crowdfund

verb

crowd·​fund ˈkrau̇d-ˌfənd 

crowdfunded; crowdfunding; crowdfunds

transitive verb

: to obtain needed funding for (something, such as a new business) by soliciting contributions from a large number of people especially from the online community

Kudos to former Nashvillian, Devin Haqq, filmmaker, actor, writer and director who was very successful when he decided to crowdfund his film "Ambition's Debt".

—Justine Harvey

Examples of crowdfund in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As her audience grew, so did the reach of her message and her ability to attract sponsors, crowdfund and turn passion projects into sustainable projects or businesses. —Alejandra Rojas, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025

There is now a GoFundMe page to crowdfund his treatment. —Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Apr. 2025

Protector, whose founder and CEO is Nick Sarath, has a sister app Patrol that is billed as a neighborhood security solution where neighbors are meant to crowdfund security services like patrol cars. —Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025

By Jack Guy | CNN A satirical petition ostensibly aiming to crowdfund a trillion dollars to allow Denmark to buy California has received more than 225,000 signatures. —Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025

Word History

Etymology

crowd entry 2 + fund entry 2, after crowdsourcing

First Known Use

2008, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for crowdfund

• fecund
• refund
• rotund
• secund
• and
• bund
• fund
• gunned
• hund
• mund
• shunned
• stunned