July 11, 2014 @ 4:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Next Friday (July 18), reward-based crowdfunding platform Local Lift, formerly known as Equity Endeavor, will be opening a brand new site for San Francisco Bay entrepreneurs. The platform itself already features campaigns from Austin, Texas and New Orleans, Louisiana. Local Lift allows business owners to… Read More

July 11, 2014 @ 2:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

A week after the launch of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, Harmony Gold Productions’ new project “Robotech Academy” has raised over $100,000 from close to 1,700 backers.  The entertainment company started the campaign to seek $500,000 to bring the animated series to television. In 1985,… Read More

July 11, 2014 @ 11:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With only a week until its Indiegogo campaign comes to a close, ProtonMail has raised $382,334 from 7,447 backers. This news is somewhat surprising due this week’s rumored XSS issues. On Wednesday (July 9), the ProtonMail team took to their blog to address a recent report… Read More

July 11, 2014 @ 10:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, the ISEE-3 probe made headlines after its engines were turned on for the first time since 1987, thanks to the funds that were raised during the ISEE-3 Reboot Project’s crowdfunding campaign on Rockethub. Unfortunately, the project has encountered a major snag. As previously… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 9:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few hours before the closing of its Indiegogo campaign, Don Cheadle’s “Miles Ahead”  reached its goal of raising $325,000 with the support of over 2,000 backers. As previously reported, the “Iron Man 3” star decided to launch the crowdfunding campaign for the feature film… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 3:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The autonomous aerial drone, HEXO+, has broken the $1 million mark on crowdfunding giant Kickstarter with only five days left. Launched less than one month ago, the drone has been tagged as “the ultimate GoPro accessory” and has since attracted almost 2,000 backers. HEXO+ launched its… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 11:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than three days until the closing of its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, the high performance music player, Geek Wave, hit $1,017,872 from 3,534 backers. Revealing the exciting news about the funding, the team added a new video of their reactions as soon as they saw the $1,000,000 mark… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 11:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, Comcept founder and former Mega Man producer Keiji Inafune announced the launch of another crowdfunding campaign for action platform Mighty No. 9. The game raised over $3.8 million on Kickstarter last year. The first and only goal on the website is full… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 10:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Setting out for yet another Kickstarter success, Denmark-based Vaavud launched a campaign on the crowdfunding giant Thursday (July 10) for its product, Vaavud Wind Meter V 2.0. It is currently seeking £20,000. In March 2013, the company raised £27,598 from 915 backers for the first version of… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 8:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

California-based company Arkami, Inc. launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in February 2013 to raise funds for its innovative product myIDkey and raised close to $475,000 from over 3,900 backers by its closing on March 22, 2013. myIDkey is  is a voice-activated, fingerprint secure Bluetooth /… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 7:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

GestureLogic announced its Indiegogo campaign for LEO, an intelligent fitness wearable, has surpassed its $50,000 fundraising goal within 10 days of launching and now stands at $65,945. The only fitness wearable whose technology tracks biomedical fitness data, LEO helps people optimize their workout and reduce… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 5:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based crowdfunding website Newspryng officially launched its platform last week. The new site offers freelance writers a chance to publish their new work, while getting paid for it. Explaining the platform’s main focus, the team of Newspryng stated it “experiments with a new model for… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 5:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ireland-based solar energy group BNRG Renewables has received £730,000 during its crowdfunding campaign on Abundance to refinance two solar farms in Kent, England. According to the campaign’s website, the project funds the two 249kW commercial scale, ground mounted solar arrays, giving a total size of 498kW…. Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 11:01 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to be a huge hit on Kickstarter, Zack Danger Brown’s “Potato Salad” crowdfunding campaign has surprisingly reached $59,618 from 4,839 backers within 6 days of its launch. As previously reported, the project struggled a bit after a lofty fundraising amounts tens of thousands of dollars… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 10:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

University of California, Berkeley announced earlier this year the development of its very own crowdfunding platform that will become operational in early 2015. The declaration comes as hope that the university will join other UC campuses such as UCLA, UCSF, and UC Santa Cruz in… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 8:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfundraiser, a site for raising money online for nearly any cause, announces a strategic initiative for sourcing desperately needed funding for churches, religious groups and other local non-profit organizations. This newest initiative is part of the company’s effort to reach out to financing causes where… Read More

July 9, 2014 @ 7:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

New York-based company Electric Objects has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for its new computer that is made for art, EO1. The company originally decided to raise $25,000 and within 24 hours, it received well over $140,000 from 446 backers. The EO1 is… Read More

July 8, 2014 @ 5:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Funderbuilt, a crowdfunding portal based in Southeast Michigan, launched on July 4th to service all types of fundraising needs and models, including donations to charitable causes, reward-based contributions to creative and business endeavors, and equity-based investments in new businesses and products. While most crowdfunding platforms take a percentage… Read More

July 8, 2014 @ 4:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Supporters of missing Malasyian Airlines Flight 370 crowdfunding campaign have another chance to help raise more funds for the project.  The campaign’s organizers have announced they have extended it for another 30 days. Sharing the news on the campaign’s update section, organizer Ethan Hunt wrote, “Today we have… Read More

July 8, 2014 @ 12:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

HWTrek, a global community for digital electronics, today announced the beta launch of the HWTrek Project Development Hub (the Hub), the world’s first cloud-based intelligent navigation tool for creators and inventors working to bring hardware projects to market. The Hub generates a management flow tailored… Read More