Crowdfunding sites are fast becoming essential tools for startups & new products. Sites like Kickstarter alone have over 135,000 projects up for funding. Others like Indiegogo & Rockethub are also in the market to help budding innovators & creative heads. But getting a project to successfully raise funds is not an easy task. You need to get backers for your project & convince them into funding you. This is where startup Prefundia comes in.

Prefundia wants to help crowdfunding projects get backers before they even launch their crowdfunding campaigns. To put it simply- it’s a startup for startups. Yet-to-be-born projects may use Prefundia to publicize their crowdfunding campaigns. And if these guys are to be believed, projects that have used this auxiliary, on-ramp service to generate pre-launch hype have been successful 71 % of the time. Which, considering the fact that this startup has been around only for about 3 months is a major achievement.

When you visit the Prefundia Website, you can see information related to all the forthcoming crowdfunding projects. There’s a write-up with accompanying photos/videos for all the projects in the works. Members can even get the relevant stats for their projects to help them make the right decisions.

There’s an option for Prefundia users to sign up to be alerted when a particular project launches its funding campaign. Another use of Prefundia can be to test the likely response to a project. If you can get backing here, that perhaps is an indication the project ability to ultimately raise funds. This way people can test the viability of their projects.

There is also a pool of projects that deserve proper funding but go untraced due to low backing & low publicity. Prefundia aims to target these projects & bring them up to a level where they start getting noitced.

Prefundia was founded by US-based Daniel Falabella. Since its launch, projects that were listed here went on to raise over US $2.5 million. Almost 140 out of 195 projects have been successful, which means $18,000 per project on an average.

Prefundia is free for forthcoming crowdfunding projects to list on, & isn’t currently taking any cut from “successful” projects, so there’s no reason not to give it a go. You just need to upload few media files. Prefundia has said it will start charging a small fee for the service from next quarter.

Click here to know more about Prefundia.

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