Launches first crowd funding campaign with RajatKapoor’s Mithya Talkies
Mumbai, July 28: Crowdera, the world's first truly free crowdfunding platform from Silicon Valley, partners with Rajat Kapoor, acclaimed bollywood filmmaker to crowd produce multiple feature films in India. Through this partnership Crowdera wants to extend its fundraising platform to filmmakers in India who struggle to raise money from studios, starting with Mithya Talkies’s Rk/Rkay. Crowdera will nurture filmmakers through the entire filmmaking process: from successful crowdfunding to eventually, effective distribution.
Commenting on this occasion Chet Jain, Founder, Crowdera said “We are very pleased to collaborate with Mithya Talkies and Rajat Kapoor to introduce crowd-production of independent feature films in India. Fundraising is a process and if followed very well, it’s a win-win for the filmmaker and their crowds. We want to help serious independent filmmakers who want to make real cinema with our fundraising processes and experience.” Currently, Crowdera is in talks with multiple small production houses with similar concept to raise funds through launching campaigns in its platform.
Founded in October 2014 in Palo Alto, California,Crowdera offers an online fundraising platform for nonprofits; corporations and individuals that feature both free fundraising tools as well as paid value-added features.
“We are happy to launch our campaign onCrowdera’s platform. I believe the concept of crowd funding will help several independent actors-directors of our fraternity to achieve their dreams.” said Mr. RajatKapoor of Mithya Talkies.
Over a period, Crowdera has managed to raise funds for different causes such as anti-sex trafficking, educating underprivileged kids. “With payment gateway partnership with Paypal, Crowdera is excited to help people raise money in over 100 countries,” added Chet.
About Crowdera: Crowdera offers an online fundraising platform for nonprofits, corporations, and individuals which features both free fundraising tools as well as paid value-added features. The company facilitates low cost payment processing, managing multiple campaigns, donor communication and sending automatic tax-exempt donation receipts, proprietary group fundraising, comprehensive reporting for audits and compliances, integrations with multiple third party tools and much more. After successful beta in the India and in US, Crowdera covered totaling over 195 campaigns funded by 3,500 donors from 35 countries impacting over 15000 lives.