Sentences with phrase «year of crowdfunding campaigns»

After a year of crowdfunding campaigns and months of production delays, the first company promising truly wireless earbuds has finally shipped a product to its backers.

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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.

-- Ilya Rosenberg, co-founder and CEO of touch technology company Sensel, which has raised more than $ 10 million in funding and raised over $ 500,000 for its crowdfunding campaign last year

Keep in mind, however, that although crowdfunding campaigns may be trendy, there are hundreds of campaigns that go unfunded each year through this method.

For Larian, that fight has largely centred on a crowdfunding campaign he launched on Mar. 21 in hopes of raising $ 1 billion to salvage the business» 70 - year - old U.S. operations.

But the number of fraud cases, suspended campaigns, and scams in the crowdfunding industry is growing this year: GoBe, iFind, Anonabox, Scribble, Areal, Holovision, and the list goes on.

Jay Chandrasekhar, the director and a star of «Super Troopers 2,» spoke to Business Insider this weekend about how the film arose, out of necessity, from a massively successful crowdfunding campaign three years ago, which netted $ 4.6 million from 54,000 donors.

After years of painstaking restoration work, even establishing an online crowdfunding campaign to help with the financing, Kino Lorber has released their outstanding and groundbreaking five - disc DVD and Blu - ray set, «The Pioneers of African - American Cinema.»

Simon both wrote and directed RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH, which premiered in U.S. theaters on June 27th of this year, after a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.

Crowdfunded Classrooms: Online educational crowd - funding campaigns show an incredible increase of over 200 percent since last year GoFundMe, the...

Crowdfunded Classrooms: Online educational crowd - funding campaigns show an incredible increase of over 200 percent since last year

Hurricane Maria survivor Salvador Gabriel Colon, the 15 - year - old son of Presidential Leadership Scholar alum Marta Colon, has launched a crowdfunding campaign called «Light and Hope for Puerto Rico» with the help of PLS alumni.

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He combines his experience in private equity and investment analysis with years spent coaching crowdfunding campaigns for a unique view from both sides of the table.

GPD raised more than $ 2.7 million for the Win 2 through an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign earlier this year, and now the company has announced that the first 1200 or so units will ship to backers of that campaign by May 15th.

The John Smedley - led OARPG canceled its Kickstarter earlier this year but has returned to crowdfund just ahead of its early access launch with a new Indiegogo campaign.

You may or may not know this, but I am a huge Turrican II fan, so it thrills me to see that the game's composer, Chris Huelsbeck, has launched a follow - up crowdfunding campaign to his Turrican Soundtrack Anthology from a few years ago that focuses specifically on turning the music of Turrican II into a new orchestral album.

Following a record - breaking crowdfunding campaign, the action adventure sequel was pencilled in for a 2017 release, before being pushed into the second half of this year.

Available through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, the Goofy Foot controller can be yours with a pledge of $ 46, with delivery expected sometime in May of next year.

Last year, the rock band Kūsō Iinkai launched a crowdfund campaign to raise 6 million yen (about US$ 53,000) to fund an anime short titled «Naniiiro no Nani» (What of What Color).

Anyway, as maybe one or two of you know, earlier this year our buddies at Fangamer helped launch the crowdfunding campaign for Koji Igarashi's new game Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

In 2016, the gallery ran a highly successful Art Happens crowdfunding campaign to produce a collaborative publication celebrating 50 years of exhibitions and performances.

Hexagro Urban Farming has been working on the Living Farming Tree for several years, and was picked as one of the finalists in the 2015 Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, but now the team is looking to take its system to the public with a crowdfunding campaign.

The company's website states that it will be launching a crowdfunding campaign in June of this year, although no other details about the goal of the campaign are listed on the site yet.

In 2014, Margaret wrote about the launch of the actual product itself, and then just last year, I covered the company's crowdfunding campaign for its Incube accessory, which is an app - controlled tree incubator designed to cradle the Bios Urn and enable optimal growth of the tree planted in it.

Backers of the Nebia crowdfunding campaign can reserve a single unit for $ 299 (said to be a $ 399 retail value), and the company claims that the device will pay for itself in less than two years, based on the water usage in an average US home.

To launch the Bioo, Arkyne Technologies has turned to - wait for it - crowdfunding with an Indiegogo campaign, which also mentions the scaled - up version of its bio-battery, the Bioo Panel, a 1 meter by 1 meter device said to be able to generate up to 40 W, and produce up to 280 kWh per year, using the same technology.

A crowdfunding campaign launched last year by lawyers at Ruby Shiller Chan Hasan in Toronto has so far raised about $ 17,000 of the $ 30,000 sought.

On data redress, European privacy campaigner Max Schrems — most famous for his legal challenge to US government mass surveillance practices that resulted in a 15 - year - old data transfer arrangement between the EU and US being struck down in 2015 — is currently running a crowdfunding campaign to set up a not - for - profit privacy enforcement organization to take advantage of the new rules and pursue strategic litigation on commercial privacy issues.

Berkeley would become the first city in the US to hold an initial coin offering (ICO)-- a type of crowdfunding campaign that's become popular in the past year.

It's been almost two years since Sony launched a crowdfunding campaign for Qrio Smart Lock on Makuake, a sort of Kickstarter in Japan.