Crowdfunding - collecting donations for a project - is a particularly good way of obtaining funding for start-ups. The campaigns are published on crowdfunding platforms on the Internet. We give you an overview of the most popular crowdfunding platforms.
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a US crowdfunding platform. It is considered the world's largest platform and also offers German start-ups the opportunity to offer their projects there. Kickstarter offers 15 categories that the project to be funded must fit into. These categories are arts, comics, crafts, dance, design, fashion, film and video, food and drink, games, journalism, music, photography, publishing, technology, and theater. Successful financing through Kickstarter incurs a fee of 5% of the total amount.
Website of the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter Indiegogo
Indiegogo is also an international crowdfunding platform that, like Kickstarter, is one of the first providers of its kind. The platform covers a wide range of topics under which you can publish your project. The website also offers free online resources for project starters, such as manuals, videos, etc. Just like Kickstarter, Indiegogo charges a fee equal to 5% of the total amount..
The Indiegogo website Startnext
Startnext is a German crowdfunding platform that has existed since 2010. The platform offers a wide range of project categories: education, comics, community, design, drugstore, invention, event, film / video, food, photography, agriculture, radio play / audio book, journalism, literature, art, fashion, music, social business, Games, sports, technology, theater, environment, science.
In contrast to Kickstarter and Indiegogo, project starters have the option on Startnext to determine the amount of their fees for the crowdfunding campaign themselves. According to Startnext, this averages 3%.
Startnext website