A platform that democratizes access to capital for small businesses via crowdfunding

All starts ups don't make million dollars in their beginning years of their business for rich people to invest in them but they need money to grow. Startups don't have huge connections and profits to get funding.
Meanwhile, most people are not as rich but want to invest. So we want to build a platform that benefits small Businesses and Investors both. Startups put their video pitches for the help make investor a decision on the startup and investor can make an appointment with the business to know about their future goals and before investing.

fundIt is a an app for small businesses to get crowdfunding by retails investors for equity.

• Users can login and authenticate their credentials via Apple/Google/Email
• Startups can post data such as PDFs, Images, and Text to supplement their crowdfunding campaign and help investors to make investment decisions
• Investors can browse all campaigns via a Tab view
• Investors can find directions to crowdfunding campaigns on a Map View
• Investors can schedule a virtual meeting with the representative of startup that will help investor know about the future plans of the business
• Investors can pay as much as $10 for a share in the startup’s equity offered in the crowdfunding campaign
• Investors can view their past investments & their total portfolio on a profile view
• Startups can check the status of their crowdfunding campaign on their profile panel
• Startups can checkout the funds raised from the crowdsourced campaign via Apple/Google Pay to Apple/Google Wallets in a virtual FundIt card

• Dart: Dynamic Mobile Applications that runs both on Android and iOS.
• Firebase: For authentication
• Square: Payment Processing
• SQL: For storing the Business and Investor Information

##Potential Users

• Retail investors - who will be investing in the companies that are listed on our platform
• Startups - they sign up for crowdfunding in exchange for equity.

• Showing the business information on the Investor side within the real time by extracting from database took some time for us to understand
• Payment Processing using Square
• Making dynamic user interface for startup took some time to apprehend

Able to build a working platform with a great team work in such a short time.

• Learned how to divide tasks as a team and be accountable for it, setting report time
• How to do payment processing

We are planning to reach small businesses and small investors who could benefit from each other. Small businesses by getting money and small investors by getting returns on their investment with as little as 10 dollars.