founder jase wilson patrick hosty headquarters san francisco ca & kansas city mo products municipal bond website neighborly.com neighborly is a san francisco based online investment platform that allows individuals to invest in civic projects through municipal bonds . company began as a donation based civic crowdfunding platform for civic projects . 1 neighborly has since evolved toward becoming an investing platform . 2 neighborly provides publicly available finance information on its website and sells municipal securities through its affiliated registered broker dealer neighborly securities . 3 4 history edit neighborly was founded in july 2012 in kansas city missouri by jase wilson a civic technologist trained in urban planning at the massachusetts institute of technology 5 and patrick hosty a municipal bond trader at financial firm valdes & moreno . 6 during the company s first two years of operation neighborly facilitated donations for 55 community projects that collectively raised over 2 500 000 . 7 in july of 2013 neighborly received a 175 000 grant from the knight foundation . 8 in april of 2014 neighborly won the 14th annual global technology symposium held at draper university in san mateo beating 8 other companies from 7 different countries . 9 in october 2014 neighborly completed the 500 startups accelerator . 10 11 in july 2015 neighborly introduced the concept of civic microbonds to lower the minimum denomination required to invest in municipal bonds . 12 in august 2015 neighborly secured 5.5 m seed financing led by joe lonsdale s formation 8 and ashton kutcher s sound ventures . 13 references edit can crowdfunding kickstart struggling cities . the daily dot . amanda albright 12 august 2015 . want a bike path pay for it yourself . bloomberg.com . brokercheck neighborly securities . financial industry regulatory authority . chayka kyle 30 april 2015 . want to invest in your city try the new kickstarter for municipal bonds . pacific standard . retrieved 27 april 2016 . blanding michael . visible hand . mit news . retrieved 27 april 2016 . andrew han . neighborly invest money in social good . stanford daily . cortese amy 10 july 2015 . putting the public back in public finance . the new york times . retrieved 27 april 2016 . scott ryan 7 january 2016 . addressing poverty through digital and financial literacy . the huffington post . retrieved 27 april 2016 . neighbor.ly s jase wilson wins silicon valley pitch competition silicon prairie news . silicon prairie news . neighborly . 500 . co. retrieved 27 april 2016 . kyle russell . our four favorite companies from the 500 startups demo day . techcrunch . culpepper kristi 18 september 2015 . will neighborly disrupt the municipal bond market no . . medium.com . kim mai cutler . neighborly raises 5.5 m from joe lonsdale s formation 8 ashton kutcher to transform the municipal debt market . techcrunch . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title neighborly & oldid 717772288 categories crowdfunding platforms 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 29 april 2016 at 16 42 . 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