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 www.crowdsupply.com
Launched 2012[1]

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

The platform has garnered positive attention for the high success rate of its products, with some seeing its 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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