Offerings

May 8, 2014 @ 4:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Film About Kermit Gosnell Stands to be the Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaign Ever on Indiegogo The crowdfunding campaign for the movie about “America’s biggest serial killer” Kermit Gosnell has surpassed the $2 million amount crowdfunding on Indiegogo.  In the final stretch of the campaign, the… Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 3:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kicking off one of its new crowdfunding campaigns, University of Colorado at Boulder announced it is seeking $10k in order to build 1,000 small robots called Droplets. The robots measure the distance and orientation of neighboring robots, allowing for complete pattern formation and self-assembly experiments…. Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 3:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kanishk Parashar hit the stages of Disrupt this week to demonstrate COIN: The One Card to Replace Them All. COIN ran a spectacular self crowdfunding campaign that hit their initial “goal” of raising $50,000 within minutes of launch. The pretail campaign continued to offer presales… Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 1:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to make schools across the U.K. more energy friendly, 10:10 Solar Schools and Good Energy are helping twenty schools to create their own crowdfunding campaigns for solar energy panels. The fundraising concept has already worked for about fifty schools across the country that have… Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 11:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

His “Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen” may have had a second shot at success following its failed crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, but it seems things are not well for lead developer Brad McQuaid. Questions are now being raised about how the $148k he received during… Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

iHear fired up a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo earlier this year looking to raise $65,000.  The campaign closed on April 7 at over $240,000 for their unique hearing aid. With a successful rewards based campaign under their belt, iHear Medical has now announced they have… Read More

May 8, 2014 @ 7:30 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Having secured $250,000 in the early stages of its RockThePost equity crowdfunding campaign, SpeechTrans aims to raise up to $750,000 more to develop and market its lauded advanced Speech to Speech (S2S) Language Translation software. Partnering with HP, Microsoft and Intel, according to their RockThePost… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

With just 7 days remaining in the Blue Mountain State – “The Movie” crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter the project is still shy of the $1.5 million goal.  Contributions continue to roll in but the campaign needs to raise about $30,000 a day during the next… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 3:45 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Mia Melon, the leading brand in fashionable and functional women’s outerwear, recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to help raise funds for its  2014 line of women’s coats. Setting a $50k goal in order to cover manufacturing and shipping costs, the project was completely… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wearhaus, a startup aiming to change the way people share music, launched its very own $75k crowdfunding campaign on Tuesday for its new product, the Arc. The new wireless headphones will bring back the intimacy and fund of listening to music together. Inspired by a… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 1:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Offering up tasty beverages for adults, Thor Drinks launched a crowdfunding campaign on CrowdCube to raise £85k for its growing business. The company offers a new range of “legendary refreshments” for bars, pubs and restaurants. According to its campaign site, the company is ready to… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week left of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, the Globe to Globe Hamlet is struggling to make its £200k goal. In celebration of William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, Globe Theatre opened the campaign for its most ambitious tour yet: a two-year world… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Landbay, a new peer to peer (P2P) platform that is raising capital on Seedrs, has easily surpassed their targeted equity crowdfunding raise of £41,456 for their EIS round.  This is the third time Landbay has leveraged crowdfunding to raise capital.  This most recent round, that… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 9:36 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tinitell, a Swedish mobile technology startup, needed only 7 days on crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to reach its campaign goal of $100k to start manufacturing of the world’s smallest mobile phone. Instead of adding more expensive smartphones to the household, parents who want to be able… Read More

May 7, 2014 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The Micro 3D Printer closed their crowdfunding round on Kickstarter today having raised over $3.4 million on a goal of raising just $50,000.  11,855 backers came together to support what was described as “the first truly consumer 3D printer”. It was not that long ago… Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 5:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Fresh off the end of its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, the leaders behind the brand new game “Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn” announced it has emerged victorious. The fundraiser ends at $473,884, surpassing its original goal of $450k. The videogame is said to be the… Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

JewelStreet is pleased to announced that they are finalists in this year’s UK Watch and Jewelry Awards for the Etailer of the Year – and have received £171k through its crowdfunding campaign on CrowdCube in 30 days, significantly exceeding its target of £100k in 60 days…. Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 9:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Maily is an email application for kids.  Children are almost immediately introduced to the digital world these days and Maily wants to provide the proper environment for communication – accompanied by sufficient parental control.  Face it – fibbing about the child’s age and setting up… Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 7:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Setting out to share a special story about survival and motivation, first-time director Sara Bordo launched a brand new campaign on Kickstarter titled “The Lizzie Project.” The official documentary is based on 25-year-old Lizzie Velasquez, the breakout speaker of the YouTube video “How… Read More

May 5, 2014 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Seeking to bring back an old-school videogame favorite “Shaq-Fu” featuring former NBA player Shaquille O’Neal, Big Deez Productions launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for the sequel for the 1994 game called “Shaq-Fu: A Legend Reborn.” The production team is hoping to raise $450k… Read More