Huge Partnership Announcement! InVision, Weebly, Shopify, Hubspot and 40+ more Marketplace Vendor Partners.

We’ve been finalising the agreements for months, and we are now excited to to announce a whole host of marketplace partners which will be integrated into the Acorn platform’s first-of-its kind marketplace.

Staying true to our core values of promoting access, supporting success and increasing transparency, we want to offer our crowdfunding founders immediate, and in many cases heavily discounted, access to some of the world’s leading brand names.

By providing access to an extensive selection of services and tools they need, Acorn’s Marketplace acts as a ready-made suite that helps founders achieve success at both campaign and project delivery stages.

These partnerships are made up of a long list of international and respected B2B and B2C brand names. We are still in discussion with many more and will update you as further partnerships are added.

Here’s a spotlight on some of our partnerships and what they will mean:

Market Your Project with…

Hubspot for Startups

Regardless of what stage founders are at, they will need to build their audience of potential backers for their project. Hubspot is a world leader in inbound marketing and sales, with a world renowned CRM, where founders can manage all of their marketing, social media and sales activity in one place. As part of the Hubspot for Startups partnership, Hubspot will be giving every founder marketing and sales software at a 90% scholarship for the first year, saving an average of $17,000!

Email Marketing Platform AWeber

We recognise that founders need help spreading the message of their campaign far and wide, and they need the tools to do this. Founders will have access to AWeber — email marketing specialists who help small businesses build their audiences with email outreach and analysis.

Beautiful UX from InVision

InVision is a digital product design platform built to give your site the best user experience. The company has massive clients, from Airbnb to Amazon, HBO, IBM, Starbucks, Uber and Netflix — in fact 80% of the Fortune 100 companies use them.

Recognising the power of a globally accessible crowdfunding platform, InVision will offer a 6 month free ‘starter’ package to all new founders using the Acorn platform.

A Dynamic Website with Weebly or Wix

Many of our founders may be at a stage where they haven’t yet built their own website.

Weebly helps entrepreneurs build easy-to-use websites for e-commerce and other sites, including integrated marketing. They currently have more than 50 million customers around the world. Our unique partnership with Weebly will give Acorn platform founders an exclusive 25% discount on website building and design.

With over 100 million users worldwide, Wix is another of the leading platforms to build your website. Our founders will have instant access to create and promote their website.

Show- Stopping Video and Animation with Animatron

Campaign videos can increase a founder’s chance of reaching their raise target by 85%. We have partnered with Animatron — animation and video makers — to give founders the chance to make the ideal marketing video or animation to support their campaign and future business. Our founders will receive a huge 50% discount when using their video making services.

Business Support with Seedlegals

We want to encourage the building of a business, not just a project or product. This is why we’ve teamed up with Seedlegals — a highly respected legal support company who are experts in supporting businesses to grow. They will be on hand to help a business to complete all necessary paperwork and agreements, and offer unlimited legal support. Acorn founders will be given 90 days free and a 30 minute consultation.

Selling Your Products with Shopify

Shopify is one of the world’s leading e-commerce platforms with over a million active users. Luckily for Acorn founders, we are partnered as affiliates with Shopify — allowing founders to immediately sell their products online after their campaign ends.

Company Perks With Perkbox

Because many of our founders will be building businesses, we want to offer them Perkbox, a market-leading engagement platform for employees of small, medium sized, and larger businesses.

Protect Yourself with Norton Security & Lastpass

Anyone who has run a start-up will know the importance of online security. This is why we’ve added security and password protection super giants Norton Security and LastPass as affiliate partners for all founders using our platform.

Social Media Campaigns with Missinglettr

Social media can be a time consuming activity for any start-up which is why we want to connect all of our founders with Missinglettr, who offer strategic, automated social media marketing services.

Other partnerships

We’ll be releasing further details of other partnerships soon, but these are just some of the marketplace vendor partners who will be on the Acorn platform;

Omnify, Laterooms, GoToMyPC, GoToAssist, Open Voice, Moo, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar, GoToMeeting, Grasshopper, Moo, ClickMeeting, join.me, LogMeIn Rescue, Bold360, GoToAssist, LogMeIn Central, LogMeIn Pro,GoToMyPC, thehungryjpeg, Equifax Small Business, Namecheap, domain.com, DesignCrowd, 1&1 Internet, VisitorsCoverage, PicMonkey, Duda, articoolo, contentmart, ClockIn, Wrike, salesmate, Jive, Equifax, Fotor, Visitors Coverage.