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The Crowdfunding Freak Show
Luc Henry @heluc
What is Crowdfunding?
What is Reward-based Crowdfunding?
What is crowdfunded? social
dance
games
fashion
journalism
architecture
design
environment
exhibitions
festivals
musics
graphic novels
technology
sport
photography
Science? fair trade
books
cooking
film
art education agriculture
politics startup theater
Why crowdfund science?
for the scientists • raise startup fund for preliminary study
• unique opportunity to reach out
• learn communication skills and build a community
for the crowd
• learn more about science
• make personal connection with researchers
• contribute to something meaningful
What brings us here?
We have a matching fund 225’000.- over 2 years
Science Booster Facts and Figures (as of mid-September 2017)
7.5 Months Time since the launch in January 2017
15 Total number of campaigns
10 Successful projects 66% Success rate
859 Total number of donors
CHF 191,864.- Total funding raised from the crowd
CHF 220.- Average contribution from backers
CHF 76,500.- Matching fund distributed
CHF 7,650.- Average contribution from Science Booster
refund
backers wemakeit
association 6%
Wemakeit
GmbH
payment
follow the money!
Project
90%
100%
100%
4%
Science Booster
What is wemakeit.com?
300,000 155,000
Monthly unique visitors
Registered users
Female Male
18-24 25-34 35-45 45+
German French English Italian
130,000 Subscribers to the wemakeit newsletter
23,000 Facebook fans
2,500 Twitter followers 1,750 Instagram followers
Foodautonomie für Luzern?! High School Student, Luzern Raised 1,581.- from 28 people Boosted with 1,000.-
HORAO Surgeon, Inselspital Bern Raised 58,013.- from 220 people
Boosted with 10,000.-
20 Minuten August 2017
Der Bund August 2017
Projet Spectro-Pointer Curious Engineer, Lausanne Raised 10,105.- from 16 people
Boosted with 9,000.-
ftero - Airborne Wind Energy Master Students, ETH Zürich Raised 11,136.- from 33 people
Boosted with 10,000.-
Science Booster Press Coverage
20 Minuten May 2016 NZZamSonntag April 2017
SNSF News Nov. 2016
Do you want to know more? science.wemakeit.com
@sciencebooster