Pledgecamp is the first crowdfunding platform to protect investments with Backer Insurance, a decentralized escrow feature powered by blockchain. Key advisors include Randi Zuckerberg (CEO Zuckerberg Media), Matt Curcio (VP of Data, Ripple), David Ambrox (Executive Director, Disney Television Group), Keith Teare (Founding Shareholder, TechCrunch), Prince Abdullah (Saudi Royal Family), Alan Chang (Operations Lead, AirBnb), and more. Our key innovation is Backer Insurance, a smart contract-powered escrow feature that allows backers to hold creators accountable to their promises by periodically dispersing campaign funds. In addition, we introduce multiple new features to take the worry out of crowdfunding for the creators as well, such as advanced dashboard tools and our Market Network and Knowledge Center. The platform is designed by Metalab.co, a famous UX/UI firm responsible for designing Slack, Coinbase, and Oculus, among others. The founding team - Jae Choi, Sam Pullman, and Eddie Lee, are serial Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and seasoned crowdfunding experts. Together, they have run four successful Kickstarter campaigns, raising over $2.3M dollars and shipping custom hardware, firmware, and software to thousands of customers all over the world. In addition to the success launching our own crowdfunding campaigns, they advised multiple other entrepreneurs launch their own products on Kickstarter and Indiegogo – helping them raise more than $10M in total. Crowdfunding is an established industry with legacy competitors that are ripe for disruption. Global crowdfunding volume is estimated to reach $26 billion dollars in 2022, and Goldman Sachs estimates that crowdfunding could even reach, “a $1.2 trillion dollar opportunity, over time.” In addition, Pledgecamp aims to grow its product line into equity-based crowdfunding, ICO/STO crowdfunding, and P2P lending by expanding from the same core crowd-sourcing fundamentals, increasing the overall market potential.