America, East India Co. & Pebble Time: C for crowdfunding
Crowdfunding: new name - old habit
It all started around 1492, when Columbus partnered with an army of merchants to secure the core of the budget for his expedition across the Atlantic. Shortly after (well... just a little over 100 years) in 1600, the East India Company was chartered by Queen Elizabeth I for trade with Asia. The original project was funded by a group of merchants to break the Dutch monopoly of the spice trade with the East Indies.
Yet another few hundred years later, in 2015, Pebble Time raised over $20,300,000 in their crowdfunding campaign .
Technological innovation is what emboldensus to compress time and make things happen faster than ever thought before.Therefore, less than a year later ….
…. on April 7th 2016 - World Health Day - we launched our crowdfunding & partnering campaign on Seedrs. Similarly to the ambitious examples above, we also have a “humble" goal:enhancing the health & wellbeing of 1 billion people in the next decade - by 2025. Over the past 8 months we have brought our ideas to life, we have brought together an amazing team and a product that is alive and kicking.
What we need now is partnerships with like-minded people and business collaborators - and to continue to be very smart about the way we make things happen.
We are now at over 60% of our target with the timer having barely been started (we have almost 60 days to go).
Interested? Our campaign on Seedrs https://www.seedrs.com/iamyiam details what we stand for and what we aim to achieve and we will be posting more information about crowdfunding – what it means, how it works and what investors can expect.
Intrigued, but not sure about what crowdfunding means and whether it’s right for you? Visit us at www.iamYiam.com to find more information about our product, our team and our visions, as well as upcoming news from the campaign or join us on social media: Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
Lorena