What Fueladream does

Fueladream is a Bangalore-headquartered, privately held crowdfunding platform operating in India under the legal entity Fueladream Online Ventures Pvt Ltd. Founded in 2015 by Ranganath Thota, the platform serves individuals, NGOs, schools, and product innovators by enabling goal-based fundraising campaigns across six categories: Idea, Charity, Recovery, Cause, Event, and Crowd Favourites. The company positions itself as India's largest crowdfunding platform in the donation and rewards space. The platform is built on a cloud-based architecture providing a self-serve campaign creation walkthrough, a Campaign Management Dashboard with real-time funding and analytics, and a proprietary CrowdRating system that uses a 10-point funder-driven rating to surface campaign quality signals. A standout offering is Crowd Favourites, a post-campaign marketplace where successfully funded products continue to be sold with 15-day payment cycles, extending the lifecycle beyond the initial campaign window.

The business model is transaction-based: standard campaigns pay a 6% platform fee plus 3% payment gateway fees and applicable GST, while Crowd Favourites campaigns pay 11% plus 3% gateway fees plus 18% GST on combined fees, reflecting more frequent fund processing. Optional paid marketing and PR services provide a secondary revenue stream. The company does not hold an equity crowdfunding license and operates primarily within India, with cheque deposits and payment processing handled via an HDFC Bank partnership. GTM is product-led and community-led: campaigns are self-serve on the web platform, while a deliberate school partnership program (with institutions such as EuroSchool, Chennai Public School, and Whitefield Global School) drives repeatable student-led campaigns for NGO partners including Make-A-Wish Foundation of India, Greensole Foundation, and Nargis Dutt Foundation. The company has no recorded external funding rounds, modest headcount in the 11-50 range, and no disclosed revenue.

Name

Fueladream

Legal name

Fueladream Online Ventures Pvt Ltd

Website

https://fueladream.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Fueladream is a Bangalore-based crowdfunding platform enabling individuals, NGOs, schools, and product innovators to run donation and rewards-based campaigns in India, monetizing via 6-11% transaction fees and a post-campaign marketplace called Crowd Favourites.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangalore

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Standard Crowdfunding Fees: Normal campaigns charge 6% crowdfunding fee plus 3% payment gateway fee and applicable GST. This is the primary revenue stream from campaign owners who successfully raise funds.
2. Crowd Favourites Fees: Ongoing marketplace campaigns charge 11% crowdfunding fee plus 3% payment gateway fee plus 18% GST on the combined fees. Higher fees due to more frequent fund processing (every 15 days) and no campaign duration limits.
3. Marketing and PR Services: Optional paid promotional campaigns using social media and PR for campaign owners who want additional marketing support. Fees vary by service type and product category.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fueladream is an online crowdfunding platform that enables individuals, students, and organisations to raise funds through goal-based campaigns across categories including ideas, charity, recovery, causes, and events. It also offers the Crowd Favourites marketplace, where successfully crowdfunded products continue to be available for pre-order after their initial campaign ends. The platform charges transaction-based fees on successfully funded campaigns and provides integrated payment processing, a funder rating system, and a campaign management dashboard.

Product overview

Fueladream is a crowdfunding platform in India operating in the donation and rewards space. The core product is the Fueladream Platform, which enables individuals and organizations to raise funds through goal-based campaigns for ideas, causes, events, and charity. Supporting the core platform are several features: Crowd Favourites, a marketplace for successfully crowdfunded products that continue to be available for pre-order without funding goals or duration targets; the Campaign Management Dashboard, a command center for campaign owners to track status, post updates, manage funders, and analyze performance; CrowdRating, a 10-point funder rating system; and Campaign Walkthrough, a guided creation process. The platform also offers payment gateway integration for fund collection and processing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fueladream Crowdfunding Platform An online crowdfunding platform in India that enables individuals, students, and organisations to raise funds through goal-based campaigns across categories including ideas, charity, recovery, causes, and events. Charges a 6% platform fee plus 3% payment gateway fee on standard successfully funded campaigns.
• Crowd Favourites Marketplace A post-campaign marketplace section where successfully crowdfunded products continue to be available for pre-order after their initial campaign ends, with no funding goals or duration limits and payments processed to campaign owners every 15 days. Charges an 11% platform fee plus 3% payment gateway fee plus GST.
• Marketing and PR Services Optional paid promotional services that use social media and PR to amplify a campaign owner's crowdfunding campaign. Fees vary by service type and product category, and campaign owners can opt to handle marketing independently.

Quantifiable outcome

• 81% of doctors report improved treatment adherence when children receive wish fulfillment (from Make-A-Wish data)
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Ridhdhi FoundationminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2016Partnership for arts and culture event crowdfunding including theatre productions. Supported the staging of 'Copenhagen' play by Michael Frayn at Gyan Manch, Kolkata in 2016.
• Nargis Dutt FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014Partnership for education scholarship programs supporting children from economically stressed families. Nargis Dutt Foundation has been running scholarship programs for over 5 years, impacting over 500 students, primarily in Mumbai. Supports education from 1st to 12th grade with approximately 50% fee funding.
• Make-A-Wish Foundation of IndiacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1995Partnership for crowdfunding campaigns supporting critically ill children. Make-A-Wish India grants wishes to children with critical illnesses, with an average wish cost of INR 10,000. The foundation operates 8 chapters across India with 120+ hospital partners. Over 1,00,000 wishes have been granted since 1995.
• Greensole FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for back-to-school kit campaigns containing recycled footwear, study mats, and school bags. Greensole transforms discarded shoe soles into new footwear. Mumbai-based NGO providing employment to women in manufacturing. Each kit costs INR 950 and addresses education attendance and health issues for underprivileged students.
• SAHAITAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEnvironmental NGO partnership for tree planting and green initiatives. SAHAITA focuses on healthcare, education sponsorship, and humanitarian relief. Collaborates on campaigns to transform industrial areas into greener communities through tree plantation drives.
• IIIMPACTminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducation-focused NGO partnership for girl child education campaigns. Supported 'Cyclists for Change' campaign raising funds for girl child education through cycling expeditions.
• The Yacht Club of HyderabadminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for sports and athletics crowdfunding campaigns. Supported campaign for sailor Preethi Kongara aiming to win India's first medal in sailing at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
• HDFC Bank LimitedcoreOthersBanking partner for payment processing. Campaign contributions are made to Fueladream Online Ventures Pvt Ltd HDFC Bank account. cheque deposits accepted at any HDFC Bank branch across India.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Others

• DonorsChoose: DonorsChoose is a US nonprofit crowdfunding platform that channels donations from individuals to public-school teachers and students. It is thematically adjacent to Fueladream's school-based, student-led community GTM and is useful as a benchmark for scaling school-partnership-driven fundraising.

Direct peers

• Wishberry: Wishberry is an India-based rewards-based crowdfunding platform for creative projects, films, music, and product innovation. It is a direct competitor to Fueladream's reward-based product campaigns and the Crowd Favourites marketplace.
• Ketto: Ketto is one of India's largest crowdfunding platforms covering medical, education, and social-cause campaigns, plus creative projects. It is the most direct competitor to Fueladream in the Indian donation and rewards crowdfunding space and benefits from significantly more institutional capital and brand awareness.
• Milaap: Milaap is an India-headquartered crowdfunding platform focused on medical emergencies, education, and community causes. It directly overlaps with Fueladream's charity and cause-based campaigns and shares the same target audience of Indian donors and NGOs.
• ImpactGuru: ImpactGuru is an Indian crowdfunding platform specializing in medical, education, and personal-cause fundraising. It competes head-on with Fueladream in the same donation-based category and is a relevant benchmark for pricing and growth in the Indian market.
• Catapooolt: Catapooolt is an Indian crowdfunding platform supporting creative, social, and startup projects. It directly overlaps with Fueladream's idea, creative, and cause-based campaign categories within the Indian market.

Broad incumbents

• GoFundMe: GoFundMe is the global leader in personal and charitable crowdfunding. It is a broad incumbent whose donation-based model and brand recognition set the category standard that Indian platforms like Fueladream are benchmarked against, though it does not specifically serve Indian regulatory and tax-benefit (80G) requirements.
• Fundly: Fundly is a US-based online crowdfunding platform for nonprofits, personal causes, and creative projects. It is a broad incumbent offering a comparable donation-based model to Fueladream's charity and cause categories, though focused on the US market.
• Indiegogo: Indiegogo is a global rewards and equity crowdfunding platform with an open marketplace (InDemand) for post-campaign sales, structurally similar to Fueladream's Crowd Favourites. It is a broad incumbent that competes for the same product-innovator audience.
• Kickstarter: Kickstarter is the largest global rewards-based crowdfunding platform. It is a broad incumbent and the standard reference for Fueladream's reward-based product campaigns and Crowd Favourites marketplace, even though Kickstarter does not specifically target the Indian market.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Instagraminstagram.com/greenhabithub
• Xx.com/fueladream
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fueladream

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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