# 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