Offerings

January 18, 2014 @ 8:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Happening this weekend is one of the hottest parties in the film industry.  The Sundance Film Festival has become synonymous with independent films.  Founded in 1978 by group of film industry innovators that included film legend, demigod Robert Redford, the event has turned into one… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 3:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunded on Kickstarter where the film raised $126,020 on a $100,000 goal this past March, The Square has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This is the first Academy Award Nomination for creators Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer. The documentary film follows the events… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Equity Crowdfunding Offer Set to Close Sunday.  Pay-as-you-play streaming music service PSonar is raising capital on SyndicateRoom. The equity crowdfunding offering is looking to raise £200,000 for 9.16% equity in the small company.  The offer is nearly complete and has already captured over £180,000 from… Read More

January 17, 2014 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Yasumi Matsuno has teamed with California-based Playdek on a tactical RPG entitled Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians. It’s kind of a big deal. Matsuno is a huge name in video games with titles like Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy XII under his belt. He has… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter Project Creator Marc Barros Shares his Feedback at Campaigns Incredible Success. Moment, “Amazing Lenses for Mobile Photography” was a crowdfunding campaign we covered yesterday on their first day on Kickstarter.  The campaign set a targeted raise of $50,000.  As of today the campaign has… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

For every Pebble or Ouya there are hundreds of smaller Kickstarter projects that fight to be recognized and garner funding. One such campaign launched this week for Yes Man Watches, watches that aim to provide a reminder to relax. Yes Man isn’t used in the… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Belgium Based Equity Crowdfunding site MicroInvest Has Announced Successful Close 3X Initial Target. MyMicroInvest, the Belgian crowdfunding platform, announced that a total amount of €315,000 had been collected during the financing campaign supporting the creation of NewsMonkey, a Dutch-speaking news site. The funds that have been… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 11:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Star Citizen isn’t the only video-game-related crowdfunding campaign that is running in some state of perpetuity. The lesser-known but still successful Shroud of the Avatar has taken the same approach to funding, using the IgnitionDeck Wordpress plugin to facilitate pledges from the crowd. It has worked well… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 11:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Edit: two cards to rule them all. Coin aims to be the “one card to rule them all,” a credit-card-sized device that can store info from and act as any credit or debit card in the owner’s wallet. The associated crowdfunding campaign is still active… Read More

January 15, 2014 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Campaign Launched by Brad McQuaid’s Visionary Realms Games Studio. Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is crowdfunding on Kickstarter today and they have set a goal of raising $800,000 by February 22nd.  The much anticipated game and launch was leaked last… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 2:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

I take a profound numbers of photos. Like many of you, I have long since given up on the “point & shoot” cameras and I just cannot lug around a DSLR camera.  I take take really great images too (honest!).  My iPhone 5 does a… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 11:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Ten crowdfunding campaigns. $1,420,000 in funding sought. Six weeks to go. One nonprofit with one goal: to put bike share stations all over Kansas City, Missouri. Civic crowdfunding platform Neighbor.ly is currently hosting ten crowdfunding campaigns that represent ten possible future locations for bike sharing… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Escapist : Jimquisition : Early Access The video above has resulted in a bit of a kerfuffle on the forums for Star Citizen. It features The Escapist video game review editor Jim Sterling going off about early access games, which are invariably linked to the… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

North Korea is known as the “hermit kingdom” in part for the regime’s general disdain for western culture. So, imagine my shock when I came across this music video from two Washington DC rappers shot in North Korea. How did they do it? It started… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 10:34 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The PowerUp 3.0 has officially crossed $1 million on Kickstarter, proving that any idea can raise massive amounts of money if the crowd sees it as worthy. Over 18,000 people have pitched into the project to date. This funding comes on a goal of only… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Food replacement drink Soylent which was originally rejected by Kickstarter and went on to become Crowdhoster’s very first crowdfunding offering raising over $1.7 million from more than 10,000 supporters, has delayed shipping by several weeks due to the need to alter some ingredients.  First shipments… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Pegasus Touch will eventually join the ranks of the Buccaneer, the Form 1 and other notable 3D printers to be fully-funded on Kickstarter. Full Spectrum Laser launched the campaign on December 31, 2013 and it took less than 24 hours for the campaign to… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

The City of Portland wants solar energy and they are going to the crowd to raise the necessary funding.  After receiving grants in the amount of $100,000 from the Oregon Community Foundation’s Penstemon Fund, the city is looking to raise additional funding via contributions from area residents… Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Interested accredited investors will have the opportunity to own a part of ByOwner.com.  The advertising site is seeking equity crowdfunding investors via AngelList to raise capital needed to advance its position as the safest online community to post free classified ads for over ninety categories of products and services. … Read More

January 13, 2014 @ 9:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Tomorrow is a big day in the world of Kickstarter and video games. Double Fine Productions will release part one of Broken Age, the video game previously dubbed Double Fine Adventure. Haven’t shipped a game of my own in 4.5 years, an adventure game in 16, a… Read More