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March 13, 2013 @ 11:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Richard Garriott, the award winning designer and creator of the Ultima franchise, makes his triumphant return to the genre that earned him a place in the Hall of Fame and a Lifetime Achievement Award. Shroud of the Avatar is the first installment of Richard’s new… Read More

March 12, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

 Equity Crowdfunding site CrowdCube powered the funding effort for inSpiral to achieve their goal of £250,000 in just 16 days.  The effort was supported by 120 investors with the last £100,000 raised in just 24 hours.  This latest round of Crowdfunding pushes CrowdCube to over £5.5 Million… Read More

March 11, 2013 @ 4:49 pm By VentureBeat  |  

Hassle-free home security sounds good, right? Perhaps $160,000 good, if you’re Scout Alarm … with none of that money going through crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or Indiegogo. In fact, Scout Alarm crowdsourced that cash all on its own. The Scout Alarm is a $120 “next… Read More

March 11, 2013 @ 8:00 am By RetailDigital  |  

Looks like crowdfunding now is as popular as crowdsourcing, especially when talking about the food and drinks sector. inSpiral, creators of Raw Kale Chips has become the latest food company to successfully raise finance through equity crowdfunding website, Crowdcube.  The company secured £250,000 in 16… Read More

March 10, 2013 @ 8:43 am By Scottsman.com  |  

A FORMER member of the British sailing team has created his own crowdfunding website to raise £240,000 to build a biomass-powered brewery in Inverkeithing. Website designer Dave Robertson, 35, hopes to attract about 4,000 investors to back his project, which he will call Forth Bridge… Read More

March 7, 2013 @ 8:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The world’s first crowdfunding and digital distribution site made just for independent film, Seed&Spark, added nine more films to their  Cinema collection recently. The new round of films shines a spotlight on diversity: films made by minority filmmakers or films about under-represented communities, with a… Read More

March 7, 2013 @ 8:56 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Equity crowdfunding platform SeedInvest announced this week that StearClear is the first company to complete a successful raise on the SeedInvest platform. Read more about SeedInvest StearClear is a service that enables anyone with a smartphone to summon a driver. That driver will then drive… Read More

March 7, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Hollywood Reporter  |  

The theatrical rollout for Jules Bishop‘s quirky comedy Borrowed Time, starring Phil Davis and Theo Barklem-Biggs, will be bankrolled by cash raised from crowdfunding service Kickstarter. Berlin 2013: Metrodome Picks Up U.K. Rights To Tim Roth Starrer ‘The Liability’Produced by Olivier Kaempfer of Parkville Pictures, the… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 12:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Lucid Energy is the first US company to receive funding from OurCrowd, a new hybrid venture capital/crowdfunding platform. The LucidPipe™ Power System from Lucid Energy uses large water pipelines to generate low-cost, renewable energy. Lucid Energy, a provider of renewable energy systems and developer of… Read More

March 5, 2013 @ 7:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Everlane, a San Francisco based online only luxury clothing design and manufacturing company, has launched a self hosted crowdfunding campaign to expand their reach into Canada.  The campaign has set a goal of $100,000 (USD)  and is well on its way to success having garnered… Read More

March 3, 2013 @ 7:10 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

According to All Games Beta, game developer Yu Suzuki is considering crowdfunding a third installment of his wildly popular and forward-thinking Shenmue game franchise. If he goes through with the plan, it may join the growing list of video game projects that have raised large amounts of… Read More

February 27, 2013 @ 7:51 pm By 11alive.com  |  

ALPHARETTA, GA Do you have a great idea for a business or project but no way to fund it? Some entrepeneurs are turning to what’s known as crowdfunding. Michael Lundmark and Josh Rachel have nearly completed the Jekyll Brewery in Alpharetta, a tasting and touring brewery featuring… Read More

February 26, 2013 @ 9:47 pm By AllThingsD  |  

Do you ever find yourself frantically trying to fish your phone out of a pocket or purse to find out whether that beep or buzz from the device is an important call, text or email—or just something you can ignore? What if you could simply… Read More

February 24, 2013 @ 5:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Update:  The Crowdfunded Film Inocente won the Oscar for Best Documentary Short.  Congratulations!     Love or hate the annual Oscars, the Academy Awards has become a seminal event for the film industry.  Anticipated almost as much for the antics and theatre that surrounds the… Read More

February 24, 2013 @ 10:23 am By CinemaBlend  |  

Adventure game Dreamfall Chapters‘s Kickstarter campaign is still going strong. Earlier today, crowd-funding for the Longest Journey and Dreamfallsequel passed the $1 million mark. “Thanks, everyone! We are SO happy and grateful for your continued support. Onwards & upwards!” said Red Thread on Kickstarter. Chapters continues the storyline of the previous… Read More

February 22, 2013 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

UK based crowdfunding site Crowdbnk announced that the first project has been successfully funded on CrowdBnk after being listed for less than an hour.  “What’s This?” Mobile App reached its funding target of £10,000 on the 10th February 2013 with the help of 26 CrowdBnk supporters…. Read More

February 21, 2013 @ 7:32 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Product launches on Kickstarter are the best, aren’t they? It is amazing to see the things people come up with. The following two campaigns on Kickstarter live up to this and then some. They’ll blow your mind! Mycestro, The Next Generation 3D Mouse Ah, the… Read More

February 19, 2013 @ 3:21 pm By Camille Bautista  |  

A Kickstarter project for CST-01, “the world’s thinnest watch,” collected more than four times its original fundraising goal with three days left to go. Though it hasn’t reached the Pebble level yet, CST-01 has more than 6,000 backers who’ve raised $907,755. The flexible cuff watch is 0.8 mm thick and… Read More

February 19, 2013 @ 8:46 am By Daniel Nye Griffiths, Forbes  |  

Remember the good old days? You know, those hazy, lazy, crazy days of about a year ago? That was when Double Fine Adventure launched on Kickstarter, and immediately received more more money than Switzerland from gamers desperate for a return to the pointy, clicky goodness of Grim Fandango. A game… Read More

February 15, 2013 @ 2:29 pm By TechDirt  |  

Nearly two years ago, we had a post pointing out that it was silly for people to complain when the “rich and famous” made use of platforms like Kickstarter. That story was about Tom Hanks’ son Colin looking for funds to complete a documentary. As we noted,… Read More