Introducing the Belief-Confirmed Program – The Indiegogo Evaluate

Group and belief are the muse of crowdfunding. That’s why we’ve made it a precedence to place neighborhood and belief on the coronary heart of all the things we do. 

In an effort to empower our backers to make knowledgeable selections on Indiegogo, we’re proud to introduce the Belief-Confirmed Program, a brand new initiative that spotlights campaigners with a demonstrated historical past of managing a number of campaigns on Indiegogo and fulfilling perks to their backers.  

We’re within the technique of reviewing the histories of our lively campaigners, and we’re bringing that data on to the marketing campaign pages by way of the Belief-Confirmed Badge.  

Right here’s the way it works: 

• Our Belief and Security group is within the technique of reviewing campaigners who’ve launched a number of know-how and innovation campaigns on our platform. We might increase the scope sooner or later, however we need to prioritize skilled campaigners within the know-how and innovation class as we first roll out this system. 
• Our standards helps us honor campaigners who’ve a confirmed observe report of constant achievement, a excessive degree of marketing campaign administration, and optimistic backer sentiment.  
• Our Belief and Security group has the best to rescind the Belief-Confirmed Badge, within the occasion that the campaigner doesn’t comply with our insurance policies.

Over the past 10 years, we’ve been house to 1000’s of profitable campaigns, and the relationships we’ve constructed with these entrepreneurs aren’t any small feat. We need to use the Belief-Confirmed Badge to spotlight campaigners’ report of success, offering this data immediately on the marketing campaign pages so backers could make extra knowledgeable selections. 

In reality, we simply awarded Firewalla, SIRUI, VAVA and Canon a Belief-Confirmed Badge on their marketing campaign pages as a result of the entrepreneurs behind these campaigns have repeatedly demonstrated their capability to ship perks and handle campaigns previously. There are a lot of issues to judge earlier than contributing to a marketing campaign, and we hope the Belief-Confirmed Badge can additional assist our neighborhood make knowledgeable selections whereas evaluating campaigns. 

In the event you see the Belief-Confirmed Badge when discovering campaigns on Indiegogo, it signifies that the campaigner has met our standards and is a member of our Belief Confirmed Program. Right here’s what the badge appears to be like like: 

The Belief-Confirmed Program is a component of a bigger set of initiatives we’ve rolled out just lately to make Indiegogo safer. Previously 12 months, we’ve additionally launched these applications to make our platform safer: 

• An overhauled and expanded Belief & Security group: We fully revamped our Belief & Security group beneath our new Belief Director and trade veteran, Nelson Ho.  
• The Inside Evaluate Board: We’ve additionally created an Inside Evaluate Board to supervise our most impactful Belief & Security selections and be sure that we’re retaining our backer’s pursuits in thoughts always.
• The Crowdfunding Belief Alliance: With our pals at GoFundMe, we now have co-founded the Crowdfunding Belief Alliance to often share trade tendencies and finest practices. We’re excited to work with the most important gamers in our trade and sit up for increasing the alliance to different respected crowdfunding platforms.
• The Guidepost Program: The Guidepost Program is an initiative to proactively overview campaigns previous to launch and ask pointed inquiries to gauge the power to meet.

Our neighborhood of backers is the explanation that something occurs on Indiegogo. We need to floor related data for our neighborhood to raised establish campaigners on our platform. Belief isn’t one thing that develops in a single day, and we’ll proceed constructing much more instruments and applications to make Indiegogo a safer and extra trusted house for backers to interact with innovation. The Belief Confirmed Program is simply one of many issues we’re doing to maintain the platform secure. Extra to come back!