Top 10 Crowd Funding Platforms

Top 10 Crowd Funding Platforms

Top 10 Crowd Funding Platforms
Last Updated: Sep 11, 2019

The technique of funding by collecting a small number of bucks from a large community via the internet is considered as crowdfunding for a project or venture.

The foremost vital characters in this platform are three groups or individual: one is who propose the creative projects, second is who, or the group who support the idea and want to fund for the project and the third one is the platform itself which is giving a medium to discuss about the new design and provide secure medium of funding.

In this article, we have discussed the top 10 best crowdfunding sites of 2019.  

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  • Kickstarter

    At first Kickstarter is one of the best crowdfunding platforms. It is an American non-governmental company based in New York. It manages a crowdfunding network on creativity and merchandising. The main motto of the company is to help creative projects to live.

    According to the survey of May 2019, Kickstarter has received funds from 16.3 million backers to support 445000 projects. This includes films, music, stage show, comics, journalism, etc.People who fund Kickstarter projects are offered rewards in exchange for their funds. Kickstarter helps artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, and other ideas. They find resources from global backers to make their ideas a reality.

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  • Indiegogo

    It is one of the popular online crowdfunding sites founded in 2008. Its headquarters are situated in San Francisco and California. This site is one of the first sites which offer to crowdfund. It allows its users to get funds on any creative idea, charity, or any start-up business.

    It charges 5% on funding; more than 10 million people visit this site every month. This site runs on the reward-based system. It means the donors, investors, and customers who want to help to fund a project or product can donate and receive a reward from the site. It trends next to the Kickstarter. Indiegogo has a number of advantages that its counterparts don't provide. For instance, This site has flexibility in funding that lets users keep in financing that has raised, even when users haven't been able to reach the goal.

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  • Patreon

    It is the top crowdfunding platform for raising a start-up. Patreon is a crowdfunding memberships platform based in the United States that offers business tools for creators to run a subscription contact service with the method for artists to build relationships to provide absolute experience to their patrons.

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  • GoFundMe

    GoFundMe is an American based for-profit platform of crowdfunding. On this site, people can raise money for the event ranging from life periods such as the celebration and graduation to challenging situations like an accident. This site allows the user to help in real-time.

    From 2010 to 2019, over $5.8 billion was raised on the platform for 2 million unique campaigns and 50 million donors. This company is based in California. GoFundMe is a free platform in countries like the United States of America, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, and Spain. It is an excellent site, and their idea is so good, they are helping in the time of suffering.

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  • CrowdRise

    CrowdRise is for-profit crowdfunding sites for a business or personal project. CrowdRise was acquired in 2017 by GoFundMe. It is not as popular as the sites given above. CrowdRise has garnered attention for its focus on crowdfunding "real-world issues" over funding for-profit ventures. This site is also used to provide college scholarships, weddings, birthday parties, etc. Nowadays, it is part of GoFundMe even though it offers excellent facilities to its users.

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  • Pledge Music

    PledgeMusic is an online direct-to-fan music platform. It was first launched on August 1, 2009, that was started to help musicians in reaching their base of fans to pre-sell, market, and distribute music projects including recording clips, music, videos, and concerts.

    It is also a crowdfunding platform site as ArtistShare, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Patreon, RocketHub, and shell bound. But unfortunately, this site has to face bankruptcy in May 2019, after a year of artists reporting on a slow payment problem, this site was wound up on July 31. The founder of this site is Benjie Rogers. It was the best site of crowdfunding on music for musicians to get paid for their recording clips. A lot of music company worked under the banner of this site. This site helped a lot of musicians to grow up.

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  • Razoo

    Razoo is a crowdfunding online platform where users can donate as well as raise funds for any project, event. It is a fundraising tool for a lot of non-profit organizations. It's essential features, including banded online fundraising form, pages, and widgets, donor management, and rich data analytics.

    This tool was available only for the computer desktops and but now it is optimized for mobile devices, and it provides a basic and clean user interface for configuring crowdfunding campaigns for any cause including personal, charity, giving an event, projects and so on. In this site, the user can highlight the fundraising, events, projects featuring most fundraising efforts. This platform provides unique features to users, which are not given by the above platforms.

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  • Rocket Hub

    It is an online crowdfunding platform launched in 2010 and based in New York City, its users—including musicians, entrepreneurs, scientists, game developers, philanthropists, filmmakers, photographers, theatre producers/directors, writers, and fashion designers, —post fundraising campaigns to it to raise funds and awareness for projects and endeavours.

    platform operating in over 190 different countries, RocketHub was once considered one of America's leading crowdfunding platforms. LaunchPad is presented which offer for RocketHub members to work with top-notch organization and marketers to help them raise public wishes and seek more potential chances for the projects. But get range from photography exhibition venues to 4-week media outreach campaigns with top marketers. An excellent plan for creatives such as artists, photographers, and musicians who seek rare opportunities and publicity.

  • Crowdfunder

    It is an equity investment site for any early-stage start-ups, democratizing access to capital for Entrepreneurs, and institutionally backed deal flow for Investors. With the passage of the JOBS Act in 2012, angel & venture investing is moving online.

    Crowdfunder has built a leading equity investment platform for sourcing and funding early-stage ventures with a network of over 145,000 entrepreneurs and investors. Crowdfunder provides the opportunity for direct online investments, often into start-ups backed by leading Venture Capital firms and private investors.

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  • Give

    Rather than a website, Give is a WordPress plugin that can be installed in the blog to help users collect donations from visitors. This is also the best idea of crowdfunding. However, it's meant for non-profit ventures only, so it's not a "beg for money to pay your rent" type of plugin. On the other hand, it doesn't take any fees for collecting donations.

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