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GoFundMe was founded in San Diego, California. [7] In March 2017, GoFundMe became the biggest crowdfunding platform, responsible for raising over $3 billion since its debut in 2010. The company receives over $140 million in donations per month and made 2016 $100 million in revenue. [8] In June 2015, it was announced that Damphousse and ...
ActBlue [1] is a nonprofit American fundraising platform and political action committee (PAC) founded in 2004. ActBlue builds technology and infrastructure to be used by Democratic campaigns and has been described as “the center of a transformation in how political campaigns work.” [2] [3] It is focused on mobilizing small-dollar donors and, as of June 2024, has raised $13.7 billion for ...
eBay, PayPal, Kijiji and StubHub, 500 King Street West, Toronto, April 2014. PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers; it serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
Peter Andreas Thiel (/ tiːl /; born 11 October 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist. [1][2][3] A co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund, he was the first outside investor in Facebook. [4][5] As of July 2024, Thiel had an estimated net worth of $11.2 billion and was ranked 212th ...
Wikipedia and its fellow sites are hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in the United States. Sites like Google or Yahoo are hosted on thousands of servers, with thousands of employees; we have around 800 servers and around 350 staff, and cover our costs through donations—almost all from members of the public.
Begslist.org was founded in 2007 by Rex Camposagrado and was originally started as a blog called begslist.blogspot.com. [2] He created the site to help people who wanted to ask for help by getting donations anonymously; avoiding the embarrassment of having to beg in person or for those trying to find another alternative avenue to finding help any way they could.
After the site was brought to a semi-functional state, Kyanka set up a link to a PayPal account where people could donate money to the survivors of the hurricane via the Red Cross. Kyanka put in $3,000 of his own money, [17] and promised to give some free merchandise to anyone who donated more than $10.
Maksymilian Rafailovych " Max " Levchin[a] (born July 11, 1975) is a software engineer and businessman. In 1998, he co-founded the company that eventually became PayPal. Levchin made contributions to PayPal's anti-fraud efforts [1] and was the co-creator of the Gausebeck-Levchin test, one of the first commercial implementations of a CAPTCHA ...