After getting a remarkable success on
its Kickstarter campaign in March, smartwatch maker Pebble today announced that the first batch of Pebble Time shipments will begin starting May 27.
It launched as
a Kickstarter campaign in April 2013, featuring a monochrome display and, importantly, its own Pebble OS operating system that was compatible with both Android and iOS devices.
The startup's promise, when it launched
its Kickstarter campaign in the fall of 2015, started with a pair of truly wireless earbuds.
Originally introduced to the world via a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2015, Airinum has now launched its first designer collection of face masks, starting with a limited edition model, the M90.
Solartab was initially launched with
a Kickstarter campaign in 2014, which ended up raising more than $ 60,000 USD (double the initial goal) in pre-orders and pledges, with the first units being shipped to backers in 2015.
As the Fontself Maker user community keeps growing (it started gathering during a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2015), it is now about to produce a whole new generation of typefaces, chromatic fonts and colour fonts, leading to a typographic renaissance that will benefit to the whole design community.
Hello Ruby started in 2009 as an art project by Linda Liukas, programmer, storyteller and illustrator from Helsinki, but was boosted by a widely popular
Kickstarter campaign in 2014.
After showing at that demo night and receiving even more great feedback, we decided to run
a Kickstarter campaign in the spring.
The remaster of the classic PC futurist RPG by industry icon Warren Spector had a successful
Kickstarter campaign in July 2016, raising over $ 1.3 million from 21,000 backers.
What drew me to Battle Chef Brigade initially back before
its Kickstarter campaign in 2014 was its art style.
After a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2015, fans all over the world wondered when this eternal wait would be over.
After taxes, the cuts taken by the site owners, paying for all of the incentive packages, and the money spent promoting
the Kickstarter campaign in the first place, many indie companies may not come out very far ahead of where they started!
We will talk more about
the Kickstarter campaign in the following updates so please stay tuned.
Created as part of the wildly successful
Kickstarter campaign in late 2012, «The Road to Eternity» provides a rare and unfiltered in - depth look at how crowdfunding not only saved the studio during one of the darkest points in its history, but led to the creation of one of the most anticipated and highly reviewed RPGs of all time.
Both games will be available for those of you who backed the GameStick
Kickstarter campaign in order to pre-order a unit.
A spiritual successor to the great Genesis game Mutant League Football, series creator Michael Mendheim launched
a Kickstarter campaign in September 2013 to raise $ 750,000 to fund the development of an updated version of the game using today's much more advanced hardware.
The result was the (then named) Echoes of Eridu, which ran a successful
Kickstarter campaign in May 2014.
And while games full of attractive idiosyncrasies can and do emerge from big studios backed by bigger publishers, Gilbert is in no doubt that had Thimbleweed Park gone down that avenue of financing, rather than receive its green light through a successful
Kickstarter campaign in late 2014, it'd have seen some of its more unique content removed.
runs point - and - click adventure game outfit Himalaya Studios as CFO and Executive Producer and spearheaded a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2013 with six - figure results.
Rachel Presser runs point - and - click adventure game outfit Himalaya Studios as CFO and Executive Producer and spearheaded a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2013 with six - figure results.
The multiplayer sandbox ran a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2014, raising eight times its original goal.
Eden Industries had previously attempted to fund the development of the game with
a Kickstarter campaign in the autumn of last year, but the funding fell short, reaching only CA$ 36,875 of the CA$ 100,000 target.
Support for @Large Art Guides Program On May 13, the FOR - SITE Foundation launches
a Kickstarter campaign in support of the @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz Art Guides program.
Manga Digital Manga announced at Anime Central over the weekend that it will launch
a Kickstarter campaign in June to fund a print edition of Osamu Tezuka's sci - fi manga Captain Ken.
During the month - long
Kickstarter campaign in May, my blog was active with semi-weekly author interviews for our anthology, which generated spikes in donations.
LeVar Burton's initiative is the most successful
Kickstarter campaign in history, boasting more than 91,000 supporters (and climbing fast).
For one thing, Ross argues, if a publisher won't fund the development of a project, «I suspect I couldn't find a successful
Kickstarter campaign in which a would - be author received money to write his or her book for the same reason.»
With some money from
their Kickstarter campaign in hand, they thought they'd be shooting soon, but it wasn't until 14 months later in 2015 that they were actually able to head full - on into production after cobbling together the rest of their budget through private equity.
The game pulled in over $ 100,000 during
its Kickstarter campaign in 2015 on a goal of just over $ 30,000.
Kynseed became a reality after a successful
Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2017, and PixelCount aims to bring the chill - out charm of Stardew Valley, the reactive sandbox world of Fable, and a healthy dose of fables and silliness to PCs this year.
Recently, the beautifully charming point and click adventure game, Tala, launched
its Kickstarter campaign in hopes to fund a PC and Mac...
Now, Samantha, who is also a filmmaker, is using
a Kickstarter campaign in an effort to reunite with Anaïs (and perform DNA tests to find out if they are in fact twins) as part of the documentary to be called Twinsters.
Since
its Kickstarter campaign in 2013, Virtuix raised $ 16MM from investors including 10 venture capital funds, two strategic investors, Mark Cuban Companies, and private investors.
Just 30 days after launching
a Kickstarter campaign in August, Cameron Gibbs and David Gengler raised $ 652,000 to begin manufacturing a padlock that can be opened and closed from 15 feet away via Bluetooth.
Sunscreenr launched
a Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2016 and got $ 119,629 after setting a goal of $ 45,000.
Nearly a third of those sales came through
a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 that raised more than $ 635,000, but Kraft didn't turn to crowdfunding for the money.
After a successful
Kickstarter campaign in 2015 based around the ADED Pant, Public Rec is now a full - fledged apparel brand ready to bring its product to a much wider audience.
But despite being under intense scrutiny, the Italians
kickstarted their campaign in brilliant fashion by comfortably beating Belgium 2 - 0 in their opening match — a result achieved through incredible defensive resilience and devastating counter-attacking play.
Yooka - Laylee, a spiritual successor to Banjo - Kazooie, had one of the most successful
Kickstarter campaigns in recent memory, and Crash Bandicoot is heavily rumoured to be making another appearance on his home console in the not so distant future.
Not exact matches
Once the money from the
Kickstarter campaign landed
in the company's bank account, the team was able to finally order fabric, getting the production process officially moving forward.
Still, that's not a bad haul when you consider the overall weirdness of his
campaign, combined with the fact that he lassoed funding for the bizarre project back
in October 2009, only six months after
Kickstarter launched.
In the
Kickstarter video announcing the glowing plant
campaign, Evans played up the product's possibilities: «Our generation's frontier is synthetic biology,» he said.
Pebble, the smartwatch maker that two years ago launched its business with a crowdfunding
campaign on
Kickstarter, is making all kinds of waves
in the world of connected devices, where brands such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Amazon.com dominate.
That's right —
in its first
Kickstarter campaign, launched last November, The Coolest failed to make its $ 125,000 goal.
Roberto Torres, co-owner of the Black and Denim Apparel Company, discusses their successfully funded
Kickstarter Campaign, how they found out about, and were awarded, several business grants, were featured
in Entrepreneur magazine, and got their products
in the Oscar, Grammy, and BET awards swag bags.
No matter what happens with the moss
in the long - term, Taxa's story offers a lesson for science - based crowdfunding
campaigns on platforms like Indiegogo and
Kickstarter: Unless you've already nailed the science, find another way to raise money.
Zack Brown has made over $ 38,000 from his potato salad
Kickstarter, and there's still three weeks left
in the
campaign.
While Luckey initially raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding
campaign on
Kickstarter, his company hit its stride
in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»] announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.
One of the most popular
Kickstarter launches of the last several years was the Glowing Plant
Kickstarter campaign, which raised nearly half a million dollars
in 2013 to create a genetically - engineered plant that could glow
in the dark.
Hiral Sanghavi and his wife Yoganshi Shah launched a
Kickstarter campaign to raise money to fund the production of the all -
in - one travel jacket they invented together.