Securing funding for a startup is not an easy task. While it is always advisable to bootstrap your business until it picks up enough to be attractive for more investors, it is not always possible. And entrepreneurs struggle from this fact. But the opportunities are growing and many creative projects and ideas succeed to get the attention of the people. Crowdfunding is one of the many funding options for entrepreneurs. As the number of crowdfunding platforms has increased tremendously (according to Wikipedia, as of 2012 there were 450 of them), here we have listed for you five of these platforms to help you choose the best one for your startup.

Let’s assume that you are already familiar with Kickstarter and Indiegogo and focus on the following five platforms.

RocketHub

RocketHub is a platform that offers to the users free to launch services with no upfront barriers. The other very interesting part is that they have the chance to keep the funds they raise as the platform does not use the popular “all-or-nothing” model.

Fundable

Fundable is very popular platform, which is created and exclusively devoted to help companies raise capital.

Seedinvest

The platform emphasizes on the difference between investing in startups and investing in public stocks and allows the investors to invest as little as $100.

WeFunder

WeFunder is an equity crowdfunding website that also gives the opportunity to the users to invest in a startup with low minimum of $100.

GoFundMe

GoFundMe is the most popular website for personal online fundraising, which is suited to help individuals, groups and organizations raise money.