Tagged: kickstarter

February 11, 2014 @ 7:27 am By JD Alois  |  

Fuel 3D Raised Over $325,000 Crowdfunding on Kickstarter.  Will Announce Further Funding. Fuel 3D continues to march towards production with first round devices scheduled to ship this April.  The developer of 3D scanning solutions, has announced its plans to impress the audience as the company prepares to exhibit… Read More

February 11, 2014 @ 7:05 am By Erin Hobey  |  

315 backers quickly joined Kori and Matt Wallace’s crowdfunding campaign on kickstarter , helping their ‘Chups  project surpass their $12,000 goal by nearly $4K with more than three weeks to go. The Wallace’s ketchup recipes feature everything but what Americans have typically expected from their… Read More

February 8, 2014 @ 3:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie report for the month of January is out, and the findings are pretty stark. Mike Suszek’s monthly breakdown of crowdfunding in video games suggests a 63% drop in funding from December to January on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The drop is largely attributed… Read More

February 7, 2014 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

Edward Tang, CEO of Avegant the creator’s of the next hot device in technology – the mobile display Glyph, recently joined a segment of CNBC’s Squawk box where he demonstrated his product.  Crowdfunding on Kickstarter today, the beta version is scheduled to ship to backers… Read More

February 7, 2014 @ 11:22 am By JD Alois  |  

  Fastest Campaign Ever on Kickstarter to Raise Goal of $250,000. Mobile personal Theater “Glyph” recently went over the $1 million mark crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Currently this project is the most funded / active campaign on the platform just ahead of RPG Kingdom Come Deliverance…. Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 5:33 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

[new_royalslider id=”13″] Is it easy for a woman to dress fashionably from head to toe in crowdfund couture? Yes, and, as it turns out, more and more easily given the growing options. [*Full disclosure: some of these items are still in production, and hence, untested…. Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, HiddenRadio2 – a bluetooth speaker – has closed their funding round after raising $720,991 from over 3600 backers.  The company founded by two industrial designers, John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen and Vitor Santa Maria, blew away their crowdfunding goal of raising $90,000.  This… Read More

February 5, 2014 @ 4:43 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Company Hopes to Use Funds to Grow Nationwide Retail Presence. Not one to resist tasting or reading about caramels (case in point, see NYT weekend 19 January “Seeking a Buttery Treat” about Breton caramels), one of the first Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns to catch my eye was Boise,… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 9:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has announced they are opening up their rewards based platform to creators based in Holland in the near future.  The US based company has steadily expanded their global reach having already announced their official presence in multiple countries.  Their first push… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

On Something Awful, comedian Josh “Livestock” Boruff (@Livestock) posted a satirical open letter to his Kickstarter backers mocking those ubiquitous “final backer updates” in the rewards-based crowdfunding world, the kind that often contain deep personal introspection and tales of personal strife. It seems that –… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Pebble, the device that started the smartwatch craze, has finally released their much anticipated app store with iOS support. While some Pebble owners were disappointed the Android version did not ship simultaneously with the iOS version, the Android version in beta for developers was announced… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 11:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Currently the most funded, active campaign on Kickstarter today,  RPG Kingdom Come: Deliverance broke the $1 million mark (over £615,000) joining an elite crowdfunding group.  With more than 2 weeks left in the campaign the game has the potential to go much further.  Backers number… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In late 2013, Helsinki-based video game studio Bugbear launched a Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming title, the ambiguously-named Next Car Game. The campaign sought $350,000 in funding, but it became clear shortly after launch that the stated funding goal was going to be a reach. The… Read More

February 2, 2014 @ 12:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

  AMC has announced that presale tickets for the highly anticipated Veronica Mars feature-length flick will go on sale on February 14th via a page for the film on AMC’s web site. AMC is encouraging those interested in seeing the film to bookmark the page and… Read More

February 2, 2014 @ 11:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Shanghai-based video game development shop Spicy Horse and leader American McGee are fairly well known in the world of crowdfunding. The outfit has three Kickstarter campaigns under its belt. Two have succeeded while funding for a third was cancelled. The first of these projects to… Read More

February 2, 2014 @ 11:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The rewards-based crowdfunding arms race is alive and well. In a recent interview with Bloomberg West, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang leads by pointing out that Indiegogo is the smaller of two websites currently participating in a “two-horse race,” singling out Indiegogo as the “little guy.” In… Read More

February 1, 2014 @ 6:56 am By JD Alois  |  

TGC Continues with Self-Hosted Pretail Funding. Coming from The Game Creators (TGC), a privately owned UK company, FPS Creator Reloaded (FPSC Reloaded) has announced their beta launch of Oculus Rift integration.  The game development tools studio sees integration as an important strategic move as part… Read More

January 28, 2014 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Fuel3D scanner raised over $300,000 in September 2013 through a highly successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.  With early bird backers scheduled to receive their first products in April 2014, Fuel 3D continues to move forward to final production.   Fuel3D unveiled this week the first images… Read More

January 27, 2014 @ 8:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Glyph, a portable headset that creates a virtual retinal display and claims to create “sharp, stark images unlike you’ve seen before”, rocketed out of the gate on Kickstarter last week easily topping their quarter million goal.  It took just 24 hours for the crowdfunding campaign… Read More

January 26, 2014 @ 3:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunded films were everywhere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Kickstarter alone fielded 20 alumni and Indiegogo chipped in six more. A complete list of Kickstarter-and-Indiegogo-funded entries are available in the following articles… Sundance Film Festival Includes 20 Kickstarter Funded Films for 2014 Indiegogo at… Read More