verb

• Fund (a project or venture) by raising money from a large number of people who each contribute a relatively small amount, typically via the internet.

  ‘he's launched a campaign to crowdfund the first album he'll record under his own name’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Now he's looking to crowdfund his next research project, on the neuronal effects of amphetamines.’
  • ‘The firm launched a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund $30,000 towards the pen's development programme, a target that was passed in a few hours.’
  • ‘As experiments go, I'd really like to crowdfund a book.’
  • ‘Would I help crowdfund open source?’
  • ‘"I'd love to see someone 'crowdfund' an Avatar-sized film by begging for donations on YouTube, but we both know that's not going to happen."’
  • ‘But, like the overwhelming majority of crowdfunded ventures, Kamm experienced severe delays in manufacturing his products.’
  • ‘Fortunately, says Burtch, nearly all crowdfunded ventures - more than 95 percent - do deliver promised goods to their backers eventually.’
  • ‘She was one of the first researchers in Australia to successfully run a campaign to crowdfund their research.’
  • ‘Critics argue that crowdfunded companies won't be as carefully vetted or transparently documented as traditional ones.’