Offerings

September 12, 2013 @ 10:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for Mighty No. 9 has hit $2 million with 19 days left. The campaign will spend the remainder of it’s lifecycle trying to ascend the all-time Kickstarter charts. It was only 9 days ago that we were covering the $1 million milestone,… Read More

September 12, 2013 @ 10:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Prizeo is a really interesting take on crowdfunding. The platform is a celebrity-focused charitable donation site. It offers backers the chance to support a cause and earn cool rewards from the celebrities they love, and it also encourages celebrities to use their profiles to raise… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Travail is an innovative fine dining restaurant in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. Response to the restaurant has been so positive that the establishment quickly outgrew its original digs. Now the four-man team behind Travail has taken to Kickstarter to fund kitchen equipment for their new location, and… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Johnathan Wakefield has been making unique craft beers since 2007.  Now he wants to take his passion to the next level and he has launched a crowdfunding campaign to achieve that dream. The J Wakefield Brewing campaign is crowdfunding on CrowdBrewed, a crowdfunding platform dedicated to beer…. Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The campaign for Project Phoenix on Kickstarter has come to an end, but not before crossing $1 million in funding. The team also raised over $30,000 via PayPal donations in a separate effort. Project Phoenix is described as a “fantasy themed squad-based real-time strategy game combined… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 5:31 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story promises to be a dramatic biopic covering the life and times of now-ubiquitous NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and the project is crowdfunding on a custom, Wordpress-and-IgnitionDeck-powered crowdfunding solution. “Classified: The Edward Snowden Story” is a biopic that will tell the… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 10:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The iSketchnote for the iPad launched a Kickstarter campaign today seeking $35,000 in funding, and the campaign has already reached over $20,000 in pledges. With one look at the device it is easy to see why. The iSketchnote is a drawing pad that links directly… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 3:57 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Now that we’re all collectively celebrating the launch of Kickstarter support for projects seeking funding in Canadian dollars, let’s take a look at six projects that have taken advantage of this new aspect of Kickstarter’s service. (As always, caveat emptor!) Nix Color Sensor [Toronto] The… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 12:18 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on the Omate TrueSmart, a new smartwatch crowdfunding on Kickstarter. The team reached out to Crowdfund Insider this morning with some teaser pics, claiming production has already begun. The last image is a comparison chart that compares the TrueSmart to other smartwatches, including… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 11:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Project Phoenix has raised almost $850,000 on a goal of $100,000 with just under two days left in what can only be called a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. Now developer Creative Intelligence Arts, Inc. has announced that their game will be released on the Playstation 4… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Peter Mayhew made history playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars franchise. At 7’3″, he was also born with Giantism. His large frame has degraded his knees to the point of needing surgery in order to walk unassisted again, and a fully-funded Kickstarter campaign for a… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 9:31 am By JD Alois  |  

London based Mowjow, a social gaming company,  has announced it has closed their second of five tranches in their social fundraising effort. Mowjow is using their proprietary version of crowdfunding, to raise seed capital before their upcoming IPO.  The company was founded in 2008 by Norwegian… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 2:01 am By JD Alois  |  

The Digital Shoreditch project Million Pound Startup closed for entries recently and the final tally lists entries from 72 countries representing participation from 304 cities for a total of 1047 startup companies.  Each of these companies is in the running to move to London to… Read More

September 8, 2013 @ 10:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gridiron Thunder closed today having raised $171,009 on a goal of $75,000.  The campaign caught an initial wave of interest and popular support, but then quickly dived into questions regarding the validity of some of the backer support.  At one point the project owners, MogoTXT,… Read More

September 8, 2013 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lima – which was previously called “Plug”-  closed today on Kickstarter having crowdfunded an amazing $1,229,074 with the support of almost thirteen thousand backers.  The device had an original goal of $69,000 which seems paltry in retrospect. The Kickstarter project had to alter the name… Read More

September 8, 2013 @ 12:21 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Carbon fiber is known for being incredibly light and incredibly strong, which is why it has found a home in industries ranging from aerospace to high-performance automotive. It is also extremely expensive, but thanks to years of interest and research that cost is being driven… Read More

September 7, 2013 @ 4:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdCanDo an event management, online ticketing and crowdfunding platform, which allows people to sell tickets & confirm the purchase of  tickets on a smartphone app, is raising funds and they are doing it on Seedrs. The equity platform has listed 10% equity of the startup for… Read More

September 7, 2013 @ 1:22 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It looks like suspicious backer activity has led to the suspension of one campaign participating in Ouya’s #FreeTheGames fund, a crowdfunding contest on Kickstarter. Funding for Elementary, My Dear Holmes was suspended less than 24 hours ago. The campaign was fully funded with almost a month… Read More

September 6, 2013 @ 11:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Firefly Studios has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Gambitious for a third major installment of their popular real-time simulator series Stronghold. The game allows players to create and defend their kingdoms in real-time. Stronghold Crusader 2 is the game we have been wanting to make for… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hex queued up a crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter of $10,000.  The campaign launched just last week on August 26th stands today at over $230,000 raised on Kickstarter.  And they have over 30 days left to go on their campaign. Who would have thought that a… Read More