Offerings

May 8, 2013 @ 10:12 am By Charles Luzar  |  

What if we used trees to light our streets instead of electric street lamps? The first sentence in the video pitch should give some idea as to the ambition of the crowdfunding campaign for bioluminescent plants. The Kickstarter campaign has crossed a quarter of a… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 9:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

 Fundly and Teach For America are recognizing America’s teachers with the launch of their “Here’s To Teachers” campaign in celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Week, which begins today. This week, communities across the country take time to honor educators who have made a real difference in our… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 4:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Take a versatile wi-fi hotspot, build it to withstand everything the outdoors could toss at it and give it enough backup power to withstand a minor blackout. You’d be holding a BRCK. The BRCK works much the way your cell phone does, by intelligently and… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 3:10 pm By Paid Content  |  

When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach — and it showed how much crowdfunding has in common with public media. When the reporting team at Planet Money — a… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 8:12 am By Business Insider  |  

Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘American Psycho’ is a cult classic in print and on film, but apparently that isn’t enough, because now there’s a Kickstarter for ‘American Psycho The Musical.’ The Kickstarter was launched by Act 4 Entertainment and the producer of the show Jesse Singer. You can watch… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 8:07 am By News.com.au  |  

A FORMER Sydney luxury car dealer turned heroin trafficker who was once on death row has secured his transfer home after 20 years in foreign jails by using Facebook and crowdfunding site Pozible. Martin Garnett, 45, secured the $19,287 target he needed to transfer from… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 8:04 am By LA Times  |  

Even as Zach Braff was taking heat for asking the public to help finance his next movie, the actor and director was contributing to another Kickstarter campaign — to help save a historic theater in Northern California. Braff was among nearly 500 donors who helped raise $65,753… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Bolder Giving, in partnership with the Kevin J. Mossier Foundation and Forward Motion Group, today announced the launch of Give OUT Day supporting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer (LGBTQ) community through a new national giving campaign.  Give OUT Day is the first nationwide… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 11:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Redwall is a hugely popular children’s fantasy book series by author Brian Jacques. Now video game developer Soma Games has taken to Kickstarter to crowdfund an officially-licensed video game based on the series.

May 6, 2013 @ 9:22 am By Neoseeker  |  

®City State Entertainment’s realm vs. realm focused MMORPG Camelot Unchained did it! They’ve successfully reached and surpassed their $2 million Kickstarter goal, despite still being more than 10% away as the project approached its final 24 hours. Due to its success, City State boss Mark Jacobs will drop his own $2… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 7:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Project Awakened, a third person action adventure game, announced a refund of all funds raised in from their crowdfunding campaign which fell short of their goals.  In an announcement posted on their web site they explained they were placing their crowdfunding effort on hold; Phosphor… Read More

May 6, 2013 @ 3:03 am By Palate Press  |  

In the old days, Alice Feiring knew exactly what she needed to do to launch her natural wine newsletter – find a publisher willing to give her an advance. But the old days are gone, and publishers are worrying about other things, like staying in… Read More

May 5, 2013 @ 10:18 am By China Daily  |  

Selling your dreams to people who have don’t even know you? That’s exactly what’s happening in the Internet age. When Jia Yuhao, the owner of a hostel, thought about furnishing his hostel last year, he posted a fund-raising advertisement on demohour.com. Two months later, he… Read More

May 5, 2013 @ 1:30 am By Examiner  |  

Actress Karen Black has now raised more than $60,000 from fans who pitched in to help her finance experimental cancer treatment in Europe, with the latest donor reporting on May 3 that he would send up prayers for her to “beat this thing.” But instead… Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 12:32 pm By Atlanta Journal Constitution  |  

The internet age has changed a lot of things about the restaurant industry, like the immediate public feedback from crowdsourced review sites like Yelp, to online ordering, the rise of food bloggers…ahem… and the connection restaurant owners can make with patrons through social media like… Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 12:25 pm By Hollywood Reporter  |  

The “Garden State” director talks “Veronica Mars,” anxiety over hitting the crowd-funding goal and answering all his critics. Zach Braff has heard the arguments about why he shouldn’t be using Kickstarter to fund his new film. But he doesn’t buy his detractors’ logic. “My brain has… Read More

May 4, 2013 @ 6:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunded on Kickstarter in May of last year, the Power Pot is migrating to become a successful post crowdfund business.  The Power Pot crowdfunding campaign had an original goal of raising $50,000 but more than doubled that by generating over $126,000 to finance the project…. Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 8:06 am By Kotaku  |  

For the last few days, I’ve been playing Star Command, a mobile game that’s had people excited for a very long time now. Beginning life as a Kickstarter project, it’s gone through several major delays, and arrives this week on the App Store an example not just of… Read More

May 2, 2013 @ 10:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coming from King5, Dr. Mike Mulligan is a transplant surgeon looking to crowdfund research on medical crowdfunding platform Consano: Mulligan is asking the public directly for money, using a new website Consano.org. It describes Mulligan’s research project and tells you how much he’s trying to… Read More

May 1, 2013 @ 9:18 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Camelot Unchained is an MMORPG video game made for the PC that is approaching both the end of a Kickstarter campaign and a $2 million goal. If successful it would cement a place on the ever-changing crowdfunding leaderboard as one of the biggest campaigns of… Read More