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Top Five Entrepreneurial
Colleges In 2012


1
Stanford University
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3
Harvard University
4
California Institute of Technology
5
University of California, Berkeley
FORBES & LINKEDIN DATA


$2.24BN
$30bn

Private contributions to America's higher education institutions increased 8.2percent to $30.30 billion in 2011... The top 20 institutions raised $8.24 billion.


The potential of crowd funding

The notion of leveraging technology to source funding for a wide range of artistic, altruistic, commercial, and disruptive projects across a wide spectrum of people is in its nascent stages. The coming years will see crowdfunding expand to supplant many traditional avenues to institutional and individual sources of capital. Many naysayers see a potential for fraud, doubting the sophistication of the crowd to aggregate small sources of capital toward a singular, worthy endeavor.

AlumniFunder is crowdfunding, tailored to work within and to build upon the existing, traditional alumni relationships, and to provide visibility to innovative projects and companies across those relationships and to the public, so everyone can participate in funding disruption and supporting entrepreneurship at the venerable institutions teaching innovation.

Why AlumniFunder?

AlumniFunder verifies that each project creator has attended or is attending one of the launch universities, so as to create transparency in crowdfunding. We will be adding many more universities as the year unfolds, as well as creative functionality and resources that highlight the best aspects of crowdfunding as a service, both for “Doers” and “Funders” alike.



Top Contributions
By University 2011


  • Stanford
    $709m
  • Harvard
    $639m
  • Yale
    $580m
  • MIT
    $534m


COUNCIL FOR AID TO EDUCATION (CAE)