As crowd-funding booms with the advent of companies such as Kickstarter, one local company wants to help make those efforts more successful by providing a multi-faceted consulting platform.
530Funds is the brainchild of Ohio University entrepreneurs Richard Rodman, Rohan Kusre and Max Heckel. The trio recently traveled to Memphis for one of the largest start-up events in the county, Everywhereelse.co The Startup Conference.
“Don’t get confused, we’re not another Kickstarter,” Kusre said. “We provide the essential stepping-stones to launch a successful project and ultimately gain funds.”
The crowd-funding industry is expected to double this year to $6 billion worldwide, according to information from 530Funds. Increasingly, people are turning to crowd-funding as a way to raise money, as an alternative to finding small groups of investors.