Funding

This week, join Rohan Clarke with Anna Guenther as they discuss Equity Crowd Funding.

28 May 2020, Thursday

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Anna Guenther is the co-founder and Chief Bubble Blower of PledgeMe, New Zealand's first crowdfunding platforms. Since launching, over 1,400 creative, community and entrepreneurial campaigns have raised almost $50 million through PledgeMe. Campaigns have ranged from Ethique who raised half a million dollars in ninety minutes from going to the public, through to craft beer company Parrotdog raising $2million in two days to move into their new brewery. Anna has also worked for the New Zealand Government, MIT and Harvard, and completed her Masters in Entrepreneurship with a focus on crowdfunding.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaguenther/

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM

In this series, we're looking at how we can free-up capital to support our regional communities and build the Common Wealth.

We’re going to be co-creating funding solutions with regional communities and those that work with them. Our aim is to draw on the expertise of the many excellent practitioners that can help regional development, and from the growing network of community leaders that want to catalyse meaningful change in their local economies.

At the conclusion of the series, we hope to have a much clearer idea of the best way to attract funding to support regional development - and the structures and stakeholders that we need to make this happen.

The series is co-ordinated by Rohan Clarke

Rohan leant his trade across 20 years in financial markets - currencies, commodities, credit and equity markets. Over the last 10 years, he had been working in co-operative and community sector - focusing on funding and tech that can unlock the value being created.