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January 2, 2014 @ 11:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Project Eternity was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter to the tune of almost $4 million. Now the game’s developer, Obsidian Entertainment, has released a gameplay trailer ahead of the game’s scheduled release sometime this year. The campaign page promised April of 2014, and by the looks… Read More

December 30, 2013 @ 10:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Austin-based Vovation.com has launched a new crowdfunding platform with a focus on consumer products. The platform was created by Conley Giles and is billed as “crowdfunding for inventors,” which puts this platform squarely in competition with upstart platforms like HWTrek and Dragon Innovation. Giles explains… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 12:02 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We brought you the story of Light Harmonic’s newest crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo back in November. The campaign aimed to raise $38,000 to bring the Geek Pulse to market. It was the second crowdfunding campaign for Light Harmonic. The company raised over $300,000 on Kickstarter… Read More

December 26, 2013 @ 11:00 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A group of makers from Israel have invented a device that they say solves the ten finger touch UI problem. The Grippity is a tablet with a transparent screen allowing the user to type through the back of the device, and it is currently crowdfunding… Read More

December 22, 2013 @ 7:42 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

With 40 days left in their Indiegogo campaign, wearable device technology startup Atheer has raised over $70,000 of a stated $100,000 goal for their innovative spin on 3D glasses. The consumer-level variant is called the Atheer One, and the feature set promised by the team… Read More

December 20, 2013 @ 10:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kano’s Kickstarter campaign has ended. The small, DIY Raspberry Pi-powered computer raised $1,522,160 from 13,387 backers. The raise was good enough to push the campaign to third on Kickstarter’s all-time list for design products. Kano leaped the Elevation Dock for that spot. It wasn’t quite… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 10:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We recently reported on the Kano project on Kickstarter. Just a couple of weeks ago the campaign was celebrating a huge milestone after crossing $1 million in funding. Quartz recently tipped the world to the fact that even the famed Steve Wozniak has chipped into the… Read More

December 17, 2013 @ 11:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A new Kickstarter campaign aims to make use of unused space in the garage in an effort to help people get organized. The myLIFTER promises to turn your garage ceiling into storage, and it’s almost fully funded with plenty of time left to go. The… Read More

December 12, 2013 @ 9:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Goldee is in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign using a crowdfunding platform developed in-house, and they just blew past their $100,000 goal. At the time of writing the campaign has raised just short of $130,000 from 339 backers. We first reported on the Goldee… Read More

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

A new crowdfunding site has launched and it is geared specifically toward brands. It’s called Farallon, and it aims to amplify some of the tangential benefits of crowdfunding – namely market testing and crowdsourced feedback. Farallon founder Alex Blunk believes that niche-focused crowdfunding sites will… Read More

December 9, 2013 @ 11:30 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Jason Berry makes films to pay the bills, but in his free time he enjoys running and cycling. His experience in that space may spur him to the creation of a company aimed at solving a major (and common) ill in sports. Safety pins are… Read More

December 6, 2013 @ 12:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

CNN Money | How IBM bypasses bureaucratic purgatory IBM has an in-house crowdfunding platform that they use to allow employees to vet and evaluate their colleagues’ ideas. It’s an effort to “improve the way we do things internally” according to the head of IBM’s CIO… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kano is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter to bring a new PC kit to market. The kit is touted as a “computer and coding kit for all ages, all over the world,” and the campaign to fund it has already crossed $1 million in funding with… Read More

December 3, 2013 @ 8:41 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Think you need a world-changing idea to be successful in the world of crowdfunding? Think again. The COBURNS iPad stand is not world-changing. In fact, it is ridiculously simple. The minimalist iPad stands are made of exotic hardwoods, the lighter being a Bird’s eye Maple… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Wireless Apple iPhone charger iQi crowdfunding on Indiegogo was scheduled to end their campaign this weekend but organizers have decided to extend the campaign by 30 days.  The funding goal was originally set to raise $30,000 but that was easily passed and stands at over… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 9:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The crowdfunding campaign for Play-i is in its final hours. The campaign launched seeking $250,000 to fund and prove a market for an interactive, cost-effective set of robots – named Bo and Yana – that would aid in teaching young children the basics of programming…. Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 9:39 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Knix Wear and founder Joanna Griffiths raised over $60,000 on Indiegogo after seeking a goal of just $40,000. Indiegogo recently collaborated with Griffiths on a video detailing the company’s story and how rewards-based crowdfunding helped Griffiths grow the brand and push Knix Wear’s product into Hudson’s… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 12:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Paul Niederer | Crowdfunding and Innovation Paul Niederer is the founder of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB) and an equity crowdfunding pioneer. On his blog, he explains that crowdfunding is about more than just raising money and goes on to explain how crowdfunding… Read More

November 18, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Inspired by a family history for entrepreneurialism and with fresh ideas on micro-financing from his time at Business School, Alessandro Rovati and two childhood friends, Francesco Fumagalli and Francesco Gatti, developed an idea for an e-commerce app that allowed users to invest in pre-production product… Read More

November 15, 2013 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding in Birmingham, Alabama, Finn Apparel, a new clothing startup  has designed a line of unique apparel.  The campaigns original goal of raising $14,800 has been surpassed standing over $30,000. The campaign benefited by their selection by Kickstarter as the “project of the day” raising their profile… Read More