Offerings

April 20, 2013 @ 9:06 am By Patch  |  

Despite customer efforts that kept LagoonaMagoo Toys from defaulting on a bank loan last month, owners need to increase sales to stay in business long term. Last month community support prevented two popular St. Louis area toy stores from closingshop as originally planned–but the company still… Read More

April 20, 2013 @ 4:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Karen Black was a successful, well known actress back in the day.  Her list of films are wide and deep.  Not all of them rose beyond the B film genre but several productions were very successful and lauded to this day.  Easy Rider, The Great… Read More

April 19, 2013 @ 1:45 pm By BBC  |  

Scientists developing a robot to repair coral reefs around the world have turned to crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter to raise funds. The Coralbot team from Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University are hoping to raise $107,000 (£70,000) before June. The campaign, which began this week, has more than 80 backers and… Read More

April 18, 2013 @ 8:41 am By Mashable  |  

That’s Celeste Corcoran and her daughter Sydney in the photo above. They went to the Boston Marathon finish line Monday afternoon to watch a relative complete the legendary race. When a bomb went off just after the marathon’s four-hour mark, shrapnel tore through their legs. Both of… Read More

April 17, 2013 @ 8:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube has released they have raised almost £1 Million in equity funding in April.  Four crowdunding companies were raising funds to achieve this level. East End Manufacturing – A clothing manufacturer located in East London raised £150,000 The RushMore Group – A parent company for… Read More

April 16, 2013 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Divinity: Original Sin, a role playing game crowdfunding on Kickstarter, has surpassed their $400,000 goal and have set up new stretch goals to keep the momentum and funding going.  Reward tiers start at $5 and scale up to $10,000. Divinity was recognized as one of… Read More

April 16, 2013 @ 10:05 am By BoingBoing  |  

The Internet went to sleep last night and tossed and turned with a fever dream of monkeys, mad scientists, and robots. When it awoke, it found that Jonathan Coulton and Greg Pak had launched a crowdfunding campaign to create a series of comic books based on… Read More

April 16, 2013 @ 9:32 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality headset for 3d games that was crowdfunded on Kickstarter to the tune of $2.4 million. Yesterday Gizmodo surfaced this awesome video of a 90 year old woman trying the headset on for the first time and her reaction… Read More

April 15, 2013 @ 3:34 pm By MoscowTimes  |  

If you wonder why Russians don’t smile in the metro, what they really think about corruption, how many of them fought bears and how many of these brave souls were drinking vodka at the time, now you can satisfy your curiosity. A Moscow-based team of market researchers has recently launched a project on the… Read More

April 14, 2013 @ 11:03 am By JD Alois  |  

Shovel Knight, a multi-platform game, has crowdfunded $311,502 on Kickstarter far surpassing their $75,000 goal.  The crowdfunding campaign was supported by 14,749 backers.  Shovel Knight is a product of LA based Yacht Club Games. Stretch goals were incorporated into the crowdfunding effort to help boost… Read More

April 14, 2013 @ 4:12 am By Berwick Advertiser  |  

Archaeologists in Bamburgh have started their first crowdfunding campaign to try and raise £10,000 towards the costs of their work. Members of the Bamburgh Research Project have carried out digs at the village’s imposing castle and the surrounding area every summer since 1996. However, as… Read More

April 13, 2013 @ 8:59 am By JD Alois  |  

The Veronica Mars film crowdfunding saga has been covered extensively in the press, including these pages.  The incredible amount of funds, the high profile of the organizers and the glam of Hollywood have combined to create a compelling crowdfunding odyssey which has come to exemplify… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 9:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

DietBet, the social dieting company, has raised $308,000 in bridge funding through equity crowdsourcing platform, SeedInvest. DietBet is the second company to meet its funding initiatives on SeedInvest in the last month. The company launched in February 2013 and has more than 400 active accredited… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 5:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Crowdcube, East End Manufacturing successfully raised £150,000 from 72 investors in only eight days. East End Manufacturing  had offered 20% equity in the firm for a total of £150,000.  The bulk of the funding was provided in the last 36 hours. East End… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Somerset based apps development firm is showcasing their new autism intervention program called iLearnNEarn 2nd Generation aka iLearnNEarn2 on RocketHub. The program will be the next edition of WebTeam’s widely circulated autism app series iLearnNEarn, which is based on the applied behavior analysis (ABA) model of… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:14 am By Gadizmo  |  

Remember how we were bemoaning the fact that the original SOSCharger didn’t work with smartphones? Well guess what, SOS Ready has heard the pleas of the smartphone owners and have put up a Kickstarter campaign for their newest line of hand-crank smartphone chargers. Not only is this great for… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:10 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Chris Shaw, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Kansas City-based startup accelerator and business incubator Think Big Partners has been selected by Google to be a beta tester of its exclusive Glass hardware. Google selected only 8,000 people worldwide to be part of its Glass Explorers program, an… Read More

April 12, 2013 @ 12:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rob Thomas shares his reaction to the Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter reaching $5 million dollars. More on the Veronica Mars project on Crowdfund Insider: Veronica Mars Crosses $5 Million With 2 Days To Go Veronica Mars Movie Wants To Be Biggest Kickstarter Movie Ever Veronica… Read More

April 11, 2013 @ 9:18 am By Pocket Gamer  |  

Earlier today, we went hands-on with War Balloon Games’s hotly anticipated space sim Star Command. This is the oft-delayed and long-awaited mobile game that’s enjoyed two Kickstarter campaigns and attracted almost $200,000 in crowdfunded cash. It’s kind of a big deal around here, okay. As I explained… Read More

April 10, 2013 @ 11:26 pm By Zap2It  |  

The Kickstarter campaign to fund the“Veronica Mars” movie reached its original $2 million goal in less than 12 hours, and now it has officially passed the $5 million mark with over two days still to go. How high will the crowdfunded budget go? Back when the Kickstarter was at… Read More