Offerings

January 22, 2014 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

In an attempt to aid the Jamaican Bobsled Olympic team get to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, sports fan Lincoln Wheeler innocently set up a CrowdTilt crowdfunding campaign to assist in raising the necessary $80,000.  The campaign was set to “Tilt” at $10,000 (the amount… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 5:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Snooperscope “night vision for your iPhone” just closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter this past December 25, 2013.  The project raised over £79,000 on a £40,000 goal.  Therefore I was a bit surprised to see the campaign pop up on competitor Indiegogo’s platform.  The pretail… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 1:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A Kickstarter campaign for an officially-licensed Mega Man board game has ended. The campaign and Lubbock, Texas-based creator Jasco Games netted $415,041 on a goal of just $70,000. Over 11,000 backers chipped into the campaign. It is a bit of a disappointment considering over half… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 1:40 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kung Fury is a campy movie done in classic 80’s over-the-top action style that is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, and the campaign is about to come to an end. Crowdfunding for the film will cease this Sunday, January 25th at about 11 AM EST. Will Kung Fury… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Airtame wireless HDMI has gone from obscure startup to Danish tech superstar in a matter of weeks.  Their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo was looking to raise $160,000 to fund their dream.  It closed yesterday at $1,268,148 becoming the 5th most funded, successful campaign on Indiegogo… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

French crowdfunding platform WiSeed, a site that claims over 21,000 members and having raised over €6.3 million in the past years, has now facilitated OriginOil (OTCBB:OOIL) to fund Ennesys in a closed funding round.  WiSeed created a bespoke offering vehicle to allow the company to raise… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Earwig Academic Raises 128% of Goal at £180,000. Investors quickly backed Earwig software raising equity on the Crowdcube platform. The company had set a goal of raising £140,o00 but 71 investors have participated to push that amount higher.  This represented an 18% stake in the… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 8:19 am By JD Alois  |  

PSonar closed fully crowdfunded on SyndicateRoom having raised just over £200,000 representing 9.16% equity in the small company.  The “pay as you play” service is looking to compete with other well known music streaming services such as Spotify, Deezer and Rdio.  A cloud based service,… Read More

January 21, 2014 @ 1:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Worlds “first citizen science project to sequence the human micro biome” – uBiome – raised $351,000 on Indiegogo in one of the largest “citizen science” crowdfunding campaigns ever.  The campaign ran from November 16, 2012 to February 18, 2013 – closing almost one year ago…. Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Well that did not take long. The crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt now stands over $105,000 on the goal of raising $80,000.  Dogecoin, a peer-to-peer digital currency, and their 1600 members put together a $30,000 donation which boosted the amount over the $100,000 level. “It is… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 4:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The crowdfunding campaign to fund the Jamaican bobsled team so they can make it to the Winter Olympics in Sochi has now become the official olympic campaign.  The project on CrowdTilt has a new administrator – Devon Harris who represents the bobsled team. In a… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 3:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hybrid Crowdfunding Campaign Easily Hits Crowdfunding Goal. The UK’s fastest growing craft beer club, Beer52, has raised £100k from the crowd to grow their online community to 10,000 members in 2014.  The Edinburgh-based startup launched on the Angels Den crowdfunding platform in December 2013 and… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Superstar comedian Will Ferrell is the next big name celebrity using the Prizeo crowdfunding platform to raise funds for his favorite charity.  Ferrell has launched a campaign to raise $100,000 for Cancer for College.  Ferrell is listed as the “celebrity spokesman” for the organization. Cancer… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The United States, The Soviet Union, China and… Penn State University? If one crowdfunding campaign can find funding, the above statement might become the list of entities that have made it to the moon. Only three of them would have had a standing army. (Nittany… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Wireless HDMI Device Stands at Over $1.1 Million in Final Hours of Campaign. As of this morning Copenhagen, Denmark based Airtame has raised $1,143,668 which is more than 7 times their initial crowdfunding goal of $160,000. Over 11,000 backers from more than 80 different countries… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 10:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Double Fine Adventure was a bit of a turning point in crowdfunded video games. When Double Fine Productions launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter seeking $400,000 in funding from the crowd, they couldn’t have imagined netting over $3 million. The road wasn’t easy from there… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 9:53 am By Charles Luzar  |  

What do you do when you’ve raised almost $500,000 on a goal of just $200,000? Lumo BodyTech wants to pay it forward to a few of their favorite charities. A self-hosted crowdfunding campaign for the Lumo Lift launched earlier this month amidst the Consumer Electronics… Read More

January 20, 2014 @ 12:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Sometimes reality is better than fiction.  In an interesting twist of events the Jamaican Bobsled team has just qualified for the Sochi Winter Olympics. Yes – that was a movie.  Cool Runnings hit cinemas in 1993 in a film about the first Jamaican Bobsled team… Read More

January 19, 2014 @ 6:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Asteroid Dusted Watch Blasts Crowdfunding Goal. Crowdfunding on Indiegogo, “Passages” watch by Star Trek star William Shatner and partner Egard Watches closed on Indiegogo this past week having raised $681,721 on a goal of $75,000.  This represents a 900% beat of the original fundraising objective…. Read More

January 18, 2014 @ 12:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bike System’s First-To-Market Motorcycle Heads up Display. Raises 15% Equity on Seedrs. UK based equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs allowed 156 investors to  join together to facilitate a new motorcycle heads-up display called Bike HUD.  The product will soon be delivered to customers around the world… Read More