Crowd Supply

Crowd Supply, Inc.[1]
Type of site
 Crowdfunding
Headquarters Portland, Oregon, U.S.[1]
Founder(s) Lou Doctor[2]
CEO Josh Lifton[3]
Website crowdsupply.com
Launched 2012[1]

Crowd Supply is a crowdfunding platform based in Portland, Oregon.[4][5][3] The platform has claimed "over twice the success rate of Kickstarter and Indiegogo",[6] and partners with creators who utilize the service, providing mentorship resembling a business incubator.[7][8][9]

Some see Crowd Supply's close management of projects as the solution to the fulfillment failure rate on other crowdfunding platforms.[10] The site also serves as an online store for the inventories of successful campaigns.[11]

Notable projects from the platform include Andrew Huang's Novena, an open source laptop.[12]

Endorsement by Free Software Foundation

In 2015, Crowd Supply became compliant with the Free Software Foundation's Free JavaScript campaign, and was endorsed as the FSF's preferred platform for crowd-funding efforts.[13][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Crowd Supply, Inc.: Private Company Information - Businessweek".
  2. ↑ "Crowd Supply: A soup to nuts Kickstarter challenger offering consulting, fulfillment, and ecommerce". 20 March 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 Byfield, Bruce. "Crowd Supply Boosts Open Hardware » Linux Magazine".
  4. ↑ Markowitz, Eric (2013-03-20). "New Crowdfunding Site Aims to Understand Manufacturing". Inc. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  5. ↑ Dishman, Lydia. "Inside Crowd Supply: How the Kickstarter Challenger Plans to One Up the Crowdfunding Competition". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  6. ↑ "Launch | Crowd Supply". www.crowdsupply.com. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  7. ↑ Lehman, Don. "What You Need to Know about Crowd Supply, the New Crowdfunding Platform for Product Designers". Core77. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  8. ↑ "Crowd Supply nudges up against the $1M funding round mark - Portland Business Journal". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  9. ↑ "Crowd Supply raises $580K to develop 'highly-curated' version of Kickstarter". GeekWire. 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  10. ↑ Swanner, Nate (2015-12-09). "Crowd Supply is succeeding where Kickstarter and Indiegogo are failing miserably". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  11. ↑ Mims, Christopher. "Why everything geeks think they know about Kickstarter is wrong". Quartz. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  12. ↑ "Crowd Supply nabs $585K seed - PE Hub". PE Hub. 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  13. ↑ "Founder of GNU bestows blessing upon open hardware-focused crowdfunding site".


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