Tagged: amazon

July 31, 2015 @ 12:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fueled by $6.5M USD in Series A financing in April, TradeGecko, a cloud-based inventory and multichannel management platform for apparel and accessories, is leveraging its resources to become one of the fastest growing startups in Singapore. Since this spring, TradeGecko has increased its headcount by 25% and added… Read More

July 28, 2015 @ 2:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Amazon today announced Amazon Launchpad, a new program that makes it easy for startups to launch, market, and distribute their products to hundreds of millions of Amazon customers across the globe. The program offers a streamlined onboarding experience, custom product pages, a comprehensive marketing package,… Read More

June 23, 2015 @ 12:37 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Returbo is a market leader within the secondary market for e-commerce products, a profitable business which will likely generate more than €6M in revenues in 2015. Returbo garners profitably by selling customer returns and other secondary market products through its more than 30 online sales channels… Read More

June 19, 2015 @ 2:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, start-up crowdfunded book publisher, Inkshares, announced that Seattle-based publisher Ada’s Technical Books became the first independent bookstore to sign on for its imprint program, Collection. During an interview with Publisher Weekly, Matt Kaye, VP of marketing and operations and former produt manager at Amazon,… Read More

June 16, 2015 @ 8:12 am By JD Alois  |  

Etsy is pushing into crowdfunding.  The wildly successful independent makers platform is launching a crowdfunding pilot program that melds e-commerce and the ability to raise capital prior to a product launch. This comes after a successful IPO that saw shares rocket to $30 shares only… Read More

March 25, 2015 @ 11:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canary today announced the much anticipated launch of their award-winning home security product with major retailers throughout the U.S. Since its successful Indiegogo campaign came to an end, which gained over $1.9 million, the New York City startup has shipped tens of thousands of units to 78 countries…. Read More

January 6, 2015 @ 8:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter, a longtime user of the Amazon Payments platform, announced today they have decided to stop using the service shifting their business to competitor Stripe.  Amazon, described as an “excellent partner” has been the platform that Kickstarter has used to process “$1 billion in pledges”…. Read More

July 28, 2014 @ 10:50 am By JD Alois  |  

In celebration of the White House Maker Faire, after a trip to DC, Indiegogo  fired up their very own Maker Challenge sponsored by Amazon and Autodesk.  The crowdfunding project commenced on June 18th and it finished on July 16th.  The winners were announced this past… Read More

November 27, 2013 @ 9:51 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The crowdfunding campaign for Play-i is in its final hours. The campaign launched seeking $250,000 to fund and prove a market for an interactive, cost-effective set of robots – named Bo and Yana – that would aid in teaching young children the basics of programming…. Read More

August 21, 2013 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

DonorsChoose Brings The Largest Selection Of Supplies And Resources To America’s Teachers DonorsChoose has announced a collaboration with Amazon to help America’s teachers access the supplies and resources they need most for their classrooms.  U.S. public school teachers use the DonorsChoose crowdfunding platform to request… Read More

June 22, 2013 @ 9:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Recognizing another opportunity to engage consumers while providing a needed service, Amazon has begun offering Gift Cards which you may crowdfund with others.  They believe that by offering customers the ability to “Grow An Amazon Birthday Gift with the help of your friends“, customers can… Read More

March 15, 2013 @ 1:50 am By TechCrunch  |  

A new gifting startup called Aggregift is launching an entirely new way to purchase goods on Amazon. The company, which has been quietly running its beta tests with a few thousand users over the past several months, allows users to initiate crowdfunding campaigns for gifts, which involve… Read More

March 14, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last month it was brought to our attention that Amazon Payments had stopped completing transactions on behalf of crowdfunding platform GetGayFunded.com. According to CEO Adam Kotkin, Amazon has now reinstated service. He has just sent the following letter: GetGayFunded’s relationship with Amazon Payments has been… Read More