Offerings

June 10, 2013 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Facebook Employee Dwight Crow (pictured) has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdtilt seeking at least $10,000 to send to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. From the campaign page… We should set a precedent by rewarding this type of extremely courageous behavior. It’s definitely apparent that legal… Read More

June 9, 2013 @ 1:08 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Rhinehart’s Crowdhoster campaign for Soylent launched with a goal of $100,000. Less than three weeks later the campaign is poised to cross a half a million dollars in contributions, and that feat includes a nice perk for backers of the campaign: a stainless steel… Read More

June 9, 2013 @ 12:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarted, the crowdfunding documentary currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, has released a video on YouTube running down the top 5 most controversial crowdfunding campaigns. Can you guess which campaign is number one? Kickstarted has raised just $21,000 of an $85,000 goal to date with a little… Read More

June 8, 2013 @ 9:51 am By WXRT  |  

Once again a positive note for the Chicago landmark and home of Blues Legend, Muddy Waters. The house at 4339 S. Lake Park Ave. was Muddy’s home for twenty years. If you haven’t been following this story you may want to start at the beginning, here…. Read More

June 8, 2013 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

WAFU Inc. has announce that it has closed the first ever accredited investor equity crowdfunding by a Canadian company in the United States via CircleUp, a leading U.S. equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors to invest in private consumer product companies in the United States…. Read More

June 7, 2013 @ 9:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunded Film Launches  as Day-and-Date Release.   ‘I Send You This Place’ release Is in Conjunction with a Week Long Theatrical Run by IFP at reRun Theater in Brooklyn, NY Seed&Spark, the world’s first crowd-fundingand digital distribution platform made just for independent film, is proud to… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 8:53 am By Business Insider  |  

A Kickstarter campaign for The Glowing Plant project has stirred the debate over genetically modified organisms. Scientists are planning to use lab techniques to insert DNA that codes for glowing proteins from fireflies and bacteria into plants, so they glow. These glowing plants have been made before —… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 12:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Initially targeted to raise $65,000, the break out success of the crowdfunding campaign  Glowing Plants: Natural Lighting with no Electricity on Kickstarter, now stands at over $460,000 raised by over 8000 contributors. The campaign quickly incorporated stretch goals as it became apparent their crowdfunding initiative was… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 11:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

The National Institute on Aging supported the concept and funded the initial development of Zoezi Park. But due to the government’s budget sequestration, funding is no longer available. Because of this, Blue Marble is asking for public support, through crowdfunding, to assist them. Blue Marble… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 8:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Main Street Business Improvement Association (MSBIA) of Santa Monica has launched a fundraising campaign via local crowdfunding website When You Wish to raise $35,000 to support their 13th annual Supreme Summer SOULstice events. Through donations for sale from local businesses as well as generous… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 10:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today in should have seen that coming: An 18 year old girl named Nicole moved into a house with a handful of her friends after graduating high school. One day everyone decided to do what young people do and jump off the roof and into the pool…. Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 8:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you’re a regular visitor to Crowdfund Insider you’ve no doubt heard of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality gaming headset approved by grandmothers everywhere. Now the Rift’s logical companion is crowdfunding on Kickstarter and it has already met a $150,000 funding goal. It’s called… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 11:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a backers update posted on Kickstarter, organizers of the crowdfunding campaign for Shadows of the Eternals has announced they are at least temporarily pulling their campaign.  Previously there were rumblings that if the crowdfunding campaign was not successful, the game most likely would not… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 8:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

Venture for America Fellowship Program has Announced Fellow Innovation Fund to Support Projects in Detroit, New Orleans, and Other Cities.  Venture for America will be partnering with crowdfunding platform RocketHub.   Venture for America, a  program that helps recent grads become entrepreneurs,  will be offering… Read More

June 3, 2013 @ 8:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Enterprising and adventerous musicians everywhere are drooling… The OWL is an open source, open hardware, reprogrammable effects pedal designed for musicians, coders, and hackers. With a little bit of C++ hackery the OWL can be made to sound like just about anything. This is music… Read More

June 2, 2013 @ 11:25 am By ThisisMoney.co.uk  |  

Two sisters who plan to run an ethical supermarket chain have so far raised more than half of the £170,000 they need, in part with the help of crowd funding. Ruth and Amy Anslow, who want to provide an alternative to the big supermarkets, intend… Read More

June 2, 2013 @ 11:11 am By Turnstyle  |  

It always surprises me when people seem agog at the very concept of crowdfunding. It is as if that individual has never watched Sesame Street or heard of NPR. At it’s heart the crowdfunding model is a twist on the public media one. Heck, you might even… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 11:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Did you know that looking at a garden in infrared can help a gardener see areas of high growth versus elements of low growth or decay? You learn something new every day. That is the idea behind the Infagram, which aims to put an infrared… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Cicadas have been making headlines this year for their once-every-17-year-emergence from the ground on the mid-Atlantic coast. Now Samuel Orr has launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of creating a documentary on the phenomenon, and the campaign is fully funded. Orr has announced a $20,000… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Forbes  |  

When Rob Rhinehart sought to raise some money to expand production of his self-made superfood drink, Soylent, he asked for a humble $100,000. A little over a week into the 30-day campaign he’d raised almost $400,000. The initial goal was met within two hours. Wow!… Read More