Israeli Crowdfunding Campaign - Turn your suitcase into a writing table project - gets funded in four hours

A Daily Wrap-up of some of the interesting stuff that’s going on in the crowdfunding scene:

Geektime.co.il is breaking news on an Israeli Carry-on suitcase Kickstarter project that got funded in 4 hours. The goal was 15K, but it’s getting close to 120K as this is being written, and there are still 18 days to go.

Samsara, the suitcase’s name, is built of types of aluminum, that “combines Titanium, Magnesium and Zinc, creating a material that is not only lightweight and durable, but also fireproof”.

The flat top of the suitcase serves as a perfect surface for a laptop, and you can charge it or charge your smartphone up to 10 times, if your laptop is USB-C compatible.

https://youtu.be/t71ubNyRYNw 130K campaigns for college expanses on GoFundMe since 2014 The Washington Times writes about a father trying to get his son into Clemson University, and gives this amazing stat: Crowdfunding is quickly becoming an alternative approach to rising tuition costs. According to a GoFundMe guidebook released in February, more than 130,000 campaigns have been created since 2014 to raise money via the online platform for college expenses, and those campaigns have raised more than $60 million from more than 850,000 donors. A new community energy crowdfunding platform businessGreen reports that Leading community energy developer Mongoose Energy will today announce the launch of a new crowdfunding platform, offering people the opportunity to invest in community-scale renewables projects. The company said the new initiative would tie investors with UK community energy projects and allow them to invest through community energy bonds within a tax-free Individual Savings Account (ISA) wrapper, regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).