Jumpstarter
{{Infobox company
| name = Jumpstarter, Inc.
| logo =
| location_city = El Segundo, California
| founder =
| key_people = Dirk Ahlborn
Andrew Quintero
Paul Coleman
Donald R. Thorne
| type = Crowdsourcing
| founded =
| homepage = {{URL|http://www.jumpstartfund.com}}
}}
Jumpstarter, Inc is a California-based company.{{cite web|title=JumpStartFund Looks To Make Elon Musk's Hyperloop A Reality|url=http://www.socaltech.com/jumpstartfund_looks_to_make_elon_musk_s_hyperloop_a_reality/s-0051134.html|publisher=socaltech.com|accessdate=13 June 2014}} The company builds technology solutions{{solution-inline|date=July 2019}} to allow crowd collaboration. The technology allows for a combination of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. The company has its own web portal, jumpstartfund, through which it explores the concept of a crowd-powered incubator.{{cite web|title=Can Hyperloop Actually Be Built?|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2014-01-02/news/hyperloop-ucla-ideas-campus/|publisher=laweekly.com|accessdate=13 June 2014}}{{cite news |url=http://www.industryweek.com/emerging-technologies/crowd-called-power-hyperloop-high-speed-transport|title=Crowd Called To Power Hyperloop High-Speed Transport|publisher=industryweek.com|date=Aug 29, 2013}} The company is known for picking Elon Musk's idea of Hyperloop and incorporating it as founding party under Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.{{cite news |url=http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/78850.html|title=From Conception to Funding|publisher=ecommercetimes.com|date=Aug 29, 2013}}
JumpStartFund
JumpStartFund is a Southern California based crowd-powered online incubator and crowd collaboration platform.{{cite news|title=Top U.S. engineers join crowdfunding effort to help turn Elon Musk's 'Hyperloop' from dream into reality|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/elon-musk-hyperloop-project-draws-top-engineers-article-1.1466597|accessdate=10 June 2014|publisher=.nydailynews.com|date=September 26, 2013}} The company provides a platform that allows building of communities around projects,{{cite news|title=Elon Musk's Hyperloop Dream Continues to Move Forward on JumpStartFund|newspaper=Crowdfund Insider |date=31 October 2013 |url=http://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2013/10/25480-elon-musks-hyperloop-dream-continues-move-forward-jumpstartfund/|publisher=crowdfundinsider.com|accessdate=10 June 2014}} technologies and ideas. The founding members of the company are Paul J.Coleman, Dirk Ahlborn, Andrew Quintero.{{cite web|title=Hyperloop Update: Elon Musk Will Start Developing It Himself|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/hannahelliott/2013/08/12/latest-update-elon-musk-will-start-the-hyperloop-himself/|work=forbes.com|accessdate=10 June 2014}} They have also been part of Girvan Institute of Technology, a non-profit incubator providing help growing technology start-up companies.{{cite web|title=JumpStartFund-Backed 'Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.' to Publish Next Hyperloop Development Milestones|date=31 October 2013 |url=http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131031005108/en/JumpStartFund-Backed-%E2%80%98Hyperloop-Transportation-Technologies-Inc.%E2%80%99-Publish-Hyperloop#.U5cq1nJdWSo|publisher=businesswire.com|accessdate=10 June 2014}}{{cite web|title=A Southern California Startup Is Trying To Jump-Start Elon Musk's Hyperloop|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/markrogowsky/2013/08/29/a-southern-california-startup-is-trying-to-jump-start-elon-musks-hyperloop/|work=forbes.com|accessdate=10 June 2014}}{{cite web|title=JumpStartFund-Backed 'Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.' to Publish Next Hyperloop Development Milestones|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jumpstartfund-backed-hyperloop-transportation-technologies-130000641.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140528185851/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jumpstartfund-backed-hyperloop-transportation-technologies-130000641.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 May 2014|publisher=Yahoo|accessdate=10 June 2014}}
JumpStartFund was started in 2012 as a web portal for crowd collaboration and crowdfunding by JumpStarter Inc,.{{cite web|title=JumpStartFund Launches First Ever Crowd-Powered Portal for Startups|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jumpstartfund-launches-first-ever-crowd-130000974.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140611214239/http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jumpstartfund-launches-first-ever-crowd-130000974.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 June 2014|publisher=Yahoo! Finance|accessdate=10 June 2014}}
=Projects=
JumpStartFund is focused on entrepreneurial projects, especially:
==Hyperloop==
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, a research company organized to bring Elon Musk's idea of Hyperloop into reality is backed by JumpStartFund.{{cite web|title=Elon Musk's pressurised transport system Hyperloop wants crowdfunding|url=http://www.news.com.au/technology/elon-musks-pressurised-transport-system-hyperloop-wants-crowdfunding/news-story/1358dbfe719629e521b1feaca5698cce|publisher=news.com.au|accessdate=10 June 2014}} After publicizing his concept of the Hyperloop in a white paper, Elon Musk declared he could not work to create a prototype because of his busy schedule and commitments to other projects with his own companies Tesla Motors and SpaceX. JumpStartFund considered it to be their first project and started work on it using their crowd collaboration platform.{{cite web|title=Here's How Elon Musk's Hyperloop Dreams Are Coming True|url=http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/heres-how-elon-musks-hyperloop-dreams-are-coming-true.html/?a=viewall|publisher=wallstcheatsheet.com|accessdate=10 June 2014}}
On 27.02.2015, JumpStartFund announced plans to build a 5-miles test track in California, to be built from 2016 to 2019, and financed by an IPO in 2015.{{cite web|title=Elon Musk's Hyperloop Moves Closer to Becoming Reality|website=NBC News |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/elon-musks-hyperloop-moves-closer-becoming-reality-n313276|accessdate=27 February 2015}}