Kickstarter launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler.^[8] The New York Times called Kickstarter "the people's NEA".^[9] Timenamed it one of the "Best Inventions of 2010"^[10] and "Best Websites of 2011".^[11] Kickstarter reportedly raised $10 million funding from backers including NYC-based venture firm Union Square Ventures and angel investors such as Jack Dorsey, Zach Klein and Caterina Fake.^[12] The company is based in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn.^[13]

Andy Baio served as the site's CTO until November 2010, when he joined Expert Labs.^[14] Lance Ivy has been Lead Developer since the website launched.^[15] On February 14, 2013, Kickstarter released an iOS app called Kickstarter for the iPhone.^[16] The app is aimed at users who create and back projects and is the first time Kickstarter has had an official mobile presence.^[17]

On October 31, 2012, Kickstarter opened to projects based in the United Kingdom,^[18] followed by projects based in Canada on September 9, 2013,^[19] Australia and New Zealand on November 13, 2013,^[20] and Denmark, Ireland, Norway, and Sweden on September 15, 2014.^[21] and in Spain on May 19, 2015.^[22]

 Kickstarter is an enormous global community built around creativity and creative projects. Over 10 million people, from every continent on earth, have backed a Kickstarter project.

Some of those projects come from influential artists like De La Soul or Marina Abramović. Most come from amazing creative people you probably haven’t heard of — from Grandma Pearl to indie filmmakers to the band down the street.

Every artist, filmmaker, designer, developer, and creator on Kickstarter has complete creative control over their work — and the opportunity to share it with a vibrant community of backers.

Since our launch, on April 28, 2009, 11 million people have backed a project, $2.5 billion has been pledged, and 109,593projects have been successfully funded.

Indiegogo was founded to Revolutionize Funding:

When creative people work together, amazing things happen. Danae Ringelmann grew up seeing her parents struggle to get small business loans. In his spare time, Eric Schell attempted to help a Chicago theater company get funding. Slava Rubin fundraised for a cure for Myeloma, the disease that killed his father. They came together because they found a fundamental flaw in the system: for centuries, access to funding had been controlled by a select few. Your crazy, cool, genius ideas were getting stuck.

Danae, Eric, and Slava founded Indiegogo in 2008 to shift the power into your hands—to empower creative, entrepreneurial people everywhere to bring their ideas to life. We can’t wait to see what you create next.

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While crowdfunding might be reaching maturity (in Internet years), there are still a number of myths and misconceptions out there that we’d like to debunk for you. Start your Indiegogo: http://bit.ly/1yTrsPB

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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.^[2][3] The company is based inSan Diego, California.^[4][5]

The company was founded in May 2010 by Brad Damphousse and Andrew Ballester. Both had previously founded Paygr which is a website dedicated to allowing members to sell their services to the public.^[6] Damphousse and Ballester originally created the website under the name "CreateAFund" in 2008 but later changed the name to GoFundMe after making numerous upgrades to the features of the website.^[7][8] In June 2015, it was announced that Damphousse and Ballester had agreed to sell a majority stake in GoFundMe to Accel Partners and to step down from the day-to-day oversight of the company. The deal valued GoFundMe at around $600 million.^[9]

GoFundMe is a personal online fundraising platform for individuals, groups and organisations that has raised over $780 million since 2010.

You can select from three types of Crowdfunding campaigns:

* Personal Donation (this is the most popular type) where people can raise money for things like medical bills, school tuition, volunteer travel and more. There is no need to worry about deadlines or goals, as every payment is made in real time, and is yours to keep.

* Charity fundraising, where you can search GoFundMe´s database of millions of US and UK charities to raise money for the one you choose, and every donation gets sent directly to the charity you have chosen.

* All or Nothing for projects, products and startups, and supporters are charged only if the goal is reached by the deadline set (available to US customers only).

Easy to use website, with clear instructions on how to go about setting up a CrowdFund. They now have a mobile app you can use to setup and launch your campaign.

Learn about crowdfunding and raising money online with GoFundMe, the world's most popular fundraising website. Over $2B raise from millions of donors: http://www.gofundme.com

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PledgeMusic is the leading, global direct-to-fan platform.

PM is dedicated to empowering artists, labels and brands to build communities, fund and pre-sell recordings, and provide unique experiences and exclusives throughout the entire music production and promotion lifecycle. Our community of more than 3,000,000 superfans and over 50,000 artists continues to grow weekly because we all believe there’s a better way to experience music and share the unique relationship between artist and fan.

PledgeMusic was conceived and launched by then-musician and now Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Benji Rogers in a London basement in 2009. Our universe now spans the world — with ambassadors in musical hotspots including Austin, New York, Berlin, Nashville, London, Boston, Sydney and L.A. — and has expanded with the acquisition of NoiseTrade, which helps artists and labels meaningfully connect with fans through the exchange of free music for email and postal data, and Set.fm, a technology platform which allows musicians to capture and sell live performance recordings.

Crowdfunder.co.uk helps you raise funds to make your great idea a reality.

If you are a community group, a business, a charity, a social enterprise, a sports club, or a person with the spark of an idea that you want to turn into reality, then we want to help you fund it.

Thousands of people have used Crowdfunder to successfully raise funds from the community around them.

Crowdfunder enables you to setup your crowdfunding projects, create your crowd and collect payments from your backers. Everything you need to fund your great idea.

We work with projects across the UK to help them with the following types of funding from the crowd:

• Rewards-based crowdfunding

• Community Shares

• Equity crowdfunding

https://youtu.be/516GG1wfVRU

Phil Geraghty, Managing Director of Crowdfunder.co.uk explains how rewards based Crowdfunding works. Add your project today to www.crowdfunder.co.uk and help us Crowdfund the future.

Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. We celebrate and support people looking to create a better future for themselves, their families and their communities.

By lending as little as $25 on Kiva, anyone can help a borrower start or grow a business, go to school, access clean energy or realize their potential. For some, it’s a matter of survival, for others it’s the fuel for a life-long ambition.

100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes to funding loans. Kiva covers costs primarily through optional donations, as well as through support from grants and sponsors.

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This is what 10 years of people believing in each other's dreams looks like! More than 1.8 million people around the world have made a loan on Kiva to help someone start or grow a business, go to school or support their family.

Did you know there are millions of people who have never even heard of Kiva? We need your help to reach them and show them how easy it is to change a life with a loan.

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Thanks for everything you do to support Kiva and borrowers around the world!

Our vision

We envision a world where all people hold the power to create opportunity for themselves and others.

We believe providing safe, affordable access to capital to those in need helps people create better lives for themselves and their families.

How we do it

Making a loan on Kiva is so simple that you may not realize how much work goes on behind the scenes.

Kiva works with microfinance institutions on 5 continents to provide loans to people without access to capital. 100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes directly towards funding loans; Kiva does not take a cut. Kiva relies on donations from our generous community to cover our operating costs.

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