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Welcome to Hybrid Funding, a new kind of white-label, customizable, crowd-funding, peer 2 peer lending and equity funding platform that offers the best from everything that's already available...
Ryan Wallis, founder of the white label crowdfunding platform Hybrid Funding shares his thoughts on how aspiring platform operators should enter the crowdfunding market. His advice? Pick a niche, not a fight with the crowdfunding giants.
This platform not only provides all the current methods of crowd funding that we all know but offers a variety of new and creative features never seen before. From ransom funding, micro services...
A new hybrid crowdfunding startup has emerged out of the University of Virginia called Seedville.The Charlottesville startup allows local residents to crowdfund local businesses. In it’s current...
By pooling funds and creating matching funding opportunities, sCOOLfund is creating a new model that makes education funding much more personal. Unlike scholarships that may leave a gap, sCOOLfund...
“In Israel, we are passionate about clean water and renewable energy technologies,” said Medved, founder of OurCrowd. “Water is our most critical resource, and as a result we have become a global...
New Trends in Publishing lead a California educator, Joseph Gutiz, to seek help in funding by offering pre-orders of his humorous, anti-bullying, and pro sports children's book through the...
From the perspective of project creators, Bryan thinks that majority of Asians are still pretty unaware of crowdfunding. Thus outreach, awareness and education is important for the project creators...
In the previous installment of the platform roundup, we highlighted 99Designs’ new German-language site, a list of the top colleges compiled by the crowd, a crowdfunding platform for sports, an e-Learning crowdfunding platform, and EarlyShares’ Small Business Challenge. Today, we feature a few more crowdsourcing and crowdfunding initiatives that recently caught our eye.
In this paper, they investigates the current funding mechanisms available to early growth biotechnology companies, the potential of Crowdfunding and hybrid investment models to finance...
SeedAsia is the first equity crowdfunding site to launch in the region, although the equity funding trend has been taking off in the US, where there are apparently over 200 such sites. One of...
Through crowdfunding, 33Needs, along with other platforms like KIVA, Funding Circle, and UnLtd, are changing the way social enterprise is funded.
These platforms offer more efficient 
capital movement than traditional funding sources, and are able to significantly scale the social impact because, according to Josh Tetrick, Founder and CEO of 33Needs, it inherently builds up a community of people that become supporters since it creates a connectedness that is not possible through venture capital and angel investors. The investor is excited about his or her investment and will work hard to spread the word and raise awareness through social media and their own personal network.
I have identified four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of 
these models to meet their objectives. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity.
In the second in a series of three posts, Dorothy Sanders looks at the two predominant funding models employed by project-based crowdfunding platforms.
Despite its ties to public money, CrowdCulture works pretty much the same way as any other crowdfunding site. A supporter of a specific project can choose to donate money to projects through their...
A shift in terminology may even be in order: crowdfunding, via which film-makers reach out for help with the financial costs of a particular project, is becoming increasingly blurred with...
Gambitious, a crowdfunding platform for video games, announced its official launch today. The platform advocates the ‘hybrid’ model of crowdfunding, which consists of both donations and investments. We speak with the cofounder, Mike Wilson, to bring you the latest.
Yomken is a hybrid crowdfunding and open innovation platform that launched only last month in Cairo. The platform is the creation of 24-year-old Tamer Taha, who was able to raise seed funding from the World Bank’s Youth Innovation Fund to start the site.
The American Institute of Architects recently engaged the research and advisory firm massolution to explore the possibilities of crowdfunding for architects. We feature some findings from the report.
In a really exciting first in the world of crowdfunding, the Rushmore Group which runs private members’ clubs in London has become the first business ever to raise more than £1m using a crowdfunding platform. Based in the UK, Crowdcube is one of the first business finance crowdfunding platforms for businesses to raise equity finance. Crowdcube launched in 2010 as the “next generation of business investment” and offers a new way to fund start-ups and business expansion by providing budding entrepreneurs a platform to connect with ordinary people and raise venture capital.
Selecting Crowdcube for its fundraising platform, Jonathan Downey, founder and owner of the Rushmore Group, opted to use the crowdfunding model over other methods for raising capital needed to expand the business. Sensationally, the Group raised the money in the space of four weeks from 143 investors.
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