Tagged: kickstarter

December 7, 2015 @ 2:11 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, Kickstarter unveiled a new independent analysis that examined its project fulfillment. This report was conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s professor, Ethan Mollick. The description of the analysis reads: “Kickstarter is a new model for bringing creative projects to life. Compared with other… Read More

December 7, 2015 @ 10:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week until its epic Kickstarter campaign ends, Mystery Science Theater 3000 is currently nearing $4 million thanks to 32,000 backers. Creator Joel Hodgson teamed up with Shout! Factory to launch the campaign to bring back the hit series, which ended in 1999. The original $2 million… Read More

December 6, 2015 @ 8:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

The revolving door of successful Kickstarter campaigns migrating to Indiegogo to extend product sales is continuing. Ravean, the “World’s First Heated Down Jacket with Mobile Charging” set out to raise a mere $100,000.  The project closed on Kickstarter last week at over $1.3 million driven by… Read More

December 4, 2015 @ 4:17 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to build excitement about the highly anticipated Kickstarter, Shenmue 3, creator Yu Suzuki revealed more of the game’s story in the latest update. While sharing details, Suzuki stated: “There are eleven chapters that make up the story of Shenmue, and those chapters are the basis for… Read More

December 4, 2015 @ 11:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Great news, Amplitude Kickstarter backers! Harmonix’s highly anticipated reboot video game is set to hit PlayStation 4 consoles this upcoming January for $19.99. Amplitude is a rhythm music action game. It was first released in early 2000’s on PlayStation 2 and became one of the most popular… Read More

December 3, 2015 @ 12:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wiivv Wearables Inc.,  a bionics company that creates custom, 3D printed gear, announced this week the closing of $3.5M in seed round funding. Wiivv has developed a scalable, enterprise level Adaptive Manufacturing System that features the world’s fastest product customization engine designed to produce custom… Read More

November 30, 2015 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this summer, Swedish startup PUGZ took to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to raise funds for its new wireless earbuds. Described as “world’s first” wireless earphones that  allow users to charge them through smartphones, the key differentiator in PUGZ earphones UX is the company’s patented self-guiding… Read More

November 30, 2015 @ 9:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With PicoBrew’s successful Pico Kickstarter campaign in its final hours, the company continued to announce new brewery partners. To date more than 76 craft breweries and brewmasters have licensed recipes to be made available as PicoPaks for the Pico, and available in the online PicoBrew… Read More

November 28, 2015 @ 11:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than two weeks until its Kickstarter initiative comes to an end, cult classic Mystery Science Theater 3000 has successfully captured over $3 million from 27,000 backers. Creator Joel Hodgson teamed up with Shout! Factory to launch the campaign to bring back the hit series, which ended in… Read More

November 27, 2015 @ 2:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Bragi Dash is finally in mass production.  In a backer update, Dash creators stated that broad shipping will occur next weeks with batches going to specific regions around the world via UPS. Production is expected to quickly ramp to approximately 1500 Dashes per day.  One… Read More

November 26, 2015 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

It’s that wonderful time of the year again! I don’t know about anyone else but I decided to get rid of my holiday decorating embargo about four days sooner that I expected and yes, I’m fully ready to tackle the nearly dozen of Christmas lists… Read More

November 25, 2015 @ 2:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Kickstarter announced that eleven of its funded film projects received a total of nineteen Independent Spirit Awards nominations. The crowdfunding giant declared on its blog: “Film Independent recently announced the nominees for the 2016 Indie Spirit Awards and we’re excited to share that 11… Read More

November 25, 2015 @ 1:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than one week until its Pico Kickstarter comes to an end, creator of the already popular craft beer appliance, PicoBrew, announced new backer perks: Pico Ltd Edition, Pico Brewvana, and a novel end-to-end integration package with a smart kegerator-fermentor. The Pico is described as… Read More

November 25, 2015 @ 12:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly six months after raising over $2 million on Kickstarter, Next Thing Co. promised that when pre-orders opened for C.H.I.P., the world’s first $9 computer, the price would remain unchanged. Now it seems like there’s some backtracking from these claims. CEO of Next Thing Co., Dave Rauchwerk… Read More

November 24, 2015 @ 1:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Cru Kafe, a UK-based organic coffee company, recently launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on Seedrs to raise £300,000 so that it can continue the expansion of its growing brand. The company, which was founded by John Quilter, Bodil Blain, and Colin Pyle, stated that its mission… Read More

November 23, 2015 @ 4:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few days after the closing of BLOCKS’ Kickstarter campaign, the business advisor of the company, Phillip Jarman sat with his alum mater, Imperial College London, to discuss the startup’s creation and success. BLOCKS, which was co-founded by Serge Didenko and Alireza Tahmaseb, created the… Read More

November 23, 2015 @ 11:25 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Earlier this year, 90’s hip hop group, De La Soul, launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds for its new and highly anticipated album. Now nearly seven months after achieving over $600,000 through the funding initiative, the band has announced the record’s released… Read More

November 21, 2015 @ 12:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, the developers of the Sprite, a small, durable drone that offers an alternative to larger, generally more fragile quadcopter drones, was presented with the latest Proto Labs Cool Idea! Award, a service grant given to innovative companies. The Sprite Drone, developed by… Read More

November 20, 2015 @ 1:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over a week and a half since his initiative launched on Kickstarter, Joel Hodgson’s “Bring Back Mystery Science Theater 3000″ project has secured over $2.3 million thanks to nearly 22,000 backers. Hodgson, the original creator of the famous cult-classic show, took to the crowdfunding platform and… Read More

November 18, 2015 @ 12:44 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

TuringSense, a Silicon Valley pioneer of wearable sports technology, announced this week that it secured $3 million during its latest seed funding round. Participating in the round were Angel Plus, ChinaRock Capital, Ideosource, SV Tech Ventures, Zen Water Capital, along with several serial entrepreneurs and angel investors…. Read More