P2P investment platform Abundance launched a unique opportunity for “ordinary people” to invest as little as £5 directly in Atlantis Ocean Energy tidal power and earn 8% p.a. for 5 years, as this innovative renewable energy technology comes of age. The investment is eligible for inclusion in… Read More
Fig Publishing Inc. announced on Thursday it has been approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to offer Fig Game Shares for Wasteland 3, which is currently being developed by inXile Entertainment, the creators of Wasteland 2 and Torment Tides of Numenera. The game recently… Read More
With nearly one week until the Apocalypse Now Kickstarter was set to close, Francis Ford Coppola and his team announced plans to move funding efforts to their own website. Last month, Coppola and his team launched Kickstarter seeking $900,000 for the game, which will be developed by creators,… Read More
Nearly forty years after the release of iconic film, Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $900,000 for the action-packed movie’s video game. While sharing details about the video game project, Coppola revealed: “Forty years ago, I set out to… Read More
NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman visited the new CNBC digs today to welcome the morning show pundits to NASDAQ and chat up her company’s vision. Friedman, previously President & COO of NASDAQ, became the CEO on January 1st. Friedman stated, “we are both an exchange operator… Read More
Kickstarter announced that according to some new stats, 978,000 have pledged over $1.44 million to game campaigns on its crowdfunding platform. The crowdfunding giant declared: “Kickstarter loves games, and we know you do, too. But this year, we were blown away by the sheer force… Read More
Dodd-Frank, the massive law passed in the midst of the Great Recession, touched many aspects of the financial industry. One portion of the bill was a requirement to review the definition of an Accredited Investor “as it relates to natural persons” every four years. The… Read More
“As the crowdfunding economy grows it will spur economic prosperity, create new jobs and ultimately improve follow-on funding outcomes for scalable ventures looking to succeed in the incredibly dynamic and connected global markets we live in today.” As readers know, The Centre for Alternative Finance at University of… Read More
Just three days after its widely popular Kickstarter campaign launch, critics of Shenmue III have announced that the video game is already making history by breaking records. According to Guinness World Records, Shenmue III only took 1 hour 42 minutes to reach $1 million goal on the crowdfunding giant’s… Read More
For years now, big bank lenders have warned the public about the dangers of dealing with “shadow” (i.e. non-bank) lending institutions. The term itself conjures up images of shady back-room deals where you’re handed money in a paper bag and told to pay it back… Read More
Sometime in the hours during the night of March 3, 2014, crowdfunding leader Kickstarter hurdled past the $1 billion mark in crowdfunding pledges. An incredible mile marker for the company, as well as the industry, which still remains in the early years of development. On… Read More
Bigger does not always mean better but we all find high profile, big money crowdfunding campaigns interesting and of note. They may act as a barometer for new products, or services, and can distill future industry trends. The top rewards campaign for 2013, the Veronica… Read More
Gamers wishing they backed the Kickstarter campaign for Wasteland 2 can rejoice. The game is now available to everyone via Steam Early Access. inXile Entertainment’s post-apocalyptic RPG raised just short of $3 million in a Kickstarter-powered funding effort that ended on April 17 of 2012…. Read More
The Kickstarter campaign for Mighty No. 9 is in its final hours. With a fitting 9 hours to go at the time of writing, the campaign has raised over $3.4 million. This puts it about $800,000 short of the second all-time game-related Kickstarter campaign, Torment: Tides… Read More
Since the last time we compiled this list some interesting trends are emerging, not the least of which is the sheer dominance of gaming-related campaigns on the Kickstarter platform – both tabletop games and video games. Interestingly enough, none of the top 10 have changed,… Read More
Google Ventures was the lead in securing Series B Funding for Rani Therapeutics but VentureHealth, a crowdfunding portal for accredited investors, also participated in this private offering. VentureHealth is a portal that allows qualified investors the opportunity to participate in life science deals that are… Read More
A little girl who died from brain cancer inspired Dr. Jim Olson to create Project Violet. A spirited, red-headed girl named Violet who died at age 11 from an inoperable brainstem tumor is the inspiration behind “Project Violet,” a “citizen science” drug-discovery project being launched by Fred… Read More
Updated: Click here for the most recent version of this list… You may remember that we recently did this list on December 31st of last year. In just short of six months we have added 14 more campaigns to the list of Kickstarter raises that have… Read More
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
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
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