Offerings

October 28, 2013 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Team Includes Veterans From Google, Frog Design and Apple Play-i has announced the launch of its crowdfunding campaign to produce robots that children can play with and program. The crowdfunding initiative hopes to raise $250,000 over the next 30 days.  Play-i’s mission is to give young children… Read More

October 28, 2013 @ 9:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Cambridge-based stem cell research tool provider Cell Guidance Systems has successfully crowdfunded over £242,000 on equity crowdfunding platform Crowdcube. The raise represents a £2,000,000 valuation. The funds come for a 12.14% equity stake dispersed among the crowd. CGS was originally seeking $100,000 in funding for… Read More

October 27, 2013 @ 10:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter Campaign Had Just Announced Breaking $100,000.  Parke Stands at Over $140,000 Today. This very professional, fashion pretail crowdfunding campaign continues to grow as backers continue to purchase rewards for Parke’s fashionable denim line.  Parke, a new online-only denim brand, with a few days still… Read More

October 26, 2013 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The internet of things and a true smart home environment are coming closer to reality every day.   Energy Aware  with their Neurio Home Intelligence is one of the companies leading the way.  Crowdfunding on Kickstarter now, the project easily cruised past their $95,000 CAD… Read More

October 25, 2013 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Following a enormously successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter last year where Formlabs raised almost $3 Million for their 3D printer, the company has received significant financing from investors. Formlabs, the designers and manufacturers of the Form 1 3D printer, announced $19M in Series A financing.  DFJ Growth… Read More

October 24, 2013 @ 12:44 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve been reporting on BrewDog brewery ever since the Scottish brewery startup launched a hybrid equity/rewards crowdfunding effort in June of this year. That effort, entitled “Equity for Punks,” netted BrewDog over £1 million in capital in 24 hours. If you’re a clever canine and… Read More

October 23, 2013 @ 8:54 pm By JD Alois  |  

Marine & Auto Security Solutions Captures Wide Media Attention with Crowdfunding Success. One couple in the United Kingdom were talking about preventing piracy and cooked up a plastic barrier on the railing of the ship. Turned down by banks they went on to raise equity… Read More

October 22, 2013 @ 10:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As we approach Halloween in the US, this seems appropriately macabre: a watch currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter counts down the moments until you die, providing a constant reminder of how precious life is. All we have to do is learn how to cherish the time… Read More

October 22, 2013 @ 10:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Tile item finder, which put a new spin on finding lost items, raised over $2.6 Million doing a Self-Starter crowdfunding campaign becoming the most successful Self-Starter campaign ever.  The company was founded by Nick Evans and Mike Farley in 2012.  Evans had previously worked… Read More

October 22, 2013 @ 7:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Pirate3D  launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign this past May and raised over $1.4 Million from 3520 backers.  The original goal was to raise $100,00. “We were amazed by the enthusiastic support when we debuted the Buccaneer on Kickstarter. Our goal of US$100,000 was reached in… Read More

October 21, 2013 @ 10:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Elemental-Labs Inc. turned to Kickstarter to fund a video game entitled Reborn. The game was aiming for a launch that would have included support for the latest and greatest gaming platforms, the Xbox One and Playstation 4. The project creators have cancelled the campaign early after… Read More

October 18, 2013 @ 10:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’re going to unabashedly scream it from the mountaintops: Star Citizen is one of – if not the – biggest crowdfunding stories we’ve seen since we’ve launched this site more than a year ago, and it doesn’t get the attention or credit it deserves. The… Read More

October 18, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

San Francisco filmmaker Abraham Heisler is crowdfunding a film which explores the realities of the tech obsessed world of San Francisco and he is raising funds on Pozible.  The Aussie crowdfunding platform recently landed on the shores of the US launching a yankee version of their… Read More

October 17, 2013 @ 8:04 am By JD Alois  |  

In a video produced by Silicon Real (who do great work by the way), UK based Tribesports share their experience with crowdfunding on Kickstarter.  Tribesports, which we first covered this past August, ran an enormously successful campaign raising £119,458 on a goal of just £30,000…. Read More

October 16, 2013 @ 7:54 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

One Spark, a “five-day festival for creators” with a heavy crowdfunding presence, recently closed a $70,556 crowdfunding campaign on RocketHub in order to supplement their already-impressive funding roster for next year’s event. Sponsors for the 2014 event include the City of Jacksonville, the KYN accelerator,… Read More

October 16, 2013 @ 7:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Offer Ongoing As Minimum is Reached. Georgia-based SparkMarket has announced the success of the first crowdfunding campaign on their equity platform. Bohemian Guitars has hit their goal of crowdfunding $100,000, raising money to grow their budding guitar-making business. SparkMarket is calling it a first in… Read More

October 16, 2013 @ 9:27 am By JD Alois  |  

We just reported on October 14th the offer listed on Seedrs by WebStart Bristol was close to being fully funded – just £25,000 short of their £150,000 funding goal.  As of yesterday the unique offering was fully funded.  Initially posted on the equity crowdfunding platform… Read More

October 15, 2013 @ 1:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cincinnati tech startup Kapture, the audio recording wristband that allows you to save and share what was just said, is recently beat their Kickstarter campaign goal. Over 1,228 backers supported the month-long campaign with a total of $162,386 being pledged, exceeding their goal of $150,000, and… Read More

October 15, 2013 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Social network for gaming, “gamesGRABR”, has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign, to raise £150,000 for the ongoing development and growth of their business.  Today’s crowdfunding launch is one of the first by a game focused tech company to offer a stake in the company not just… Read More

October 14, 2013 @ 11:42 am By JD Alois  |  

The Ghost blogging platform launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter in April of 2013.  The open source platform is totally written in javascript and promises true one button deploys.  The crowfunding campaign wanted to raise £25,000 but the interest in this new application showed considerably… Read More