Crowd Supply, Inc.[1]
Type of site
Crowdfunding
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon, U.S.[1]
Founder(s)Lou Doctor[2]
CEOJosh Lifton[3]
ParentMouser Electronics[4]
URLcrowdsupply.com
Launched2012[1]

Crowd Supply is a crowdfunding platform based in Portland, Oregon.[5][6][3] The platform has claimed "over twice the success rate of Kickstarter and Indiegogo",[7] and partners with creators who use it, providing mentorship resembling a business incubator.[8][9][10]

Some see Crowd Supply's close management of projects as the solution to the fulfillment failure rate of other crowdfunding platforms.[11] The site also serves as an online store for the inventories of successful campaigns.[12]

Notable projects from the platform include Andrew Huang's Novena, an open-source laptop.[13]

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 crowdfunding platform.[14][3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b c Byfield, Bruce. "Crowd Supply Boosts Open Hardware » Linux Magazine".
  4. ^ "Mouser acquires Crowd Supply". 3 October 2018.
  5. ^ Markowitz, Eric (2013-03-20). "New Crowdfunding Site Aims to Understand Manufacturing". Inc. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  6. ^ Dishman, Lydia. "Inside Crowd Supply: How the Kickstarter Challenger Plans to One Up the Crowdfunding Competition". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  7. ^ "Launch | Crowd Supply". www.crowdsupply.com. Archived from the original on 2016-11-11. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  8. ^ Lehman, Don. "What You Need to Know about Crowd Supply, the New Crowdfunding Platform for Product Designers". Core77. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  9. ^ "Crowd Supply nudges up against the $1M funding round mark - Portland Business Journal". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
  10. ^ "Crowd Supply raises $580K to develop 'highly-curated' version of Kickstarter". GeekWire. 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  11. ^ Swanner, Nate (2015-12-09). "Crowd Supply is succeeding where Kickstarter and Indiegogo are failing miserably". The Next Web. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  12. ^ Mims, Christopher. "Why everything geeks think they know about Kickstarter is wrong". Quartz. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  13. ^ "Crowd Supply nabs $585K seed - PE Hub". PE Hub. 2015-04-10. Archived from the original on 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  14. ^ "Founder of GNU bestows blessing upon open hardware-focused crowdfunding site". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2018-10-28.


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