Tagged: indiegogo

February 20, 2014 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Reports That Apple Has Purchased Sapphire Crystal Capacity. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu,  has announced they have signed agreements to ship Ubuntu phones globally this year.  To manufacturers, Spanish based bq and China based Meizu, will be the first companies bringing these new Ubuntu based… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

After raising over $160,000 on Indiegogo, the iQi wireless charging device is now available online through fonesalesman.com. The device was reviewed on TechCrunch yesterday and was hit with some hard criticism about the reliability of the device, although it seems uncertain as to whether shortcomings should… Read More

February 16, 2014 @ 10:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Lovemark Monument of Love was supposed to raise $175,000 just in time for Valentines Day 2014.  Unfortunately the $175,000 target was a bit too steep and the project fell far short raising raising only $47,005. Fearing momentum was not quite there, the campaign organizers… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 9:24 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Headed by Chief “Nixpert” Joanna Griffiths, a graduate of INSEAD’s MBA program, Knix Wear’s first indiegogo campaign generated $60,450 CAD, 50% over their goal, and helped launch their successful seamless Knix and lacy Knixy lingerie lines. Toronto based Knix Wear’s latest indiegogo campaign effectively launches their new… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Wong Fu has some pretty amazing numbers on their YouTube channel.  Over 2 million subscribers with over 300 million views of their short films, music videos, vlogs etc.  Wong Fu Productions (WFP) started by a group of friends at UC San Diego, Philip Wang, Wesley… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo’s stats show that the platform (and crowdfunding in a more general sense) is a powerful tool for directing capital toward female-founded businesses and endeavors… In fact, we’ve found that about 47% of campaigns that reach their funding goals on Indiegogo are run by women…. Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Could you imagine being able to visualize the sheer size of Wikipedia’s English articles? The free online encyclopedia has been in the works for well over a decade now, and – according to itself, ironically – it now nets 500 million unique visitors and 18… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 2:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

URB-E  a compact, scooter like “e-vehicle” that caught quite a bit of press when they showed up at CES 2014 this year has launched their anticipated crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.  Having only launched this past Sunday the campaign has already raised over $24,000 towards their… Read More

February 9, 2014 @ 6:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

British biotech firm QuantuMDx is prepping to launch a crowdfunding campaign to support development and clinical trials of our handheld DNA sequencer described as a handheld lab. This device is said to diagnose infectious disease in under 15 minutes, tell a healthworker exactly which drug… Read More

February 9, 2014 @ 7:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Indiegogo Mars One, which hopes to be the first private mission to Mars, is set to close at the end of the day short of hitting their $400,000 goal.  The campaign is a flexible funding project so all funds will be received by… Read More

February 8, 2014 @ 3:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie report for the month of January is out, and the findings are pretty stark. Mike Suszek’s monthly breakdown of crowdfunding in video games suggests a 63% drop in funding from December to January on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The drop is largely attributed… Read More

February 7, 2014 @ 10:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

International shipping issues. Functionality problems. Cross-compatibility problems. Taken at face value, comments on the Indiegogo campaign for the Beddit bed monitor don’t paint a very kind picture of the device. The following is an excerpt from a recent update posted by Beddit’s Lasse Leppäkorpi… We are… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 5:33 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

[new_royalslider id=”13″] Is it easy for a woman to dress fashionably from head to toe in crowdfund couture? Yes, and, as it turns out, more and more easily given the growing options. [*Full disclosure: some of these items are still in production, and hence, untested…. Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 11:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Island Records and Indiegogo have announced a partnership that will provide a new place to discover emerging artists on a global basis.   “Fan Republic” is being marketed as the first collaboration of its kind between a music label and a crowdfunding platform. Fan Republic… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 9:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Courtesy of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Indiegogo CEO Slava Rubin hands out some brief, practical advice on crowdfunding.  In this short video Slava continues on the theme of democratizing funding where anyone and anybody may find funding for projects  of merit, “fixing a massive… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Kreyos Meteor smartwatch, the 3rd most successfully funded crowdfunding campaign on the Indiegogo platform ever, has announced another delay in shipping of their anticipated product.  In a backer update targeting their over 11,000 backers, the company explained their dilemma: Hi Everyone! As you may already… Read More

February 2, 2014 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The rewards-based crowdfunding arms race is alive and well. In a recent interview with Bloomberg West, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang leads by pointing out that Indiegogo is the smaller of two websites currently participating in a “two-horse race,” singling out Indiegogo as the “little guy.” In… Read More

January 29, 2014 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Concierge Health for the Masses, PlushCare Looks to Innovate Primary Medical Care. Ryan McQuaid, a former head of product at AT&T mHealth, is launching a company to allow anyone to consult with Stanford trained Medical Doctors by mobile video, email or phone.  PlushCare wants to… Read More

January 29, 2014 @ 10:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Berkeley-based startup, Exogen Biotechnology, has launched a first of its kind “citizen science” crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for its new laboratory test to measure DNA breaks, which are the most lethal type of DNA damage and a potentially key indicator for overall health conditions. Launched… Read More

January 29, 2014 @ 1:02 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In the fall of 2013 we reported on a rather notable move by Square Enix into the crowdfunding space. That effort has now launched, and it could help Indiegogo become more competitive in the world of video games. Collective is not a crowdfunding platform. Rather,… Read More