Offerings

December 29, 2013 @ 4:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gridiron Thunder, an “Awesome Indie Football Game for OUYA” was successfully crowdfunded on September 8, 2013 after enduring a contentious and controversial campaign on Kickstarter.  Raising $171,009 on a goal of $75,000 the organizer MogoTXT threatened legal action against one of the backers in the… Read More

December 29, 2013 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

TinyWorld, the social e-learning platform that wants to innovate the process of learning a second language beat their $50,000 goal on Monday, December 23, 2013.  With less than three days in the campaign on Indiegogo the project has set their stretch goal of hurdling $75,000…. Read More

December 28, 2013 @ 1:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A woman from Vancouver, British Columbia recently took to Indiegogo to raise funds for a trip to Iran. Alaleh Sahabi was able to reconnect with her mother through Facebook and wanted to fly back to Iran to see her for the first time in over 20… Read More

December 28, 2013 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

The campaign creators for the campy 80’s style action film Kung Fury must still be in shock as they launched their crowdfunding campaign this past Thursday and rocketed past their $200,000 goal on Friday.  As of today the campaign, which is in their very first… Read More

December 27, 2013 @ 10:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Business Insider recently got their hands on an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and tried some things like riding a virtual roller coaster and exploring the planets. Their reaction? Amazement across the board, which is becoming a trend for the Oculus Rift. The Rift will… Read More

December 27, 2013 @ 10:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kung Fury is part comedy, part action and – from the looks of the trailer – completely hilarious. The movie is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter and the film’s creator is seeking $200,000 from the crowd to turn the movie into a feature length film. With… Read More

December 27, 2013 @ 8:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter now is the Aurora Dream Enhancing headband which received a nice Christmas gift of surpassing their $90,000 funding goal.  The lucid dreaming tech device announced their achievement in a backer update the day after Christmas. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Christmas… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 12:02 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We brought you the story of Light Harmonic’s newest crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo back in November. The campaign aimed to raise $38,000 to bring the Geek Pulse to market. It was the second crowdfunding campaign for Light Harmonic. The company raised over $300,000 on Kickstarter… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

ShareIn, a technology and health focused equity crowdfunding platform, when beta earlier this December as they want to be the “best of breed” crowdfunding sites.  The UK platform promises that every share purchased in a listed company will include pre-emption, voting and drag along &… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A group of makers from Israel have invented a device that they say solves the ten finger touch UI problem. The Grippity is a tablet with a transparent screen allowing the user to type through the back of the device, and it is currently crowdfunding… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Night vision device for you smartphone “Snooperscope” had a Merry Christmas yesterday closing at £79,686 crowdfunded on Kickstarter on a goal of £40,000.  Crowdfund Insider originally covered Snooperscope earlier this month as they neared their funding objective. London based PSY Corporation had also launched a… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 10:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

TransCanada and its American subsidiary, Keystone, are in the midst of seeking approval for a new pipeline to run from Alberta’s tar sands to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Called the Keystone XL pipeline, it is a highly controversial project that has its passionate supporters… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Well known charity St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital is getting some help from donation crowdfunding site Prizeo this Holiday season.  Mariah Carey is using the platform to help raise $250,000 and one lucky donor will receive a private concert at her home in New York… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:24 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A project on Kickstarter has currently raised over $50,000 on a goal of just $5,000 with over three weeks left to go. I’m left wondering where this was during my childhood. It’s a rubber band machine gun and it looks awesome. Project creator Alex Shpetniy posted… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:04 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Like furbies and turtles toys before them, our #EquityForPunks shares sold out the week before Christmas. To all our new punks – welcome! — BrewDog (@brewdog) December 21, 2013 Our own JD Alois wasn’t kidding when he said last call. Less than 48 hours later… Read More

December 24, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bigger does not always mean better but we all find high profile, big money crowdfunding campaigns interesting and of note.  They may act as a barometer for new products, or services, and can distill future industry trends. The top rewards campaign for 2013, the Veronica… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 11:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and The Silk Road closed this past weekend and the crowdfunding film made goal during the final hours of the campaign.  Alex Winter, the project creator, is a well known actor, director who may be best known for… Read More

December 23, 2013 @ 9:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Star Citizen has surpassed $35 million in funding. Chris Roberts announced the milestone in a recent backer update posted to robertsspaceindustries.com… Wow! When I started this journey I would have never guessed that we would have come so far in such a short time. $35M… Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 9:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

For many reasons crowdfunding smartwatches has been a hot crowdfunding category for 2012 – 2013.  Wearable technology is going to be huge and everyone knows it.  While Samsung has released their Galaxy Watch to much fanfare, the Samsung smartwatch was widely panned by the technorati…. Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 7:42 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

With 40 days left in their Indiegogo campaign, wearable device technology startup Atheer has raised over $70,000 of a stated $100,000 goal for their innovative spin on 3D glasses. The consumer-level variant is called the Atheer One, and the feature set promised by the team… Read More