When scientist Mona Jhaveri couldn’t find funding to commercialize her cancer research discovery, she was inspired to create a crowdfunding platform for cancer drug innovators.
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Taking a Toxin-Free Nail Polish Venture to the Next Level
Beauty entrepreneur Kitiya Mischo King is crowdfunding to expand her all-natural nail polish business, Mischo Beauty.
Raising Money to Bring Kombucha to Communities of Color
Entrepreneur Milan Jordan is the brewmaster behind Cultured Kombucha, a startup focused on bringing the fermented drinks to minority communities in the Washington, D.C., area. She’s crowdfunding in hopes of spreading the health and wealth.
Empowering and Enabling Women Actors to Realize Their Visions
In an effort to fight gender inequality, The Muse Project is giving women in theater the resources they need to tell the stories they’re passionate about.
Diane von Furstenberg Leads Crowdfunding Effort to Expand Statue of Liberty’s Museum
Renowned entrepreneur and immigrant Diane von Furstenberg and The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation are raising money to properly welcome the iconic statue’s 4 million annual visitors.
Publisher of Growing Online Magazine Aims to Expand into Print
Jessica Johnston, the publisher of Asparagus, an online guide to living a sustainable lifestyle, is crowdfunding to expand her audience with an eco-friendly print edition.
This Tiny Store in the Adirondacks Has Big Digital Plans
The Saranac Lake Community Store is owned and operated by village residents. Now, the collaborative wants to capitalize on a new wave of tourists by launching an online shopping site.
A Thriving In-Home Baker Needs a Brick-and-Mortar Home For Her Business
Since starting Cakes Reanimated, entrepreneur Becky Brown has run her bakery business from her home. Now, she’s crowdfunding to renovate her first commercial kitchen.
A Sonoma Wine Club Is Raising a Glass to Female Winemakers
Amy Bess Cook has launched a crowdfunding campaign to expand Woman-Owned Wineries — and showcase women producing ‘incredible’ wine.
The Next Spanx? This Startup Hopes to Solve an Age-Old Women’s Fashion Problem
Marissa Beaty wants to address a fashion pain point — finding flattering, functional pants. Her startup, Feminine Figures, will sell leggings that tackle the problem head on.
An L.A. Filmmaker Seeks $50,000 for Documentary on #MeToo and Workplace Harassment
Sarah Moshman is diving deep into sexual harassment in the workplace with her new film, telling wrenching personal stories and seeking ways to eradicate abuse from offices for good.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Cultivating Heartfelt Projects
In this edition of our crowdfunding column, we’re spotlighting female founders who are fundraising for ventures and projects that are near and dear to their hearts.
This Video-Driven Fundraising Site is Making Stars Out of Women Entrepreneurs
IFundWomen gives female founders virtual space to learn and grow, while they raise money. It also gets them ready for their close-ups.
2 Secrets to Crowdfunding That Nobody Tells You
Concetta Rand of crowdfunding site IFundWomen encourages female founders to rethink how they approach crowdfunding campaigns. Here are her two best tips.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Meeting Needs
This week, we’re looking at campaigns by female founders who are raising funds to meet the needs of customers and their own growing ventures.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Made With Love
In this Valentine’s Day edition of our crowdfunding column, we’re featuring female founders seeking funds for projects that are close to their hearts.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – International Inspirations
The latest edition of our crowdfunding column features women-led campaigns with influences from all corners of the world.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Friendly Creations
This week, we’ve got our sights set on women-led crowdfunding campaigns for cookbooks, kilns, serums, shirts and doggie homes-away-from-home.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – New Year, New Business Goals
In our first crowdfunding column of 2018, we spotlight women business owners who are resolved to renovate, refine and grow.
Crowdpac’s Funding Engine is Powering Women Candidates
Former Google executive Gisel Kordestani co-founded the nonpartisan crowdfunding platform to get big money out of politics. She may also help level the playing field for women candidates.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Thinking Things Through
The inventive women behind the crowdfunding campaigns featured in our latest column are encouraging people to work, play and live more thoughtfully.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Making Moves
The female fundraisers featured in this week’s crowdfunding column are building ventures that help customers travel, exercise and move their mental muscles.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Stretch Goals
What happens when a crowdfunding campaign succeeds before it concludes? These five female fundraisers are showing their contemporaries how to take advantage of an enviable situation.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Taking Care
These female fundraisers are making people’s wellness a priority. Through their products and crowdfunding campaigns, each aims to provide innovative ways to stay healthy and happy.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Solving Woman Problems
These crowdfunders are making products designed to meet specific, primarily female needs, ranging from tops that fit to tools for reporting assault.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Local and Global Innovations
These female entrepreneurs are raising money to change the lives of people in their local communities and around the world.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Women Helping Women
These female fundraisers are putting their time, efforts and crowdfunded dollars toward projects that will help women lead happier, healthier, more enriched lives.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Aiming High
The five women featured in our latest column have big fundraising goals, and even bigger aspirations for their ventures.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Inclusion, Empowerment and Education
The enterprising women highlighted in our latest crowdfunding column are hard at work on products and ventures designed to inspire thought, creativity and acceptance.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Simplifying Our Everyday Lives
Whether they are aiming to change fashion or food, these fundraising women are using what they’ve learned from personal experience to make other people’s lives easier.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Touring the World Through Food and Art
From California to London to Egypt, these women are crowdfunding projects that take people to new places through food and art.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Inspired by History
The women featured in our latest crowdfunding column are pursuing wildly different passion projects that all peer into the past.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Sharing Knowledge
The enterprising women featured in our latest crowdfunding column want to educate others through innovative texts, delicious dishes, chic hairstyles and more.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – An Array of Dreams
The creative women featured in our latest crowdfunding column show the richness of women’s visions and ventures.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Otherworldly Artistic Visions
The women featured in our latest crowdfunding column are using their creativity to reimagine how we view and interact with the world around us.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Writing, Dancing, Sowing Seeds
The enterprising female fundraisers featured in our latest crowdfunding column are finding creative, impactful ways of reaching whole communities of people.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Books, Decor and More
Our latest crowdfunding column showcases a melange of creative women-led projects.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Helpful and Innovative
The women featured in this crowdfunding column are tackling emotional terrain and messy hair days.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Raising Awareness and Making Memories
The latest edition of our crowdfunding column features women who are elevating social issues, addressing needs and generally bringing good to the lives of others.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Culinary and Crafty
Our first crowdfunding column of the year features five women-led projects that range from inventive to appetizing — and all of them, inspired.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Warmth and Cheer
The last edition of our crowdfunding column for 2016 celebrates female fundraisers behind seasonal and festive offerings.
[REPLAY] Ep. 2: Creating Indiegogo
How Danae Ringelmann got the idea for the crowdfunding platform that spawned a new industry.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Artistic Expression
In our latest crowdfunding column, we’re featuring female creators who are using film, fine art and more to express themselves, and helping other women do the same.
A Toast to the Future
The female entrepreneurs behind Republic Restoratives, a distillery in Washington, D.C., are hopeful that equity crowdfunding will help them expand their venture.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Artists and Artisans
This week, we’re featuring creative, entrepreneurial women who are trying to further ventures ripe with meaning through crowdfunding campaigns.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Colorful Concepts
These crowdfunding campaigns are led by female entrepreneurs who are innovating with color through a diverse array of ventures.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Seeking Growth Capital
This week, the women featured in our crowdfunding column are determined expand burgeoning entrepreneurial endeavors in the worlds of coffee, movies and everywhere in between.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Open for Business
This time in our ongoing crowdfunding column, we’re featuring female fundraisers who are opening up inspiring businesses.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Entrepreneurial Makers
The women featured in our latest crowdfunding column are creating a variety of products from scratch, and need help bringing them to market.
5 Crowdfunders to Watch – Smart Solutions
This time in our ongoing column, we’re featuring women crowdfunders who are making lives safer, simpler and more fulfilling.