Moscow Airport

Moscow airport: Musician Amanda Palmer raised $1.2m in 2012 for an album and tour . A project on Indiegogo, "Fly Edward Snowden Fly", asked for $200,000 to help the NSA whistleblower when he was trapped in a Moscow airport in 2013, according to The Independent. It raised a few hundred dollars. When the concept of crowdfunding emerged in the UK around six years ago , it was seen as more of a philanthropic affair rather than an investment opportunity, often supporting creative projects where there was no expected financial return. These types of projects still exist, and they still thrive with money raised from a wide network of investors, but crowdfunding itself has grown up. Just Park, a website that matches drivers with the owners of spare parking spaces, raised £3.7m in 34 days earlier this year, also with Crowdcube. It attracts pitches for funds not only from small, existing companies, but also from very large and successful organisations, such as Adzuna, a search engine for jobs which is currently asking for £1.5m on Crowdcube, and is already overfunded with a week to go. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.