Tagged: kickstarter

December 30, 2015 @ 12:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this summer, Chicago-based startup BauBax launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for its new self-titled travel jacket. The BauBax Travel Jacket is equipped with 15 features that makes it perfect for those traveling. Such features include a neck pillow, earphone holders, eye mask, phone… Read More

December 28, 2015 @ 2:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Giving backers more reasons to be excited about its highly successful Kickstarter project, travel-light LTD’s “revolutionary” carry-on luggage, G-RO, Shalgi Design Studio announced the “Stealth Black” special edition, along with color wheel plates. Shalgi Design shared in a recent update: “Hi Backers! Originally we intended the Stealth Black… Read More

December 23, 2015 @ 3:49 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Back in Spring 2014, famous children show Reading Rainbow captured over $5 million on Kickstarter to reboot the series for the next generation. Now, nearly two years later, Reading Rainbow’s COO, Sangita Patel, is ready to sit down and share his thoughts about the show’s success – and the criticism… Read More

December 23, 2015 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Exploding “Hoverboards” are everywhere in the news these days. Craptaculous products by manufacturers with questionable quality control have placed the entire sector under scrutiny.  Recently an apartment in Hong Kong was torched by a combusting Hoverboard leaving residents homeless. The Lithium battery “exploded several times”…. Read More

December 22, 2015 @ 4:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, San Diego-based Undress Inc. launched its second crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds for its easy-to-change-into dresses. The company shared: “We’re back! After the successful funding of nearly $615,000 from our previous campaign, The Undress – Version 1 became Kickstarters #1 Women’s Fashion Project, and… Read More

December 22, 2015 @ 1:51 pm By Elena Mikhaylova  |  

Crowdfunding continues to grow globally. The largest rewards platform, Kickstarter, has hosted close to 100,000 successfully funded projects and has assembled a community of almost 10 million backers. It has been aggressively expanding internationally this year. Some studies suggest that most of the growth in… Read More

December 21, 2015 @ 3:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced on Monday that it has named American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) interim president, Molly Neuman, its first head of music. She is known for her work on various music crowdfunding projects, including Amanda Palmer’s 2012 campaign. Kendel Shore, VP of Communities… Read More

December 19, 2015 @ 10:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to land back into good grace with some of Coolest Cooler backers, the creator of the highly anticipated Kickstarter cooler, Ryan Grepper, announced this week he and his team resolved the motor issues that are causing the product’s delivery setbacks. Grepper previously revealed that the… Read More

December 19, 2015 @ 9:55 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just hours after the closing of Mystery Science Theaters 3000’s epic Kickstarter campaign, creator of the cult series Joel Hodgson shared some details about the future of the show. In the campaign’s recent update, Hodgson shared: “When the clock ran out, our final combined total was $6,364,229!… Read More

December 18, 2015 @ 4:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over two years after successfully securing over a million dollars on Kickstarter, castAR, formerly known as Technical Illusions, announced that once again it is delaying its delivery date. It was originally set to deliver its gaming system that provides holographic-like 3D images to users for… Read More

December 15, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced that some of its crowdfunding film projects have made the 2016 Sundance Film Festival list. The event is set to be held in Park City, Utah on January 21-31. The crowdfunding platform declared in a blog post: “Over the past couple… Read More

December 15, 2015 @ 11:21 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This past summer, Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, inXile’s Brian Fargo, and Obsidian’s Feargus Urquhart, launched Fig, which focuses exclusively on games. The platform allows the reward-based component as a way of “proving out a market, de-risking investment, getting investors more excited.” If investors see fans supporting a… Read More

December 15, 2015 @ 8:46 am By JD Alois  |  

This one falls under the category of recently discovered. Crowdfund Insider wrote about the failed rewards based crowdfunding campaign of Radiate Athletics in September of 2014.  The Kickstarter campaign launched in March of 2013 hoping to raise $30,000.  The following month it closed having raised $579,599 from… Read More

December 15, 2015 @ 7:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

GIROPTIC, the company behind 360Cam’s immersive virtual 360° sensor technology, announces that it has now raised $4.5M in seed round funding from investors. Led by Partech Ventures, along with contributions from 360 Capital, Pascal Cagni Founder & CEO of C4 Ventures, SOSV, Finorpa, Oleg Tscheltzoff, and even… Read More

December 13, 2015 @ 4:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perhaps the longest, continuous, crowdfunding campaign ever, the Star Citizen video game has now topped $100 Million raised from over on million Star Citizen supporters.  Star Citizen is an MMO and may be released at some point in 2016 and remains in Alpha now. Back… Read More

December 11, 2015 @ 4:18 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over two years after Project Phoenix secured over $1 million on Kickstarter, the creators of the highly anticipated game, CIA Inc.,  announced that its delivery date has been pushed back… from late 2015 (now) to 2018 (five years after the campaign’s launch). Project Phoenix… Read More

December 11, 2015 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

Zano, a drone project on Kickstarter, appeared to embrace it’s own demise.  A month after announcing its intent to ship the Zano drones, the Torquing Group (Zano creators), announced it was heading into receivership and all was lost. Zano was the largest UK Kickstarter campaign… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 4:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced the completion of its latest project called the Creator Basics video series. Kickstarter Creator Basics is made up of 56 videos that feature dozens of creators from all the campaign categories on the platform. The videos provide specific/helpful advice on… Read More

December 10, 2015 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Highest Valuation Ever on Shark Tank. Trunkster, the “most crowdfunded travel campaign ever”, killed it on Shark Tank last week receiving a $28 million valuation from the typically miserly Sharks.  Trunkster recently ran a rewards-based crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter proving their product by raising almost… Read More

December 8, 2015 @ 3:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following its recent success on crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo, Texas-based startup iBackPack announced the launch of its upcoming second campaign on Kickstarter. iBackPack has over fifty individual pockets, secret compartments and other decoy pockets. It provides the ability to track the exact location of the iBackPack through… Read More