Offerings

November 24, 2014 @ 9:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to bring a new film to the big screen, Los Angeles director, writer and producer, Nick Corporon, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter earlier this month to raise $75,000 for the LGBT independent movie, Retake. According to its synopsis, Retake revolves around a young male… Read More

November 24, 2014 @ 9:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the recent Crowdfunder UK crowdfunding campaign, launched by the Green Party, encouraging MP candidates across the country to fund the fees they need to stand in their areas, Natalie Bennett has launched her own project on the UK’s largest rewards-based crowdfunding platform in order to appeal… Read More

November 23, 2014 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

  COIN, a digital currency card that wowed the masses with a hugely popular pretail crowdfunding campaign that was partnered with a super cool pitch video, is now shipping beta cards to early backers.  In a tweet from the COIN twitter account the company verified… Read More

November 23, 2014 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Wildly popular Blue Mountain State – The Film, has gone into production according to an update from creator Eric Falconer.  The  film project raised almost $2 million back in May of 2014 capturing the support of 24,000 supporters.  The crowdfunding project on Kickstarter resurrected a… Read More

November 22, 2014 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, creator of the infamous tor hardware router anonabox, August Germar, turned to Indiegogo to raise funds for the project after dealing with some drama (and suspension) on the platform’s competitor Kickstarter. While it had a great start on Indiegogo, and even raised its… Read More

November 22, 2014 @ 8:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Turning to the crowd after a very unfortunate circumstance, a GoFundMe crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise $950,000 for Canadian couple so they may pay off a medical bill that they received after the birth of their daughter in Hawaii. According to the campaign,… Read More

November 21, 2014 @ 5:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With just two days into its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, already famous, Jolla Tablet, has continued to be a huge success and has reached $1,089,378 from 6,848 backers. As previously reported, the Jolla Tablet’s Sailfish OS is declared as an operating system that no one has ever experienced. It… Read More

November 21, 2014 @ 9:15 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the CDC crowning the 2014 Ebola Outbreak as the most critical in history, We Are 1ne launches its ZERO EBOLA project in an effort to provide immediate financial relief, resources and long-term support to the affected countries and victims. ZERO EBOLA is a multi-tiered… Read More

November 20, 2014 @ 5:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With excitement continuing to build for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend, Formula One’s chief executive, Bernie Ecclestone, announced that he helped pay for the transportation of the Crowdcube-success Caterham F1’s team. Earlier this month, Caterham launched a campaign on the crowdfunding platform to raise funds for… Read More

November 20, 2014 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Star Trek fans, rejoice! On Thursday (November 20th), Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, debuted his first Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise $50,000 for his new book, Catch Me Up. The book introduces a fresh, modern approach to teaching seniors how to leverage their lifelong skill sets to… Read More

November 20, 2014 @ 12:34 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

According to its mission, Crowdfooding, an equity-based commercial platform that connects food entrepreneurs with investors,  aims to leverage the disruptive power of the Internet to make early-stage investing for the investor and fundraising for food and beverage startups more easily and immediately accessible. Crowdfooding’s investment… Read More

November 20, 2014 @ 11:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Diego-based Brio launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter this week to raise $50,000 for its new self-titled safe and smart power outlet. Within only two days, the project reached over $42,000. Brio Safe provides wall-to-wall peace of mind in the home by defaulting the… Read More

November 20, 2014 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

London-based, Lunar Mission, Ltd., launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise £600,000 for its new project, Lunar Mission One. The project is considered the “lunar mission for everyone” and has so far raised £252,753 from nearly 3,000 backers. Lunar Mission One is described as the… Read More

November 20, 2014 @ 9:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, an Abbeville, Louisiana woman was arrested for “defrauding donors” through a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe. According to an Austin, Texas news station, Taylor, Texas law enforcement officials stated that Fallon Mouton raised $4,600 through the campaign for a Texas man, Moses Perez,… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 4:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday morning (November 19th), Finland-based, Jolla, launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise $380,000 for its new self-titled tablet. The unique tablet has been dubbed by the company as the world’s “first crowdsource tablet” to surface. Within only hours of its debut on the… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 3:18 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

LexShares, a crowdfunding platform founded by Jay Greenberg and his business partner Max Volsky,  launched today.   Investors buy a stake in the outcome of a lawsuit by giving businesses the cash they need to operate while their cases go forward. “There’s really an education… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 2:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

New York City-based Outernet, known as the “Humanity’s Public Library,” launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo last week to raise $200,000 for its new product, the Lantern. Within only five days, the project surpassed its initial goal and is currently standing at nearly $219,000. According… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 12:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The upcoming feature film, The Bridge, brings together a cast of iconic rock musicians, some of whom will make their film debut: Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, Joey Santiago of the Pixies, Eddie Ojeda of Twisted Sister, Tiny Biuso of Doyle (Ex-Misfit) / TSOL , Ricky Warwick of Black Star Riders/Thin Lizzy and Sin Quirin of Ministry. Director/writer Bobby Field, with producers Denise Bohdan and Jason… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 12:12 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

With the support of over 23 investors, Bitreserve, a money service that makes using digital money easy, fast and free, quickly posted over £4,6M of its £6M goal in funding for 10.70% equity offered through Venovate Marketplace, a U.S.-based brokerage platform for alternative investing, and London-based crowdfunding platform, Crowdcube. Bitreserve,… Read More

November 19, 2014 @ 9:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday (November 18th), Empatica, Inc., an affective computing startup focused on human data analytics,  launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to develop its first ever consumer offering, The Embrace. The device is an all-in-one watch and medical-quality wearable device, is designed for people seeking to improve… Read More