Since the beginning of 2002, the co-founders of JumpstartFund have been operating incubators (accelerators) for early-stage high-tech companies in the Silicon Valley and Los Angeles' South Bay. Over the years, we have watched our hardworking startups struggle to find the next round of funding to support the growth of their companies. As serial entrepreneurs ourselves, we know from experience how d
ifficult this struggle can be. We also learned that there are a large number of smaller investors who see the potential of such companies and their entrepreneurial owners, but we had no effective and efficient channel through which to connect them because of the regulations for controlling transactions related to securities. When the Jobs Acts of 2012 was signed into law authorizing the needed changes in those regulations, we undertook the creation of the JumpStartFund platform to provide this channel. We seek funds (crowdfunding) as well as ideas and opinions (crowdsourcing) from the crowd of internet users. We apply these resources from the crowd to foster and facilitate the development and growth of entrepreneurial activities, especially start-up companies. We have created a secure, user-friendly internet funding portal to provide the channel to connect companies seeking capital (or loans) with investors (or lenders) in the crowd. We facilitate the efficient exchange of equity (share of stock) in a company for capital or loans to the company for dept (various kinds of notes payable)
