Offerings

April 10, 2013 @ 8:31 am By Wall Street Journal  |  

About a month ago, Willi Wu and his co-developers at Robocat sought to raise about $35,000 on Kickstarter to fund the development of a little thermometer that plugs into your smartphone’s headphone jack. Instead, they raised that much in six hours. A month later, and the… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 10:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, has surpassed their stated $1 Million goal on Kickstarter by raising just shy of $2 Million via support from over 22,000 backers.  This comes soon after the most money raised by a video game was announced as Torment: Tides of… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 4:06 pm By StateImpact  |  

You’ve heard of Kickstarter, the website that allows everyone from budding filmmakers to student dancers, to nail polish designers, search for individual funders over the internet. Now, there are crowdfunding websites popping up that focus on scientific research. Two Juniata College professors are turning to one… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Most Funded Video Game Ever Crowdfunded on Kickstarter Surpassing the success of Double Fine Adventure,  the game Torment: Tides of Numenera crowdfunded a total of $4,188,927 which closed this past weekend.  The initial target was $900,000.  Over 74,000 backers supported this crowdfunding home run on… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding site Fundly , and Indiana University’s “Little 500”, the country’s largest collegiate bike race, have teamed up to launch the first-ever crowdfunding campaign in the 63-year old annual fundraising event’s history. Modeled after the Indianapolis 500, Little 500 cyclists compete in four-person teams around a quarter-mile cinder… Read More

April 8, 2013 @ 5:39 am By Forbes  |  

Camelot Unchained, the upcoming RvR-centric MMORPG from Mark Jacobs and City State Entertainment, could be the spiritual successor to the classic Dark Age of Camelot.  We had a chance to talk to CSE co-founder Mark Jacobs and ask a few questions regarding the game and… Read More

April 7, 2013 @ 4:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding Food: Modern Times Beer, Lawless Jerky and NutShot Peanut Butter Movies, video games and cool tech captures a lot of headlines but crowdfunding has touched every product and service that exists by now.  One area we have covered from time to time are food… Read More

April 6, 2013 @ 4:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Ever since Amanda Palmer raised a million plus dollars on Kickstarter to fund her latest album, folks have been fascinated with the idea of Crowdfunding. Kickstarter claims to have raised almost a half a billion dollars to fund new business endeavors since it’s inception three… Read More

April 4, 2013 @ 9:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Kickstarter crowdfunding effort launched by Rob Thomas to crowdfund the Veronica Mars film has set a new goal.  Thomas wants their crowdfunding campaign to be the largest ever – in number of supporters. On a recent update posted on their campaign page, Thomas stated,… Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 6:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Correspondent, an Amsterdam based start-up striving to launch a news site of quality news, has crowdfunded € 1 Million in 8 Days (approximately $1.3 Million).  As announced on the future news sites blog, More than 15,000 participants supported this crowdfunding event which was created by Rob… Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Hello Robo was founded with the vision of making personal robotics more accessible and affordable for everyone. To realize this vision, they are developing open source robots which can also be replicated using a desktop 3D printer. This enables educators and enthusiasts alike, anywhere, to… Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 10:16 am By Salon  |  

I have an earnest and sincere question for the LGBT community: Do you support Pamela Geller? Geller, who is one of the most active proponents of anti-Muslim attitudes in the United States, rose to notoriety as one of the key instigators of the Park51 backlash, misrepresenting a proposed Islamic Community… Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 10:13 am By The Car Connection  |  

Spring has sprung: time to crack open the windows, break out the vacuum cleaner, and tidy up the old homestead. If all goes well, once you’ve sent off the old clothes and clutter to Goodwill, you’ll be left with a good bit of empty space…. Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 6:33 am By NBC News  |  

Sorry, “Star Wars” fans: A real-life Death Star and the X-wing fighters to bring it down won’t be built anytime soon. First the White House snubbed a petition calling on the government to build the Death Star. Now two Kickstarter projects aimed at building a fully… Read More

April 3, 2013 @ 6:26 am By Gaston Gazette  |  

Robert Burke looks for players. … The Belmont family man spends office hours as a banker. On nights and weekends, he combines artistic talent with an interest in board games — a recipe that’s paying off. To scope potential interest and investors, Burke turned to… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 6:36 pm By VentureBeat  |  

With three days left, developer InXile Entertainment’s Torment Kickstarter surpasses Double Fine Adventure’s crowdfunding total. Is Obsidian Entertainment’s Project Eternity next? Torment: Tides of Numenera has more than 61,000 backers for a total pledge amount just short of $3,370,000. That’s more than Double Fine’s $3,336,371… Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 10:57 am By Arizona Daily Star  |  

The owners of Isabella’s Ice Cream are nearly halfway to their goal of raising $15,000 through Kickstarter to move to a warehouse, increase productivity and work toward franchising their Tucson business. Dominic Johnson, 37, and Kristel Johnson, 35, launched the Kickstarter project on March 12…. Read More

April 2, 2013 @ 10:48 am By TechCrunch  |  

Michael Shapiro isn’t the sort of person I’d expect to circumvent the gatekeepers of traditional journalism. He’s a professor at the Columbia School of Journalism, and he said he’s been published in The New Yorker, Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and Sports Illustrated —… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:26 am By Earth Techling  |  

An Arizona company is promoting a pretty and pretty spectacular version that’s apparently lightweight enough to transport in a small car. The 18-panel device folds up and unfolds like a nyctinastic flower and the idea is that it can be used to power an electric vehicle,… Read More

April 1, 2013 @ 10:21 am By Vice  |  

Last week when I logged onto Facebook to catch up on political Willy Wonka pictures and my friends’ general bellyaching about the weather, the words “musical prodigy” and “Kickstarter” jumped out at me. Being a sucker for a good oxymoron and already having mixed feelings… Read More