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May 04 2021

We Love You, Moms: Our Favorite Mom-Related Campaigns for Mother’s Day

Here at Indiegogo, we love Mother’s Day. The hard work of being a mother often goes unnoticed, and we relish the chance to honor the world’s moms for the tireless work they put in. In a normal year, this barely enough. But this year, moms around the world deserve extra recognition for the herculean efforts they’ve put in during the pandemic to care for their families.

In an effort to support the campaigns that help support moms thrive, we picked our top 11 favorite mom-related campaigns (and one bonus campaign too!). If you want to see these campaigns go to market and make them a reality, show your support by backing these campaigns and helping their visions come to life.

Here are our 10 favorite mom-related campaigns of the year:

1. Letters to My Brown Mother: Stories on Mental Health in the South Asian Diaspora

Letters to My Brown Mother is about the struggles with mental health in the South Asian (desi) diaspora. The book details experiences of everyday South Asian immigrants and children of immigrants. Written by Muzna Abbas, Letters to My Brown Mother aims to dismantle the stigma surrounding mental health in the South Asian community. Mental wellbeing is rarely prioritized or discussed in South Asian households, causing many to suffer in silence without any help and support. This book will outline how to overcome cultural factors in an effort to prioritize mental health.

2. Ceres Chill: The World’s First Breastmilk Chiller

Ceres Chill is the World’s First Breastmilk Chiller and the only grab-and-go solution for busy parents and caregivers. Safely store breastmilk for over 20 hours with style and convenience no matter where life takes you. It’s truly a cutting-edge, patent-pending design that will keep up with the demanding lives of modern parents. By backing this campaign, you’ll bring the Ceres Chill closer to being available to mother near you.

3. Lomi: Turn Waste To Compost With A Single Button

Food waste doesn’t have to be nasty. The team behind the Lomi compost system is changing composting from a grimy, smelly affair into a hands-off, odor-free one by turning food scraps into compost at the press of a button, perfect for any eco-conscious mom’s kitchen.

4. Zumy: Quality Light For Video Meetings

Moms are asked to do a lot these days, and working mothers in particular often find themselves running between attending the kids and Zoom meetings — not always a recipe for looking presentable on video calls. Enter Zumy, the portable, clip-on light that helps you look brilliant in Zoom meetings, videos, and photos. No more fussy mounting hardware, just clip and go. Support Zumy so you can see this product come to life and help working mothers, no matter which home they’re working from.

5. ORIMEI: The First Packable Coat for On-The-Go Women

The Orimei UME Packable Coat is a compact, wrinkle-resistant coat created to be minimalist, timeless, and fashionable. The Orimei coat folds compactly into an over-the-shoulder purse and is designed to aesthetically and functionally meet the modern-day woman’s everyday on-the-go needs.

6. The Book of Cultures: Stories to Explore the World

The Book of Cultures is a picture book with 30 fictional stories featuring characters from different countries around the globe. The stories are lovingly created to introduce children to the wonders of our world and encourage them to embrace diverse perspectives. It’s an educational experience for young readers to not only discover the differences that make our planet so special, but also to uncover the similarities we often overlook.

7. Snorble: For Imagining A Better Bedtime

Snorbles. Flutterflies. The Rainbow River. These are all part of the imaginary land of Lullaboo the Snorble team has created to address a serious issue: developing healthy, consistent, customized bedtime routines for children. If you’ve ever found it difficult to get your child calmed down and relaxed by bedtime, Snorble understands. What about getting them to sleep in their own bed instead of yours? Check. Brushing their teeth? Putting their pajamas on? Check, and check. Snorble gets it, and he’s ready to make bedtime fun.

8. 360 Robot Vacuum Cleaner S10: Two-in-One Mop & Carpet Cleaning

It’s 2021. Time to start thinking about cleaning your home in 3D. Most robot vacuum cleaners today are living in 2D, but the team behind S10 Robot Cleaner has different ideas.

Triple-eye LiDAR sensors put the S10 ahead of its class, allowing it to 3D scan your home in ways other cleaners can only dream of. It detects objects as slim as .04 inches, then decides in real-time to steer clear or hoover it up, ensuring a thorough clean without any surprises.

And it never asks for a day off.

9. Monument 2: Smart Photo Storage and Organization

Monument is a smart photo storage device that automatically backs up and organizes all of your photos and videos while protecting your privacy and security. Monument is smart enough to organize all of your memories by people, scenery, location, camera and more while automatically eliminating duplicates. It’s more intuitive than what you’re doing, and without clutter. With built-in SSD, Monument provides you the reliability that you can trust for your precious memories. SSD is the fastest, most reliable storage technology. That’s what any mom needs for her photos.

10. MamaP: The Game-Changing Sustainable Dish Brush

Meet MamaP’s newest creation, the Do the Dishes brush. It’s the eco-friendly brush you didn’t know you were waiting for. What makes the MamaP different? A replaceable brush head, made out of natural wood and sisal fibers, replaces unsustainable products in your kitchen. And the plastic handle is made of post-consumer recycled plastic, diverting waste from landfills. The best part? Its ergonomically designed handle makes for a better more comfortable grip. Back this campaign to bring it to life!

11. PastedPaper: Reimagining Wallpaper

Imagine gorgeous, easy-to-use, organic sheets of removable high-quality wallpaper. Imagine no more, with PastedPaper. With the help of its backers, PastedPaper will be available in an assortment of historic designs based on antique artwork, allowing you to easily bring timeless, unique, and affordable elegance into your home.

Honorable mention (for all the dog moms out there): Monch Bar

After delivering over half a million meals to dogs, the team behind Monch Bar stumbled on a new problem: keeping your dog’s energy topped off during their daily dose of exercise. If you’ve ever tricked packing kibble in a plastic bag, and left a mess in your backpack? Or maybe even just finding crumbled treats in your pockets? Monch Bar aims to have you covered. Creating individually wrapped bars for easy to grab and go, keeping it affordable, without any fillers, artificial coloring, and preservatives! Back it today before it hits the shelves, your dog will thank you later!

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May 01 2021

Ocean Protocol Reveals that its Market Now Features Compute-to-Data, a Privacy Preserving Way to Exchange Data

The developers at Ocean Protocol (OCEAN), which allows software engineers to build marketplaces and other apps to privately and securely publish, exchange, and consume data, have revealed that Compute-to-Data has landed in the Ocean Market.

According to the Ocean Protocol team, Compute-to-Data “enables buying and selling of private data while preserving privacy.” As explained in the update, this “resolves the tradeoff between the benefits of using private data and the risks of exposing it.”

As mentioned in the announcement:

“With Compute-to-Data, data never leaves its owner’s premises. Data owners can monetize data while preserving privacy and control, yet data buyers can create value from it with analytics, AI modeling and more. All via the Ocean Market interface.”

Some of the Compute-to-Data benefits that AI practitioners can take advantage of:

They can “access valuable, private data that was previously unavailable, which can lead to more accurate AI models. And without liability – they don’t see the data.”
They can also “publish and monetize algorithms” and can “even stay private.”

Businesses and entrepreneurs are able to quickly launch their own Ocean-powered data marketplace for their particular vertical. Ocean Compute-to-Data assists them with “further preserving their sellers’ privacy and support more compute and AI flows.”

Compute-to-Data in Ocean Market is “a major milestone in our 2021 roadmap & a big step towards our vision of data as a new asset class,” the update noted.

As reported in February 2021, Ocean Protocol had announced the second round of OceanDAO (distributed autonomous organization or DAO) grant results.

The developers at Ocean Protocol, who are focused on building the new data economy, confirmed that the OceanDAO Round Two has officially concluded (on February 5, 2021).

For people who might not be familiar with OceanDAO, it’s a grants DAO that’s curated by the Ocean community, for “growth and long-term sustainability” (more details here).

Ocean Protocol noted in a blog post that proposal submissions for OceanDAO Round Three had been “officially open.” And last month, the OceanDAO — Round Three Grant results were announced.

As mentioned in the update, OceanDAO Rounds are “monthly, with project proposals due on the first of every month.” During Round Two, the top 9 highest-voted grant proposals from the “snapshot ballot” were chosen to receive 10,000 OCEAN (valued at just over $9,100 in February of this year) in order to “foster positive value creation for the overall OCEAN ecosystem.”

The Ocean ecosystem “becomes self-sustainable” as the Web 3.0 (an evolving set of standards for the Internet of the future) data economy builders leverage Ocean Protocol to develop products, services, and resources that the community may find useful or valuable.

As covered in January 2021, Ocean Protocol Founder Bruce Pon had explained how crypto became a reliable asset class and store of value in 2020.

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Apr 28 2021

Four Reasons Why Your Family Needs a Bedtime Routine

This is a guest blog post by Snorble team.

No matter how old we are, having a bedtime routine can make a drastic difference to how well we sleep and how quickly we’re able to get there. More importantly, starting a good routine at an early age (Carolyn from Fennell Seeds started her children at only two weeks old) can help to ensure it’s followed throughout the person’s life. What other benefits are there to developing a bedtime routine for your family?

1) It Can Help to Trigger Your Child’s Wind Down Process

Even at a young age, children can notice patterns, so maintaining a consistent routine each evening helps to develop their association with certain cues to bedtime. According to Erin from The Incremental Mama, this consistency can help to avoid tantrums and encourages a feeling of control and order within the child.

2) It Can Help Everyone Measure Their Progress

As the routine becomes familiar, both your child and you will be able to understand what’s next and what is left before bedtime. Although this might seem daunting at times, especially when one task is taking longer than usual, it can still provide a clearer goal than a night without a routine.

*More than just another sleep trainer, Snorble is an engagingly sweet, interactive character who even learns your child’s name.*

Note: Many parents recommend a timer to help ensure progress is made with each step, and Snorble is great at keeping things running on time.

3) It Can Make Adopting Other Routines Easier

Once you’ve got the bedtime routine working well (we won’t say “mastered” since there will always be a hiccup here or there. Seriously, how many times can a teddy bear go missing?), developing routines for other things should be easier. In fact, as Tina from Mindfulmazing points out, having a good bedtime routine is an important part of ensuring your morning routine goes smoothly too.

4) It Can Make Your Night Easier

As we mentioned, there’s always the chance of bumps in the road, but a good bedtime routine helps to minimize such things. Better yet, as your child becomes accustomed to the routine and the steps involved, there will be steps in which they can act independently to complete the required task before you both move onto the next one. Depending on how long it takes (it’s a well-known fact that sometimes pajama legs are just too tricky to put on all alone), this independence can provide you with the time to accomplish something else in your own bedtime routine. Or maybe even give you a moment to breath. Maybe.

For these reasons and more, Snorble has been designed to support your family in developing a great bedtime routine, and they have a number of options to ensure each part of the process goes as smoothly as possible. Better yet, you can customize each part of the routine based on what you know is best for your family.

If you’d like to learn more about how Snorble is designed to help your family achieve a better bedtime, check out our Indiegogo campaign page.

*Snorble’s magical lights, sounds, and other features generate a soothing, enchanting environment that helps keep your child comfortably in bed. And if your little one wakes up,* *Snorble helps them self-soothe with bedtime stories, breathing exercises, and more.*

Header photo by Mark Zamora via Unsplash

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Apr 28 2021

Cultured Meat Startups Are the Trend to Watch

Heads up, meat lovers. Biden’s climate plan isn’t the biggest threat to the beef and chicken products you love so much. Neither is plant-based “fake meat.” The biggest threat to traditional meat is the “meat” being developed by new technologies right now.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) wrongly tweeted this week that “Joe Biden’s climate plan includes cutting 90 percent of red meat from our diets. They want to limit us to about four pounds a year.”

She wasn’t the only politician raising a fuss. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) dubbed the commander in chief “the Hamburglar.”

Hey, guys, there’s no meat on these bones. Their beef stems from a University of Michigan study that said if hypothetically we reduced our meat consumption by dramatic proportions, hypothetically we could lower greenhouse gas emissions on a similarly significant scale.

Limiting American’s real meat intake to four pounds a year is not on anybody’s political agenda.

But here’s something to chew on. Five years from now, you may not even care what’s “real” meat. We’re in the early stages of developing tasty alternative proteins. The space is only 7-to-10 years old. If faux-meat product companies Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat don’t do it for you, there’s plenty more alternatives nipping at their heels.

Cell culture is an intriguing technology that could challenge traditional meat. It allows meat “to grow” from cells obtained from animals. And the process to get the cells doesn’t kill the animals.

Cell-cultured meat is already on grocery market shelves outside the U.S. And it’s getting close to reaching the U.S.

There’s also academic research and startups working on sophisticated cuts of meat and chicken alternatives, as well as fish substitutes.

Some of these products are a decade or more away from commercialization. Others are right around the corner. Startup Eat Just is readying its latest product: cultured chicken (made from cultured cells).

So is lab-grown meat real or not?

Eat Just CEO Josh Tetrick is adamant on this point. He says that as opposed to plant based, it’s real in every way. Just no chicken was killed. Eat Just’s product has been approved to sell in Singapore and is awaiting approval in the U.S.

Another cell-based meat producer is Memphis Meats. It’s offerings include whole burgers, ready to sell to restaurants and stores right now. Memphis Meats is in discussions with the FDA and the USDA on how to “best” label its food products.

My favorite company in this space is Israeli-based Redefine Meat. I’ve been following this company for more than a year. It uses industrial 3D printing to create steaks. The “ink” is made of plant-based ingredients similar to what a cow eats. The technology fully replicates the muscle structure of beef. It is high in protein and has no cholesterol. And according to the company, it looks, cooks, feels and tastes like beef. Much to my frustration, I’ve never tasted one. But they sure look great…

An illustration of the 3D printed whole muscle cut of beef by Redefine Meat (Courtesy)

Redefine Meat aims to sell its printers and cartridges to meat distributors worldwide, who will both print and distribute the meat once produced.

I believe meat lovers (including me) should rejoice at the new options hitting the market. We’re not under attack. On the contrary, startups want to please us. We’re a huge market. And a growing number of us want to eat healthier — but without giving up red meat. And with this new technology, we’ll continue to get our choice of cuts, organic meats, choose fresh or frozen, etc. None of that changes.

But, thanks to startups, we’ll have additional optionality, choosing from an array of alternative protein foods, including ones that not only convincingly mimic meats but grow real meat.

There are plenty of enticing startup investment opportunities here. I’m keeping a close eye on this space and will let you know if any good ones pop up.

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Apr 27 2021

CoinShares Reports that “Poor Sentiment” for Bitcoin led to Low Inflows of $1.3M, “Masking Improving Appetite” for Ethereum

James Butterfill, Investment Strategist at London-based CoinShares, a digital asset manager focused on expanding access to the cryptocurrency ecosystem while serving as a “trusted partner” for its clients, notes in a blog post published on Tuesday (April 26, 2021) that “poor sentiment” for Bitcoin led to “low inflows of $1.3 million, masking improving appetite for Ethereum.”

Butterfill further noted that flows for digital asset investment products “slowed to their lowest weekly figure since October 2020 at just $1.3 million.”

He added:

“Worries over Bitcoin mining issues in Xinjiang, China, spooked the market with assets under management (AUM) $10 billion lower than the previous week. AUM now sits at $54 billion. The low inflows overall mask varied flows amongst the digital assets. Outflows were primarily focused on Bitcoin with $21 million, being the largest weekly outflow on record.”

Butterfill pointed out that this outflow needs to be taken into context as “it represents only 0.05% of AUM, while weekly inflows this year average 0.6%.” He also mentioned that trading volumes amongst investment products “did now challenge the bitcoin market, remaining at a low 5% of total bitcoin volumes.”

He also noted that outflows were seen in XRP where, “following a record week of inflows, saw outflows of $17.5 million.” Meanwhile, Binance “saw outflows of $4.6 million.”

The report also noted that Ethereum “bucked the trend with investment product inflows of $34 million.” Inflows year-to-date of $792 million “represent 8% of total AUM, the recent rise in weekly inflows highlight a renewed positive sentiment amongst investors.”

You can check out the complete report here.

As covered last week, CoinShares had revealed that XRP had seen inflows of $33M, which had almost doubled its AUM.

As reported earlier this month, CoinShares had reached $5 billion in AUM.

The milestone came less than two months after CoinShares announced the launch of a new physically-backed ETP, CoinShares Physical Ethereum (Ticker: ETHE). According to CoinShares, ETHE will be the second product released on the firm’s institutional-grade ETP platform and will launch with approximately $75 million in assets under management.

CoinShares further revealed that ETHE will initially be listed on the regulated SIX Swiss Exchange and has a base fee of 1.25%, establishing ETHE an attractive option for institutional investors looking for an accessible ethereum investment vehicle with a fee below the industry standard of 2%.

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