June 28, 2013 @ 9:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

SeedInvest has announced today that the equity-based crowdfunding platform has raised $1 million in a round led by the Jumpstart New Jersey Angel Network. The round is said to also include “several prominent individual investors.” “SeedInvest is opening up new opportunities for a vast population… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 9:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Center for Independent Documentary has chosen Mimoona as the service provider for their new documentary-focused crowdfunding platform. Mimoona is one of a number of white-label crowdfunding platforms that enable entrepreneurs to launch a crowdfunding platform quickly and easily. Mimoona takes 2.5% of total funds raised… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 12:35 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Startupland is a documentary series currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and it promises an intimate look at the roller coaster ride that is being an entrepreneur embedded in a startup accelerator. The documentary promises more than just interviews and footage from within the “war room.” That… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Poppy is an analog device that connects to the iPhone and turns the smartphone’s camera into a 3D-capable video recording and image capture device. The Poppy is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and the campaign has already reached a $40,000 goal. Poppy is the first device in… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter has announced that later this summer they will begin accepting Canadian crowdfunding projects. Canadian entrepreneurs and potential project creators can visit Kickstarter’s Canada homepage to sign up to be alerted via email when this new functionality goes live. Kickstarter is also encouraging potential project… Read More

June 27, 2013 @ 9:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Mark Perlmutter is organizing the 2013 Crowdfunding World Summit, a two week online event that will bring crowdfunding experts from all over the world together for a comprehensive series of interviews discussing the history, current context and future path of crowdfunding. Crowdfunding enthusiasts and interested… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 4:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: Funding successful! The documentary was fully funded overnight and the project is a go. Kickstarted, the Kickstarter documentary crowdfunding on Kickstarter, is teetering on the edge of missing a funding goal with less than 24 hours left in the campaign. We first reported on… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 4:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: The Kickstarter campaign for A Hat In Time has surpassed all 9 of their listed stretch goals after raising over 7 times their original goal. The stretch goals mean that project creator Gears for Breakfast has committed to bringing the following to backers receiving… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 10:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s a bad PR day for Kickstarter darling OUYA. Yesterday the Android-powered gaming console hit store shelves and quickly sold out on Amazon and at GameStop locations. It was a clear signs that OUYA fans were hungry for the console. However, some backers still haven’t… Read More

June 25, 2013 @ 5:24 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

RAPIRO stands for RAspberri PI RObot, and is a low-cost robot that runs on open-source Arduino software. It’s already fully funded on Kickstarter, so manufacturing will be a go once the campaign ends. According to the campaign page, the robot makes use of 12 on-board… Read More

June 25, 2013 @ 10:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Peloton is a firm based in New York City that has brought an innovative exercise bike to Kickstarter, and the product boasts an extremely impressive list of features. At Peloton, we love two things: technology and fitness.  We believe the fitness category has been under-served… Read More

June 25, 2013 @ 9:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Richard Bliss is a well-known figure in the crowdfunding world and hosts the “Funding The Dream” podcast on iTunes. Devin Thorpe of Forbes interviewed Bliss about crowdfunding strategy, his podcast and more. It’s a very interesting interview that manages to hit on pretty much every… Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 11:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Production problems have forced delays in delivery of the GameStick to backers of their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. The GameStick is a highly portable Android-powered gaming system that raised just short of $650,000 from over 5,500 backers after receiving press mentions from TNW, Engadget, VentureBeat and… Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 10:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

With a little over a week left in the campaign the “B” flying car is fully funded on Kickstarter, reaching and surpassing an £86,500 goal. We first reported on the B in May and highlighted the innovative design… A patent is pending for the design… Read More

June 24, 2013 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Does the TiBolt look familiar? See how an American manufacturer is using JumpStartCity to crowdfund one product twice, and see why he’s had so much success on this new platform.

June 23, 2013 @ 2:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Never Hungover is a mini beverage along the lines of the popular 5 Hour Energy, but this one isn’t used for a pick me up. It can be consumed during a night of drinking and the manufacturer says it aids in avoiding the effects of… Read More

June 23, 2013 @ 2:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

To commemorate National Small Business Week, The National Association for the Self-Employed, the nation’s leading resource for the self-employed and micro-businesses, and the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council (SBE Council), an advocacy and research organization for entrepreneurs, have partnered with Fundable, a crowdfunding platform partner focused exclusively on startup… Read More

June 23, 2013 @ 2:13 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Last month we featured the Kickstarter project for Armikrog in our roundup of 5 Kickstarter Projects Making Waves. From that article… Do you remember Earthworm Jim? It was a shooting game released on Sega Genesis in the 90′s and was a pretty huge success. Now the… Read More

June 23, 2013 @ 2:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kings of online satire The Onion have released a video detailing a (fake) Kickstarter campaign in which Brendan Fraser asks his fans for money so he can make a movie. He even says please! Watch below… Brendan Fraser: ‘I Would Like To Apply For One Kickstarter,… Read More

June 22, 2013 @ 1:54 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdentials is a Cleveland-based company specializing in crowdfunding compliance, and the team is ready to launch their product as soon as equity crowdfunding regulations are finalized by the SEC. Crowdentials sports the same team that brough 530 Funds to the crowdfunding world. 530 Funds launched… Read More