• Dr. Shriprakash Soni

Finance is the backbone of any business. There are many traditional ways to secure finances like own savings, family help, friend loans, bank loans, mortgage loans etc. With the rise in internet the new source of funding is available which can be termed as crowd funding which is very cost effective source of funding and the liability of the same reduce drastically. Crowd funding is a very interesting and promising topic for the people who lack financial support from other financial sources. People who are having ideas, products, reasons etc. which can match in with the thoughts of other people from the world and make them help by funding for the cause online. This paper includes theoretical background of crowd funding, different ways to raise the funds through crowd funding, how actually the crowd funding platform works and what is the risk involved in crowd funding to the investors. Thus when topic of funding comes there is the need of its management too. Therefore the researcher studying this topic so as to understand how to predict the outcome of the crowd funding, understand why people fund, learn various ways available for the same etc.

Crowd Funding, Financial Source, Management, Risk, Investors.

"A STUDY OF CROWD FUNDING PLATFORMS IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.698-704, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905D99.pdf

"A STUDY OF CROWD FUNDING PLATFORMS IN INDIA", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp698-704, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905D99.pdf