Crowd-Funding Campaign to Raise $257,920 in 15 Days or Less to Fund Nordstrom, REI Orders

SEATTLE, WA–(Mar 8, 2016) – Kickfurther, a leading inventory and invoice financing crowd-funding platform that connects companies and backers seeking qualified short-term deal financing, announced today it has partnered with SODO Apparel Inc. (SODO), a premium athletic apparel company for men, to finance their inventory for its product line on the Kickfurther crowd-funding platform.

All SODO products are created through athlete-driven design. SODO develops world-class performance fabrics in conjunction with top global mills, utilizing these unique fabrics in styles specifically requested & tested by elite athletes. SODO currently works with over 40 professional athletes from 30 professional teams to develop their gear, which is carried by Nordstrom, REI, and elite Seattle gyms.

SODO’s inventory offering goal is to raise $257,920 USD before the funding close date of March 19, 2016. They are offering 10% profit to their backers over a projected 7.6-month term. This is SODO’s second campaign with Kickfurther after raising $45,273 USD in their first offering within 10 minutes, and repaying their backers 75 days earlier than scheduled. “SODO is in hyper-growth mode right now. Kickfurther allows us to fund our production quickly without having to give up equity. It’s a great deal for us, and a great deal for our backers on Kickfurther,” said Mark Nelson, founder & CEO of SODO.

Click here to see SODO Apparel’s offering on Kickfurther

About Kickfurther
Kickfurther is a leading inventory and invoice financing crowd-funding platform that connects companies with backers seeking qualified short-term deal financing. Our platform enables productive growth oriented companies seeking capital to finance production to share their sales opportunities with backers interested to put their money to work in short term profit opportunities in the retail supply chain.

Businesses post offers by choosing the amount of inventory capital they need, the profit percentage backers will earn, and a projected timeline based on sales history. Since its 2015 launch, Kickfurther has funded more than $4.3 Million in 214 offers by more than 170 companies. Their backers have earned an average greater than 2% consignment profit per month on completed offers.

For additional information, please visit Kickfurther.com.

About SODO Apparel, Inc.
Headquartered in Seattle’s SoDo district & founded by Seattle natives Mark Nelson, Lars Haneberg, Julie Stevenson, and Laura Hosford, SODO is a premium men’s athletic apparel brand. SODO has been seen on top NFL, NBA, and MLB athletes across the country (#SODOsighting). Follow us on twitter (@SODOapparel) and Facebook (Facebook.com/SODOapparel).

For additional information, please visit www.sodoapparel.com.

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Mark Nelson
Founder, CEO
SODO Apparel, Inc.
Email: mnelson@sodoapparel.com
Direct: 425 442-9300

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CMO
Kickfurther, Inc.
Email: erik@kickfurther.com
Direct: 908-698-3130

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The Game Provides Toddlers With the Mathematical Basics They Need

NEW YORK, NY- (Mar 8, 2016) – Counting Parrots, a new educational math app for kids by Yingele, announces today that a research from the University of Missouri supports the educational app by suggesting that teaching preschoolers to actually count numbers, not just recite them, will better prepare them for success in math once they start school. The app is available for download with two versions: free and extended for $5.99 on the App Store, Google Play and Amazon.

Counting Parrots app by Yingele, provides a fun, entertaining rudimentary mathematics learning experience for children ages 3-7. Through the game, children learn to count to 20, associate numbers with quantities, practice patterns and grouping, understand simple equations, and strengthen fine motor skills and memory. Throughout the game, the children have a goal – they must teach the parrots to fly by different counting activities. Each time they play, they get a different combination of experiences, and the games increase in difficulty as they progress through the series.

Louis Manfra, an Assistant Professor in MU’s Department of Human Development and Family Studies says, “Counting gives children stronger foundations when they start school… When they’re counting, they’re performing a more cognitive activity in which they’re associating a one-to-one correspondence with the object and the number to represent a quantity.” Manfra added, “The skills children have when they start kindergarten affect their trajectories through early elementary school; therefore, it’s important that children start with as many skills as possible.”

The research discovered that kids who could recite and count to 20 in preschool had the highest math scores in 1st grade. However, less than 10 percent of the children in the study could count and recite to 20, according to the University.

Yingele CEO, Yosi Bloomshtein noted, “This research backs Counting Parrots game educational goal – to provide toddlers with the mathematical foundations they need for first grade, along with entertaining format and colorful parrots, kids really enjoy to learn math.”

About Yingele
Yingele is a company who specializes in creating early childhood educational games, amongst the “Counting Parrots” game, with 25 years of global experience. Its approach is firmly rooted in the philosophy that creating a fun environment is the first step in sharing the joy of learning. All of Yingele’s products are based on the latest educational and psychological research on the acquisition and development of language and numerical skills. Yingele founders, Joseph Bloomshtein and Michael Becker, bring years of experience creating dynamic game-based learning to their apps. Bloomshtein developed numerous educational games, including some for the Sesame Street workshop. Becker is a professor of linguistics at SUNY Stony Brook and earned his PhD from Harvard University.

For more information please visit us at: www.yingele.com

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Yingele
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www.yingele.com

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