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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · beta 2013

Connected and supported crowdfunding.

Crowdasaurus is a different kind of crowdsourcing website. It has been built to connect corporations, nonprofits, and individuals so that projects see funding faster and more often.

How it works Start a project
Project a goal Host a crowd funding, faster and more often
The whole model in one line: a project borrows a host’s crowd.
Pittsburgh skyline seen from Mount Washington
Pittsburgh, from Mount Washington — where the company was built.Photo: Cbaile19, CC0

Three ways in

Pick the side you are on

The original home page asked visitors to choose one of three doors. All three are here.

For companies and institutions

Hosts

Drive web traffic, generate revenue, improve SEO, and engage new customers and supporters by hosting crowdfunding projects.

Host a project → For individuals with a project

Project creators

Crowdfund your project with support from business and nonprofits.

Submit a project → For mission-driven organizations

Nonprofits

Collaborate with community partners and fund like never before.

Fund with partners →

The model

How a project actually gets funded

01

A creator submits a project

A person or a team brings a project and a funding goal. On a normal platform that is where the support stops.

02

Crowdasaurus pairs it with a host

The project is matched with a corporation, a nonprofit or an institution whose community already cares about the subject.

03

The host opens its crowd

The host puts the project in front of the audience it already has, so the project reaches people it could never reach alone.

The model in detail

For hosts

What a host gets out of it

The company’s B2B pitch, in its own four words.

  • Web traffic — A steady flow of supporters arriving from a project they already care about.
  • Revenue — A share of the activity a campaign generates, and products people discover through it.
  • SEO — Fresh, genuinely local content and inbound links around a live campaign.
  • Engagement — New customers and supporters met at the moment they are most receptive.

For hosts

Hosts were companies, institutions and nonprofits with a community already in place.

Beta, 2013

Three partners testing it

In December 2013 the company named the organizations running regional projects on the platform.

  • The Pittsburgh Foundation
  • WQED — local PBS
  • C-Leveled — regional incubator
The cost of doing business is low, the community will fall on its sword for you, there is rich talent, and the blue-collar work ethic left over from our recent industrial past is inspiring. We love it.
Josh Lucas, founder, to Tech.co, December 2013
A street corner of shops on East Warrington Avenue in Allentown
East Warrington Avenue, Allentown — the block the closed hardware store stood on. Photo: Cbaile19, CC0

Where it started

744 E. Warrington Avenue

Bud’s Hardware had been shut for five years when Josh Lucas went looking for a workspace big enough for Crowdasaurus and thirty others. The company moved into the old store, and the building became a co-working hub for Pittsburgh’s media and crowd-sourcing start-ups.

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Get going

Bring a project to a bigger crowd

Hosts, nonprofits and project creators all start in the same place: a short conversation about what you want to fund.

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