May 28, 2013 @ 9:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Buccaneer 3D Printer by Pirate3D is preparing a Kickstarter launch set for May 30th, and they promise the “most affordable consumer 3D printer” on the market. From the press release… The Buccaneer® 3D printer has a list price of $347, and at half the… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 9:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Over the weekend, Silicon Era published a piece covering an earnings call by big time video game publisher Square Enix. Three recent titles put out by the publisher failed to meet sales targets, including Tomb Raider and Hitman: Absolution. Yosuke Matsuda, who is apparently next in… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 11:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Greg Puciato is lead singer of popular hardcore act The Dillinger Escape Plan, and he had some pointed words about the crowdfunding space as it relates to artists and musicians. He basically makes an argument that asking for money as a prerequisite to making art… Read More

May 24, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart’s campaign for Soylent continues to raise funds, now having neared the quarter million dollar mark. Besides being innovative in its use of Crowdtilt’s open-source Crowdhoster platform, one other aspect of the campaign is proving to be quite useful: the use of Discourse to… Read More

May 23, 2013 @ 10:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

My favorite thing about covering the crowdfunding space? I always find myself coming across amazing tech that isn’t just ahead of consumer markets, but some projects are 5 or 10 years ahead… or more. These crowdfunding projects represent the amazing technological advances one can expect… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 10:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Dealstruck is a debt-based crowdfunding platform based in La Jolla, California. It was launched by co-founders Ethan Senturia and Russel McLoughlin. In a recent interview with Xconomy, Senturia describes the process of launching the company. The throught process he alluded to should raise a red… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The AGENT smartwatch, currently on Kickstarter, implements some savvy design features to try and improve upon what they call the “last generation” of smartwatches. They’re looking at you, Pebble. The biggest design improvement has to be the inclusion of a second, smaller processor for moments… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 8:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for MMO trading card game HEX: Shards Of Fate has surpassed a million dollars in funding with over two weeks to go. Cryptozoic Entertainment, creators and publishers of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, is excited and proud to introduce HEX:… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 1:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Today FundRazr has announced that they’ve helped 37,000 project creators raise over $25 million since launching their crowdfunding platform in July of 2010. From the release… Announced today, FundRazr has accumulated a list of our 25 Most Notable Campaigns in celebration of our $25 Million… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 1:29 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BrickPi has a hugely successsful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. The goal? To crowdfund Raspberry Pi-based brains that work with off-the-shelf LEGO® Mindstorms hardware to create your very own robots. The Raspberry Pi is a small, cheap ($25) computer that has a footprint roughly similar to… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 9:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve written numerous times about the Oculus Rift, a product by Oculus VR that gives video gamers a full virtual reality experience. Now a product called the meta 1 aims to bring virtual reality to our everyday world, and it’s crowdfunding now on Kickstarter. As… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 8:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Nintendo and Warioware Inc. have launched a crowdfunding parody site called Crowdfarter as a promotional stunt for it’s upcoming Wii U game Game & Wario. No, people don’t contribute money like they would for a campaign on a traditional crowdfunding site. In this case users can unlock rewards… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart and his team have settled on Crowdhoster as the platform of choice for their crowdfunding campaign for Soylent. We wrote about Soylent in the past, a meal replacement drink that garnered both praise and criticism in the press. Click here to see the… Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 9:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Finders Keepers is a documentary by Ed Cunningham, producer of the Oscar winning documentary Undefeated. The film follows the strange tale of Shannon Whisnant, a man who bought a smoker in a storage auction in 2007 and found a severed, mummified human leg in it…. Read More

May 20, 2013 @ 8:13 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A report released last month entitled Equity Crowdfunding and Venture Capital included some interesting revelations regarding what US venture capitalists and lawyers expect from equity crowdfunding. The report surveyed VCs and lawyers based in the states. Questions sought to gauge expectations about the JOBS Act’s trajectory and… Read More

May 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

SitePoint is an online media company specializing in news geared toward software developers and other flavors of geek. As is somewhat common in these circles, they afford their staff a few days on occasion to work on personal projects on company time. Why would a… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 12:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s the story that won’t die. Worldview Entertainment has stepped into the frey with Zach Braff’s upcoming release Wish I Was Here. The movie, a spiritual successor to Braff’s hit Garden State, is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. It sits at $2.6 million pledged with a week left… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 10:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Lona Nallengara has been named the SEC’s chief of staff today, leaving his previous post as the director of the agency’s Division of Corporate Finance. Nallengara took his lumps in a recent House Committee hearing over the SEC’s delay in implementation of the JOBS Act,… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pebble has joined Ouya in raising $15 million in venture capital after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. In Pebble’s case, the round was led by Charles River Ventures and partner George Zachary. Zachary said this was the largest Series A he has ever participated in. Oh,… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 9:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today a press release from SaveOurCommunityTheaters.org hails the arrival of the “new trend” of hyperlocal crowdfunding sites. SaveOurCommunityTheaters.org seeks to utilize niche or “neighborhood marketing” to create a community of resources and ideas that are locally driven and specifically targeted. Instead of going to a… Read More