Tagged: hardware

iStick USB Flash Drive For Apple Reaches $1.1 Million Dollar Stretch Goal on Kickstarter

Fresh off the closing of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, HYPER by Sanho Corporation‘s iStick reached well over its original goal of $100,000 and raised $1,100,629 from 7,495 backers. iStick is a USB drive with integrated Apple Lighning connector that was made for iPhone and iPad.  According to… Read More

Update: TrackR Bravo Zooms Past $200,000 on Indiegogo

Item tracking device TrackR Bravo has powered onward with their crowdfunding campaign smashing through their goal and besting expectations of the team behind the project.  Crowdfund Insider covered TrackR last Saturday when they stood at $130,000 and since then they have added another $70,000 to… Read More

TheBlueprint Online Marketplace Launched by PCH

PCH Delivers Online Marketplace to Create A New Retail Experience for Tech Products. PCH, the product development and supply chain management company behind some of the world’s best hardware products,  has launched TheBlueprint.com, an online marketplace for well-designed technology and the stories behind it. The Blueprint will sell… Read More

Kickstarter Campaign Hit’s Goal & Then Fails as Backers Abandon MBLOK

This is something that doesn’t happen to often. The MBLOK campaign on Kickstarter hit their $120,00 CAD crowdfunding goal last Thursday, June 12th – only to see backers abandon the project as questions arose to the viability of the device. MBLOK, a hardware device we… Read More

Consumer Physcis’ SCiO Raises $2.7M During its Campaign on Kickstarter

Exciting news for Consumer Physics’ SCiO fans! Its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter raised $2,762,571 from 12,958 backers. Last week the company announced that it had reached $2.1 million and is now considered in the top 25 most funded campaigns ever on Kickstarter. Consumer Physics, an OurCrowd portfolio company,… Read More

Crowdfunding Mailbox: Henley Bond Shirts, Trackr Bravo & Stop Cholera!

Before we jump into this week’s crowdfunding campaigns I would like to point out that Kickstarter is on the cusp of hurdling past the $1 billion mark for total funds “successfully” raised. This is a pretty awesome accomplishment.  Think about it – only a few… Read More

Crowdfunding Now: 5 Cool Projects For Father’s Day 2014

It seems, every year, kids young and old run to the store to find something special for their dads, but end up just giving him a tie or a sports-related item. This has even turned into a ritual of unfortunate and painful gift giving. Here… Read More

Hardware Platform HWTrek Named Cool Vendor by Gartner

HWTrek, a global community and crowdfunding platform for digital electronics, has been named a “Cool Vendor” in China for 2014 by analyst firm Gartner. According to HWTrek, the report recognizes companies for providing innovative solutions and business models in cloud, infrastructure, mobile, analytics and digitalization…. Read More

Highway1 Provides a Road to Hardware Success

  I know I am in a cool place when I ask Brady Forrest, VP of Highway 1, what one of the two 3-D printers in their workshop is printing, and he casually responds “robot parts.” The best way to describe Highway 1 is like… Read More

GOkey Raises 1,100% of Its $40k Crowdfunding Goal on Indiegogo

GOkey, the multi-purpose electronic keychain accessary has reached the midpoint of its campaign on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo and has currently raised over 1,100% of its $40,000 funding goal. Now, in order to incentivize backers for their ongoing support, they have instituted a series of campaign… Read More

This Crowdfunding Pitch Video is Great

Ok – I still don’t completely know what exactly Sensibo is – except it can control air conditioners –  (not exactly very sexy) but the Sensibo team have put together an awesome pitch video.  This comes under the category of taking something practical and mundane… Read More

CENTR Camera Struggles to Hit Goal on Kickstarter

  With a little more than week until its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter closes, interactive panoramic CENTR Camera is edging closer to its $900,000 goal but standing at just over $500,000 – organizers have their work cut out for them in the final days of… Read More

Update: Novena Computer Walks Away From Crowd Supply Campaign With $703,000

With its crowdfunding campaign on Crowd Supply ending this weekend, technology company Bunnie Huang walked away with a grand total of $703,020 from 1,019 backers for its new “all-in-one” desktop, the Novena. The company originally sought out to only raise $200,000. As previously reported by… Read More

ANTVR Launches Crowdfunding Campaign on Kickstarter For New Universal Virtual Reality

Hoping to bring an Oculus alternative virtual reality system to the video gaming world, the company ANTVR launched a $200,000 crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its all-in-one virtual reality kit. The product is noted to provide a “crystal clear virtual reality gaming and viewing experience.”… Read More

San Francisco Maker Startup Weekend is Dedicated to Hardware

The San Francisco Maker Startup Weekend is not your typical hackathon.  This one is not all about cool software but cool hardware – developed during a 54 hour event.  Sure it’s easy enough to cast a few spells and craft some really cool code but… Read More

Tile, “Worlds Largest Lost & Found” Shipping Now

Tile –  the item finder device –  a product that ran a self-crowdfunding campaign and became one of the trailblazer’s in the new world of hardware startups, is now shipping their product.  In an email to backers Nick Evans, CEO and Co-founder of the young company shared… Read More

Crowdfunding Now: Skylock Guards Your Bike & Let’s You Rent it Out

Created by ex-Boeing and Jawbone engineers, Skylock, from Velo Labs, is a unique connected device that locks your bike but also allows you to share it (for a fee if you want).  As our ever-connected world grows and a “sharing” ecosystem becomes an integrated way… Read More

COIN CEO Kanishk Parashar Gives Live Demo (Video)

Kanishk Parashar hit the stages of Disrupt this week to demonstrate COIN: The One Card to Replace Them All. COIN ran a spectacular self crowdfunding campaign that hit their initial “goal” of raising $50,000 within minutes of launch. The pretail campaign continued to offer presales… Read More

Highway1 Incubator is Open for Applications

PCH Incubator, Highway1, Boosts Seed Investment to $50,000. Highway1, the San Francisco based incubator for hardware startups, has revealed their Fall 2014 program is now open for applications, which will be accepted until June 20, 2014. Highway1 companies will receive $50,000 in seed money, an increase from $20,000, reflecting… Read More

Kaboom: Micro 3D Printer Leaps $3 Million in Crowdfunding

With more than 10 days to go in their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, Micro 3D – “the affordable 3D printer” – has broken through the $3 million mark garnering support of over 10,000 backers..  The amount raised places Micro 3D in the 13th position on… Read More

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