Two weeks ago, I did a small experiment. I put a campaign on Crowdtilt to raise money to go to Vietnam and talk to Dong Nguyen, the creator of the sleeper hit Flappy Bird. At the absolute peak of the
Fresh off its $23 million in Series B funding from Andreessen Horowitz and others, crowdfunding platform Crowdtilt is opening up its open source, white-label platform CrowdtiltOpen to all intereste
Just in case you missed it, a heart-warming story unfolded this week involving an unlikely combination of bobsled, Jamaica, virtual currency, crowdfunding and generosity. It has all the makings of an
Balanced will be adding a new feature to its arsenal of payments features in the coming months, allowing customers to push payments directly to debit cards. But this product development cycle comes wi
Crowdfunding platform <a target="_blank" href="https://www.crowdtilt.com">Crowdtilt</a> wasn't looking to raise another round, but when their Series A lead investor Andreessen Horowitz offered to le
As we've discussed before, thanks to a handful of names, including Kickstarter and Indiegogo and the gaggle of startups that have emerged in their wake, crowdfunding is on the "Big screen." Yet, the t
Crowdtilt is today launching the first public version of Crowdhoster -- its full-featured, open-source, customizable crowdfunding tool that will allow anyone to launch their own campaign without havin
Last month, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/22/crowdfunding-platform-crowdtilt-lands-12m-from-sean-parker-andreessen-more-now-acquiring-to-expand-into-mobile/">we reported that Crowdtilt, the
Today, TechCrunch has learned from sources that <a target="_blank" href="https://www.crowdtilt.com/">Crowdtilt</a> has raised $12 million in Series A financing. It's the startup's second round of fund
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/10/y-combinator-backed-crowdtilt-launches-to-become-the-kickstarter-for-any-group/">Since launching in February</a>, Y Combinator grad <a target="_blank" href="
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/10/y-combinator-backed-crowdtilt-launches-to-become-the-kickstarter-for-any-group/">Since we first covered its launch</a> back in February, <a target="_blank" h
Dwolla, the web-based payments platform, and Crowdtilt, the web-based crowdfunding platform, are formalizing Reddit's capacity to tap into the power of the Internet as a force for good with today's in
On the 25th of June, our dearest Alexia Tsotsis had <a target="_blank" href="http://www.alexiatsotsis.com/post/26032734796/alexia-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad">an incredibly rough day</a
The rush of interest around crowdfunding is spawning many variations on the theme, and one of the more original of them -- <a href="http://www.crowdtilt.com">Crowdtilt</a>, part of the most recent cro
Inherently, we like doing things in groups, as it makes our experiences more social. It's not about what we're doing so much as who we're doing it with that makes our experiences enjoyable. Group mess