver benefits to all New Zealanders.