We’re excited to announce that we’ve completed our community round, via Wefunder. In late July of 2021, we set aside ~$5M to allow our customers... (2022)
We launched an abnormally fast source of emergency science funding during COVID-19. The results revealed flaws in current science funding models. (2021)
Patreon has tripled its valuation to $4 billion in a $155 million funding round led by Tiger Global, the company confirmed to The Wall Street Journ... (2021)
When it comes to capital raising, entrepreneurs have been increasingly tapping their own crowds. We explore the types of crowdfunding and share tip... (2020)
Founders can raise $5 million through crowdfunding, up from $1.07 million, and certain demo day communications will not be deemed general solicitat... (2020)
Membership platform Patreon, which enables musicians and other creators to connect with fans, has raised $90 million from investors, bringing its v... (2020)
The tabletop gaming community has quietly been shifting toward a new type of funding model where fans have increasing say over which games make it ... (2020)
Patreon Capital exists because Patreon is a business that pays out a significant amount of the money it pulls in to the people who populate its pla... (2020)
In an effort to show just how diverse funding options can be, Max Tuchman shares how she navigated raising $1.7M by going the equity crowdfunding r... (2019)
The service, which lets fans pay creators, will process more than $150 million in contributions this year. (2017)
India has a new unicorn after BigBasket, a startup that delivers groceries and perishables across the country, raised $150 million for its fight ag... (2019)
Video game legend Chris Roberts has spent seven years building "Star Citizen," drawing in money from average gamers in the world's biggest crowdfu... (2019)
Jordan Peterson, the darling of the anti-PC crowd, is making bank. (2017)
Facebook’s Fan Subscriptions feature, which rolled out last March to a handful of pages, is a Patreon competitor that lets users pay $4.99 a month ... (2019)
Can smarter airdrops help crypto projects build communities and keep speculation at bay? (2018)
This year’s selloff in virtual currencies has done little to dent investor enthusiasm for initial coin offerings, which attracted a record $12 bill... (2018)
But we still don’t have consensus mechanisms that can scale to transaction speeds that are typical of mainstream web apps, we don’t yet have consen... (2018)
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) analyze particular business activities and allow management to determine which course of action to take in order ... (2018)
The SEC and ICO participants must work together to find a reasonable market fix to the current royal mess... (2018)
GoFundMe, the startup that focuses on crowdfunding for charitable causes, has made another acquisition to scale up its platform: It has acquired Yo... (2018)
This article was co-written and published in French by Augustin de Cambourg and in Portuguese by Raphael Mielle. The box has a value. The more thin... (2016)
The SEC's actions against U.S. ICOs appear to not only be discouraging innovation, they're leaving even experts confused about the state of play. (2018)
Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's media lab, the startup raised the funds to continue developing its own public blockchain - p... (2018)
Scrapping public tokens for free airdrops has become the new way crypto issuers are building communities and even keeping themselves out of trouble. (2018)
Today’s ICOs are deeply flawed and lack the right incentives. Tokenized Securities Offerings (TSOs) are the solution. At Sia, we have closely w... (2018)
We're currently getting ready for demo day at YC, which means quite a lot of pitch practice. Here are the main points of feedback we tend to give t... (2018)
A video of Yung singing the Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” has been viewed millions of times in the past week, but he's been down this—and ... (2018)
Mike Yung is raising funds for I Will Never Give Up. on Kickstarter! I've been busking in the subway for 38 years. I'm raising money to get my... (2018)
I’m a fan of busking. I always drop some change in the basket. A little entertainment underground goes a long way with me. As the narrator says ... (2018)
For some entrepreneurs, raising capital is effortless. When you see a company raise tens of millions of dollars, series after series, especially if... (2017)
Kickstarter for my album... (2018)
On Republic, anyone can invest in startups. Become an investor in cutting-edge private companies with as little as $10 ✅ (2021)
Buy Me A Coffee is the best way for creators and artists to accept one-off support and membership from their fans. (2020)
Fund your work. Build what matters.. GitHub is where people build software. More than 36 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribu... (2019)
StartEngine is One of The Nation's Leading Equity Crowdfunding Platforms. StartEngine Allows Everyday People The Opportunity to Invest Online a... (2018)
Patreon is a membership platform that makes it easy for artists and creators to get paid. Join over 50,000 creators earning salaries from over 1,00... (2018)