Have you tried our banana bread bunny chow?” asks Michael de Klerk, who with business partner Anthony Gird founded Honest Chocolate. The brand’s first café is housed in a heritage building on Wale Street, Cape Town. Inside the “bunny chow”, simply a tall muffin, is a dollop of the raw, artisanal chocolate for which they are famous. At the café, patrons indulge in chocolate in a variety of forms — in tarts and pastries, drinks and in their signature raw cacao bars wrapped in beautifully illustrated covers. What makes the café remarkable is that it was crowdfunded, in part.
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Good Ideas Will Attract Good Money – Zukiswa Zimela
Think crowdfunding: With an estimated 1.3-billion people with regular internet access globally, the number of potential investors that can be reached is large, writes Zukiswa Zimela for Business Day Live.
WHEN the Labia Theatre in Cape Town needed to buy new cinema equipment to move from analogue to digital film screening, it partnered with ThundaFund to ask strangers to help them raise a portion of the money to buy the equipment. Continue reading
Crowdfunding Case Study: Honest Chocolate
Cape Town will soon have the sweetest spot to meet thanks to the power of the crowd!
- Organisation: Honest Chocolate
- Project: Cape Town’s 1st Chocolate Cafe!
- Milestone 1: R50 000.00
- Total Raised: R66 675.00
- Supporters: 147 backers
- Campaign Duration: 30 days (18 July 2014 – 18 August 2014)
- Campaign Link: www.thundafund.com/honestchocolate