Top 30 College and University Crowdfunding Sites in the United States
University crowdfunding sites are one of the fastest growing segments of the crowdfunding industry. Almost every college campus has some type of entrepreneurship center or co-working space. Every university also has tens of thousands of alumni who have graduated from school and are slowly working their way into a successful career. Many alumni like to give back to universities that launched their careers.
The problem for most alumni is how to find easy access to projects and/or student teams that need financial assistance paying for R&D, prototyping, filing intellectual property, etc., and vice versa.
Donation, Rewards and Equity Crowdfunding sites are the perfect way to build a bridge between students that need money and alumni who are shopping for opportunities to donate or invest.
Marketing these new R&D, business and investment opportunities via crowdfunding profiles makes it very easy and very transparent for alumni to invest money exactly where they want it spent. Not only can they invest dollars, but they can track the benefits and successes. Most alumni agree that it is much more rewarding to give back to pet projects versus giving blindly to universities and colleges with no idea how their money was actually spent.
Donations and rewards are great for small projects, but when it comes to donating money, why not invest in small startups that are selling equity shares, debt such or convertible notes? The propensity for an alumni to give more and larger donations in return for equity shares just makes good common sense. It’s great to do something good for their alma mater, but it wouldn’t it be even better if that small investment grew into a billion dollar success story.
University Run Crowdfunding Sites:
- Arizona State University – ASU PitchFunder
- Babson College – Ways to Give
- Berkeley University Research Center – Berkeley Crowdfunding
- Berry College – Berry Funder
- Boston University – Give Crowdfunding
- Bowling Green State University – FalconFunded.com
- The College of New Jersey – Support TCNJ
- Colorado School of Mines – CSMF Crowdfunding
- Colorado State University – Take Charge
- Cornell University – Innovocracy.org
- Dalhousie University – ProjectDal
- Johns Hopkins University – Innovocracy.org
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Crowdfund MIT
- Michigan University – SuperiorIdeas.org
- Pepperdine University – The Pepperdine Impact Fund
- Penn State University – USEED Pennsylvania
- Portland State University – PSUF Crowdfunding
- Texas State University – Texas State University Crowdfunding
- University of California Los Angeles – UCLA Spark
- University of Colorado Boulder – Boulder Crowdfunding
- University of Colorado Springs – UCCS Crowdfunding
- University of California Santa Cruz – Crowdfund UCSC
- University of Maryland – Launch UMD
- University of Mississippi – Ignite Old Miss
- University of Rochester – Innovocracy.org
- University of Southern California – USC GenYrator
- University of Texas Austin – UT Hornraiser
- University of Texas San Antonio – Launch UTSA
- University of Texas Dallas – Impact UTD
- University of Utah – University Tech Vault
- University of Virginia – USEED Virginia
- University of Wyoming – http://www.uwyo.edu/foundation/crowdfunding/
Crowdfunding Sites Serving Students:
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Learn More about Crowdfunding:
- Building a Rewards-based and/or Equity-based Crowdfunding Ecosystem;
- Providing Easy Access to Seed Investment Capital with Crowdfunding;
- Generating More Revenue to Support Co-Working Spaces and Startups;
- Using Equity Crowdfunding Sites to Finance Incubators and Accelerators;
- Taking Advantage of Investor Syndicates that are Seeking Better Deal Flow;
- Splitting Revenue from Incubator and Accelerator Mentors Consulting Fees;
- Streamlining Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs);
- Cross-Pollinating College Education with Real World Startups; and
- Learning to Build Better Alumni and Local Community Relationships
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