Flashcards: Crowdfunding platforms

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BnkToTheFuture, formerly BankToTheFuture, is a global online investment platform (Equity CrowdFunding) mainly focused on financial innovation and technology.

Bountysource is a website for open source bounties and since 2012 also for crowdfunding.

PledgeMusic is an online Direct-to-Fan music platform, launched in August 2009, that facilitates musicians reaching out to their fanbase (termed Pledgers) to pre-sell, market, and distribute music projects including recordings, music videos, and concerts.

Pozible is an Australia-based crowdfunding platform and community-building tool for creative projects and ideas.

Tenpages.com is a Dutch website for crowdfunding investments in books.

Watsi is a nonprofit healthcare crowdsourcing platform that enables individual donors to directly fund medical care for individuals in developing countries without access to affordable medical care.

Weeve was a free crowdfunding website for nonprofit projects founded by Alex Chung, Vincent Chu, and Trevor Loke and based in Vancouver, Canada.

CommonBond is a marketplace lender that lowers the cost of student loans for borrowers and provides financial returns to investors.

Tilt (formerly Crowdtilt) is a crowdfunding company that allows for groups and communities to collect, fundraise, or pool money online.

Invesdor is an equity-based crowdfunding platform based in Helsinki, Finland.

Mobcaster is a US website for crowdfunding television shows.

Piggybackr is a US crowdfunding website for students and youth teams to fundraise for their schools, projects, and causes online.

WeDidIt is a New York City-based company founded in 2012 that provides an online platform and a mobile app for nonprofits to raise funds.

Wefunder is a crowdfunding service which connects startups with investors online.

MicroVentures is an equity crowdfunding website offering investments in early stage companies.

Experiment, formerly called Microryza, is a US website for crowdfunding science-based research projects.

51Give is a Chinese e-commerce platform which provides online tools and processing services to enable the collection of charitable donations in China.

TrustLeaf is an alternative crowd funding service for startups and small businesses to raise money from friends and family using personal loans.

SeedInvest is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects startups with investors online.

Onevest is an investment crowdfunding site for startups where entrepreneurs are able to raise capital from accredited investors.

Abundance Investment (formerly Abundance Generation) is a regulated online platform that lets people lend money to projects providing a social and/or environmental good from as little as £5 per person.

Peerbackers is a crowdfunding web site where entrepreneurs can post projects and raise money to fund those projects.

Headstart is an Israeli crowdfunding site for entrepreneurs.

Community Funded is a crowdfunding platform based in Fort Collins, Colorado allowing project creators to create one or more fundraising projects on the site with the goal of helping people and organizations with projects find the ideas, funding, and resources they need to be successful.

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Invest Next Door is an online marketplace that enables accredited investors to provide loan financing directly to small and medium-sized enterprises in the United States.

FundRazr is a Canadian crowdfunding site and Facebook app first released in 2009.

Fundly is a crowdfunding site for online fundraising of all sizes.

FundedByMe is a crowdfunding portal based in Stockholm, Sweden.

GoFundMe is a crowdfunding platform that allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses.

Offbeatr was a US website for crowdfunding pornography.

Seedrs is an equity crowdfunding platform for investing in startups and later-stage businesses throughout Europe.

SeedUps is an equity crowdfunding platform for seed investment to launch and focuses on startup companies.

Betabrand is a retail clothing company and crowdfunding platform, based in San Francisco.

Emerging Crowd is a UK-based investment crowdfunding platform offering users equity and debt investments in unlisted emerging and frontier market companies.

Neighborly is a San Francisco-based online investment platform that allows individuals to invest in civic projects through municipal bonds.

Fig is a crowdfunding platform for video games.

In order to create a smooth and secure donation experience, both the schools and the contributors are supported by the project team.

AgFunder is an equity crowdfunding site based in San Francisco.

DigVentures is a social enterprise organising crowdfunded archaeological excavation experiences.

Seed&Spark is a film-centric crowdfunding and Video on demand platform launched in 2012.

LaunchGood is a crowdfunding platform focused on the Muslim community worldwide.

ImpactFlow is an online fundraising platform for nonprofits, businesses and individuals.

VentureCrowd is an Australian multi asset class crowdfunding platform, headquartered in Sydney, including equity crowdfunding, property crowdfunding and debt-based crowdfunding.

Patreon is a crowd-funding platform popular with YouTube content creators, musicians, and webcomic artists.

SyndicateRoom is a UK online crowdfunding platform that invented the investor-led model of equity crowdfunding, headquartered in Cambridge, and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (formerly the FSA).

StartEngine is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects startups with investors online.

YouCaring is a free crowdfunding website for personal and charitable causes.

The Audience Engine is an open-source, customizable suite of fundraising tools for public radio being developed by the Congera Corporation, a subsidiary of WFMU Radio.

Planeta.ru is a Russian crowdfunding site, currently the biggest in the country.

Sellaband is a music website that allows artists to raise the money from their fans and the SellaBand community in order to record a professional album.

RocketHub is an online crowdfunding platform.

Tubestart is a crowdfunding website that focuses on YouTube video creators, providing them a platform to raise funds to produce their videos.

Trillion Fund is a equity crowdfunding platform that raises money for environmental and social projects.

MyMajorCompany is a crowdfunding platform in Europe.

Citizinvestor is an American-based civic crowdfunding website that describes itself as a "crowdfunding and civic engagement platform for local government projects.

Companisto is an international equity-based crowdfunding website.

Loudsauce is a San Francisco based crowd funding platform for sponsoring ads for social change founded in 2009.

ArtistShare is one of internet's early crowdfunding platforms.

Crowdcube was established by Darren Westlake and Luke Lang in 2011 and is the world’s leading investment crowdfunding platform.

EarlyShares is an online platform for real estate fundraising and investing.

Innovestment GmbH is a German website for crowdfunding equity investments based in Berlin and Frankfurt.

InvestedIn is a crowd funding website for fund raising projects and charity events such as walkathons and celebrity cause-based campaigns.