Los Angeles-based Seed&Spark, a startup that operates an online, crowdfunding site for filmmakers and creators, has named former Kickstarter executive John Diamatos to its team. According to the startup--which focuses on films with a theme ...

Los Angeles-based Exploding Kittens, the developer of the card game of the same name, has raised a huge, $20M equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm. Details on the fundraising effort have not yet been announce...

The game makers behind the card game, Exploding Kittens say they have raised $1.3M--so far--from their crowdfunding effort to develop a new came, called "Throw Throw Burrito". Elan Lee and Matthe Inman said that their new game effort "combi...

Santa Monica-based GNARBOX--the maker of the popular Gnarbox rugged backup device used for backing up digital camera photos and videos--has launched a new crowdfunding effort for its second generation device, the GNARBOX 2.0 SSD. The compan...

Pasadena-based desktop 3D printer maker New Matter, which is backed by Idealab, said today that it has rolled out its second generation of its 3D printers, the MOD-t (2nd Gen). According to New Matter, it is launching the new generation of ...

Santa Monica-based GNARBOX, the developer of a portable device which connects to both your smartphone and your GoPro, DSLR, or other camera to enable on-the-spot editing, backing, and sharing, has raised $8.5M in a funding round, according ...

Playa Vista-based BEZALEL, one of the companies to emerge out of the USC Viterbi Startup Garage, said this week that it has launched a new, Kickstarter campaign to fund production of its universal, wireless charging case for the iPhone. Acc...

Think that crowdfunding project that is getting so much hype is too good to be true? That might just be the case. The Federal Trade Commission just made its first move to crack down on fraudulent crowdfunding efforts, saying Thursday that i...

Sure, it has been quite a wet week in Southern California this week—however, we're not out of California's long running drought yet. Can a smart sprinkler controller be the answer to the drought? Startup Blossom (www.myblossom.com) thi...

Do you wish you could control your Christmas and other holiday lights using your smartphone? Tired of a tangled mess of wires? A couple of Southern California developers are pitching a new Kickstarter project to allow you to wirelessly powe...

San Diego-based Hush, a startup out of the EvoNexus incubator, has blown past its initial crowdfunding goals, raising more than $105,000 so far in the first five days of the company's crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Hush is developing...

Los Angeles-based TYLT, the consumer electronics company related to TYLT Labs, announced today that it has started shipping a new, travel charger which combines a USB wall charger with portable battery. The company said its Energi 2K Travel...

Los Angeles-based high tech education and amusement company Two Bit Circus, which was founded by Brent Bushnell, said it has set the date for its S.T.E.A.M. Carnival, the company's crowdfunded entertainment event which it has been describin...

Tired of handing out your business card at local networking events? A Los Angeles startup has just launched a new Kickstarter project, aimed to make your necktie double as a business card--using the ubiquitous QR code. QRtie launched its Ki...

Kickstarted, a new online community focused on successfully crowdfunded projects, launched today, in an effort to connect the organizers of crowdfunded projects from such sites as IndieGogo, Kickstarter, and other projects with customers. T...

Mike Macadaan, the designer behind MySpace's redesign in 2009, has a new project: a Kickstarter effort to fund the design of a line of electronics accessories to organize your pile of electronic charging and accessory cords. Macadaan--who a...

Aliso Viejo-based Arkami, the company behind the MyIDKey Kickstarter project which stores passwords and online IDs on a secure Bluetooth and USB drive, has raised $1.8M in a funding round, the firm said Tuesday. According to Arkami, the fun...

There are lots of "pie in the sky" projects on Kickstarter, the crowdsourcing site--with many devices that you sometimes wonder if they're possible, or if they'll ever get to market. Unlike those, however, one of the latest projects, Acti...

A new, Los Angeles startup is hoping to make it easier for action sports fans to track their moves on their smartphone and a mobile app--plus a new device--if it can get funding on Kickstarter. According to ActiveReplay, it has launched Tra...

Irvine-based Oculus VR, a developer of a virtual reality headset for gaming enthusiasts, said Monday that it has raised $16M in nan investment round. The round includes Spark Capital and Matrix Partners. Oculus VR is headed by Brendan Iri...

It's official--Los Angeles-based brainwave-tapping startup Melon is within a couple of thousand dollars of hitting its $100,000 fundraising goal, to bring its combination headband-and mobile-phone app to market. According to the company's K...

Only hours after the launch of its crowdfunding effort on Kickstarter, Los Angeles-based Melon is making progress towards the halfway mark on its crowdfunding goal of $100,000. According to the company's Kickstarter page, the firm was past ...

Think you need to find a venture capitalist or angel investor to help you fund your great new idea for a videogame? Think again. A Newport Beach-based videogame publishing firm, inXile, has just raised $1.9M (and counting) in funding on t...

Doorbot, the wireless, video-enabled doorbell created by Santa Monica-based Edison Jr., the hardware project and idea startup headed by Jamie Siminoff, has reached its crowdfunding goal of $250,000, according to Edison Jr. The firm said tha...

The POP Charger, the multi-device, mega charging Kickstarter project which was created by Los Angeles-based Edison Junior, the new consumer electronics startup headed by Jamie Siminoff, has received a reprieve, and might just be built after...

Remember the POP Charger, that mega-recharging device being developed by Edison Junior? Well, apparently, it's not happening. Edison Junior said that it is refunding the full, $139,170 raised in its Kickstarter campaign to develop the devic...

How do you spur more people creating software, hardware, devices, and more in Los Angeles? A new group, LA Makerspace, headed by Tara Tiger Brown, is hoping to create a new, non-profit community space all around creating new things. The gro...

A new mashup map of activity on crowdfunding site Kickstarter shows that Southern California is apparently one of the hotbeds of activity on the site. The site shows that an astonishing 671 projects on Kickstarter are in the area -- second ...

The POP Charger project on Kickstarter, the electronics charging device being developed by local serial entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff, closed out its funding effort on Kickstarter over the weekend, raising a total of $139,170 out of a $50,000...

Is crowdsourcing donations a reasonable alternative to seed funding? Based on the experience so far of POP Charger, the Kickstarter project being run by local entrepreneur Jamie Siminoff, it seems to be. According to the project's page Wed...