Offerings

February 13, 2013 @ 10:36 pm By TheWrap  |  

Freddie Wong and the team behind the blockbuster web series “Video Game High School” have shattered the record for a film campaign on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site that has helped a number of aspiring and established filmmakers secure financing for their projects. Wong, Brandon Laatsch… Read More

February 13, 2013 @ 7:14 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Primal Pit Paste, a safe and effective, all-natural deodorant that actually works, is preparing to build upon their online sales success by introducing their products into national distribution through grocery stores and pharmacies nationwide. In order to fund the manufacturing necessary for the expansion, Primal… Read More

February 13, 2013 @ 6:55 pm By Myriam Raja  |  

Cine Pak Facebook Page So there it was – my idea neatly written out on a blank piece of paper in front of me. It seemed simple enough at the time; to travel over to my native country Pakistan and run a series of free… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Promises Made An individual identifying himself as Michael Waller of Syracuse, NY launched a Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2012. The project was called the “MD-Pen,” or “minimal and durable pen.” It is an aluminum housing compatible with many off-the-shelf pen cartridges. Pre-orders were offered… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 6:18 am By Develop Online  |  

Introversion’s Prison Architect has raised an impressive $1 million through crowdfunding. The title is based around the concept of building a prison while at the same time attempting to keep the inmates from running riot and escaping.  More than 30,000 people have pledged funds to… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 1:01 am By Forbes  |  

With just under $50,000 raised, these next two days could be nail-biters. The game is a turn-based strategy game in which you guide a nomadic tribe across randomly generated maps to reach “God Mountain.” Death is permanent, and choices made along the way impact your… Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 5:38 pm By HITC Tech  |  

Not all games on Kickstarter are what they appear, as a title aimed at US College Football fans was recently pulled from the crowd funding site after potentially fraudulent claims were exposed. Boasting a backing from well-known Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson, the project claimed that… Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 5:31 pm By StarTribune  |  

How about an authentic New Yawk bagel to go along with those three shots of caffeine? “Triple Espresso,” the long-running, locally born-and-raised stage comedy, has set its sights on an off-Broadway run — if backers can raise $300,000 through a Kickstarter campaign launched Saturday afternoon…. Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 11:40 am By GeekOSystem  |  

Thursday I wrote about a Kickstarter campaign that was trying to raise money for Death Star research, and I called it the crowdfunding site’s jump-the-shark moment. My concern was that if Kickstarter starts letting stuff like that through, it would soon be overrun with nothing… Read More

February 10, 2013 @ 10:45 am By VentureBeat  |  

Brian Fargo. Tim Schafer. Chris Roberts. Chris Taylor. These designers are responsible for a number of noteworthy video games. And all four also have another thing in common — they’ve gone to Kickstarter to fund their latest projects. Path of Exile recently went into open… Read More

February 9, 2013 @ 7:13 am By FasterLouder  |  

Eskimo Joe have completed the most successful crowdfunding exercise by an Australian artist through the Pozible website. In November of last year the band announced they were seeking $40,000 to pay for the independent recording of their sixth album, having parted ways with their label. As of… Read More

February 9, 2013 @ 3:16 am By MetalUnderground  |  

Man Must Die has checked in with the following announcement about starting a crowd funding campaign to record a new album: “Be a huge part of the next Man Must Die CD, Lets make this album together. It’s been a couple of years since we… Read More

February 7, 2013 @ 7:52 pm By Pitchfork  |  

Björk‘s Kickstarter has been canceled. The Awl points out (via Spin) that the campaign launched to fund the Android/Windows versions of her Biophilia app is no longer. It’s not so much that it fell short of its funding goal; rather, it was cancelled. The project stalled nearly three weeks before its February 27 complete… Read More

February 7, 2013 @ 8:22 am By JD Alois  |  

Bartolomeo Pietromarchiis, Curator of the International Art Exposition of the Venice Biennale, has proposed crowdfunding to support an exhibition in the Italian Pavillion. This initiative will be done in coordination with the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities.  The exhibition the crowdfunding will support is… Read More

February 6, 2013 @ 6:01 pm By Fast Company  |  

When Twine’s creators signed up for Kickstarter, they thought they’d make about 200 devices using the same $20 toaster oven they had purchased for the prototype. Then they raised more than $500,000. Twine is exactly the type of sensor-stuffed, Wi-Fi-connected gadget you would expect to take… Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 5:26 pm By TechCrunch  |  

A new company called Connected Data wants to change the way people do cloud storage, with a dedicated, Internet-connected storage device called the Transporter. After a successful Kickstarter campaign, the company is looking to get the product in more people’s hands, and will be helped in… Read More

February 5, 2013 @ 5:07 pm By Mashable  |  

Back in Oct. 2011, two developers, Adam Grossman and Jack Turner, put a video on Kickstarter with an ambitious goal: help them bring their magical-looking short-term weather prediction app to the public. The app is called Dark Sky [iTunes link], and it’s a weather app with a very cool… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 8:17 pm By StartUps UK  |  

Righteous Ltd is seeking a second round of funding through Crowdcube. The healthy salad dressing producer, named Home-based or Freelance Business of the Year at the Startups Awards 2012, has today launched a £150,000 crowdfunding campaign. The pitch follows the success of Righteous’ Crowdcube campaign last year, which… Read More

February 1, 2013 @ 8:05 am By The Inquirer  |  

THE THUMB-SIZED GAMES CONSOLE Gamestick has ended its Kickstarter run covered in glory and with almost six thousand people to thank. The console initially had the goal of raising $100,000. It beat that target easily and broke $600,000 over its weeks on the crowdfunding website. Over… Read More

January 30, 2013 @ 4:04 pm By ThisWeek Community News  |  

A bit of bad luck hasn’t deterred the owner of the French Loaf bakery from thinking of the ingredients to make the Grandview-area institution better than ever. A fundraising campaign for the French Loaf on the crowd-funding site gofundme.com will continue through mid-February. The goal… Read More