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Fintech Maslow banks $410,000 in crowdfunding raise that sets the standard for social impact investment

Ethical fintech Maslow attracted 288 backers for a $409,676 equity crowdfunding round, largely founders from the impact sector, and hired two staff as it builds a subscription-based, at-cost financial services platform.

Crowd-sourced funding: solving the tyranny of distance to capital

Birchal's cofounder argues equity crowdfunding is closing the capital gap for founders outside the big cities, citing Western Australia's FY23 growth and two regional companies reaching the $5 million cap.

Investment Notes: Tirtyl

AfterWork Ventures explains its pre-seed investment in Tirtyl, a zero-waste cleaning tablet startup, covering the founders' backgrounds, early traction, unit economics, and competitors including ZeroCo and Blueland.

As e-scooter startup Raine smashes its crowdfunding target in just 43 minutes, is Kickstarter coming back into fashion?

An e-scooter maker reached its crowdfunding goal within 43 minutes and neared a quarter million dollars, plus seed money from a venture firm, while the piece recalls earlier platform campaigns by other startups.

This startup raised $200,000 in less than a week for product scrapping single-use plastics from your spring cleaning

Cleaning-products startup ZeroCo, founded by Mike Smith and Carter, has secured seed backing of $600,000 and is running a Kickstarter campaign whose pledges have passed $200,000 toward a precise $251,313 target.

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