10 Facts About Indiegogo

Indiegogo allows people to solicit funds for an idea, charity, or start-up business.

In 2014, Indiegogo launched Indiegogo Life, a service that people can use to raise money for emergencies, medical expenses, celebrations, or other life events.

In June 2012, Indiegogo raised a $15 million Series A round from Insight Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Steve Schoettler, Zynga's co-founder.

Indiegogo was succeeded by former Reddit core-product leader Andy Yang.

Indiegogo doesn't provide prospective backers with any means to contact campaigns to ask questions or make suggestions before they decide to participate.

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Indiegogo offers direct credit card payment acceptance through their own portal.

In February 2014, Indiegogo launched an unsuccessful funding campaign for the Wikipedia Books Project, which had planned to print the entire English Wikipedia in book form later in the year.

In 2014, Indiegogo introduced their Forever Funding program, which allows crowdfunding campaigns to continue to raise funds after their initial campaign period has ended, which was later renamed "InDemand".

Indiegogo has looser guidelines than Kickstarter, letting users fund campaigns that Kickstarter would not, for instance Kickstarter does not allow funding of Healthcare projects.

Indiegogo has been criticized for not protecting backers from scammers.