How to Use crowdfund in a Sentence

crowdfund

verb
  • Her family had to crowdfund to raise money to pay for her care.
    — Wendy Netter Epstein, STAT, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Kiva is a platform that lets businesses crowdfund their loan.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Smartphones have been used to crowdfund ransoms of thousands, or even tens of thousands, of dollars.
    — Sally Hayden, Wired, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But many platform users crowdfund for charities by running campaigns to raise money from their network.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2025
  • The women then decided to crowdfund to secure legal costs to initiate a complaint against him.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Valenzuela's wife thanked the community for efforts to help crowdfund for the medical bills and airlift.
    — Raphael Romero Ruiz, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2020
  • For the footwear startup Erem, the choice to crowdfund its newest offering was a calculated risk.
    — Steve Larese, Outside Online, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The group is aiming to crowdfund an initial $4 million for the project, part of a broader goal to raise $30 million over the next three years.
    — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • From there, investigators could crowdfund and raise money for the rest of the identification process.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The auction drew wide attention thanks to the online campaign by crypto enthusiasts to crowdfund a bid for the document.
    — Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2021
  • No More Woof shows the particular perils of trying to crowdfund neurotech gadgets.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Jan. 2017
  • To help cover the costs, Othram created a network of people who care about unsolved crimes and crowdfund each case when other funding isn't available.
    — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 15 Mar. 2022
  • As her audience grew, so did the reach of her message and her ability to attract sponsors, crowdfund and turn passion projects into sustainable projects or businesses.
    — Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • Hosts often crowdfund to foot the costs; even Rochko’s work in building Mastodon is funded by a Patreon that has now reached around thirty thousand dollars a month in pledges.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The kinds of campaigns people typically crowdfund for on Kickstarter include book publishing, board games, clothing and apparel brands, apps and more.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Instead of the company’s selling ads based on over-all engagement, creators can get paid by their individual viewers, who might buy subscriptions, send tips, or crowdfund new projects.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 17 July 2021
  • Two days prior, Mills turned to social media to crowdfund $63 needed to shelter a person who'd been medically discharged from a hospital.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Near the end of 2023, Russell’s office asked the community to help crowdfund the procedure, Russell said.
    — R. Christian Smith, Chicago Tribune, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Meanwhile Ukraine turns instead to its citizens, and friends abroad, to crowdfund solutions on a volunteer basis because its people are the ones that are motivated to win this fight for survival.
    — Keir Giles, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
  • In 2021, Amazon introduced Build It to crowdfund the concepts of new and limited-edition products.
    — Alex Kalinovsky, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Kevitt, who helped crowdfund the signs, said there are already plans for another in remembrance of Sebastian Montero, who was killed while riding his bicycle with his friend in Tarzana.
    — Rachel Urangastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2022
  • For instance, England’s senior women — a team set up this year — had to crowdfund their 2025 World Cup qualifiers in Moldova last month.
    — Liam Tharme, The Athletic, 12 Dec. 2024
  • As media studies scholar Lana Swartz points out, creator tokens were originally intended for developers to crowdfund their startups.
    — Maximilian Brichta, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Organizations will crowdfund on pages created through the A Community Thrives website.
    — Ben Schultz, Journal Sentinel, 17 June 2022
  • Fresh off this unexpected success, Horvath decided to crowdfund the publication of an earlier work, Free for All, on Zoop.
    — Rob Salkowitz, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Since Kiva focuses on micro-loans, businesses can crowdfund up to $15,000, which may be more ideal for newer businesses just getting off the ground or ones that don't need much capital.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 30 Jan. 2026
  • GoFundMe is well-known for letting individuals crowdfund money for various causes, including personal ones.
    — Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Kiva, a nonprofit online platform that entered the Baltimore market in 2016, works with lending partners in specific markets to crowdfund loans for small businesses.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 2 July 2024
  • In the days and weeks after hurricanes Helene and Milton slammed the Southeast, communities are looking to crowdfund for repairs as conspiracy theories dog efforts to rebuild.
    — J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Hasbro’s answer is to crowdfund in advance to gauge interest, as part of the toy maker’s HasLab series, which started in 2018 and is aimed at creating dream-scenario action figures not available in stores.
    — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2022

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