Sentences with phrase «kickstarter campaign raised»

After a successful Kickstarter campaign raised nearly a million dollars, Friday the 13th developers Gun Media have decided to stall the game's release.

Crowdfunding Digital Manga Publishing's recent Kickstarter campaign raised some questions as to the proper role of crowdfunding in publishing.

The company's recent Kickstarter campaign raised $ 120,000 and collected pre-orders for around 1000 shirts — a sign, Hornbuckle says, that customers are eager for change.

A recent Kickstarter campaign raised over $ 55,000 to make a bowl of potato salad.

A July 2015 Kickstarter campaign raised roughly $ 1.6 million in funding for the case, augmented by a seed round of $ 2.3 million and a convertible note of $ 1.5 million.

Its 2012 Kickstarter campaign raised almost $ 3 million for the development of the Form 1.

Its first Kickstarter campaign raised half that last year.

Jesse & Aryn Williams along with Hank Willis Thomas have launched a kickstarter campaign raising funds to do even more interesting things with the Questionbridge.

Thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign raising over $ 30,000, they're returning this January to build another house; keep track of the upcoming details on Konbit Shelter's site and blog.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly has raised $ 2.5 million in venture capital money and just recently blown its second Kickstarter campaign out of the water.

Just ask Dan Provost, 28, co-founder of Studio Neat, a Brooklyn, N.Y. - based product - design studio that recently launched two successful Kickstarter campaigns — raising more than $ 250,000.

Founded in 2009 by three MIT students frustrated by the prototyping options they found outside their space in the MIT Media Lab, the company raised $ 2.94 million last October in a Kickstarter campaign for its first product, the Form 1 Printer.

Nine months later, I launched a Kickstarter campaign and raised more than $ 250,000 — and I was finally able to give myself my first paycheck as GoldieBlox's CEO.»

The Baubux jacket, founded by a Chicago - based couple, raised more than $ 11 million through Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns.

Black & Denim was a winner of the MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition Series, Macy's gave them a week in its minority business development program called The Workshop at Macy's, and they recently raised more than $ 35,000 in their Kickstarter campaign.

With more than a week left in its Kickstarter campaign, Sole Socks has raised almost $ 40,000.

Some campaigns experience immediate and wild success — like the one for OUYA, a gaming console, that raised more than $ 2 million on its first day on Kickstarter — while others develop over time, reaching their goal only in the last few hours.

If not, you need to wait for the JOBS Act to kick in and then use equity crowdfunding, where you will be able to sell stock in your business, because less than 2 percent of Kickstarter crowdfunding campaigns successfully raise $ 100,000 or more.

Supporters of NBC's Community and Chuck have rallied to their defense — from promoting social media campaigns to raise ratings to buying Subway sandwiches en masse (a Chuck advertiser)-- but this is the first case of fans putting their money directly into a proposed project and it broke all previous Kickstarter funding speed records.

Unlike Kickstarter, Indiegogo allows individuals to select a «flexible funding» option for their campaign, so even if a project doesn't meet its goal, the creators can collect the raised funds anyway.

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.

By the end of their third campaign, after setting their target at $ 30,000, Knixwear had raised close to $ 2 million in pre-sales for their new bra line, breaking the record for the most funded fashion project in the entire history of Kickstarter.

She is seeking to raise $ 50,000 before her Kickstarter campaign ends Aug. 31.

What started as a tongue - in - cheek campaign to make potato salad ended up raising $ 55,000 on Kickstarter — proving yet again that if you have a compelling story and know how to tell it, the money is there.

The co-founders of Meow Parlour raised three times as much cash as they set out to raise with a Kickstarter campaign.

After its successful Kickstarter campaign, Pebble raised $ 15 million in series A financing from Charles River Ventures this year.

There's still $ 350,000 left to raise, and they're looking to secure it through AngelList, in a kind of venture capital Kickstarter campaign.

The early smartwatch pioneers raised more money on Kickstarter than any prior campaign, then raised $ 59 million in venture funding, only to sell off assets to competitor Fitbit in 2016 in a deal reportedly valued between $ 34 million and $ 40 million.

Kickstarter charges 5 percent of the total dollars a campaign raises, for example.

When Morejon consulted on the Trunkster Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $ 1.4 million, a big boost came from an appearance on Good Morning America, as well as a story in Travel + Leisure.

Don't be fooled: According to research on completed hardware projects, 70 percent of those that raised more than $ 100,000 on Kickstarter and Indiegogo added venture or angel investments before launching their campaigns.

A great example here is Pebble, the amazing smart watch company, which managed to raise $ 10M + from its Kickstarter campaign.

«Liquid Story used its technology and strategic insight to guide Jamstack to connect with our target consumer to our first Crowd Funding Campaign on Kickstarter resulting in achieving over 300 % of our fund raising goal.

For example, while Kickstarter can be used to raise money for creative projects, they don't accept campaigns that are raising funds for charity.

On Kickstarter, you can investigate campaigns by simply searching the site for your topic and you'll be presented with a list of projects that managed (or failed) to raise money.

For example, one of the recent Kickstarter legends Coolest Cooler, raised over $ 13 Million USD — but, this was not the creators first try: the Coolest Cooler was on it's 3rd Kickstarter campaign and the creator launched and set records on the platform because he was able to apply the lessons learned from his previous attempts.

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.

A few years ago, diehard fans of Veronica Mars raised $ 5.7 million dollars through a Kickstarter campaign to help get that movie made.

Kickstarter has commissioned tech journalist Mark Harris to investigate and report on one of the company's most high - profile failed campaigns to date: the Zano mini-drone, which raised over $ 3.5 million and was Europe's most funded project ever.

For his follow - up to 2011's acclaimed Economy, John Mark McMillan went independent, raising nearly $ 70,000 via a Kickstarter campaign.

De Blasio, a first - term Democrat, has kickstarted his reelection campaign, raising funds and formulating a campaign message around his achievements.

To tap into all that enthusiasm, she launched a Kickstarter campaign, which ended up raising more than $ 107,000.

In order to fund the designs and the biggest expense — costs related to storm chasing like food, gas and hotels — the team has begun a Kickstarter campaign to help raise money.

Right now, there's a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to research how a Paleo diet affects PCOS — I hope this can be added to the long list of health maladies these styles of eating relieve or eliminate.

To fund the collection, they have launched a Kickstarter campaign, and are aiming to raise $ 12,000.