These include deals for funding, manufacturing, distribution, marketing and promotion, and deals with employees.
The project's Kickstarter campaign to fund manufacturing has already collected twice the target goal of $10,000, with more than half their campaign still to go.
Funding, manufacturing, and distribution models are still being worked out, but the company can make between 500 and 1,000 tests per day at its Cambridge facility and hopes to obtain regulatory approvals so that the liver test can reach patients by 2014, says Jason Rolland, who leads engineering efforts as the company's senior director of research.
To get to this point it took to Kickstarter to help fund manufacturing costs, raising close to $50,000.
Haptix's creators, who have just kicked off a Kickstarter campaign seeking $100,000 to help fund manufacturing costs, are Darren Lim and Lai Xue.
Yet agriculture startups struggle to get the funding, manufacturing, and test facilities needed to build tech that could boost food production.
At the time of writing, Codie still has to hit its $70,000 crowdfunding goal to fund manufacturing and software dev costs.
Enfojer's Croatian creators are seeking $100,000 on Indiegogo to fund manufacturing costs of the device — but it's not a fixed funding campaign so they'll get to take home whatever the crowd decides to shower on them.
The Illumoscope — currently seeking $60,000 on Kickstarter to fund manufacturing costs — is a case for the iPhone 4/4S/5 that has built in macro photography optics plus a light conditioning system to allow for optimal illumination of whatever it is you want a closer look at.
The Kickstarter campaign was extremely successful and raised more than enough capital to fund manufacturing and the first production operation.
