Tagged: indiegogo

June 12, 2014 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Thrust Health, a health and wellness consumer products company has announced completion of a successful seed capital round of $500,000. The proceeds from the offering were used to complete film production for the company’s video lifestyle fitness series. Simultaneously the company released they have launched… Read More

June 8, 2014 @ 9:27 pm By Kendall Almerico  |  

Kickstarter recently announced major changes to the way they approve campaigns on their site. The first change is a creation of a “Launch Now” button where a project, if it successfully passes through an algorithm, can be immediately posted on the site. This removes the… Read More

June 7, 2014 @ 6:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Looking for more international help for the mysteriously disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, family members of the passengers and crew members are launching a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo seeking to raise $3 million for a “whistle-blower” to expose important information about the jetliner. The title… Read More

June 7, 2014 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Rooster Teeth, the YouTube network behind the hilarious sci-fi comedy “Red vs Blue,” “Achievement Hunter,” “The RT Podcast,” and “RWBY,” has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for it’s first ever feature length movie called “Lazer Team”.  The campaign easily beat their initial goal of $650,000… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo is sharing some of their knowledge.  The platform has always been highly data driven.  Love’em or not they know their stuff as they track the data that proves what works. They have recently published the first part of a two series… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 2:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than 24 hours until its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo closes, home security device Korner has surpassed its $150k goal and raised almost $400,000 from over 3,000 backers. The Korner is a security product for your apartment or home, designed so anyone can use it and everyone can afford… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 2:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Actor, comedian and talk show host Arsenio Hall launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo a couple weeks ago to raise a ridiculous $1 billion to buy the Los Angeles Clippers from infamous Donald Sterling. Perhaps Arsenio was hoping for a new day job as his… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 12:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

First there were electric cars, now there are Solar Roadways. This revolutionary initiative to change the way we utilize the nation’s millions of miles of roadways, by turning them into power sources, just set the record for the highest number of individual funders during its… Read More

May 28, 2014 @ 8:50 am By JD Alois  |  

 Is Crowdfunding Part of the New Foreign Policy? The US Ambassador to Armenia, John A. Heffern, was recently interviewed (Video) about the importance of crowdfunding – specifically in Armenia. Now the tidal wave of crowdfunding – both investment based and donation based – is still… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 7:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Documentary Organization of Canada (DOC) and crowdfunding giant Indiegogo announced last week a new strategic partnership that will allow independent Canadian documentary makers to save money when embarking on crowdfunding campaigns for their projects. This partnership comes at a time in the industry when DOC… Read More

May 25, 2014 @ 11:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin has been making the PR rounds of late. Coming off a high visibility funding round where Sir Richard Branson indicated his commitment to the company’s future, Slava shares his view of crowdfunding and market validation talking about an early campaign, Breathometer,… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

The CEO of global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo continues to talk up the possibilities of equity crowdfunding in the United States.  Slava Rubin, recently interviewed by CNBC, once again expressed his interest in Title III retail crowdfunding while he chatted up the Indiegogo gospel.  Slava stated;… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Google spawn YouTube made a major announcement today about their future product roadmap.  As part of the announcement where they discussed forthcoming new tools, apps and more, they recognized the importance of advertising revenue generated by the global video megalith (of which they make tons… Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 6:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ok – I still don’t completely know what exactly Sensibo is – except it can control air conditioners –  (not exactly very sexy) but the Sensibo team have put together an awesome pitch video.  This comes under the category of taking something practical and mundane… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 1:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Excited to share good news about their new product, the German-based startup GYMWATCH announced it has surpassed its $85k crowdfunding campaign goal on Indiegogo and raised over $136k to finance the production of the GYMWATCH Sensor. The company developed the patent-protected sensor that measures strength… Read More

May 20, 2014 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo has announced a new round of investors, coming just a few short months after their $40 million Series B round.  Many of the new investors include well known, high profile names including iconic billionaire Sir Richard Branson.  Specific details of the… Read More

May 19, 2014 @ 7:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Did you know that in 24 hours on #GivingTuesday 2013… The Parkinson’s Institute raised $160,000 (ultimately raising $554,000) 20 Olympic and professional athletes joined together to change the lives of 20,000 children via Right to Play Changemakers running over 225 campaigns for social good achieved… Read More

May 18, 2014 @ 7:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

The San Francisco Maker Startup Weekend is not your typical hackathon.  This one is not all about cool software but cool hardware – developed during a 54 hour event.  Sure it’s easy enough to cast a few spells and craft some really cool code but… Read More

May 14, 2014 @ 2:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fresh off the closing of their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, the creators of “TableTop” Season 3 announced not only did they receive well over its $500,000 goal; they also broke digital series crowdfunding record. “TableTop” is known as an award-winning Internet series that appears on YouTube’s Geek &… Read More

May 14, 2014 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

DiGi Worldwide, a film distribution company, has purchased Distribber from global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. Distribber is a film / video distribution service that is designed to make it possible for filmmakers to place their work on iTunes, Netflix and Amazon without the loss of rights… Read More