Offerings

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

August 28, 2013 @ 8:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowfunding campaign will attempt to raise $85,000 for Adopt the Arts Foundation Glee’s Jane Lynch and Guns N’ Roses Drummer Matt Sorum, are launching a crowdfunding campaign to Raise generate funds to Bring Music Programs to Los Angeles Public Schools.  FundAnything, a crowdfunding site started… Read More

August 27, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Gavin Fish is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Light Harmonic. Light Harmonic is the company behind the Da Vinci digital-to-analog converter (DAC). A Da Vinci DAC is a five-figure device reserved for the most ardent (and well-to-do) music lovers. Now Light Harmonic has… Read More

August 27, 2013 @ 9:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The deadline has passed for project creators to submit their ideas to Popular Science’s #CrowdGrant challenge. The challenge aims to help scientists in varied fields find the funding they need to take their research to the next level. Enter the Elcano, a project with the… Read More

August 27, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Fuel 3D handheld scanner passed their initial crowdfunding goal of $75,000 in the first two days of launching.  The campaign currently stands just under $300,o00 with several days remaining to raise funds.  Organizers set a stretch goal of $250,000 which was easily surpassed. Fuel3D is… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 9:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Owlet “Smart Sock” Monitors Your Baby’s Vital Signs, Connects to iPhone App. Founded by Kurt Workman, Owlet Baby Care Home has created the a baby “smart sock” that transmits a child’s heart rate, oxygen levels, skin temperature, sleep quality, and sleep position (rollover alerts) to… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Gridiron Thunder is crowdfunding on Kickstarter in order to build an arcade-style football game for the Ouya. Ouya famously raised over $8 million on Kickstarter for a cheap, Android-powered gaming console for the masses. Early gameplay footage of Gridiron Thunder invokes memories of NFL Blitz, albeit… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 9:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Earlier this month we brought you the story of Precinct, a video game that had a cancelled Kickstarter campaign to its name. The team behind the game had turned to Wordpress crowdfunding plugin IgnitionDeck in order to roll their own funding platform solution. The team… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 9:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Star Citizen has raised over $15 million in a crowdfunding campaign that has been operating for the better part of the last year. Now Chris Roberts and the rest of the team charged with bringing the video game to reality are beginning delivery to backers…. Read More

August 25, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Tile locator device successfully crowdfunded $2,681,297 using the self crowdfunding application “SelfStarter” becoming the most successfully self crowdfunded campaign ever. The crowdfunding campaign not only raised more than enough funds to fulfill the financing needs of the company but indicated a growing market interest… Read More

August 25, 2013 @ 12:55 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A second Kickstarter campaign for Shadow of the Eternals has failed to reach a goal of $750,000. This was the second Kickstarter campaign for what was to be the spiritual successor to Eternal Darkness, a title released by Nintendo in 2002. It was critically acclaimed, although it also fell… Read More

August 25, 2013 @ 12:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

In a span of less than a week, The Omate TrueSmart smartwatch has more than tripled a $100,000 crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter, further cementing Kickstarter as the place to crowdfund innovative tech products. The campaign seeks to fund a new watch that sports a few… Read More

August 24, 2013 @ 1:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

SunFunder, has successfully funded their single largest crowdfunded loan to date raising $25,000 for SunnyMoney’s solar schools campaign in Tanzania.  The project was dubbed Solar for 4500 students raised the money from 173 contributors.  The loan term was structured for repayment in 12 months via… Read More

August 24, 2013 @ 11:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Tribesports, a crowdfunding campaign recently covered on these pages, was recently covered on CNBC regarding their attempt to disrupt the $250 Billion sportswear industry.  Jenna Anians, one of the company’s founders, was interviewed about their company and recent crowdfunding success.   _____________________ Have a crowdfunding… Read More

August 24, 2013 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A fan-created involving the popular video game series Metroid is now the subject of an IP dispute between the project creators and Nintendo. Perhaps dispute is a strong word. In short, it’s obvious that Nintendo has the rights to their own works. The question is whether or… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Add another Hollywood film to the credits of crowdfunding film,  Reach Me, a project by Director / Writer John Herzfeld launched this week on Kickstarter in an attempt to raise $250,000 to finish the already started film.  The project stars erstwhile action star Sylvester Stallone… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 9:44 am By GigaOM  |  

You’re putting together a new piece of furniture when you realize you don’t have the right wrench. Your friend does though, so they fax it over. That’s the future promised by AIO Robotics‘ planned Zeus 3D printer, a combo printer and scanner expected to launch on… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Over 1600 backers helped to push animated film crowdfunding project “Art Story” over their $350,000 funding goal on Kickstarter during the campaigns final hours.  Creators and Disney Veterans, Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams, launched a final push to crowdfund their dream and their request was rewarded as… Read More