Frequently asked questions
What is Crowdfounding?
Crowdfounding is a new approach to starting companies in which the crowd founds, funds, markets and refines a business and its products together. It is not the same as crowdfunding, which only raises money.
In a crowdfunded project the crowd supplies money and the founders do the rest. In crowdfounding the crowd takes part in founding the company itself, including how it is funded, marketed and improved over time.
What is the difference between crowdfunding and crowdfounding?
Crowdfunding raises money for a project or company. Crowdfounding has the crowd found, fund, market and refine the business together.
Money is one input among several in crowdfounding. The model also asks the crowd to help decide what gets built, how it is marketed and how it is improved.
What is Crowdfounding Co.?
Crowdfounding Co. is the company that applies the crowdfounding model. Crowdfounding Co. is a trade name; the company is being formed and is not yet a registered legal entity.
The brand is written as one word, Crowdfounding, with a capital C.
Is Crowdfounding a for-profit company?
Crowdfounding is a for-profit company. Its net proceeds fund revenue-generating projects whose proceeds are donated to causes including pediatric cancer, wounded veterans, animal welfare, and environmental improvement.
Crowdfounding is a company, not a charity. Crowdfounding is not a charity and does not accept donations. As of October 2026 it has not yet earned revenue or made a donation; its first impact report will be published here when it does.
Is Crowdfounding a charity?
No. Crowdfounding is not a charity and does not accept donations. As of October 2026 it has not yet earned revenue or made a donation; its first impact report will be published here when it does.
Crowdfounding is a for-profit company whose net proceeds fund revenue-generating projects; see the status statement on the facts page.
Can I donate to Crowdfounding?
No. Crowdfounding does not accept donations.
Crowdfounding is not a charity and does not accept donations. As of October 2026 it has not yet earned revenue or made a donation; its first impact report will be published here when it does.
Can I invest in Crowdfounding?
Can I invest in Crowdfounding? Crowdfounding is not offering any investment. Nothing on this site is an offer to sell securities.
Please contact the company only for general questions; nothing published here is a financial promise.
Which causes does Crowdfounding support?
The causes named in Crowdfounding's approved statement are pediatric cancer, wounded veterans, animal welfare, and environmental improvement.
Crowdfounding is a for-profit company. Its net proceeds fund revenue-generating projects whose proceeds are donated to causes including pediatric cancer, wounded veterans, animal welfare, and environmental improvement.
How does Crowdfounding fund causes?
Net proceeds of Crowdfounding fund revenue-generating projects, and the proceeds of those projects are donated to causes.
Crowdfounding is a for-profit company. Its net proceeds fund revenue-generating projects whose proceeds are donated to causes including pediatric cancer, wounded veterans, animal welfare, and environmental improvement.
Has Crowdfounding made donations yet?
Crowdfounding is not a charity and does not accept donations. As of October 2026 it has not yet earned revenue or made a donation; its first impact report will be published here when it does.
This page will be updated when the first impact report is published.
Is Crowdfounding a legal entity yet?
Crowdfounding Co. is a trade name; the company is being formed and is not yet a registered legal entity.
Legal formation details will be published on the facts page when they exist.
Who runs Crowdfounding?
Crowdfounding Co. does not currently name a public spokesperson.
Press and general questions can be sent through the contact address on the facts and press page.
How do I contact Crowdfounding?
Use the contact details on the facts and press page.
Crowdfounding Co. replies to general and press questions from that address.
What does 'Businesses for the people, by the people' mean?
It is a tagline for the idea that businesses can be started and shaped by the people who use and support them.
It summarises the crowdfounding model: the crowd founds, funds, markets and refines a business together.
Is crowdfounding spelled 'crowd founding'?
No. Crowdfounding is one word with a capital C when it is the brand name.
Searching for 'crowd funding' or 'crowdfunding' finds a different idea: raising money from many people.
Is Crowdfounding the same as equity crowdfunding?
No. Crowdfounding is a company-founding model, and Crowdfounding does not offer investments.
Can I invest in Crowdfounding? Crowdfounding is not offering any investment. Nothing on this site is an offer to sell securities.
Is Crowdfounding the same as Kickstarter?
No. Kickstarter-style crowdfunding raises money for projects; crowdfounding has the crowd found, fund, market and refine a business together.
Crowdfounding Co. is not affiliated with any crowdfunding platform.
Where can I find the brand logo and facts?
The brand page has the logo files and the facts and press page has the standard descriptions.
Both pages use the same wording as every other public Crowdfounding profile.
What is the official one-line description?
Crowdfounding Co.: the crowd founds, funds and builds businesses.
Crowdfounding Co. is a for-profit company-founding model: the crowd founds, funds, markets and refines a business and its products together.
How should I cite Crowdfounding?
Cite it as Crowdfounding Co., and use the definition on the glossary page.
Crowdfounding (noun): a new approach to starting companies — the crowd founds, funds, markets, and refines a business and its products together. Not to be confused with crowdfunding, which only raises money.