Tagged: kickstarter

June 18, 2014 @ 7:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fresh off the closing of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, HYPER by Sanho Corporation‘s iStick reached well over its original goal of $100,000 and raised $1,100,629 from 7,495 backers. iStick is a USB drive with integrated Apple Lighning connector that was made for iPhone and iPad.  According to… Read More

June 17, 2014 @ 8:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Rewards based crowdfunding giant Kickstarter crossed the one billion mark today for “successful” funds raised. These are pledges for campaigns that have hit their goals and the funds have been collected by the project creators.  Kickstarter announced earlier this year having surpassed $1 billion in… Read More

June 16, 2014 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is something that doesn’t happen to often. The MBLOK campaign on Kickstarter hit their $120,00 CAD crowdfunding goal last Thursday, June 12th – only to see backers abandon the project as questions arose to the viability of the device. MBLOK, a hardware device we… Read More

June 16, 2014 @ 3:13 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Exciting news for Consumer Physics’ SCiO fans! Its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter raised $2,762,571 from 12,958 backers. Last week the company announced that it had reached $2.1 million and is now considered in the top 25 most funded campaigns ever on Kickstarter. Consumer Physics, an OurCrowd portfolio company,… Read More

June 16, 2014 @ 10:48 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

GIROPTIC today announced that the Kickstarter campaign for 360cam, its innovative 360º, high-definition camera, has raised more than $1,000,000 in less than 30 days and from more than 3,000 backers. After reaching its initial goal of $150,000 in the first 24 hours, the 360cam is… Read More

June 16, 2014 @ 9:44 am By Tessa MacDougall  |  

Large companies operate differently than startups and entrepreneurs, but can still use the same tool – crowdfunding. There is a global push towards Corporate Social Responsibility and creating shared value, which has been embraced by many companies like Cisco, Nestle, and Intel (to name a… Read More

June 14, 2014 @ 1:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

It seems, every year, kids young and old run to the store to find something special for their dads, but end up just giving him a tie or a sports-related item. This has even turned into a ritual of unfortunate and painful gift giving. Here… Read More

June 13, 2014 @ 10:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform that has become synonymous with the term crowdfunding, is fast approaching another milestone in their ongoing march to fund creative projects.  While the portal just surpassed the billion dollar mark in total pledges this past March – the service is just… Read More

June 11, 2014 @ 4:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Print and online stalwart the Guardian has partnered up with global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter as part of a push to boost the world of journalism.  The media industry has obviously experienced gobs of change over the past decade as print, as well as other types… Read More

June 10, 2014 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks after the closing of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, Harmonix announced over the weekend its already hard at work on the new version of the game “Amplitude,” which is set to hit PS3 and PS4 in March 2015. Art director and project… Read More

June 10, 2014 @ 12:37 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter has launched a brand new “Creator Handbook” to help more entrepreneurs successfully hit their campaign goals. On Monday (June 9), the crowdfunding giant announced the new tip and tricks handbook that offers advice on campaigns, including what sort of rewards should be offered to… Read More

June 8, 2014 @ 9:27 pm By Kendall Almerico  |  

Kickstarter recently announced major changes to the way they approve campaigns on their site. The first change is a creation of a “Launch Now” button where a project, if it successfully passes through an algorithm, can be immediately posted on the site. This removes the… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 4:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter maintains a page on their site listing prohibited items from their platform.  Apparently they recently tightened up their restrictions on health devices, apps etc.  As pointed out by MobiHealthNews, Kickstarter now prohibits anything that is “heavily regulated”.  Think health – FDA etc.   Below… Read More

June 6, 2014 @ 12:56 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over week since the launch of his crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, LeVar Burton’s “Bring Reading Rainbow Back for Every Child, Everywhere” project has surpassed its original $1M goal and is now seeking $5M. Not only has it continued to be successful, the… Read More

May 29, 2014 @ 4:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just eleven hours after the launch of its crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, former PBS children’s series “Reading Rainbow” surpassed its initial $1,000,000 goal. LeVar Burton, who hosted the show from 1983 to 2006, decided to launch the campaign through the crowdfunding giant to bring the show… Read More

May 27, 2014 @ 10:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

ZeniMax Media Inc. and its subsidiary, id Software LLC, filed suit last  week against Oculus VR,  and its founder, Palmer Luckey, for “illegally misappropriating ZeniMax trade secrets relating to virtual reality technology, and infringing ZeniMax copyrights and trademarks”. ZeniMax is also asserting claims for breach… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Google spawn YouTube made a major announcement today about their future product roadmap.  As part of the announcement where they discussed forthcoming new tools, apps and more, they recognized the importance of advertising revenue generated by the global video megalith (of which they make tons… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 5:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

LevelUp, Inc.’s Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for Sabertron: Foam Swords with Electronic Scoring has successfully surpassed its $50,000 goal less than a week after it launched, fulfilling the swordplay dreams of backers who can now expect these high-tech toys to be deliver in time for the… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 3:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Just several days ago the Amplitude crowdfunding campaign by Harmonix Music Systems appeared to be stuck in the slow lane.  Having raised a significant amount of their fixed funding campaign on Kickstarter the project was still far short of goal with only a week remaining…. Read More

May 21, 2014 @ 12:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to change the way computer and tablet users save files, Canada-based Kwelea, Inc. launched their $120,000 crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for its product MBLOK.  The “memory card” is known as a “pocket-sized SSD with integrated Bluetooth technology that allows you to store and access data… Read More