March 9, 2015 @ 8:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stanford student, Jerming Gu, and his smart lock project, Sesame, have raised nearly $500,000 dollars after only a little over a week on crowdfunding giant, Kickstarter. Gu, founder of CANDY HOUSE Inc., is a mechanical engineering master candidate from Stanford University. Originall from Taiwan, he is a someone who… Read More

March 7, 2015 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Orlando based video game and simulation company, GameSim, is developing and publishing a mobile version of the successful Kickstarter project by Gamelyn Games, Tiny Epic Kingdoms. In Tiny Epic Kingdoms, a turn-based fantasy game, each player starts with a faction and a small territory. Throughout… Read More

March 7, 2015 @ 10:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Rocketbook is the easiest way for people who prefer handwritten notes to also enjoy the ease and convenience of organized cloud storage. Joe Lemay, the CEO of Rocket Innovations, announced his newest product yesterday at Launch Festival in San Francisco, California. Rocketbook went live on… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 5:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly six months after finding success on crowdfunding giant, Kickstarter, Cincinnati’s Braxton Brewing Co. has announced exciting news to its backers: Its opening date. As previously reported, Braxton Brewery hit the crowdfunding giant to raise $30,000 to create what the brewhouse called “the Taproom of the Future.” The project not… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 3:35 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fairway America, a small balance real estate (SBRE) pooled investment funds company, announced on Friday (March 6th) its $1 Million commitment from one or both funds, Fairway America Fund VI, LLC and Fairway America Fund VII, LP, to Colonial Capital Management’s new $100 Million Colonial… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 10:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Attention devoted beer drinkers: your prayers have been answered! DrinkTanks, an Oregon-based startup has unveiled the self-titled “world’s largest” growler on Kickstarter. This isn’t the first time that DrinkTank has used the crowdfunding method for its projects. Back in 2013, the company launched a campaign on… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 9:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The customer is always right! CTV announced today from Prime Time in Ottawa the start of production on the new one-hour reality series pilot, Dream Funded: Let the Crowd Decide, produced by CTV in association with Entertainment One (eOne), Highway Entertainment, and United Artists Media Group. The pilot is… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 8:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes announced LeVar Burton will be honored with the Innovator’s Award at the University of Southern California’s Bovard Auditorium. The event will take place during the 20th annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, one of the nation’s largest public literary festival,… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 8:27 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Scottish National Party has launched a campaign on crowdfunding platform Crowdfunder, a UK rewards-based crowdfunding platform, for prospective MP’s to fund their candidate seats for the upcoming 2015 General Election. Sixteen SNP candidates have already launched their projects, reaching out to the community to gather support and… Read More

March 6, 2015 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

AgFunder, an equity crowdfunding platform for agriculture technology, today announced the release of its AgTech Investing Report 2014: Year in Review, covering $2.36 billion raised across 264 deals in the AgTech industry for 2014. From precision agriculture to biotech to drones, venture capitalists made investments… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 4:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Say goodbye to electric skateboards that ride like mush and don’t glide. Inboard has created, the Monolith, an electric skateboard that has the motor built inside the rear wheels and rides smooth – whether you’re riding powered or not. The patented “Manta Drive” technology was… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 3:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

FirstBuild, GE Appliances’ new global co-creation community, will showcase its Indiegogo project Paragon Induction Cooktop along with Chantal cookware at the International Home + Housewares Show on March 7th-10th at McCormick Place in Chicago. FirstBuild and Chantal have partnered to bundle cutting-edge mobile technology with… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 2:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Revealing what he expects in the future of crowdfunding, co-founder and CEO of Indiegogo Slava Rubin stated that he believes a single project using the funding method will generate more than $1 billion by end of this decade. During his recent interview with TrustedReviews, Rubin… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 1:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up some advice on how to receive crowdfunding success, award-winning producer and UK film and creative at Indiegogo, Miranda Fleming sat down with Aesthetica Short Film Festival to discuss key strategies to earning the cash filmmakers need for their projects. During her interview, Fleming revealed… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 12:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday (March 5th), media outlet City A.M. announced it has partnered with Crowdnetic to launch a new website, CityAmCrowdwatch, which is dedicated to UK crowd finance data. According to City A.M., CityAMCrowdwatch features information on private UK-based companies that are publicly raising capital online… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 11:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

iTraq, the newest geolocation device that does not use GPS or Bluetooth to track valuables, announces its Indiegogo stretch crowdfunding goal of $500,000 to add a rechargeable feature. iTraq’s use of cellular towers makes it stand out amongst other tracking devices that limit tracking to… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 9:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last spring, a company known as Lammily launched a crowdfunding campaign on CrowdtiltOpen to raise funds for Barbie’s realistic doppelgänger, a female doll created in the image of an average woman. The goal of the dolls, as described by creator Nickolay Lamm, is to reinforce the fact… Read More

March 5, 2015 @ 9:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Greek Orthodox theologian succumbs to injuries in Connecticut car crash. Fr. Matthew Baker died on Route 2 in Norwich after he lost control of his van in the snow. He is survived by six children and his stay-at-home wife who is now in the winter… Read More

March 4, 2015 @ 4:25 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With nearly 24 hours until its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter comes to an end, eZelleron, Inc.‘s portable power plant, kraftwerk has successfully raised over $1.6 million thanks to nearly 11,300 backers. As previously reported, the kraftwerks offers a new energy supply technology for mobile electronic devices. It is… Read More

March 4, 2015 @ 2:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bike thieves beware, the “unstealable bike” Yerka project is officially going from prototype into production with the help of its official Indiegogo campaign, which launched today. After receiving millions of views on YouTube for a video showcasing the Yerka and receiving more than 10,000 emails from… Read More