How to Use crowdfund in a Sentence

crowdfund

verb

• Others have turned to Kickstarter to crowdfund their work.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2021
• Her family had to crowdfund to raise money to pay for her care.
  — Wendy Netter Epstein, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
• Smartphones have been used to crowdfund ransoms of thousands, or even tens of thousands, of dollars.
  — Sally Hayden, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022
• For the footwear startup Erem, the choice to crowdfund its newest offering was a calculated risk.
  — Steve Larese, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
• Hosts often crowdfund to foot the costs; even Rochko’s work in building Mastodon is funded by a Patreon that has now reached around thirty thousand dollars a month in pledges.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• Valenzuela's wife thanked the community for efforts to help crowdfund for the medical bills and airlift.
  — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2020
• The women then decided to crowdfund to secure legal costs to initiate a complaint against him.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• In 2021, Amazon introduced Build It to crowdfund the concepts of new and limited-edition products.
  — Alex Kalinovsky, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
• The auction drew wide attention thanks to the online campaign by crypto enthusiasts to crowdfund a bid for the document.
  — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
• To help cover the costs, Othram created a network of people who care about unsolved crimes and crowdfund each case when other funding isn't available.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
• No More Woof shows the particular perils of trying to crowdfund neurotech gadgets.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2017
• Kevitt, who helped crowdfund the signs, said there are already plans for another in remembrance of Sebastian Montero, who was killed while riding his bicycle with his friend in Tarzana.
  — Rachel Urangastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
• Hasbro’s answer is to crowdfund in advance to gauge interest, as part of the toy maker’s HasLab series, which started in 2018 and is aimed at creating dream-scenario action figures not available in stores.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022
• Meanwhile Ukraine turns instead to its citizens, and friends abroad, to crowdfund solutions on a volunteer basis because its people are the ones that are motivated to win this fight for survival.
  — Keir Giles, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• Instead of the company’s selling ads based on over-all engagement, creators can get paid by their individual viewers, who might buy subscriptions, send tips, or crowdfund new projects.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
• Watch the trailer here: Angel Studios is set up as a platform empowering filmmakers with full creative control to crowdfund, create and distribute films and TV series globally.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 May 2023
• Kiva, a nonprofit online platform that entered the Baltimore market in 2016, works with lending partners in specific markets to crowdfund loans for small businesses.
  — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
• Organizations will crowdfund on pages created through the A Community Thrives website.
  — Ben Schultz, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2022
• People across the global urban exploration scene rallied behind Ms. Timofeeva, trying to crowdfund the fees for her defense before running into roadblocks caused by Western sanctions on Russia.
  — James Hookway, WSJ, 5 Nov. 2022
• To qualify for final consideration for A Community Thrives grants, organizations had to crowdfund a minimum amount of donations from supporters.
  — AZCentral.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• Through tokenization, companies in Lebanon could crowdfund investments, sell shares, and tap a wide variety of possible applications for blockchain technology, including access to microfinance.
  — Hugo Dante, National Review, 27 July 2021
• For example, wildlife property rights would operate alongside animal welfare and animal rights laws, conservation work would likely be easier to crowdsource and to crowdfund, and this approach may possibly attract bipartisan political support.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024