ROCKETHUB

Incorporated in 2009, the RocketHub, an online crowdfunding platform, launched by January 2010. The original founders of RocketHub are Brian Meece, Jed Cohen, Alon Hillel-Tuch, and Vladimir Vukicevic. The company was based in New York City. RocketHub innovated upon the crowdfunding model and developed a B2B market for the technology space, creating industry-first key partnerships. Bill Clinton and Bill Gates selected RocketHub as part of their guest edited Ways to Change the World edition of W... ired Magazine. RocketHub was instrumental in crafting and steering JOBS Act legislation, having testified twice in-front of U.S. Congress. RocketHub was selected by the US Department of State as one of its 12 top global partners, alongside large corporations such as Coca-Cola.Secretary of State John Kerry provided the foreword for the report. RocketHub operated in over 190 different countries, and through its partnership with the US Department of State is the only established US crowdfunding platform able to operate and crowdfund in emerging regions across the world. RocketHub was the first crowdfunding platform to partner with network television, “We believe we’re the first broadcast network to start an initiative using crowdfunding to help people grow their business ideas,” Dr. Libby H. O’Connell, SVP of Corporate Outreach for A&E Networks. RocketHub engaged in an innovative partnership with marketing agency Wieden+Kennedy and Chrysler’s Dodge Dart in 2013 allowing users to crowdfund the purchase of a car. The partnership garnered 70 million impressions and was featured at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, the campaign video became a Cannes Bronze Film Lion winner.More