# Past Funding Sources ### **January 2019** After two years of building and testing prototypes, searching for the best emerging tech, and shifting to a nonprofit approach — Junto Foundation launched a [**Kickstarter**](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1958309948/junto-a-new-breed-of-social-media?ref=user_menu) campaign in January 2019, raising **$106,949 from 678 backers**. ### **February 2019** As short extension of the crowdfunding campaign through IndieGoGo InDemand lifted that to **$110,290 from 773 backers**. ### **April 2019** Not long after the crowdfunding, an additional $75K in donations was raised from several generous, mission-aligned supporters and advisors. ### **January 2020** A year after our Kickstarter campaign, we began to prepare to onboard our first round of alpha testers and raised $55K in bridge loans raised from mission aligned supporters and advisors. ### September 2020 We received another generous $25k donation from one of our advisors --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://learn.junto.foundation/financials/past-funding-sources.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.