Offerings

July 14, 2013 @ 11:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, “Citizen Koch”. a film directed by Carl Deal and Tia Lessin, has surpassed their crowdfunding goal of $75,000 with plenty of time left on their crowdfunding campaign. The project currently stands at over $105,000 pledged by over 2000 supporters. “Citizen Koch” is… Read More

July 13, 2013 @ 1:14 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Amelia Coffaro was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 28. She turned to crowdfunding platform GiveForward and has been able to raise over $50,000 to go toward her medical bills. She has a goal of raising $100,000. The campaign is live until November… Read More

July 12, 2013 @ 8:46 am By Charles Luzar  |  

You may have heard Peter Sunde‘s name before. He is one of the men behind The Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer file sharing and torrent web site. He is also a co-founder of Flattr, the pseudo-crowdfunding service where users set a monthly budget that is divvied… Read More

July 12, 2013 @ 8:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Data storage device Plug, launched by Cloud Guys Corporation (CGC) a US / French start-up met their crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter of $69,000 in 12 hours and now stands at over $186,000.  In a strategic act of successful pretail, Plug has proven an interest and… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pebble Holding an AMA on Reddit today at 3PM EST Eric Migicovsky and Team Pebble posted an update on their Kickstarter update page sharing they have registered over 275,000 Pebbles being pre-ordered since they launched their now famous crowdfunding campaign.  This number includes the 190,000… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Radio personality, actor and comedian, Adam Carolla’crowdfunding campaign on FundAnything has surpassed $400,000 in first week.  Carolla is crowdfunding his film, “Road Hard” with a goal of raising $1,000,000 over the next 37 days. Carolla will write, direct and star in this film which entails… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In crowdfunding you learn something new every day. For example, did you know that spent coffee grounds can be used to absorb smells? So well, in fact, that scientists at the City College of New York have explored the use of spent, carbonized coffee in… Read More

July 11, 2013 @ 10:13 am By Charles Luzar  |  

With 24 hours left in the campaign the +POOL seems certain to be fully funded, needing just a few thousand dollars to reach a goal of $250K. The +POOL project promises a pool that will float in the Hudson river, clean the river water and… Read More

July 8, 2013 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This release was submitted to Crowdfund Insider and republished in its entirety. Scott Conditt is an Arizona-based filmmaker launching a documentary about Kickstarter project creators. A project titled “Kickstarted: Documenting the Crowdfunding Revolution” recently received funding through the premiere crowd-funding entity itself, Kickstarter.com. Indie-film and crowd-funding enthusiast… Read More

July 7, 2013 @ 10:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Video game Star Citizen, created by Chris Roberts and his Roberts Space Industries (RSI), is ready to surpass $14 Million raised.  This crowdfunding campaign has the potential to be the single largest campaign ever and already stands in the top crowdfunding campaings to take place… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 11:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

After raising over $3 million to product ‘Double Fine Adventure,’ Double Fine Productions has now run out of money developing the game, which has since been renamed to Broken Age. The solution? The game will be broken into two parts, the first of which is… Read More

July 4, 2013 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

With the announcement that Quantock Brewery had surpassed their equity crowdfunding goal of 20% by raising £120,000 from 129 individuals, crowdfunding site Crowdcube noted the popularity for investors to support the food and drink category.  Specifically the beverage portion. Out of 56 funded offerings 18… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 9:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A Kickstarter campaign launched by Richard Nachum Kligman seeks funding for a luxury line of clothing catering to those with special needs, and the campaign was just recently fully funded. The brand is called Mianzi. Kligman’s son Moishy was the inspiration for Mianzi, which means “a face… Read More

July 3, 2013 @ 8:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Exclusive Arrangement with Best Buy Finally Brings to Retail the Most Successful Crowdfunding Campaign on Kickstarter to Date. The Pebble watch which has been lauded by many as a profound validation for crowdfunding has announced an exclusive arrangement with tech retailer Best Buy beginning this… Read More

July 1, 2013 @ 1:36 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

A group of Chicago 8th graders have successfully funded a collaboratively-designed project on Kickstarter. The campaign is a product of the Science and Entrepreneurship Exchange (SEE), a program launched by Chicago’s Nettelhorst School aimed at teaching young people some of the ins and outs of… Read More

July 1, 2013 @ 8:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Sites Negative Media as Reason Campaign is Cancelled. In an effort to bring the world renowned football star back to Manchester the crowdfunding campaign to “Bring Ronaldo Home” has now come to a close.  The imaginative initiative put together by determined lovers of the sports… Read More

July 1, 2013 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Brown Paper Tickets has introduced an easy way to donate tickets to the men and women of the U.S. armed services through a crowdfunding program called “Brown Paper Tickets Salutes”. The ticketing company has helped event producers to give more than 21,000 event tickets worth… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 10:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Now in the Top 25 Kickstarter Campaigns Ever. The ARKYD Space Telescope which crowdfunded an amazing $325,000 on their first day, has closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter with well over their initial $1,000,000 target.  The project called “the first space telescope for everyone” had… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 10:41 am By JD Alois  |  

Harlaw Hydro Ltd., located outside of Edinburgh, Scotland, has hit their crowdfunding goal of £313,000 to finance a hydro electric energy plant in a unique twist in community crowdfunding.  The goal was reached via community participation in just 12 weeks. Back in the Spring of… Read More

June 30, 2013 @ 9:43 am By JD Alois  |  

 Team Sergeant Sullivan Center Will Raise Funds to Help Veterans Exposed to Toxic Chemicals A review of VA healthcare utilization records indicates nearly half a million returning post-9/11 era Veterans are already sick—with physical, often mis- or un-diagnosed symptoms that affect their lungs, hearts, brains, and other… Read More