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Crowdfunding: History, Applications, Standards & Companies

Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people, typically via the internet. Crowdfunding is a form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance, to fund projects "without standard financial intermediaries". In 2015, over US$34 billion was raised worldwide by crowdfunding. One of the companies that…

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Crowdfunding topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Applications, Standards and Companies as prominent areas in the source structure around Crowdfunding. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
155
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
163
Extracted relationships
382
Concept neighborhoods
31
Bridge connections
163

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Significant campaigns · 40 topics
Types · 37 topics
Applications · 34 topics
History · 24 topics
Benefits and risks · 11 topics
Overview · 8 topics
Platforms · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Types

Platforms

Significant campaigns

Applications

Benefits and risks

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Crowdfunding connects Entity context

The extracted context around Crowdfunding shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Crowdfunding → Academy Award-winning, Arts Council England, Bridport, Bridport's, British, British Red Cross, Crowdfunder, Dorset, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Festival, Grade II, In, In June, In March, Lyric Theatre, Médecins Sans Frontières, Notable, Olivia Colman, Oxfam, Prince Another extracted example is Crowdfunding → Ante Crowdfunding, Civic Society, Coordination, Determinants, Dynamics, Emergencies Archived April, Ethan Mollick, Europe, European Management Review, Failure, Federal Securities Laws, Geography, Humanitarian Affairs, Ideas, Is There, Model, NET Institute Working Paper, No, Oct, Open Citizenship. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Crowdfunding

Top relations

related to Crowdfunder campaigns · 32
Crowdfunding → Academy Award-winning, Arts Council England, Bridport, Bridport's, British, British Red Cross, Crowdfunder, Dorset, Glastonbury, Glastonbury Festival, Grade II, In, In June, In March, Lyric Theatre, Médecins Sans Frontières, Notable, Olivia Colman, Oxfam, Prince
related to Further reading · 26
Crowdfunding → Ante Crowdfunding, Civic Society, Coordination, Determinants, Dynamics, Emergencies Archived April, Ethan Mollick, Europe, European Management Review, Failure, Federal Securities Laws, Geography, Humanitarian Affairs, Ideas, Is There, Model, NET Institute Working Paper, No, Oct, Open Citizenship
related to Philanthropy and civic projects · 26
Crowdfunding → Coordination, DonorsChoose, Facebook, Fundraisers, GlobalGiving, Humanitarian Affairs, Humanitarian Crowdfunding, In, Individuals, Kiva, Likewise, London, Manchester City Council, Mayor, Microcredit, OCHA, Office, Several, Similarly, Spacehive
related to Early campaigns · 24
Crowdfunding → ArtistShare, British, Co, Erik Estrada, Fans, FFI, Grammy Award, In, IR35, January, Karen Black, Maria Schneider, Marillion, North American, Oct, Oliver Twisted, RGH/Lion's Shares Pictures, Subscribers, The, The Blue Sheet
related to Real estate · 23
Crowdfunding → Alternative Finance, Cambridge Centre, China, CrowdStreet, During, EquityMultiple, Examples, France, Fundrise, In Europe, Investment, JOBS Act, Middle East, Real, RealtyMogul, SmartCrowd, The, There, Title II, UK
related to history · 19
Crowdfunding → Auguste Comte's, Bank, Books, England, Funding, However, In, It, Liberty, London's, March, North America, Philosophie Positive, Première Circulaire Annuelle, Statue, Système, The, War, Western Europe
related to Crowdfunding for Statue of Liberty · 16
Crowdfunding → America, Cleveland, Congress, Construction, Donations, Fundraising, In, Joseph Pulitzer, Liberty, More, New York Governor Grover, New Yorkers, Recognizing, Statue, The, The World
related to Journalism · 14
Crowdfunding → According, Donating, February, In, Indiegogo, Kickstarter, Many, Public Insight Network, Spot, Stories, The, This, Though, While
related to Legal developments · 14
Crowdfunding → Act, April, As, Congress, However, Initially, JOBS Act, Jumpstart Our Small Businesses, President Obama, Rule, SEC, Securities Act, The, W-2s
related to Intellectual property exposure · 13
Crowdfunding → As Slava Rubin, Creative Barcode, How, IndieGoGo, Inventor, IP, Once, One, Simon Brown, UK-based United Innovation Association, We, We're, World Intellectual Property Organization

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

projects raised investors funding platforms also project public us campaign may 000 companies new equity platform money support kickstarter capital

Crowdfunding relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 382 structured relationships around Crowdfunding. Examples in this analysis include Crowdfunding → is a → practice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people and Crowdfunding → is a → form of crowdsourcing and alternative finance. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Crowdfundingis apractice of funding a project or venture by raising money from a large number of people0.90text
Crowdfundingis aform of crowdsourcing and alternative finance0.90text
Crowdfundingis apart of crowdsourcing0.90text
Crowdfundingis acollective effort of individuals to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations through the provision of finance in the form of equity0.90text
Crowdfundingis acollective effort of individuals to help charitable causes0.90text
Crowdfundingis aonline pooling of capital from investors to fund mortgages secured by real estate0.90text
Crowdfundingis aglobal trend0.90text
artisticinstance ofCrowdfunding has been used to fund a wide range of for-profit entrepreneurial ventures0.80text
creative projectsinstance ofCrowdfunding has been used to fund a wide range of for-profit entrepreneurial ventures0.80text
medical expensesinstance ofCrowdfunding has been used to fund a wide range of for-profit entrepreneurial ventures0.80text
travelinstance ofCrowdfunding has been used to fund a wide range of for-profit entrepreneurial ventures0.80text
and community-oriented social entrepreneurship projectsinstance ofCrowdfunding has been used to fund a wide range of for-profit entrepreneurial ventures0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Crowdfunding bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Platforms, Also and Projects. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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  • equity crowdfunding
    • Platforms
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  • online community
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  • university crowdfunding websites
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Crowdfunding, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Crowdfunding with Significant campaigns. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
CrowdfundingSignificant campaigns · splits 123 ⟂ 41
CrowdfundingTypes · splits 126 ⟂ 38
CrowdfundingApplications · splits 129 ⟂ 35
CrowdfundingHistory · splits 139 ⟂ 25
CrowdfundingBenefits and risks · splits 152 ⟂ 12
CrowdfundingOverview · splits 155 ⟂ 9
CrowdfundingPlatforms · splits 161 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Crowdfunding

Nodes164
Edges163
Triples382
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012195
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Crowdfunding to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Applications, Standards & Companies, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Crowdfunding · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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