James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
My roots started as a wee little child of 4 or so where I stood up at the end of a small town musical production of Alice in Wonderland saying "I want to do that." Since then it was dance school and many theatre productions both big and small carrying me to Broadway and various Off-Broadway productions as well as commercials and films.
That's for the singing and performing, but songwriting came a touch later, maybe middle school; writing on the Yamaha keyboard that I still own and use to compose believe it or not. My earliest influences came from listening to various artists like The Everly Brothers and Linda Rondstadt to 50's swing, John Denver, and anything that was laid heavy with harmony. I found that even at 6 I was singing along to the radio in harmony, never melody... still do more often than not. Now my influences are just anything I deem good which could mean a perfectly put together pop song, to indie music to the sound of silence, or the deep woods speaking.
I taught myself guitar somewhere in college just by pressing the strings baby, with no idea what I was doing. I still have no idea what I'm doing only that I like it. Then I wrote and wrote to my little hearts content.
Other than that, I love dogs (perhaps too much), good vegan & raw food, wine, dancing at midnight in Nice, France, looking for the love in everything and learning to accept the things I can not change. Hokey, but true.
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