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Christmas miss for the Pebble watch, Kickstarter’s $10m project
The developers of the Pebble smart watch made Kickstarter history in May when they raised $10.2m, the largest sum received through the fast-growing crowdfunding site. But it is now in danger of...
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CES 2013 – Kickstarter’s $10m Pebble smart watch will finally ship this month
The Pebble smart watch, which raised a record $10m on Kickstarter last spring, will finally start shipping later this month after months of delays – albeit with a few missing features. The device is...
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Can crowdfunding help venture capitalists identify the best start-ups?
In a rare event, a crowdfunded start-up has gone on to raise mainstream venture capital. Digital Spin, which raised £60,000 in August from platform Seedrs, has now received several times that amount...
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Ouya looks beyond Kickstarter for more funds
Ouya, the open-source games console, has become the first Kickstarter tech project to graduate to a more traditional funding scheme – venture capital. After getting $8m from 63,000 crowdfunders last...
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Planetary Resources raises $1.5m on Kickstarter to let you take selfies from...
Example of a space selfie, from Planetary Resources' kickstarter page More than 17,600 people have raised $1.5m for a space telescope Kickstarter campaign, with the majority to receive a picture of...
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Kickstarter hits $1bn – so what did we get?
Almost five years after launching, crowd-funding platform Kickstarter has received pledges worth $1bn. Half of the money has apparently been in the past twelve months (see chart below). If Kickstarter...
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Coolest Cooler raises $10.7m to break Kickstarter record
The Kickstarter community has funded many innovations in the past few years. The Pebble smartwatch raised $10.3m in 2012, shooting the starting gun on the wearables trend that Apple is about to leap...
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