Offerings

November 23, 2013 @ 9:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A variety of crowdfunding efforts have been launched seeking funding for Ross Ulbricht’s legal defense fund. Ross Ulbricht recently made headlines when he was arrested in conjunction with an investigation into dark web drug marketplace SilkRoad. Ulbricht is accused of being “Dread Pirate Roberts,” the… Read More

November 23, 2013 @ 8:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

AR Wear’s Indiegogo campaign ended in the overnight hours and did manage to be fully funded by the time all was said and done. This despite some serious backlash in the press and in the blogosphere over what some were calling the “modern-day chastity belt.”… Read More

November 22, 2013 @ 3:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Indiegogo is something truly unique:  A William Shatner Mechanical watch called “Passages”.  Unfortunately the watch is not scheduled to ship until March 2014 so it cannot be a special stocking stuffer for this holiday season – but it may be worth the wait…. Read More

November 22, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Online Grocer FreshDirect and crowdfunding platform RocketHub have selected the finalists to their Next Big Food Thing.  The winner of the competition will receive $10,000 plus the opportunity to partner with FreshDirect with their product.  Second and third place contestants will each received $2500 for… Read More

November 22, 2013 @ 9:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

How does one go about raising over $50,000 on Kickstarter for blue shoelaces? The answer has a lot to do with the man behind the Bluelace Project, Jake Bronstein. The former Road Rules cast member and FHM editor is now the founder of a clothing company… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 3:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

All Your Cards Into One:  Coin. The one card to replace them all: Coin, has announced their crowdfunding campaign continues following their incredible success as they easily rocketed past their $50,000 campaign goal in just under 40 minutes.  In a discussion with CEO and Founder Kanishk… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 12:11 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

KMSP-TV When 11-year-old Amelia Sawalich wanted to help her friend Nevaeh (below, pink hat) and her family in their battle against cancer, she turned to crowdfunding platform Piggybackr to raise funds. She set an initial goal of $5,000 and went to work promoting the campaign. 30… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

COIN CEO and founder Kanishk Parashar continues to make the media rounds with an interview on CNBC hosted by Carl Quintanilla and Kelly Evans.  COIN is clearly a crowdfunding success as it hit its relatively low goal of raising $50,000 in just 4o minutes.  With… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 11:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Koichi Wakata released 3 small satellites from the Japanese Robotic Arm today. Pretty exciting to see live. pic.twitter.com/6shSmyqtXi — Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) November 19, 2013 Kickstarter has made it to space. In particular, three small satellites were launched into space from the International Space Station… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 11:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Howard Leonhardt and his venture firm Leonhardt Ventures are making use of a new exemption under Rule 506(c) of Regulation D to solicit funding from accredited investors. The money will go towards funding a cadre of businesses participating in his Cal-X Stars accelerator. Leonhardt explains… Read More

November 20, 2013 @ 9:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Game developer Broken Rules is currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo for their game Secrets of Rætikon. The campaign is flexibly funded and has 65 hours to go at the time of writing, having raised just over $10,000 on a $40,000 goal. Recently a hacker compromised the group’s PayPal… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 10:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Scott Hall and Aurelian Smith, Jr. are both former pro wrestlers, better known by the names Razor Ramon and Jake “The Snake” Roberts. Both have fallen on hard times after long careers in pro wrestling. Hall and Roberts alike have succumbed to the ravages wrestling… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 9:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The campaign for Star Citizen keeps marching on. Chris Roberts and the developers at Cloud Imperium just recently crossed two milestones: $28 million in funding and 300,000 backers. This comes on the heels of news that October was one of the most successful months for the Star Citizen… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

SSX Ventures has launched their LATAM Incubated One BV, a publicly-traded investment vehicle organized to invest in companies graduating from Latin America’s top incubators, including Wayra, NXTP Labs, 21212 and 500 Startups. LATAM will raise investment capital via an Initial Public offering on the Startup Stock Exchange (SSX)… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 12:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Talon Clemlow is crowdfunding his independent surf documentary Thundercloud on Pozible and if you watch the trailers this film looks pretty awesome. Based around one of the most spectacular days in surfing history, June 8th 2012, when a swell of massive proportions arrived at Cloudbreak,… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 1:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

In an attempt to disrupt the entrenched forces of the sports apparel industry, Tribesports leveraged their sizable community to launch a very successful crowdfunding campaign with the goal of launching their own performance clothing brand.  On a goal of raising £30,000, Tribesports closed their campaign… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Landfill Harmonic a heartwarming story about children using recycled trash to create instruments and make beautiful music in the barrios of Paraguay, was featured on news magazine 60 Minutes last night.  This incredible story only came to popular attention when their was a crowdfunding campaign… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 10:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The creators of webseries Batgirl: Spoiled were disappointed to find themselves on the wrong end of a cease & desist from Warner Bros. Entertainment, who currently owns the rights to the Batman likeness and franchise. Indiegogo promptly removed the campaign page and the project’s creators are now… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 9:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Neurio Home Intellegence, by Energy Aware in Vancouver, just closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter having trumped their $95,000 objective by raising over $260,000 CAD.  Almost two thousand supporters jumped in the smart home tech campaign with the majority opting in for the reward level… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Nicola Horlick is back on Seedrs again but this time she is crowdfunding a London Restaurant – Times Place Brasserie. This follows her first go at crowdfunding on Seedrs where she funded her startup, Glentham Capital, an off shore company which was set up to… Read More