Fairfundr Hopes To Help Creators Around The World Raise $10 billion

Fairfundr has an ambitious goal to help 1 million creative entrepreneurs around the world raise $10,000 over the next five years. Now that’s a goal!

Fairfundr founders Jeannine and Rajiv Srivastava explain, “We found out that more and more people want to make a living with their talent and they are not satisfied with current funding models – crowdfunding platforms that are mostly DIY, Bank loans that require Collateral and VC models that require equity and lead to endless discussions.”

Jeannine and Rajiv will join me for a live discussion about the platform on Thursday, November 13, 2014 at 11:00 Eastern. Tune in then to watch the interview live.

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More about Fairfundr:

Fairfundr is a crowdfunding platform that enables artists, artisans and entrepreneurs to raise funds from 100+ countries and keep up to 100% of the funds raised. Fairfundr is managed by Majamba Digital Agency of Switzerland.

Challenge: Millions of artists, artisans & entrepreneurs want to make a living with what they love. But they all struggle to raise or sell the first $10,000. This is a very expensive problem to solve because the artists, artisans and entrepreneurs need a lot of support.

Opportunity: We have developed a platform together with Swiss Government (with support at the Federal, State, City and Embassy level), IBM and Stripe that will allow the innovators to raise funds from 139 countries and keep up to 100% of the funds raised.

Approach: We support artists, artisans and entrepreneurs to build a crowdfunding campaign remotely as well as locally via a network of Fairfundr Ambassadors.

Goal: Support one million artists, artisans and entrepreneurs raise $10,000 in the next 5 years.

Jeannine and Rajiv Srivastava

Jeannine’s bio:

Jeannine Srivastava is a digital marketing and communications strategist with more than seven years of work experience in managing the roll-out of digital marketing projects at Swiss companies.

Projects include brand management, website development and content creation. Jeannine studied the management of technology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. She holds a Master Degree in Management of Innovation and Organisational Change from Brunel University (UK) and a Bachelor in International Business from Faculty of Applied Economics, Aix-Marseille III (France).

Rajiv’s bio:

Rajiv Srivastava is a strategist and business developer with over fifteen years of experiences managing multi-national businesses in the United States, United Kingdom, India and Switzerland. Before co-founding Fairfundr, Rajiv worked at Orange Communications, where Rajiv was the Director of Strategy & Business Development and supported the company become a highly profitable billion dollar company in Switzerland over a five year period. He holds an MBA from University of Southern California and is a alumni of London Business School and Delhi University.

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