“After a trip to Thailand, a pair of sneakers destroyed and a hundred hours walked with our heavy backpack we came up with the idea of developing the most versatile footwear,” said Espinós in a statement.įounded in Barcelona in 2016, Tropic is a Spanish startup focused on creating versatile pieces that could span our lives, allowing people to focus more on getting outside and less on packing the right gear. The idea behind the 4-in-1 footwear came about after the CEO, who is an experienced traveler with more than 40 countries visited, discovered something on a trip to Thailand. Tropic’s sneakers provide the benefits of aqua shoes, the comfort of sport shoes, the technical outsole materials of hiking shoes, and the styling of your favorite daily pieces, according to their website. So far, developer Adam Poots is hard at work delivering the goods for the backers, making sure that his RPG will be one of the best tabletop strategy games. Last fall, and with relatively little fanfare, tech and marketing veteran Everette Taylor became the new CEO of the crowdfunding behemoth Kickstarter. It received 12,393,139 from 19264 different backers. Tropic has collected more than double the EOZ Air headphones ($1,050,200 from 9,099 backers), which, to date, topped the ranking, followed by the game Heroquest 25 anniversary (€679,927 12,052 backers) and the console SMACH Z (€474,530 1,293 backers). Kingdom Death is officially the highest-backed board game on Kickstarter. Tropic became the largest crowdfunding campaign in the footwear category in the history of Kickstarter and is the most successful Spanish company on the platform. During this time, it sold over 35,000 pairs of sneakers in pre-orders. The Kickstarter campaign ended yesterday, June 14, 50 days after its launch. The most recent game, Zombicide: Green Horde, has been the most profitable crowd-funded project yet and tabletop gamers have been most impressed with its mechanics. “Beyond the amount of money raised, which is outrageous, we are left with the number of people who have trusted us, and the traveling community that we have managed to create in just two months,” the Tropic team remarked via El Referente. CMON has produced more successful Kickstarter campaigns for the Zombicide saga than most companies have produced for board games period. In less than an hour, its creators had achieved their financing goal of €12,500, and in just 24 hours, raised more than €100,000.ĬEO Alberto Espinós tells Novobrief that Tropic began another crowdfunding campaign yesterday, this time on Indiegogo, and it has already seen an extra €20,000 in pledges. The Tropic campaign on Kickstarter began on April 24. Crushing a Kickstarter goal of €12,500 with €2,140,416, Spanish sneaker startup Tropic will look to begin shipping its latest line of versatile footwear in September.
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