Blackroom is an upcoming game that was  planned to be crowdfunded on a platform based in what New York city?
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Blackroom (video game) Blackroom is an upcoming FPS title from the independent studio Night Work Games, created by former id Software developers John Romero and Adrian Carmack. The game was planned to be crowdfunded on the Kickstarter platform, but the project was cancelled in april 2016. The game is set to launch during the Winter quarter of 2018.
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Kickstarter Kickstarter is an American public-benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". Kickstarter has reportedly received more than $1.9 billion in pledges from 9.4 million backers to fund 257,000 creative projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, technology and food-related projects.
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Dog Parker Dog Parker is a membership based pay-by-the-minute doghouse service launched in a private pilot program in Brooklyn, NY in October 2015. The company plans to install dog houses across New York City, as well as other locations across the US.
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Money room The money room, in New York City Transit Authority parlance, refers to a formerly secret location that handled cash collected in the system and recycled tokens formerly used throughout the automated fare collection system.
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New York City Economic Development Corporation New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes economic growth across New York City's five boroughs. It is the City's official economic development corporation, charged with using the City's assets to drive growth, create jobs, and improve quality of life. The agency has its headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
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Bid on the City Bid on the City (BidOnTheCity.com), launched in New York City in April 2009, the first live online real estate auction site to use real time video and audio streaming. The firm was co-founded by Albert Feinstein and Vlad Sapozhnikov with more than $3,000,000 of initial investment. Currently, it operates in New York City, Westchester, the Hamptons, Florida London, England, and Moscow (Russia).
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Zynga Zynga is an American video game developer running social video game services founded in July 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops social games that work stand-alone on mobile phone platforms such as Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone and on the Internet through its website, Zynga.com, and social networking websites such as Facebook, Google+, and Tencent QQ. Zynga states its mission as "connecting the world through games." The company was named in honor of Zinga, CEO Mark Pincus' deceased American bulldog.
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Companisto Companisto is an international equity-based crowdfunding website. It was founded by the lawyers David Rhotert and Tamo Zwinge in June 2012, in Berlin. Investments are between 5 and 500,000 Euros per investor with no limit on how much funding a startup can raise. Companisto allows investors to invest in startups. In return, they become shareholders and are entitled to a share of any profits, as well as potentially benefiting from an exit. Companisto has over 70.000 investors from 92 countries.
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BlackPlanet BlackPlanet is an African-American social networking service for matchmaking and job postings; it also has forums for discussion on political and social issues.
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ArtistShare ArtistShare is the internet's first crowdfunding platform for musicians. It also operates as a record label and business model for creative artists which enables them to fund their projects by allowing the general public to directly finance, watch the creative process, and in most cases gain access to extra material from an artist. According to Bloomberg News, the company’s chief executive officer, Brian Camelio, founded ArtistShare in 2000 with the idea that fans would finance production costs for albums sold only on the Internet and Artists also would enjoy much more favourable contract terms. ArtistShare was described in 2005 as a "completely new business model for creative artists" which "benefits both the artist and the fans by financing new and original artistic projects while building a strong and loyal fan base".
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Zoo York (company) Zoo York is an American company that designs and markets skateboards, apparel, sneakers and accessories. The company was founded in 1993 by skateboarders Rodney Smith, Eli Morgan Gessner, and Adam Schatz. The brand serves up a wide range of casual, utilitarian looks for men and women that takes creative inspiration from New York City's skateboarding, hip-hop, and graffiti cultures. The current Zoo York team consists of Chaz Ortiz, Aaron Suski, Forrest Kirby, Kevin Taylor, Dave Willis, Kevin Tierney, Travis Glover and Ian Twa.
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BlockParty BlockParty is an upcoming free online game portal and social network service, which will be served by the Los Angeles-based Nexon America, a subsidiary of South Korean Nexon Corporation. BlockParty will succeed the current Nexon America game portal by taking over the portal service of MapleStory, Mabinogi, Combat Arms, Dungeon Fighter Online, PopTag!, Vindictus and Atlantica Online as well as future Nexon America games.
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The Muse (website) The Muse (formerly known as The Daily Muse) is a New York City-based online career source founded in 2011 by Kathryn Minshew, Alexandra Cavoulacos, and Melissa McCreery. The company aims to build the "most beloved, trusted career destination in the world" for the millennial age group and older professionals by offering job listings, company profiles, expert advice, skills-building resources, and coaching services to the millions of candidates using the platform.
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Lyft Lyft is a transportation network company based in San Francisco, California. It develops, markets and operates the Lyft car transportation mobile app. Launched in June 2012, Lyft operates in approximately 300 U.S. cities, including New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles and provides 18.7 million rides a month. The company was valued at US$7.5 billion as of April 2017 and has raised a total of US$2.61 billion in funding.
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Jeff Merritt Jeff Merritt (born May 16, 1978) is an internationally-recognized leader in the area of smart cities and government innovation. He currently serves as Director of Innovation for the City of New York as part of the Mayor's Office of Technology and Innovation. Merritt is also known for his work as founder of the New York City nonprofit organization, Grassroots Initiative, where he organized the first exclusively online public election in the United States.
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Foresite Capital Foresite Capital is an American venture capital and growth equity firm. The company has offices in San Francisco and New York. As of May 2017, the company had raised three funds, Foresite Capital Fund I, II and III.
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Michael Slaby Michael Slaby currently runs the Chicago-based startup he founded, Timshel, which developed the platform known as The Groundwork.
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MusicBee (crowdfunding) MusicBee is a crowdfunding platform focused on independent music based in Hong Kong. The company stated its mission as to gather resources and help bring independent music projects into life, providing musicians with dreams and opportunities. MusicBee has reportedly received $2 million funding over 15 music project within one year.
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Rally.org Rally.org is an American social online fundraising platform for use by a wide range of individuals and organizations. It allows users to set up their own fundraising page, through which supporters can find information about their campaigns and make donations through Rally.org's proprietary payment system. The platform is best known for its use by causes including the Make A Wish Foundation and Jon Bon Jovi's Hurricane Sandy relief effort, filmmakers including the director of "Buzkashi Boys", and political campaigns in the United States 2012 election cycle. In May 2012, Rally.org closed the largest Series A round of venture capital ever raised online. The company was founded in Austin, Texas, as Piryx, in 2009 by Tom Serres, Brian Upton, Jonas Lamis and Naveed Lalani.
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Airbrite Airbrite is an e-commerce software company that helps small businesses and crowdfunding graduates process orders. Founded in 2012, when it graduated from the incubator Y Combinator, it is backed by such venture capital investors as YC's financing arm, Ron Conway's SV Angel and others. The company is based in San Francisco, California.
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FinMkt FinMkt is a New York City-based crowdfinancing firm founded in 2011 under the name Crowdnetic and rebranded in 2016. It operates the Marketplace Lending Gateway, a computing platform that connects loan applicants to potential alternative funding sources, and also runs Lending Gateway, Lendvious.com, and CrowdWatch.co.
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The Shade Room The Shade Room is a media company, founded by Angelica Nwandu in March 2014. Instagram-based, The Shade Room offers celebrity gossip on an hourly basis, predominantly within the African American community; The New York Times called it the "TMZ of the internet.” "Shade" in this case refers to a slang term for gossip.