Offerings

October 31, 2014 @ 11:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to help the mastermind behind the famous Milton Bradley’s Operation, John Spinello, fellow game makers Tim Walsh and Peggy Brown have launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdrise to raise $25,000 for his upcoming oral surgery. Since its launch earlier this month, the project has surpassed its… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 9:29 am By Erin Hobey  |  

World Class Driving has been on my mind again this week: I met someone who was taking his clients out to Las Vegas solely for the unique experience of driving World Class Driving’s Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches. World Class Driving listed its equity crowdfunding campaign on… Read More

October 31, 2014 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Bactest is equity crowdfunding on SyndicateRoom and they have easily hit their initial goal.  The company originally set out to raise £450,000 but quickly rocketed past that amount.  The funding round stands today overfunded £850,000– nearing double of their intended amount with two days remaining… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 4:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Looks like New York City fans of Top Chef sensation, Carla Hall, are going to be able to enjoy her delicious southern cuisines! The American chef and television personality hit crowdfunding giant, Kickstarter, earlier this month to raised $250,000 so that she may open her Southern Kitchen restaurant… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 1:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, non-profit organization Code.org launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to raise $5,000,000 for its new program called, An Hour of Code for Every Student. This will give 100 million students throughout the world an opportunity to have one hour per day of… Read More

October 30, 2014 @ 11:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

As its crowdfunding campaign nears $450,000 on Kickstarter, which has been attracting more than 230 backers a day, GrowlerWerks‘ uKeg enjoyed a bit of Bavaria this month, showing off at Leavenworth’s famous Oktoberfest. Now the game-changing growler that keeps oxygen away from beer, maintaining perfect carbonation… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 10:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdLords, a new twist on real estate crowdfunding that targets landlords or “buy to let”, is crowdfunding their platform on Seedrs.  The startup is seeking a raise of £90,000 and launched yesterday quickly garnering over £27,000 from 29 investors.   We are live on @Seedrs!… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 4:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to gain some more funding for their already successful crowdfunding project, Light Harmonic, the creators of Geek Pulse, announced on Tuesday (October 28th) that their team has decided to participate in Indiegogo’s perpetual crowdfunding program. According to its campaign, Geek Pulse is an audio digital-to-analog… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 2:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Who stole the soap? The robber ducky! Well, that ducky has a new name, and it’s Edwin. pi lab, a company consisted of inventors who specialize in intelligent product and application creation, announced on Wednesday (October 29th) the launch of its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Edwin… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 11:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Keen Home, the new startup bringing to life an automated, intelligent and digitally connected home, announced on Wednesday (October 29th) $1.52M in seed funding. Led by RMR Capital, with participation from R/GA Ventures, Bullet Time Ventures, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, Rugged Ventures, Galvanize Ventures, and… Read More

October 29, 2014 @ 10:50 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In celebration of the month of giving, Giveffect, the crowdfunding platform dedicated to nonprofits, announces its promotion in junction with #GivingTuesday. From now through December 2, nonprofits that sign up for Giveffect’s Professional or Premium solution will receive a rebate on all processing fees for the month… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 5:52 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Mass Fidelity Inc.’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for the Core Wireless Speaker System and Core Wireless Sub has continued to gain momentum since this month’s campaign extension and has now become the top crowdfunded Canadian company ever. The campaign launched in early September when it shattered its $48,000 funding goal within 24 hours and… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 4:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Global crowdfunding platform, Kickstarter, shut down another tor router project, by the name of TorFi, just a few days after nixing the almost successful, anonabox campaign. According to Ars Technica, TorFi, a project by Jesse Enjaian and David Xu of Berkeley California, aimed to create home routers… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 3:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday (October 28th), San Francisco-based Nimble VR, a virtual reality technology company, launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Nimble Sense, the first depth sensing camera designed to enable the use of hands in virtual reality. The Nimble Sense creates the simple experience of having hands in VR by applying time-of-flight… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday (October 27th), former Grey’s Anatomy star, Sandra Oh, and filmmaker, Ann Marie Fleming, teamed up to launch a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a new animated film called, Window Horses.  According to its campaign website, Window Horses is a story about Chinese-Canadian poet, Rosie Ming, and her visit… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 12:31 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Amiko, a unique wearable activity tracker that wraps around medicine packaging, aims to tackle non-adherent behavior as it happens. Amiko is launching today on IndieGoGo to crowdfund $50,000, the final manufacturing costs of its wearable, trackable device for inhalers typically used for asthma and COPD. Units will… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 12:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking support from their devoted fans, the rockers of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have hit GoFundMe to help raise funds to cover the brain surgery that their drummer, Leah Shapiro, needs. According to Contact Music, the San Francisco-based group canceled a string of gigs earlier this month to… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 11:49 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The SaaS company Clinked.com, which develops and produces a white-label file sharing, project management and client portal App for SMEs and Enterprise businesses both nationally and internationally, is seeking to attract a broader audience and ultimately showcase its business model as the number one collaboration platform…. Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 10:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

By 2018, the United States is expected to have 2.4 million unfilled jobs within the Science, Technologies, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. To help curtail these numbers, on Tuesday (October 28th), Great Parents Academy announced the launch of a RocketHub crowdfunding campaign to provide low-income students across the country with the company’s flagship… Read More

October 28, 2014 @ 10:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Plastc Claims Record First Week of Pretail Campaign Selling over $5.2 Million in Secure Digital Cards Plastc, creator of the digital wallet Plastc Card, has revealed the success of its preorder crowdfunding campaign. In the first week of launch, Plastc sold over $5.2 million of… Read More