francisco ca key people andrea lo founder revenue 325 000 through april 2013 website www.piggybackr.com piggybackr is a us crowdfunding website for students and youth teams to fundraise for their schools projects and causes online . 1 2 it is compliant with the american children s online privacy protection act meaning that children as young as 5 can run fundraising projects on line . backers of projects can post public comments but can not communicate directly with the children posting projects . children under the age of 13 must have parental involvement with their projects . piggybackr charges a flat 5 % 30 cent transaction fee for any donations processed through the platform . 3 contents 1 description 2 history 3 example projects 4 endorsements 5 see also 6 external links 7 references description edit piggybackr has been described as kickstarter for students . 4 unlike kickstarter children offer thank you gifts including advertising for companies such as committing to running a lap putting a business logo on their page or giving someone a shout out on facebook . 5 6 history edit piggybackr was founded in 2012 by andrea lo and keenahn jung . it was launched out of the angelpad accelerator . 7 andrea lo s 12 year old sister had just begun to fundraise the year before in the same way that lo did 10 years earlier as a child . lo spent about a year developing a way to fund raise for children that used facebook . 8 after another year of private beta piggybackr launched nationwide on april 17 2013 with over 1 500 projects and 250 000 raised by kids . the website s customers include national and regional chapters of youth organizations like first robotics and ymca . 9 andrea said that the biggest challenge they have faced is catering to a large age range on the site . 10 example projects edit norcal crew youth rowing team raised 45 000 to buy a new eight man racing boat 6 university of california at berkeley alternative breaks raised 14 565 to support college students doing volunteer work during spring break 9 endorsements edit a number of youth organizations have suggested fundraising on piggybackr . these include timothy c. draper s bizworld foundation 7 for inspiration and recognition of science and technology 9 united states power soccer association 11 california ymca youth and government 7 see also edit fundly causes hopemob.org external links edit official website references edit https www.piggybackr.com about http abclocal.go.com kgo story section news technology & id 9313828 https www.piggybackr.com pricing 6 women entrepreneurs to watch empowering people through crowdfunding platforms piggybackr somolend indiegogo giveforward kiva catapult forbes 21 december 2012 lee ellen may 21 2013 . piggybackr helps kids fundraise online . san francisco chronicle . a b rodriguez joe may 21 2013 . silicon valley website piggybackr helps kids use crowd funding . san jose mercury news . a b c taylor coleen piggybackr launches its kickstarter for kids to let youth get in on the crowdfunding wave techcrunch 17 april 2013 taylor coleen meet the 10 startups who just got their wings at angelpad s spring 2012 demo day techcrunch video interview of andrea lo at 1 00 10 may 2012 a b c koldony lora april 17 2013 . piggybackr gives kids a kickstarter of their own . wall street journal . karol gabrielle a site to teach children how to raise money fox small business center 23 april 2013 uspsa newsletter march 2013 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title piggybackr & oldid 743699593 categories crowdfunding platformsfundraisinginternet companiescompanies based in san francisco2012 establishments in californiahidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 19 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view