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March 4, 2014 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Play-i was founded by Vikas Gupta, Mikal Greaves and Saurabh Gupta — inventors, designers, programmers and parents.  The company was created to  build delightful robots for children to program and learn, developing needed skills at a very young age.  Over 30 days the Play-i raised… Read More

March 3, 2014 @ 10:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lawbite, an online legal service that offers an affordable, virtual law firm service catering to small companies, has successfully raised £172,100 on equity crowdfunding portal Crowdcube.  The offer had originally targeted a raise of £120,000 but closed at 143% of goal –  well over-funded. The… Read More

March 3, 2014 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Moov is crowdfunding now in a self-hosted effort, and it has seen some pretty impressive early success. The wearable fitness tracker surpassed a $40,000 crowdfunding goal in just 90 minutes. The device promises to be more than just a tracker, though. This actually plays… Read More

March 3, 2014 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

WebStart Bristol, an internet incubator based in Bristol, England, opened up for operations in January 2014 following a successful crowdfunding round on Seedrs in 2013.  The incubator just recently launched their next crowdfunding round to raise funding for their second fund. The first “Fund of… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 12:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Pro tip: If you want to leak out pictures of your company’s new and improved smartwatch, make sure you don’t have a bunch of crowdfunding deliveries hanging over your head. This is the problem Omate is forced to deal with now. The following Facebook post… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A Saskatoon man weighing about 600 pounds has a crowdfunding campaign on GoFundMe launched in his name. The campaign is seeking $30,000 to fund a weight loss surgery that he says could save his life. In an interview with Metronews.ca, 21 year old Luke Deitner explained… Read More

March 2, 2014 @ 11:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In May of 2012 a campaign for a printed book of web comics was fully funded, having raised $50,000 on a goal of $8,000. The web comics were hosted at PicturesForSadChildren.com. The book is called “Sad Pictures For Children.” Now the project has become a… Read More

March 1, 2014 @ 12:09 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Design To Matter’s crowdfunding campaign for the Instacube stands as a cautionary tale for would-be crowdfunding backers. After a successful $620,000+ raise on Kickstarter, the campaign has been mired with turnover, internal strife, delivery issues and refund requests. I also proposed that D2M’s involvement in another… Read More

March 1, 2014 @ 10:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A bit of history: Flappy Bird was an annoyingly difficult and incredibly addictive game for iOS and Android. I played it once on a friend’s phone, and after ten frustrating minutes I handed the phone back and swore not to download it lest I spend… Read More

February 28, 2014 @ 8:16 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

With just 83 backers, New York City based Martin de Tours’ Made-to-Measure Customized Suits have exceeded their modest $20,000 crowdfunding goal and raised just under $44,000 with 35 days left on their Kickstarter campaign.  Aiming for “old school tailoring” utilizing  “new school technology,” Martin de… Read More

February 28, 2014 @ 4:44 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In late September of 2013 a group of gaming enthusiasts launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring a gaming and comic book convention to the South Bend, Indiana area. It was to be called River-Con. The group was able to raise $4,000 on a goal of… Read More

February 28, 2014 @ 9:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdnetic has announced the official launch of CrowdWatch, a deal aggregator for offerings made possible by the JOBS Act. Pricing for the service is set at $129 per month with a 14-day free trial available. Crowdnetic has also announced partnerships with EarlyShares and EquityNet. Deals… Read More

February 27, 2014 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Pantheon Falls Far Short of $800,000 Goal. Pantheon:  Rise of the Fallen, an MMO game crowdfunding on Kickstarter, set out to raise $800,o00 over 40 days but closed their campaign having raised $460,000 – far short of their intended objective.  The campaign… Read More

February 27, 2014 @ 11:08 am By Erin Hobey  |  

With 30 days left, Katherine Heigl’s flexible funding crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for her new independent film “Jenny’s Wedding” is slowly gaining momentum. In the last day, more than 100 backers have added their financial support.  With still $117K to raise, plenty of time remains for more backers… Read More

February 26, 2014 @ 9:36 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Thriving since raising its initial seed money from Google Ventures in 2011, Ordr.In, the open platform for online food ordering, has initiated a fundraising campaign on SeedInvest, an equity-based crowdfunding platform that connects accredited investors to startups.  To date, Ordr.in’s campaign has raised $30,000 for… Read More

February 25, 2014 @ 7:41 am By JD Alois  |  

OnFarm, a data company for agriculture, will be presenting a webinar on the investment opportunities in the company this week.  Crowdfunding on AgFunder this is the platform’s first offering for accredited investors. The webinar on OnFarm,  will focus on the data organization and visualization tool… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 6:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Realty Mogul is continuing their push into exciting real estate markets around the county. The latest market to see activity from the equity crowdfunding platform is Los Angeles, where five multi-family properties – 141 units in total – were just crowdfunded. We have many accredited… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 6:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Video Game High School (VGHS) beat their $750,000 goal crowdfunding on Indiegogo by raising $898,242 from 10,907 backers.  With 5 days to go in their flexible funding campaign the project was short of goal.  In a backers update on Friday, February 19, VGHS shared they… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Disarmco Turns to Crowdfunding After Risk-Averse Investors Reject Life-Saving Technology. With more than 120m landmines stored and deployed in places of conflict and post-conflict around the world and 20,000 victims of landmines every year, a British company is set to tackle the problem head on… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 9:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Late last week, Games Industry International published an interview with DoubleFine’s Tim Schafer that discussed the studio’s recent experiences with Kickstarter at length. It’s an interesting look into the crowdfunding process from the perspective of a company that has raised millions using crowdfunding. Perhaps the most… Read More