Tagged: kickstarter

February 24, 2014 @ 9:29 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Late last week, Games Industry International published an interview with DoubleFine’s Tim Schafer that discussed the studio’s recent experiences with Kickstarter at length. It’s an interesting look into the crowdfunding process from the perspective of a company that has raised millions using crowdfunding. Perhaps the most… Read More

February 23, 2014 @ 9:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Glyph Mobile Personal Theater plus Audio closed their crowdfunding round on Kickstarter this past week having raised $1,509,506 from 3,331 backers. The hardware from Ann Arbor, Michigan based Avegant now stands as one of the most successful rewards based crowdfunding campaigns of 2014.  Glyph set… Read More

February 22, 2014 @ 3:06 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Heatworks Model 1 just closed a successful Kickstarter round less than a week ago, raising over $400,000 and over three times their stated goal. Before the company can even finish celebrating, news has broken that they’ll have even more capital to complete delivery fulfillment… Read More

February 22, 2014 @ 9:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Kingdom Come: Deliverance closed their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter this week having raised an incredibly £1,106,371 (approximately $1.84 million).  Backers numbered a solid 35,384 that supported one of the most successful rewards based crowdfunding campaigns for 2014.  The project was organized by Czech Republic based… Read More

February 21, 2014 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Virtuix found itself at the center of a revolutionary shift in the video game industry after they raised over $1.1 million on Kickstarter. The campaign funded the Virtuix Omni, an immersive treadmill-like device for gamers. According to a recent backer update, shipping has begun for… Read More

February 21, 2014 @ 9:40 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Documentary on Nutritional Therapy for Cancer Beats Crowdfunding Goal. With 14 days to go, Sarah Mabrouk, Amy Thomasson and their Upwind Pictures team raised over $75,000 on their kickstarter campaign, surpassing their $68,000 minimum, to fund their film’s post-production costs.  The project met their goal on February… Read More

February 19, 2014 @ 4:04 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

It isn’t every day you get to interview a crowdfunding campaign creator that is currently sitting on top of a $2 million raise with over a month to go, but that is what Alon Goren and myself will be doing Monday, February 24th at 2:00… Read More

February 18, 2014 @ 9:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On this week’s episode of Inside Crowdfunding, we talk to Adam Draper of Boost.vc about his accelerator and the culture around accelerators in general. He shares some information about the cool stuff coming out of the companies in his portfolio. Of course, Draper is also bullish on… Read More

February 18, 2014 @ 9:26 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last updated Tuesday, February 18 @ 10:42 AM EST When I came across The Dash on Kickstarter, I thought it was a mistake. $2 million raised with 41 days to go? That is impressive even by Kickstarter’s standards. Munich, Germany-based Bragi LLC has raised this… Read More

February 17, 2014 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

@konklone @xor @knowtheory it’s a complex situation that is fortunately new for us. We are working hard to respond, with hopefully more soon — Fred Benenson (@fredbenenson) February 17, 2014 Kickstarter engineer Fred Benenson was vocal on this Hacker News thread about revelations that Kickstarter… Read More

February 16, 2014 @ 7:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter, a leading global rewards based crowdfunding platform, announced yesterday their platform had been attacked and user account information had been accessed.  Reportedly the information accessed did not include credit card information but did include users personal information. In a new post, Kickstarter has added… Read More

February 15, 2014 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Company Claims No Credit Card Information Has Been Stolen. In a note to users of the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, CEO Yancy Strickler announced that unauthorized access to customer data had occurred as hackers had compromised the Kickstarter platform. The information was said to have come… Read More

February 14, 2014 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Moment “Amazing Lenses for Mobile Photography” closed earlier today having raised $451,868 from 4722 backers.  This is 9 times the initial goal of raising $50,000 to fund the lenses for your mobile phone camera.  The campaign rocketed out of the gate doubling… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 2:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

Just in time for Valentines day we are revisiting a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that closed last October that raised a bit over $29,000.  What was unique about this campaign, titled America in Love, is that a couple (who had just recently met), Melissa and… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 10:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A Kickstarter campaign with some serious star power behind it is dangerously close to losing out on over half a million dollars in crowdfunding cash. Of course, that also means they’re on the precipice of closing a huge $600,000+ crowdfunding round. The next 33 hours… Read More

February 13, 2014 @ 7:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Fuel 3D Technologies, a developer of 3D scanning solutions, has announced it has secured $2.6 million (£1.6 million) in early stage financing to further the development of its Fuel3D scanner technology. The funding news comes in advance of a planned mezzanine financing round, expected to… Read More

February 12, 2014 @ 10:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It’s one of the top 1,000 web sites in the world. It’s been used to fund small, personal pet projects and it’s been used to spur enormous companies. It creates jobs. It’s a platform, an idea, and now even a verb. Do you start a… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 1:25 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

TechCrunch has an awards series every year called the Crunchies, and Kickstarter just won the biggest Crunchie of them all. Kickstarter is TechCrunch’s “Best Overall Startup” for 2013. Kickstarter wasn’t the only winner from the wonderful world of crowdfunding in 2013. Oculus VR took home… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Changes of address have been one of the most painful things project creators and their backers have had to deal with on Kickstarter. Now the world’s largest rewards-based funding platform has released a new feature to help backers deal with that very problem. This comes… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: This Kickstarter campaign was cancelled at approximately 1:30 PM EST. The reason for the cancellation comes via a backer update posted today… Thank you for your support of Jeremy Spencer’s tour and music. We have received some truly unfortunate news from Jeremy and have… Read More