35 Crowdfunding Platforms For Funding New Startups/Ideas

Richa Gangwani
BetaPage
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8 min readDec 5, 2016
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/29/how-to-successfully-run-a-crowdfunding-campaign/

As Per Wikipedia Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people. In simple words Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and of alternative finance. There are various that an entrepreneur earns from crowdfunding, check some of them here.

When we talk of startups, questions may arrive in our mind like, how they will survive? How the ideas are converted into reality ? How startups are promoted/marketed ? How they are made? Answer to these questions is through crowdfunding. So, here in this content you’ll find some of the useful websites that provide you with the service of Finance i.e. Crowdfunding. This is useful for all those individual who are thinking to come up with an startup or have any idea for the same.

→Crowdfunding Platforms

Kickstarter

Kickstarter helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other creators find the resources and support they need to make their ideas a reality. To date, tens of thousands of creative projects — big and small — have come to life with the support of the Kickstarter community.

Indigogo

Indigogo is redefining entrepreneurship — shifting it from being a privilege to a right. Because every inventive idea should have its shot, and every creative entrepreneur should have their moment.

Rockethub

RocketHub is definitely a popular station to fuel your project for launch. The site boasts a 3-step simple process to upload your project. You can then track the progress and status of your project.

We Evolve Us

We Evolve Us is a Small Business Solutions & free online neighborhoods to find Local Projects, Events & Funding Opportunities.

Gofundme

GoFundMe is the world’s largest social fundraising platform, with over $3 billion raised so far. With a community of more than 25 million donors, GoFundMe is changing the way the world gives.

Razoo

Razoo makes online fundraising easy, fun, and engaging for nonprofits, individuals, and communities.

Crowdrise

CrowdRise is the world’s No. 1 fundraising site for charitable and personal causes. Raise money for friends who need help, marathons and events, and over 1.5 million charities.

PledgeMusic

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

Kernl

With Kernl Users just need to upload short videos about their story which can be anything from a startup idea, school project, social cause, birthday treat for a friend, farewell party to a senior. Kernl will give you a unique and awesome platform to raise funds.

Crowdfunder

Crowdfunder is the equity crowdfunding leader for sourcing and funding high-growth ventures with a network of over 130,000 entrepreneurs and investors.

FundRazr

Fundrazr understand the difficulties of raising money, and we are passionate about providing an alternative funding source for startups, charities, and personal causes.

Hwterk

HWTrek (Hardware Trek) is a unique home for connecting hardware enthusiasts around the world — an ecosystem where hardware Creators, industry Experts and smart Customers come together, boosting the development of hardware projects and delivering next-level products to market.

Pozible

Pozible provides the platform for project creators to present their ideas to a connected audience, worldwide. If people love what you’re creating, they can support it by pledging money.

Ulule

On Ulule you can discover and help make wonderful projects happen. These projects are successfully financed only if they reach (or exceed!) their crowdfunding goal. Whether you are a project creator or a supporter, this page will give you complete details on how Ulule works.

Fundable

Fundable is the largest crowdfunding platform dedicated exclusively to helping companies raise capital through equity & reward fundraises.

Pitchdata.io

Pitch Data is a data-driven startup marketplace that improves the StartUp funding process by making it easy for founders to connect, share and build great personal relationships with interested & existing investors through their data.

Plumfund

A simple, free crowdfunding and cash gift site for all your fundraising ideas.

Patreon

Patreon helps creators of all kinds get sustainable income and connect with their biggest fans.

Leetchi

Leetchi is the ideal platform to collect money for group gifts, projects and nonprofits. 6 million people have already put their trust in Leetchi.

Thrinacia

Thrinacia team is comprised of developers, designers, support and infrastructure, individuals, allow people to create and provide the most secure, stable, scalable and comprehensive set of crowdfunding solutions available in market today.

Celery

Launching new products? Celery helps sellers sell, with an ecommerce, pre-order and crowdfunding solution you plug into your own site, in minutes.

MedStartr

Do you have a great idea or product and need to get it found and funded? MedStartr can help do just that. Medstartr average successful project raises $13,012 immediately and over $405,000 over the next six months.

Artstarter.io

Artstarter.io is a unique crowdfunding-platform for art. The platform gives selected international artists the opportunity to market their creations as limited edition prints. As soon as the art piece has a set amount of contributions, production will start

Gokudos

The synergy of area experts with cool algorithms to help people verify crowdfunding campaigns and warn about fraud and high risks projects.

Theupeffect

Crowdfunding and support for products doing good in the world.

Youcaring

YouCaring is dedicated to compassionate crowdfunding, providing free and easy online fundraising and support for humanitarian causes.

Donorschoose.org

Donors choose make it easy for anyone to help a classroom in need, moving us closer to a nation where students in every community have the tools and experiences they need for a great education.

Giveforward

GiveForward is the first place to turn when you or someone you love is facing a challenge. It’s the central hub to rally your community in giving and receiving real help when it counts.

Kiva.org

Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty.

Crowdfunder

You could be a community group, a start-up, a great cause, a charity or an organisation in need of some funding.You might be working on your own. It might be something we’ve never seen before. You can raise money through donations or by offering rewards, or with community shares.

AngelList

AngelList is the Fundraising and recruiting for tech companies.

Crowdcube

Having founded, and worked for several entrepreneurial businesses, crowdcube understand how difficult it can be to raise money to start and grow a small business. They want to give people the opportunity to become an armchair Dragon and build their own investment portfolio supporting exciting new British businesses.

Appfunder

AppsFunder is a funding platform, connecting mobile entrepreneurs and developers, with founders to realize great apps together.

Fundly

Crowdfunding provides the trust, transparency and ties necessary to make global giving both instantaneously impact and hyper-local. Fundly mission is to share the unlimited possibilities achievable by anyone with our platform.

Tala.co

Traditional credit excludes over 2.5 billion people worldwide — but Tala believe everyone deserves control over their financial lives and power over their futures.

If your startup or any idea is in need of funds ? Here is the solution for the same. Now you can easily develop amazing ideas into reality that will be further known as Startup.

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Richa Gangwani
BetaPage

Working as #Digitalmarketer with new #Startups. Currently with BetaPage https://betapage.co/