Kickstarter, based in Brooklyn, recently announced the acquisition of the lice streaming company Huzza. Huzza, based in Vancouver, ofers interactive live video for just about anyone interested in producing. The platform offers users the opportunity to stream live events and to interactively chat and communicate with the audience.
The major crowdfunding player saw the opportunity to diversify and to acquire a company they had previously worked with. In November of 2015, Kickstarter launched its Kickstarter Live platform with the assistance of Huzza. Huzza will ow be focused on the development of Kickstarter Live and will sunset the remainder of their operations at the end of February. Kickstarter intends on some doing some hiring to assist with their, now, new international office in Vancouver.
Regarding the Live project, the company stated that, “Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects. Everything from films, games, and music to art, design, and technology. Kickstarter is full of ambitious, innovative, and imaginative ideas that are brought to life through the direct support of others. Since the company’s launch, on April 28, 2009, 12 million people have backed a project, $2.8 billion has been pledged, and 118,836projects have been successfully funded.”
Six Kickstarter-funded films have been nominated for Academy Awards. One of them, Inocente, took home an Oscar in 2013. Kickstarter-funded albums have topped Billboard charts, won Grammy Awards, and given music-industry legends newfound creative freedom. Kickstarter has watched artworks go on to be exhibited at MoMA, the Whitney Biennial, the Kennedy Center, the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian, and the American Folk Art Museum. Kickstarter has seen comics nominated for Eisner Awards, dances performed by the Martha Graham Dance Company, new inventions adopted by tech giants, and at least a dozen items launched into space. One project even won the American Helicopter Society’s elusive Sikorsky Prize, unclaimed for thirty years.
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