After announcing new location, Columbus cookie shop raises $60,000 in 15 minutes, breaking website record of 28 hours

If you ask us, raising $60,000 in 15 minutes isn’t too shabby.

That’s exactly what the popular local concept Lion Cub’s Cookies did in a fundraising campaign to help open a Worthington storefront that was announced yesterday at 9 a.m..

The launch actually began at 9:22 a.m. because the store’s Honeycomb page, the crowdfunding website used for the campaign, crashed after fans flocked to Honeycomb following the announcement of the new location yesterday morning.

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Lion Cub’s then opened a second round of investments, netting an additional $40,000 for a total of $100,000 that will go toward the new storefront.

”We are absolutely blown away by the support we just received from the Columbus community. We expected a strong turnout, but we did not expect to hit our funding goal in just 15 minutes,” said Lion Cub’s founder and CEO Bradley Kaplan in a press release. “Thank you so much to everyone who has been following along and supporting us throughout the years. A special thank you to everyone who just backed our crowdfunding campaign too, we’re still in disbelief over here and we feel the love!”

According to Lion Cub’s, the initial $60,000 raised in just 15 minutes broke a Honeycomb record for the shortest amount of time to reach an investment goal. The site’s previous speed record was 28 hours.

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