Offerings

May 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

SitePoint is an online media company specializing in news geared toward software developers and other flavors of geek. As is somewhat common in these circles, they afford their staff a few days on occasion to work on personal projects on company time. Why would a… Read More

May 18, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Bennington Banner  |  

ARLINGTON — Students at Arlington Memorial Middle School/High School have kickstarted a campaign to raise funds for the school’s music arts programs. The campaign on the online fundraising platform Kickstarter was launched earlier this week and is already a third of the way toward its… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 12:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s the story that won’t die. Worldview Entertainment has stepped into the frey with Zach Braff’s upcoming release Wish I Was Here. The movie, a spiritual successor to Braff’s hit Garden State, is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter. It sits at $2.6 million pledged with a week left… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 10:22 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Pebble has joined Ouya in raising $15 million in venture capital after a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign. In Pebble’s case, the round was led by Charles River Ventures and partner George Zachary. Zachary said this was the largest Series A he has ever participated in. Oh,… Read More

May 17, 2013 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

BankToTheFuture, the crowdfunding platform that allows people to invest in start-ups and mature businesses, is providing an investment platform for Fabfob, the latest venture by Wowcher founder, Nick Brummitt, who has chosen cowdfunding over traditional venture capital funding. “He says it how it is, how… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 9:49 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Scottish Community Group DD8 Music has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a memorial to longtime AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in his hometown of Kirriemuir, and the project just received the blessing from the band. At the 2013 Bonfest in Kirriemuir, Scotland, the funding campaign for… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

An Australian researcher has taken to crowdfunding site Pozible to accept donations in an effort to create a “cultural cache,” a virtual repository of first-hand accounts and experiences directly from gamers. The PlayCache will be an evolving online archive to record, analyse and report on… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 9:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This is why I love crowdfunding. We love maple syrup. We put it on everything. With pancakes, in our coffee, on our pizza. We put some in our hair when we’ve had a rough week. If you’ve had the chance to taste real maple syrup you know… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Planet Money, a joint project of NPR and This American Life, has trail-blazed a new path for NPR.  They have crowdfunded themselves on Kickstarter.  The initial campaign commenced on April 30th and ended on May 15th.  The goal was an admirable $50,000 target.  The finally… Read More

May 16, 2013 @ 8:01 am By The Daily Dot  |  

It’s finally happened. Kickstarter users have said “No thanks!” to a celebrity’s film project. The crowdfunding campaign for the film Darci’s Walk of Shame, which had Melissa Joan Hart attached to it, was cancelled Monday after raising only $51,605 from 315 backers in a little over… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 9:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

“Yoga: The Art of Transformation,” will be on view  at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery October 19th  through Jan. 26, 2014.  This is the world’s first exhibi­tion about the discipline’s visual history and will reveal its fascinating meanings and histories over the past 2,000 years.   To… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By Metronews.ca  |  

A Robocop statue in Detroit? I’d buy that for a dollar. That’s exactly what legions of Robocop fans did in 2011. After Detroit Mayor Dave Bingkiboshed the idea on Twitter, a Kickstarter campaign managed to raise over $67,000 to get a statute of the iconic cyber-cop erected in… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 11:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Video Games: The Movie is a feature length documentary which aims to tell the untold story of video games by an in depth look into not only how games are made, marketed and consumed by looking back at the industry’s history, current trends as well as the evolution of gamer… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 9:01 am By GameNGuide  |  

We’re all used to controlling games with our fingers and hands, but what about controlling games with our feet? That’s the premise behind Stelulu Technologies’ latest product, the Stinky Footboard. The Stinky Footboard was created with the idea of increasing players’ speed in real-time strategy… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 2:56 am By JD Alois  |  

 CrowdIt  now has seven new projects are now available to preview on its site. On June 4, 2013, all fully submitted projects will be viewable, available for funding and entered into the company’s launch challenge contest.  The project that reaches the highest amount of funding… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 11:07 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A crowdfunding campaign currently live on RocketHub aims to bring a funding solution to the dwindling discipline of long-form investigative journalism. NEWSFREED aims to bring crowdsourcing and crowdfunding aspects to journalism, and the elevator pitch outlines a pretty cool product that could have some legs… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 10:59 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A pair of photography enthusiasts from Stanford, California have announced a Kickstarter campaign for Mount July camera filters. This set of three camera filters will screw onto any 58 or 52 mm lens, creating Instagram-like filtering for your digital camera. Olivia Vagelos and Martin Bush are… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 8:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Updated: Click here for the most recent version of this list… You may remember that we recently did this list on December 31st of last year. In just short of six months we have added 14 more campaigns to the list of Kickstarter raises that have… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

A one off crowdfunding campaign has cropped up to crowdfund the return of sport superstar Ronaldo to return him to to play for football team Manchester United. BringRonaldoHome, was started by dedicated fans to raise sufficient funds to pay for his return. Over 3500 fans… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 10:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

As Mashable originally reported, a product called the Mad Genius is readying a Kickstarter campaign that will seek contributions in exchange for preorders of their new motion-sensitive gaming controller. In the clip below, you can see the controller in action as it is tested playing… Read More