PRIZEO CHARITY PLATFORM LAUNCHES WITH CAMPAIGNS BY ALICIA KEYS, KRISTEN BELL, KHLOE KARDASHIAN
The Hollywood Reporter
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June 7, 2013
The crowd funding site Kickstarter has provided millions of dollars in angel funding for passion projects and independent business plans and it seems the nonprofit world is starting to take notice.
Prizeo.com, a charity-fundraising digital platform, announced its launch on Thursday with a roster of celebrities who will run campaigns on the site this summer. Among them: Muhammad Ali, Alicia Keys, Michael Phelps, Kristen Bell and Khloe Kardashian.
PRIZEO HELPS CELEBS CROWDFUND FOR A CAUSE
Wall Street Journal
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June 6, 2013
With the launch of its U.S. site Thursday, Y Combinator graduate Prizeo puts an interesting twist on crowdfunding by selling digital raffle tickets for once-in-a-lifetime experiences with celebrities.
PRIZEO CHARITY RAFFLES COULD MAKE YOUR CELEBRITY DREAMS COME TRUE
VentureBeat
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March 26, 2013
Prizeo is reinventing the charity raffle. The startup works with celebrities to create “once-in-a-lifetime” experiences like a personal cooking lesson with chef Jamie Oliver in London or spend a day with the insanely popular (amongst the tween set) musical group One Direction.
Y COMBINATOR-BACKED PRIZEO HELPS CELEBRITIES TAP THEIR FANS FOR CHARITY FUNDRAISING
TechCrunch
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March 24, 2013
Prizeo is a startup aiming to channel celebrities’ social media influence into funding for charity.
Co-founders Bryan Baum and Leo Seigal are familiar with the fundraising world, having co-founded a student philanthropy organization while at Oxford. (That’s also where they met their co-founder and CTO Andrej Pancik.) They say the group raised more than $1 million at its charity events, but Baum argued that ultimately, the model was “not scalable.”
