Fundraising Platform Crowdera helps Kendriya Sainik Board to Raise ₹ 2.04+ Cr to Support Ex-Servicemen

Kendriya Sainik Board, An Apex Body Of Govt Of India, Calls For Fundraising Support Of Prominent Personalities, Influencers, And Corporations

New Delhi, 12th November 2020: Crowdera, the world's only 100% free fundraising and crowdfunding platform for individuals & organizations, partnered with Kendriya Sainik Board campaign ‘Let’s support those who sacrificed their lives and limbs for the nation’. Forces Flag Day Fund For The Welfare Of Ex-Servicemen in the Ministry of Defence.

Kendriya Sainik Board exclusively partnered with Crowdera to garner support on comprehensive fundraising strategies including crowdfunding for their campaigns, corporate fundraising, and team fundraising. Since partnering with Crowdera, on their fundraising platform, Kendriya Sainik Board has to date raised ₹2,04,64,407 and has changed 9,745 lives, while the campaign is still on, for the supporters & contributors. 

Air Commodore Ahluwalia, VSM Secretary, KSB said “We are very proud to be associated with this campaign as many brave and gallantry heroes from the Indian Army have laid down their lives in the service of the country. It’s a great time to come together and join our hands for those who never thought for themselves and are always ready for us. More than 60,000 jawans retire every year as they need to mandatorily retire after service of 15-20 years. Most of them are in the age group of just 35-40 years at the time of retirement. The aim of the campaign is to support and educate the children of retired servicemen, Financial assistance to ex-servicemen in Penury, Support the wedding ceremony of ex-servicemen daughters, he added”.


While exhorting support for the campaign, Chet Jainn, CEO & Founder Crowdera, said "Freedom comes at a price and we need to take some time out to reflect on the liberties we enjoy and take for granted; liberties that are enabled only because of our defence forces. Contributing to this campaign will be our way of showing our respect and gratitude to those who keep us free.”

Kendriya Sainik Board wants to make an appeal to Indian nationals, influencers, celebrities, CEOs, and philanthropists to join them in fundraising for the brave ex-servicemen of our country. Since its campaign launch on Crowdera’s crowdfunding platform, the campaign has raised more than Rs 2.04 crores for the welfare of the ex-servicemen of India, but substantial support is still needed.


This campaign is already being supported by prominent personalities across the nation including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Amitabh Bachchan, Amir Khan, Akshay Kumar, and Pawan Kalyan.

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About Kendriya Sainik Board

Kendriya Sainik Board is an apex body of the Government of India which formulates policies for Resettlement and for the welfare of the Ex-Servicemen of the Indian Army, and welfare schemes for Ex-Servicemen, widows, and their dependents residing in their respective States, UTs, or Districts. The name was assigned to the board in 1975. The Board now functions under the Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare in the Ministry of Defence.


About Crowdera-

Crowdera is a SAAS technology company that builds scalable fundraising and syndication platforms and solutions with inbuilt virality creating a network effect. Crowdera offers fee-free online syndicated team fundraising & crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, foundations, corporations, and social innovators serving individuals and communities. The Crowdera difference being that all fundraising and crowdfunding is absolutely free on this platform with no donor dipping. Fundraisers on Crowdera can raise money without losing any commission or fee from donations received. Founded in 2014 from Silicon Valley with a principle that believes in the power of giving to create abundance around us, Crowdera platforms now support charitable fundraising, crowdfunding, corporate & celebrity donation syndication, and employee engagement, in a single value chain.

For more information: https://gocrowdera.com/

Crowdera and HubSpot to co-organize pro-bono Startup Acceleration Bootcamp for Indian Start-ups and SMEs

Crowdera, a SaaS technology company and fee-free global online fundraising platform for nonprofits and social innovators is coming together with HubSpot to organize a free "Startup Acceleration Bootcamp” designed to benefit the start-ups and SMEs. The 3-day bootcamp will help the participating businesses in establishing a strong and efficient tech stack right in their early days which is crucial for long term success.

Crowdera together with HubSpot, a global leader in developing and marketing of software products for inbound marketing and sales, will share a combination of knowledge and technology in this bootcamp which will be held on September 24th, 29th & October 1st 2020 from 1:00PM - 2:30PM IST.

Chet Jainn, Founder & CEO, Crowdera said, “The Startup Acceleration Bootcamp will be beneficial for emerging businesses generating revenue ~2000$ and upwards per month. Founders and decision-makers who are ready to take action and implement changes to their sales and marketing processes will gain immensely from these sessions. Entrepreneurs will learn how to consolidate their growth efforts using the most dynamic tech stack for sales, marketing, and customer success for growth acceleration and superb customer experiences. Crowdera's premium fundraising platform tools for pre-sales crowdfunding, syndicate crowdfunding will be offered pro-bono for one year to all selected participant start-ups. They will also have access to exclusive master classes and workshops in sales, marketing and customer service.”

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The participants of the workshop will get assured access to 14-days trial of the HubSpot Growth Platform where they can experiment and design their sales and marketing strategy. They will also be able to use the Slack mentorship channel for 30 days post workshop. In addition, they can get their queries answered live from the HubSpot start-up experts.

The workshop, aligned with Crowdera Startup Accelerator tools, will map the growth marketing techniques in bootcamp for the fundraising process of start-ups. The sessions are designed to inspire young people to become innovative change makers.

To participate in the workshop, the interested participants can visit HubSpot's official website. Registration is open to all start-ups in India and is 100% free. Registration is mandatory prior to the event and only limited seats are available. https://hubs.ly/H0wwq8P0.

About Crowdera-

Crowdera is a SAAS technology company that builds scalable fundraising and syndication platforms and solutions with inbuilt virality creating a network effect. Crowdera offers a fee-free online syndicated team fundraising & crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, foundations, corporations, and social innovators serving individuals and communities. The Crowdera difference being that all fundraising and crowdfunding is absolutely free on this platform with no donor dipping. Fundraisers on Crowdera can raise money without losing any commission or fee from donations received.

Founded in 2014 from Silicon Valley with a principle that believes in the power of giving to create abundance around us, Crowdera platforms now support charitable fundraising, crowdfunding, corporate & celebrity donation syndication, and employee engagement, in a single value chain.

About HubSpot -

HubSpot is an American developer and marketer of software products for inbound marketing, sales, and customer service. It was founded by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah in 2006.

Its products and services aim to provide tools for customer relationship management, social media marketing, content management, lead generation, web analytics, search engine optimization, live chat, and customer support.

Dr Srinivas Chunduru, a key Ola advisor, joins Crowdera India as Chief Advisor Strategic Alliances

Crowdera, a SaaS-based fee-free global online fundraising platform for non-profits and social innovators, welcomes on board Dr. Srinivas Chunduru as Chief Advisor Strategic Alliances. 

With more than 20 years’ experience at Piramal Housing Finance as Business Head and Executive Director, Dr. Srinivas (fondly addressed as Srini by associates) has unparalleled expertise across diverse functions such as P&L Management, Business development, Corporate Strategy, M&A, Investor Relations and Strategic HR. An executive entrepreneur and a well-known business leader, he brings in extensive experience in managing large teams, working closely with foundations and initiatives as advisor and/or as board member, and partnering closely with founders/ promoters/ family managed businesses for strategic business growth.

Dr. Srinivas has been a key advisor for Ola as its Interim CHRO and CEO (OSPL) and continues to be on the board of Ola group companies (OSPL). 

Commenting on his new association with Crowdera, Dr Srinivas Chunduru said, "I am extremely proud of my association with Crowdera India as Chief Advisor- Strategic Alliances. This partnership will leverage the technology, credibility and strength of the Crowdera platform combined with my experience of working closely with large conglomerates, unicorn startups and educational academies for over two decades in India, to bring about a desirable change".

“With its ever-expanding spectrum of innovative offerings like the Digital transformation program for global charities, Donation syndication, Alumni engagement and fundraising platform  coupled with world class technology, Crowdera is poised to create a large impact in its chosen space; and I am very excited to join hands with it to be an impact facilitator. Each of these products are unique and cater to lot of unmet needs in the world of philanthropy. I'm eagerly looking forward to be a part of Crowdera’s vision of digitally transforming 1 million charities by 2030 and creating a positive impact on millions of people”, he added.    

Commenting on the association, an upbeat Chet Jainn, Founder & CEO, Crowdera said, “In current pandemic affected times when philanthropy has become a strong pillar of our society, it is imperative and important that Crowdera makes prudent associations and in Srini – Dr Srinivas Chuduru, we have found the perfect strategic partner. We are delighted and extremely overwhelmed to welcome Dr. Srinivas as our Chief Advisor - Strategic Alliances. Srini will bring to Crowdera, two decades worth of experience in guiding various businesses to strategic growth.”

“Crowdera has an amazing team full of talented people holding a great lineage, having studied in some of the most well-known schools like Columbia, Wharton, VNIT etc and hold work experiences in companies like eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Walmart, Adobe, Ola etc. Srini is an incredible addition to the team and his contribution will bring enormous growth in our business. He is going to guide us on building strategic alliances. We look forward to his counsel and a wonderful and extremely glorious journey with him”, Chet added.

Dr. Chunduru has earlier worked with initiatives in the space of Food, Livelihood, Skill Development and Education. He is the Founder and Member of Board of Vans Group (Vans Investments, Vans Skilling and Advisory) which has interests in varied areas like Edutech, Fintech, Skilling & advisory and HR analytics. He is also on the board of AF Capital (Avail), an innovative Digital Financial services company.

Recently, in 2020, he has been conferred the prestigious Doctorate in Excellence by the UCT, Delaware, USA for his contribution to the area of management. Dr. Srinivas is also the recipient of several awards like CLO of the year (TISS, Leap Vault), Gold award for Best Simulation for finance (CLO conference) and CHRO of the year (TOI).

About Crowdera

Crowdera is a SAAS technology company that builds scalable fundraising and syndication platforms and solutions with inbuilt virality creating a network effect. Crowdera offers fee-free online syndicated team fundraising & crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, foundations, corporations, and social innovators serving individuals and communities. The Crowdera difference being that all fundraising and crowdfunding is absolutely free on this platform with no donor dipping. Fundraisers on Crowdera can raise money without losing any commission or fee from donations received.

Founded in 2014 from Silicon Valley with a principle that believes in the power of giving to create abundance around us, Crowdera platforms now support charitable fundraising, crowdfunding, corporate & celebrity donation syndication, and employee engagement, in a single value chain. 

Crowdfunding Platform Crowdera Raises Pre-Series A Funding from a Marquee Group of Investors

Crowdera, a fintech startup based in California and India, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding as a part of its current Pre-Series funding round. The marquee investors who have put their faith in the cloud-based fundraising platform are - Anil Advani, the Silicon Valley startup attorney, Pramod Jain, Amrendra Reddy and Manish Satnaliwala, angel investors from Singapore, Anand Daga, SME IPO specialist from Central India, and couple more unnamed investors from San Francisco Bay Area.

Founded in 2014 by Chai Atreya and Chet Jain, Crowdera is a cloud-based fundraising platform which offers a comprehensive fundraising framework for non-profits and social innovators to raise funds without any form of donor dippings. It facilitates all aspects of the online fundraising ecosystem including donation buttons, cross-site donation widgets, websites (CMS), P2P campaigns, donation management, and much more.

Talking about the funding received and the support of such industry leaders, Chet Jain, CEO and Founder, Crowdera said “A start-up is either built to sell or built to last. I chose to build a company that can last at least 30-40 years. Hence, I always knew that we would have to put a lot more sweat in the game before we started accepting investor funds. It took over seven years of research and over three and half years of hard work to establish Crowdera as a viable for-profit business model that makes money without dipping into the donor dollars. We are not in for a sprint for quick successes; we are a marathoner. Hence, we believe in building best practices in fundraising which will allow us to help several causes for next several decades”.

The company plans to use the funds raised to propel the early stage growth and amplify the overall impact by enhancing the product, and scaling customer success activities.

On making the investment, marquee investor Anil Advani said, “The not-for-profit online fundraising campaigns are being run on social networks and donations too, are being made on mobiles. The digital era has thus, empowered the fund-seekers and the donors alike.I believe Crowdera will benefit from this paradigm shift and emerge as a leading crowdfunding platform.Most fundraisers need help in execution of their campaigns and here Crowdera, with its value-added services, has emerged as the trusted partner in helping fundraisers chart their journey."

The fundraising platform has already made its mark amongst the fund-raisers with eminent personalities like Social Worker Padmashri Dr.Suneetha Krishnan for Prajwala, Filmmaker Rajat Kapoor, ABBF founder Divyanshu Ganatra, Gurcharan Singh of Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma fame and Rhea Mukherjee, ex-VP of Radio Mirchi,already opting for Crowdera to raise funds for their causes and ventures.

So far, the company has supported over 2300 campaigns funded by 5,500 donors from 35 countries and currently operational in 200 countries by virtue of its payment gateway partnerships.

Crowdera is getting ready for its series A funding by early next year.

Crowdfunding in India

In India, Crowdfunding is not as popular as in the US, nevertheless there are many new and emerging crowdfunding platforms such as Ketto, Milaap, Impact Guru, Desiredwings, Bitgiving and FuelADream.

In April, Chinas Xiaomi launched Mi Crowdfunding in India to provide a dedicated space to products or ideas that still need money to go into mass production and finally launch in open markets. Notably, Xiaomi’s been crowdfunding out-of-the-box products for years in China, giving birth to various devices outside of the mainstream.


Last year, Desiredwings, a reward based crowdfunding platform, acquired Catapooolt.com to together become the largest crowdfunding platform with various diversified successfully funded campaigns to its portfolio.

According to SEBI, the investment knowledge of Indian citizens is not at par and hence popular models like equity crowdfunding and investment crowdfunding are not so popular in India. Last September, SEBI had asked crowdfunding platform to include a disclaimer stating that crowdfunding platforms are neither stock exchanges nor authorized by the capital markets regulator to solicit investments.

Crowdfunding Platform Crowdera Raises Pre-Series A Funding from a Marquee Group of Investors

Crowdera, a fintech startup based in California and India, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding as a part of its current Pre-Series funding round. The marquee investors who have put their faith in the cloud-based fundraising platform are - Anil Advani, the Silicon Valley startup attorney, Pramod Jain, Amrendra Reddy and Manish Satnaliwala, angel investors from Singapore, Anand Daga, SME IPO specialist from Central India, and couple more unnamed investors from San Francisco Bay Area.

Founded in 2014 by Chai Atreya and Chet Jain, Crowdera is a cloud-based fundraising platform which offers a comprehensive fundraising framework for non-profits and social innovators to raise funds without any form of donor dippings. It facilitates all aspects of the online fundraising ecosystem including donation buttons, cross-site donation widgets, websites (CMS), P2P campaigns, donation management, and much more.

Talking about the funding received and the support of such industry leaders, Chet Jain, CEO and Founder, Crowdera said “A start-up is either built to sell or built to last. I chose to build a company that can last at least 30-40 years. Hence, I always knew that we would have to put a lot more sweat in the game before we started accepting investor funds. It took over seven years of research and over three and half years of hard work to establish Crowdera as a viable for-profit business model that makes money without dipping into the donor dollars. We are not in for a sprint for quick successes; we are a marathoner. Hence, we believe in building best practices in fundraising which will allow us to help several causes for next several decades”.

The company plans to use the funds raised to propel the early stage growth and amplify the overall impact by enhancing the product, and scaling customer success activities.

On making the investment, marquee investor Anil Advani said, “The not-for-profit online fundraising campaigns are being run on social networks and donations too, are being made on mobiles. The digital era has thus, empowered the fund-seekers and the donors alike.I believe Crowdera will benefit from this paradigm shift and emerge as a leading crowdfunding platform.Most fundraisers need help in execution of their campaigns and here Crowdera, with its value-added services, has emerged as the trusted partner in helping fundraisers chart their journey."

The fundraising platform has already made its mark amongst the fund-raisers with eminent personalities like Social Worker Padmashri Dr.Suneetha Krishnan for Prajwala, Filmmaker Rajat Kapoor, ABBF founder Divyanshu Ganatra, Gurcharan Singh of Tarak Mehta Ka Oolta Chashma fame and Rhea Mukherjee, ex-VP of Radio Mirchi,already opting for Crowdera to raise funds for their causes and ventures.

So far, the company has supported over 2300 campaigns funded by 5,500 donors from 35 countries and currently operational in 200 countries by virtue of its payment gateway partnerships.

Crowdera is getting ready for its series A funding by early next year.

Crowdfunding in India

In India, Crowdfunding is not as popular as in the US, nevertheless there are many new and emerging crowdfunding platforms such as Ketto, Milaap, Impact Guru, Desiredwings, Bitgiving and FuelADream.

In April, Chinas Xiaomi launched Mi Crowdfunding in India to provide a dedicated space to products or ideas that still need money to go into mass production and finally launch in open markets. Notably, Xiaomi’s been crowdfunding out-of-the-box products for years in China, giving birth to various devices outside of the mainstream.


Last year, Desiredwings, a reward based crowdfunding platform, acquired Catapooolt.com to together become the largest crowdfunding platform with various diversified successfully funded campaigns to its portfolio.

According to SEBI, the investment knowledge of Indian citizens is not at par and hence popular models like equity crowdfunding and investment crowdfunding are not so popular in India. Last September, SEBI had asked crowdfunding platform to include a disclaimer stating that crowdfunding platforms are neither stock exchanges nor authorized by the capital markets regulator to solicit investments.