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Helping Kiwis fund the things they care about - PledgeMe

Helping Kiwis fund the things they care about - a grown up Pledgeme says how it’s done


By Peter Kerr for sticK
(sticK - 29 March, 2017 )


Well, hasn’t PledgeMe grown up.

The crowdfunding platform is only five years old, but as its founder (and self-titled chief bubble blower) Anna Guenther told a Deloitte Private gathering recently, in that time it has managed over 1100 successful fundraising campaigns.

That adds up to over $14 million raised “for anything you can think of, and not think of,” she says.


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