Tagged: kickstarter

August 21, 2015 @ 1:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bruce Campbell fans, listen up! the Evil Dead star has launched a crowdfunding campaign on  Kickstarter to raise $250,000 for the second season of his show Last Fan Standing.  Notably, Last Fan Standing filmed 10 episodes at 2 conventions with 4 episodes shot in New Orleans and 6… Read More

August 21, 2015 @ 1:16 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  Waking up to a screeching alarm clock–on the third try–from a fitful nap disguised as sleep, I’ve questioned the need for schedules. As one of the newest features for a campaign now crowdfunding on Kickstarter, BedJet v2 offers to make your alarm clock obsolete by working with… Read More

August 20, 2015 @ 10:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

BauBax, the self-dubbed world’s best travel jacket, has joined the Top 10 most funded Kickstarter campaigns of all-time by passing Reading Rainbow, which raised just over $5.4M in 2014. Already the most funded clothing item ever, BauBax has two weeks remaining in its campaign to… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 3:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just one week after its Kickstarter debut, the Nebia showerhead successfully raised $2 million. The project was originally seeking only $100,000 but achieved the initial within mere hours of its initiative’s launch. The Nebia Shower is a showerhead that you can install yourself.  The system claims to create a… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 2:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Well, it’s official: The Smithsonian’s first crowdfunding campaign has officially ended… and it was a success! The organization announced last month that it has teamed up with Kickstarter to help fund a few projects. The first initiative was dedicated to Neil Armstrong’s famous spacesuit. The Smithsonian… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 10:23 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Bubl Technology Inc., the creator of the fully spherical camera, Bublcam, announced on Wednesday it has officially completed its initial round of shipments, amounting to thousands of cameras to its Kickstarter backers and pre-order customers. Early adopters of this booming technology have shown great enthusiasm as… Read More

August 19, 2015 @ 9:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

castAR, formerly known as Technical Illusions, an augmented reality gaming startup, announced this week that it has closed Series A funding of $15 million from Playground Global and the company’s seed investors. castAR previously completed a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2013, meeting its target in… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 1:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, MegaBots launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $500,000 for a U.S. vs. Japan giant robot duel. The company shared: “We are MegaBots, Inc. We challenged Japan to a giant robot duel, and they accepted… but demanded that the fight include hand-to-hand combat. We say BRING IT ON. We’ve assembled… Read More

August 18, 2015 @ 11:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last week, indie musician, Kitty, took to crowdfunding platform Kickstarter with a mission to raise funds for her first “Big-Girl” record. According to the 22-year-old, her first music video “Okay Cupid” went viral in 2012 when she was living in Dayton Beach, Florida. After that,… Read More

August 17, 2015 @ 10:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to build more hype for the new game, Red Ash, the creator Keiji Inafune and his team at comcept USA has launched a second crowdfunding campaign for its 92-minute feature film through website, STUDIO4℃FUN&. Inafune teamed up with STUDIO4℃ for the film’s Kickstarter last month… Read More

August 16, 2015 @ 10:30 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, I was researching the latest crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter when I stumbled upon this hilarious, Russian roulette concept game Exploding Kittens.  NEVER have I laughed so hard at project. Beyond the great name, Exploding Kittens raised over $8.7 million with the support of… Read More

August 15, 2015 @ 12:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to unveil its latest project, Larian Studios LLC, announced the sequel of Kickstarter success Divinity: Original Sin and its upcoming crowdfunding campaign. The video game first hit the crowdfunding platform in spring 2013 and is described as an Isometric cRPG that can be played in single-player mode or cooperative multiplayer mode. The… Read More

August 14, 2015 @ 2:53 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Last summer, Belgium-based GRIN Gamestudio took to Kickstarter to raise funds for its video game, Woolfe- The Red Hood Diaries. Woolfe- The Red Hood Diaries is described as a twisted fable in a rich, fantasy setting of smoke-spewing factories and evil forests. It is considered an action-platforming fairy… Read More

August 13, 2015 @ 3:59 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just two days after launching its Kickstarter campaign, Nebia has successfully surpassed over $1.3 million thanks to 3,800 backers. The Nebia Shower is a showerhead that you can install yourself.  The system claims to create a shower like you have “never experienced before.” The company explained its engineering hardware:… Read More

August 13, 2015 @ 2:23 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With a few hours before the closing of its Kickstarter initiative, Bill Nye’s new film has reached over $800,000 thanks to 16,000 backers. Due to its popularity, the project has been dubbed the crowdfunding giant’s most funded documentary. New York City producers David Alvarado and Jason… Read More

August 12, 2015 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter has successfully crowdfunded over $1.62 billion for over 90,000 successfully funded projects. The Kickstarter name has become synonymous with rewards based crowdfunding. The platform continues to evolve and adapt with the changing internet funding space but is now broadly viewed as a viable method to… Read More

August 11, 2015 @ 2:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, San Francisco startup Nebia hit Kickstarter with a mission to raise $100,000 for its high tech showerhead.  That first $100K took just 8 hours but the velocity is accelerating on this crowdfunded product. The Nebia Shower is a shower head that you can install yourself…. Read More

August 10, 2015 @ 11:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this year, former Tumblr employee, Amber Gordon and her team have debuted a campaign on crowdfunding giant Kickstarter for their new  website, Femsplain. The team shared: “Femsplain is a fully functional, community-powered publisher founded in October 2014 to inspire change through storytelling. We are a… Read More

August 8, 2015 @ 8:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week until the Kickstarter comes to an end, Bill Nye Documentary is so close to raise its initial $650,000 goal! The project surfaced last month and has slowly (but surely) continued to gain funding momentum and popularity. New York City producers David… Read More

August 8, 2015 @ 8:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly a year and a half after the launch of his Kickstarter campaign for the album All-American Boy, musician Steve Grand sat down with Billboard to share details about his crowdfunding experience and the new record. All-American Boy was released earlier this year and within just thirty… Read More