Tagged: technology

April 1, 2014 @ 8:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, the Dash has closed their funding round having raised $3,390,551 as 15,998 backers came together to fund this innovative product.  Dash is a wireless, smart headphone that bests any device in the market today (at least that I know about). The Dash… Read More

March 30, 2014 @ 2:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Pono Music team must be elated.  Their crowdfunding campaign that was set to raise $800,000 – not a small amount – has not surpassed $5,000,000 in crowdfunding.  Almost 15,000 supporters have backed this crowdfunding project on Kickstarter – and as we recently reported –… Read More

March 27, 2014 @ 7:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

LinguaSys has launched an equity crowdfunding round on EarlyShares and the company has already captured some high profile interest from well known investor Mark Cuban. The small company is currently looking to raise $250,000 in equity but in a prior funding round Mark Cuban jumped… Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 6:36 am By JD Alois  |  

In a recent update from the project creators, Kreyos Smartwatch teased along backers as they “inched closer” to shipping the backer rewards. The original delivery date for the Kreyos was scheduled for November 2013.  The watch has been delayed several times already as the creators… Read More

March 17, 2014 @ 10:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

According to Lending Memo’s Simon Cunningham, Lending Club is planning to crack down on third party tools making use of screen scrapers. More specifically, Cunningham points to tools that automatically invest on behalf of the user by faking that user’s actions. Note that screen scraping… Read More

March 15, 2014 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

PonoPlayer in Top Ten Most Funded on Kickstarter. The Pono digital music player, created by rock star Neil Young and an experienced team of professionals, has crushed their crowdfunding goal of raising $800,000.  If you blinked you missed it, as they hit that target almost… Read More

March 14, 2014 @ 4:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Moov, a new fitness wearable device, launched pretail crowdfunding campaign two weeks ago besting the $40,000 initial goal in 90 minutes.  The company has now stated they have successfully raised close to $1 million over the course of its recent campaign, claiming the title of… Read More

March 13, 2014 @ 11:04 am By JD Alois  |  

We reported yesterday that SHAREIGHT, crowdfunding on equity site Seedrs, had achieved new records for speed of amount raised and total about crowdfunded.  We just received an update on their progress and SHAREIGHT now stands over £620,000 (over $1.035 million) having hit £600K in just… Read More

March 12, 2014 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Healbe GoBe Triples Goal of $100,000 in First Few Days of Crowdfunding Campaign. The GoBe launched their campaign on Indiegogo on March 5, 2014.  Seven days later the funding total has surpassed $321,000 with 35 days left on the campaign. Over 1790 backers have signed… Read More

March 9, 2014 @ 3:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Pebble Smartwatch, a crowdfunding superstar, continues to grow and expand their product and offerings. Earlier this year during CES, Pebble announced their new version smartwatch the Pebble Steel.  The company recently launched their own, native app store – filling a void in the wearable tech… Read More

March 7, 2014 @ 8:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Microcosm launched a crowdfunding round on Seedrs in September 2013.  In what may be the fastest equity crowdfunding ever, Microcosm raised £100,000 almost immediately on the day they launched.  It took just 2 hours to fully fund with individuals investing anywhere from £100 up to £12,000…. Read More

March 6, 2014 @ 4:21 pm By Dan Gilmartin, Executive Director & CEO, Michigan Municipal League  |  

Recent research is clear that in order to have a prosperous economy with high per capita income, we must have thriving places that attract talent. To compete economically, our communities should possess the critical assets that draw and entice people. One of those essential assets… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 10:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is a pretty cool product that offered up a pretail crowdfunding camaign on Kickstarter almost a year ago.  Lightpack is an ambient backlight system for your display.  Best thing to do is watch the pitch video and you will get it, but in brief… Read More

March 4, 2014 @ 7:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Play-i was founded by Vikas Gupta, Mikal Greaves and Saurabh Gupta — inventors, designers, programmers and parents.  The company was created to  build delightful robots for children to program and learn, developing needed skills at a very young age.  Over 30 days the Play-i raised… Read More

February 25, 2014 @ 10:17 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Short of a few Google+ hiccups, Alon Goren and myself had a great conversation with Toby Martin and Arne Loermann with Bragi LLC. Bragi is the company behind The Dash, which has raised over $2.3 million on Kickstarter. For a minute there it looked like… Read More

February 24, 2014 @ 9:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

If you’re still trying to make sense of how cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin work, you aren’t alone. It may be worth learning; It isn’t every day that a new technology comes along with the power to disrupt a basic tenet of life on Earth. (I’m looking… 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 21, 2014 @ 11:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Various campaigns for wearable smart glasses have been launched via crowdfunding efforts. The latest comes from Boston-based Laforge Optical, who is seeking to crowdfund a pair of smart glasses for the optically challenged set. It’s called the Icis, and it’s a pair of smart glasses… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 11:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Back in December OurCrowd shared a list of six companies that had used the Isreali equity crowdfunding platform to raise over $1 million. NativeFlow topped that list at $2.1 million raised. Now it has been revealed that NativeFlow has raised $7.5 million to date. Jerusalem… Read More

February 20, 2014 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Reports That Apple Has Purchased Sapphire Crystal Capacity. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu,  has announced they have signed agreements to ship Ubuntu phones globally this year.  To manufacturers, Spanish based bq and China based Meizu, will be the first companies bringing these new Ubuntu based… Read More