Tagged: kickstarter

August 8, 2016 @ 10:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Sunday, Kickstarter announced its new Invent Newsletter, which is said to offer backers a way to stay up-to-date on invention projects, behind-the-scene stories and bold ideas from the design and tech pages. The funding portal stated the newsletter is a twice-a-month introduction of the… Read More

August 6, 2016 @ 2:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ethan Mollick, a professor and researcher at Wharton, recently published new research on Kickstarter. Mollick focuses on entrepreneurship and innovation and is one of a few academians focusing their attention on alternative finance. His most recent research, entitled “Containing Multitudes: The Many Impacts of Kickstarter… Read More

August 5, 2016 @ 3:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than two weeks after its Kickstarter debut, Mobvoi‘s Ticwatch 2 has successfully secured nearly $950,000 thanks to 5,100 backers. The Chinese tech startup launched the crowdfunding campaign for the new interactive watch and secured its initial $50,000 funding goal in ten minutes. As previously reported, Ticwatch… Read More

August 5, 2016 @ 11:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Kickstarter success Formlabs announced it had secured $35 million during a Series B Funding Round, which was led by Foundry and Autodesk with participation from existing investors such as DFJ Growth, Pitango Venture Capital, and Pascal Cagni. Formlabs’ total investment to date is… Read More

August 2, 2016 @ 4:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Over the weekend, Kickstarter hosted its 2016 Summer Festival in Brooklyn’s Greene Park. The free event celebrated creativity and featured art, food, games and more from the Kickstarter community, including: A life-sized game of Exploding Kittens  Guided virtual reality meditation on Oculus Rift Royal Palms Shuffleboard fun… Read More

August 2, 2016 @ 11:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, TAXA Biotechnologies, Inc. announced it had secured over $250,000 from 400 investors during its equity crowdfunding campaign on WeFunder. The biotech startup made history in May when it became one of the first companies to use Title III rules of the JOBS Act. As previously reported, TAXA… Read More

August 1, 2016 @ 3:38 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a month into its new Kickstarter campaign, California startup Peak Design has successfully raised over $2 million from nearly 9,000 backers for its Everyday Bag Line. The company managed to secure over $1 million less than 24 hours after the initiative launched. Peak… Read More

August 1, 2016 @ 11:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the 2016 Gen Con set to kick off in Indianapolis this Thursday, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced its lineup for the board game convention. The funding website revealed that it has teamed up with Cards Against Humanity to host a range of board games for… Read More

August 1, 2016 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Less than a year and a half after securing over $90,000 on Kickstarter,  creator of Yelp documentary Billion Dollar Bully, Kaylie Milliken, has launched an Indiegogo initiative to raise an additional $50,000 for the film’s documentary. As previously reported, Billion Dollar Bully is “a documentary on marketing giant… Read More

July 30, 2016 @ 9:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, Yu Suzuki and his team at Ys Net announced the original Shenmue director, Keiji Okayasu, has returned to direct Kickstarter success Shenmue III.  The crew stated in a recent update: “Taking a look at end credits of Shenmue you may noticed this man’s name—Keiji Okayasu. He was the… Read More

July 29, 2016 @ 4:02 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, creators of the Kickstarter-funded project, Yooka-Laylee, released the demo for the standalone gameplay experience, The Toybox. Playtonic Games revealed details about The Toybox this past spring and described it as self-contained, spoiler-free sandbox designed to give Yooka-Laylee backers a taste of the platforming to come in the final game. Yooka-Laylee is described as… Read More

July 29, 2016 @ 1:08 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, Kickstarter announced it will be making its way across the Atlantic to attend this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland, which will take place on August 5th to the 29th. The crowdfunding portal shared: “Over in the UK, the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe is almost… Read More

July 29, 2016 @ 9:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the release of Ethan Mollick’s study on Kickstarter’s impact on the economy, CEO and co-founder of the popular crowdfunding portal, Yancey Strickler, sat down to discuss the website’s growth and influence of entrepreneurs. Mollick reported in his study: “From inception to May 2015, Kickstarter projects resulted… Read More

July 28, 2016 @ 1:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Professor Ethan Mollick of the University of Pennsylvania released its recent study on Kickstarter’s impact on the economy. The study revealed the following: Employed 283,000 part-time collaborators Created 8,800 new companies and nonprofits with 29,600 new full-time jobs Raised more than $5.3 billion for those… Read More

July 28, 2016 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced it is making prepares to open its doors for Singapore campaign creators.   Kickstarter is currently available in nearly 20 countries, including the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Spain. Last year alone, the… Read More

July 28, 2016 @ 9:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than twelve hours until its highly successful Kickstarter campaign is set to end, Nightdive Studio’s System Shock remake has captured over $1.3 million from 21,000 backers. The studio took to the funding portal last month to raise funds for the video game and surpassed $450,000 in less than 24… Read More

July 27, 2016 @ 11:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

China-based tech startup, Mobvoi, launched its Kickstarter campaign on Tuesday to raise only $50,000 for its new interactive watch, Ticwatch 2. Within a matter of 24 hours, the timepiece not only secured its initial funding goal (in 10 minutes), it has managed to secure well over $360,000… Read More

July 27, 2016 @ 10:29 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Amazon Launchpad announced the launch of its Kickstarter Collection, which features over 300 projects that have been funded on the crowdfunding giant’s platform. Startups that are reportedly featured in the Kickstarter Collection include Piper, Zivix, Prynt, and MudWatt, among others. Customers shopping the Kickstarter… Read More

July 26, 2016 @ 4:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Kickstarter alum, Kano, announced it was making its way to U.S. retail stores. The startup’s computer kits and screen kits will now be available to purchase online through Toys “R” Us and Barnes & Noble for the price of $149.99.  Alex Klein, CEO and co-founder of Kano, stated: “As… Read More

July 26, 2016 @ 12:39 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the news that Pittsburgh tech startup, Digital Dream filed an infringement lawsuit for its Kickstarter-funded project, Cubetto, Primo Toys officially addressed the situation. As previously reported, Cubetto is a toy for both boys and girls and is powered by what is described as a “tangible” programming… Read More