“Indiegogo is the world’s funding platform, where anybody can raise money for absolutely any idea,” says Co-Founder and CEO, Slava Rubin. This vision of democratizing the fundraising process is what drives indiegogo, one of the earliest and most well known leaders in what has become a very active field of crowd sourced funders on the internet. From its completely bootstrapped beginnings in 2008, launched entirely on the savings of founders Rubin, Danae Ringelmann and Eric Schell, the company recently announced they’d received $15 million in funding from Insight Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Clearly they are onto something! With this infusion of capital, they are currently in the process of significantly expanding their worldwide operations. Rubin’s entry into this world has its roots in his personal experience. Born in Belarus, he moved to the US as a kid and was raised first in Brooklyn, then later in the fair city of Scranton, PA. At the age of 15, he lost his father to cancer. Ten years later, with a degree in finance and entrepreneurial management from U. Penn/Wharton under his belt, he formed Music Against Myeloma, an annual charity event, in his Dad’s honor. Hooking up with Ringelmann and Schell in […]

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