Offerings

September 5, 2013 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

London based Microco.sm is a new platform that hosts discussion forums, bulletin boards and communities.  In November of last year they raised capital on the Seedrs platform.  In a short 15 hours they crowdfunded £50,000 to support their growing business.  Come 2013 and they needed… Read More

September 5, 2013 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Michigan based ALTe Powertrain Technologies (ALTe), the developer of the first plug-in electric hybrid vehicle powertrain system for light commercial fleet vehicles, is prepping to announce its participation in a major innovative funding platform next Monday, September 9th, 2013. The company will announce a new Private Placement Offering using the first of its kind sophisticated investment platform targeting… Read More

September 4, 2013 @ 1:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

Protos Eyewear, currently running a self crowdfunding campaign using CrowdHoster, has developed a Wordpress widget which allows users to follow crowdfunding progress for their Kickstarter campaign on their web site.  Protos’ current crowdfunding campaign is for their 3D printed custom glasses. Protos created the wordpress… Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 11:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Heralding from Tokyo based independent studio comcept USA, a Japanese game design and dev studio launched in 2006, is potentially the next big game crowdfunding success. Mighty No. 9 just fired up their crowdfunding project last week on August 31st.  Stated goal was to raise… Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

The Fuel 3D Handheld Scanner crowdfunding campaign blasted past their initial goal of $75,000 many days ago.  The final tally, having closed this past weekend, stands at $325,343 raised from 437 backers.  3D tech has been a very hot category on crowdfunding platforms but most… Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 10:34 am By JD Alois  |  

A wide group of champion skiers which include Olympic medalists among their ranks have joined together to launch a crowdfunding campaign to complete development of Ski Nation; a skier network and mobile application which they hope to launch in time for the 2014 Winter Olympics…. Read More

September 3, 2013 @ 9:22 am By JD Alois  |  

In just over two months Scottish brewery BrewDog has raised £3 Million on Goal of £4 Million.  Crowdfunding Round Closes in January. Craft brewery BrewDog started in 2007 with just 2 employees and a dream.  The firm was driven by two young fearless entrepreneurs determined… Read More

September 1, 2013 @ 1:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yonder Biology launched their glowing Dino Pet on Kickstarter a little over two weeks ago hoping to raise $50,000 for their novel bio-luminescent pet.  Now the crowdfunding campaign stands at over $120,000 raised with two weeks remaining in their project. The project organizers have leveraged… Read More

September 1, 2013 @ 11:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Chris Roberts Sets New Stretch Goals of $18 & $19 Million. Stands as Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaign Ever. We just recently covered Star Citizen and their ongoing crowdfunding campaign as they had just passed $16 Million raised and now they have surpassed the next milestone… Read More

August 31, 2013 @ 2:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Popular Science partnered with crowdfunding platform RocketHub to produce the #CrowdGrant Challenge to find funding for reader submissions.  Announced back in the spring of this year, submissions were open until this summer and then 45 days of crowdfunding occurred with the two dozen deemed the… Read More

August 30, 2013 @ 10:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

NOTE: two updates appear below the original article MogoTXT has taken issue with a backer comment on the Kickstarter campaign page for Gridiron Thunder. We first reported on Gridiron Thunder earlier this week. The game is taking part in Ouya’s #FreeTheGames fund, which promises to… Read More

August 30, 2013 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We’ve all been there. The big moment is happening right in front of your eyes, so you pull out your smartphone to take a picture. By the time you can get through the lock screen, open the app and hit the button, the moment is… Read More

August 30, 2013 @ 6:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Google Ventures was the lead in securing Series B Funding for Rani Therapeutics but VentureHealth, a crowdfunding portal for accredited investors, also participated in this private offering. VentureHealth is a portal that allows qualified investors the opportunity to participate in life science deals that are… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

JumpStarter has announced they have reached out to SpaceX to feature Elon Musk’s Hyperloop concept on their recently launched crowdfunding platform – JumpStartFund. The Hyperloop “project,” which is live on the site, will go through the platform’s standard “evolutionary” processes, where registered users vote, comment,… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Michigan based Hybra and their Sound Band headset that uses speaker-less technology has cruised past their $175,000 crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter and now stands well over $400,000 raised with more than two weeks left in their campaign. The $400,000 was a stretch goal set and… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 11:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

Update: Since publishing, KIND* Shave Oil has changed its name to TICO* Shave Oil, and can now be found at www.ticoshaving.com. KIND shave oil is crowdfunding an alternative to shaving cream.  Shaving is not something I have ever looked forward to doing.  But then I happened to… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 1:48 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BOOM or DOOM is a documentary currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter that aims to put an interesting spin on the crowdfunded documentary model. See, project creators Sean and Alan plan on using Kickstarter to raise funds for an upcoming party game, entitled Two Rooms and a Broom…. Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last year was the first year for the One Spark festival, a crowdfunding event that turned downtown Jacksonville, Florida into a hub of entrepreneurship and creativity. Elton Rivas, Dennis Eusebio, and Varick Rosete created One Spark, Inc. in 2011 with the goal of connecting creativity… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 10:33 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We wrote about Gridiron Thunder yesterday. The game is already fully-funded on Kickstarter and is participating in Ouya’s #FreeTheGames fund, so the game is eligible for a funding match from Ouya. VG 24/7 provides the following explanation regarding the more dubious aspects of the campaign… Unfortunately, questions… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

The olloclip, an iPhone quick change camera lens, crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in the ancient days of crowdfunding in 2011.  The campaign set a goal of raising $15,000 but trounced that amount when 1300 delivered contributions in the amount of $68,201.  Successfully financed, founder Patrick… Read More