Crowdfunding

Grolia: Effortless gourmet mushroom growing at home.

Client:

Grolia

Industry:

Retail

Region:

Newcastle NSW, Australia

Duration:

8 Weeks

Budget:

$20,000

Grolia approached us with a bold vision: to make home-grown gourmet mushrooms as simple as using a kitchen appliance. Their product, Flush, is a compact, automated at-home mushroom grower with built-in environmental controls for temperature, humidity, and air exchange, designed to solve the problem of messy, high-maintenance mushroom-growing setups. 

But having a unique product and a passionate founding team wasn’t enough. Grolia needed a crowdfunding strategy to validate demand, convert interest into pre-orders, and build an engaged audience for post-launch growth. That’s where we stepped in.

We led the full marketing and launch strategy for Grolia’s Kickstarter, from pre-launch audience building to post-launch community engagement. The result: Flush went from concept to a successful crowdfunding launch with strong backing, brand momentum, and a foundation for long-term growth.

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Our Approach

Grolia’s challenge was twofold: educate consumers on why growing gourmet mushrooms at home is hard, and show them how Flush makes it effortless. Our strategy combined storytelling, community building, and data-driven marketing to build trust and urgency.

What we built
  • A full-funnel marketing campaign: from awareness and education to conversion and fulfilment.

  • A high-converting pre-launch landing page to capture interested leads and early-bird backers.

  • Visual and video assets showcasing Flush in real-world kitchens — focusing on convenience, quality, and lifestyle appeal.

  • A reward-tier and tier-limit strategy optimized for Kickstarter conversion dynamics.

  • Paid social media advertising targeting home cooks, sustainability-minded consumers, and urban gardening enthusiasts.

  • Email workflows and community communications to nurture warm leads pre-launch and convert them fast on launch day.

Every element was aligned to build social proof, reduce friction, and make backing Flush feel like joining a lifestyle movement.

The Solution

We delivered a holistic, data-driven launch solution, balancing storytelling, urgency, and community-building to maximize conversion and social proof.

Pre-Launch Preparation & Audience Building
  • Built and launched a pre-launch landing page to capture interested leads. This gave early visibility and allowed lead nurturing before the Kickstarter went live.

  • Created email nurture sequences to share product concept, benefits of home-grown mushrooms, and early-backer sneak peeks, warming up the audience.

  • Developed high-quality visuals and lifestyle content showing Flush in real kitchens, emphasising ease of use, aesthetics, and output quality.

  • Defined reward tiers and early-bird incentives to maximize urgency and early conversions, following proven Kickstarter best practices.

Launch & Conversion Strategy
  • On launch day, activated the warm audience via email & social, ensuring early backers and enabling strong initial momentum. Critical for Kickstarter visibility.

  • Ran targeted paid media campaign to reach home-growing fans, eco-lifestyle supporters, and cooking enthusiasts, amplifying reach beyond the core base.

  • Used compelling visuals, product demo videos or renders, and clear copy emphasising simplicity (“set-and-forget”), sustainability, and year-round mushroom growth, to reduce friction and build trust.

  • Responded quickly to backer queries, incorporated feedback in comments and updates, and leveraged social proof (testimonials, early reviews) to build credibility.

Post-Launch & Community Engagement
  • Maintained momentum with regular updates: production milestones, fruiting results, usage demos. All reinforcing community, generating excitement, and reducing pledge drop-off risk.

  • Built a foundation for ongoing brand growth: early backers as brand ambassadors, pre-orders as repeat customers, and a pipeline for future product versions or accessories (e.g. fruiting block subscription).
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Measurable results

From 0 to fully funded in 7 minutes. 2,700+ sign-ups at $5.49 per acquisition.

In pre-sales.

130

Backers.

Liam Kleyn

Co-founder

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