Orama is an affordable luxury jewellery brand providing microfinancing to female entrepreneurs in developing communities. Founders, Ilaria, Joelle and Yolanda, came up with the idea during their Master’s degree at Imperial College Business School – three women with international backgrounds and experience in different sectors, all tied by the common goal of creating a venture with a strong social impact. …
We’ve gone over how crowdfunding has become a popular method of alternative finance in our previous blog post but we thought it would be best to dedicate an entire blog post to highlight examples of how exactly crowdfunding has promoted individuals in pioneering social change. It’s fair to say that crowdfunding has introduced a number of extensive technological advances with …
In mid-2016, Dom Meredith Hardy and Jo Cruse will be setting off on an expedition from Alaska to Argentina. They hope it will be an adventure of epic proportions – and would love for you to be part of that journey. They, along with many others, can see the face of business is changing. So too is people’s motivation for starting …
There are just shy of 85,000 people classified as homeless in the UK, 500,000 homeless people in the US and over 78 million homeless people in India. In total there are over 100 million people across the world without a safe, warm, secure place to call home. The streets are so overpopulated with the homeless that they’ve pretty much become invisible. We …
Luna Lights is a bright new company founded by Donovan Morrison and Matt Wilcox whilst they both studied engineering degrees at Northwestern University. They are currently rolling out an automated lighting system that utilises cloud based analytics to reduce the risk of falling for the elderly. Luna Lights initially started off as a project in the Design for America programme …
In a previous blog post, we discussed the importance of selecting the right crowdfunding platform for your product. Today, we will discuss the rewards-based crowdfunding model to help you decide if it’s right for you. Rewards-based crowdfunding is when a non-monetary incentive is offered to those who pledge money towards a campaign. Just like when you’re taking your product to the market for the …