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June 1, 2013 @ 8:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, the UK based equity crowdfunding platform, has listed their first Swedish company to participate in their platform.  Cefour Wine & Beverage manufactures pre-packaged wine glasses with a unique production technique.  Cefour hopes to expand internationally and has listed their offering on both the UK… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Not for profit festival organizer Digital Shoreditch, along with their partners, have introduced the Million Pound Startup.  This first ever contest is searching for a single promising company which will receive £1 Million pounds in investment funding.  The contest is raising the money by incorporating the… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 3:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Below is an infographic depicting some very cool energy tech – each of which was crowdfunded.  This is a great display of how crowdfunding is not only disrupting traditional funding channels but it is bringing to market some truly incredible products.  Many of these may… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 9:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: Double Fine Productions does it again. MASSIVE CHALICE has surpassed it’s goal and is on the way to the million dollar mark. Double Fine Productions can now boast being one of the few people or companies to have two successful six-figure crowdfunding campaigns under their… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 8:40 am By VG 24/7  |  

Precursor COO Shawn Jackson was asked during a Reddit AMA whether the game would come to market if the Kickstarter did not reach its target. “Since we do not have any other source of funding, it is unlikely,” he said. “We will entertain all options to make… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 8:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Bisakha Sen, an associate professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, has launched a campaign on Microryza to fund her research into the effect of gun policy and gun culture on public safety in the United States. The project aims to draw conclusions based… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Just launched on Kickstarter is a crowdfunding project for a documentary film entitled “Kickstarted“.   In a poetic fashion the film is chronicling the meteoric rise of crowdfunding and the revolutionary change this innovation is bringing to entrepreneurs everywhere.  Organized by filmakers Jason Cooper and… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 5:14 am By GigaOm  |  

Kickstarter has made quite a name for itself turning the business of fundraising on its ear. And made a lot of money as well for various projects — $119 million in its third year that ended in April of 2012. A Kansas City, Mo. company… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 4:15 am By Shanghaiist  |  

A group of Hong Kong students are raising money online to run full-page adverts opposing the “mainlandisation of HK universities”, according to their Facebook page. The campaign comes just over a year after the Apple Daily ran a full-page advert attacking mainland “locusts” for swarming… Read More

May 30, 2013 @ 8:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a blow out crowfunding success, Pirate3D printer has hit their funding goal of $100,000 in 10 minutes. The 3D printer called “The Buccaneer”,  joins a growing group of 3D printers searching for funds on crowdfunding platforms.  The Palo Alto, California based company crowdfunded this… Read More

May 30, 2013 @ 8:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarter is used to fund everything from the unimaginable to the completely absurd, and five projects on our radar today pretty much run that gamut. Here are five projects getting a lot of buzz this week… ARKYD: A Space Telescope for Everyone Planetary Resources is… Read More

May 30, 2013 @ 7:38 am By JD Alois  |  

The Worlds First Crowdfunded Telescope Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, launched a crowdfunding campaign for a space telescope which will provide unprecedented public access to space and place the most advanced exploration technology into the hands of students, scientists and a new generation of… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 1:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

ProPublica is an independent non-profit journalistic organization based in New York that prides itself on publishing investigative journalism in the public’s interest. One of the next topics the folks at ProPublica want to tackle is the proliferation of unpaid internships in America. They’ve launched a… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarted is the first documentary feature about the crowdfunding revolution that tells the inspiring and dramatic stories of the artists, makers and entrepreneurs who are harnessing the crowd to achieve the impossible. Jason Cooper and Jay Armitage have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their documentary about… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 10:43 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We may not have our flying cars just yet, but a man from Southampton in the UK has developed a remote controlled version that looks pretty amazing. Behold the B, a remote-controlled flying car currently seeking backers on Kickstarter. The patent-pending design places four propellers within… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 9:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Buccaneer 3D Printer by Pirate3D is preparing a Kickstarter launch set for May 30th, and they promise the “most affordable consumer 3D printer” on the market. From the press release… The Buccaneer® 3D printer has a list price of $347, and at half the… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 11:41 am By Polygon  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for Heavy Gear Assault, Stompy Bot’s take on the Heavy Gear franchise, will feature single-player episodes and stretch goals, producer Vince McMullin announced. Heavy Gear Assault is a mech simulator that includes customization, melee combat and in-game corporate sponsorships. According to McMullin… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 11:38 am By Mashable  |  

Ghost, an open-source blogging platform that hopes to shake up the personal publishing space, is nearing the end of its Kickstarter journey. Almost a month ago, Ghost launched with what seemed like an audacious goal: Raise £25,000 to help create a new web platform dedicated to publishing…. Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 5:21 am By Journal.ie  |  

Two Irish filmmakers want to know if thorium could be the answer to the world’s energy woes – and they havelaunched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to finish a documentary on the topic. Frankie Fenton and Des Kelleher want to raise £40,000 so that… Read More

May 25, 2013 @ 6:53 pm By Wired  |  

All this time, I’ve been thinking about Ouya the wrong way. When the $99, Android-powered game console showed up on Kickstarter last year, I immediately preordered one. My thinking was that it would be interesting to see if a low-cost console that caters to indies could take… Read More