Tagged: million dollar

September 18, 2013 @ 10:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Funding velocity for Mighty No. 9 has flattened out considerably after hitting Kickstarter like a ton of bricks on August 31st. The game raised over a million dollars within a few days and just hit two million a week ago. Now the game has hit… Read More

September 11, 2013 @ 9:57 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The campaign for Project Phoenix on Kickstarter has come to an end, but not before crossing $1 million in funding. The team also raised over $30,000 via PayPal donations in a separate effort. Project Phoenix is described as a “fantasy themed squad-based real-time strategy game combined… Read More

September 6, 2013 @ 10:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

What if I told you the biggest, most ambitious rewards-based crowdfunding campaign in history wasn’t a Kickstarter project or an Indiegogo project? The Pebble watch is somewhat widely recognized as the largest campaign of its type. I’m guilty of making the assertion myself. Some will… Read More

August 26, 2013 @ 9:28 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Star Citizen has raised over $15 million in a crowdfunding campaign that has been operating for the better part of the last year. Now Chris Roberts and the rest of the team charged with bringing the video game to reality are beginning delivery to backers…. Read More

August 22, 2013 @ 8:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A crowdfunding campaign for the Ubuntu Edge on Indiegogo has failed to reach a goal of $32,000,000. 27,488 backers laid claim to 5,837 copies of Ubuntu’s cutting-edge premium smartphone concept. In the end it was all for naught. The campaign fell $19,187,224 short of the goal…. Read More

August 18, 2013 @ 7:57 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

There is a big question that will be answered this week. In fact, I’d argue it is the biggest question in the brief history of rewards-based crowdfunding. It may be a 32-million-dollar question… Will Canonical extend their campaign for the Ubuntu Edge? The Indiegogo campaign… Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 12:37 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Despite being razzed by Trish Regan on live TV and catching flack from others, Spike Lee has successfully raised over $1 million on Kickstarter for his new film. His campaign seems on track to hit his $1.25 million goal by the time the campaign ends in… Read More

July 30, 2013 @ 10:34 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo has just added a fifth million-dollar crowdfunding campaign to it’s roughly five year history: the KREYOS smartwatch. We first reported on the KREYOS back in June. I found myself impressed by the featureset the developers of the KREYOS aimed to integrate into their crowdfunded… Read More

July 15, 2013 @ 10:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

On June 20th I called my shot and said that the Scanadu Scout would be Indiegogo’s highest-grossing campaign ever. This after they lengthened the campaign’s timeline significantly with just such a goal in mind. Well, Scanadu has done it. The Scout is now the #1… Read More

June 21, 2013 @ 11:38 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rapid Home Solutions is a company based in Central Florida that specializes in sustainable housing manufacturing. They’ve recently launched an enormously ambitious $1.75 million crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to essentially do for homes what Henry Ford did for cars: cheap, fast manufacturing via an assembly… Read More

June 20, 2013 @ 9:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported that the Scanadu Scout was threatening to take the top spot as the biggest Indiegogo campaign of all time. We can now say with some certainty that that is going to happen. It is only a matter of time. No, seriously… it’s… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 3:19 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

With a little over two weeks to go the Scanadu Scout has amassed almost $750,000 in funding. (If you aren’t familiar with the nifty little home health monitoring device inspired by Star Trek click here to read more.) The most funded Indiegogo campaign of all time is… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 8:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Kickstarter campaign for MMO trading card game HEX: Shards Of Fate has surpassed a million dollars in funding with over two weeks to go. Cryptozoic Entertainment, creators and publishers of the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, is excited and proud to introduce HEX:… Read More