众筹网

What 众筹网 does

众筹网 (Zhongchou.com) is a China-based crowdfunding marketplace that connects project creators with backers across nine categories: technology, charity, agriculture, education, cultural/creative, entertainment, lifestyle/consumer, art, and local community. The platform operates on a transaction-fee model, earning commission on projects that successfully reach their funding goals, and supplements the marketplace with a community forum and a named advisor network providing project strategy, branding, and financial consultation. The platform's own published campaigns include both traditional creative projects (e.g., a celebrity charity concert) and a growing portfolio of AI-powered products being presold through the marketplace, including 众杰 AI Leads (enterprise customer acquisition platform), 众杰 AI外贸营销CRM (foreign trade marketing CRM), and AI+CRM企业私有化智能销售系统 (private-deployed intelligent sales system), as well as consumer hardware such as the AI Family Memory Photo Frame.

Underlying technology is a standard web platform with a Java/Spring Boot backend (referenced in job postings for backend programmer roles) and no disclosed proprietary technology, patents, or trademarks. The AI features integrated across products — including generative AI for marketing content, NLP for inquiry analysis, computer vision for photo animation, predictive analytics for purchase probability, process automation for email/WhatsApp workflows, and a roadmap for autonomous AI sales agents — appear to rely on third-party AI models and APIs (vendors not specified). No public API, SDK, or developer portal is offered. The platform is headquartered with its primary office in Guilin, China, while project listings are tagged to Beijing.

The company is private, employs approximately 22 people with six open positions, and has no disclosed funding history, ownership structure, or revenue figures. Critically, all visible campaigns on the platform currently show 0.00% funded and zero backers despite stated goals ranging from ¥50,000 to ¥500,000, which signals either very early-stage traction, pre-launch positioning, or limited marketplace liquidity. Revenue is generated exclusively through commissions on successfully funded projects, meaning current visible activity would translate to negligible realized revenue.

Name

众筹网

Legal name

众筹网

Website

https://zhongchou.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

众筹网 (Zhongchou.com) is a China-based crowdfunding marketplace connecting individual project creators with backers across nine categories, supplemented by an advisor network and community forum. The platform also serves as a presales channel for its own AI-powered CRM, customer acquisition, and consumer hardware products. Revenue is generated via commissions on successfully funded projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Crowdfunding Platform

NAICS

Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries (713)

akta.pro primary industry

Creator Fundraising & Crowdfunding Platforms (Recurring/Project-Based) (MPACAFAJ)

Keywords

• Crowdfunding platform
• Rewards-based funding
• Project marketplace
• AI sales tools
• Creative project support

Headquarters

HQ city

Guilin

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Crowdfunding commission: Platform generates revenue through commission on successfully funded projects. Project creators set funding goals, and the platform retains a percentage when goals are met.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

众筹网 is a Chinese crowdfunding marketplace where individual creators, entrepreneurs, and small businesses launch campaigns with funding goals and reward tiers across nine categories (technology, charity, agriculture, education, cultural/creative, entertainment, lifestyle, art, local community). The platform earns commission on successfully funded projects and supplements listings with an advisor network for project strategy, branding, and financial guidance, plus a community forum for creator exchange.

Product overview

众筹网 (Zhongchou.com) operates a comprehensive crowdfunding platform with multiple product categories (technology, charity, agriculture, education, culture, entertainment, lifestyle, art, local communities). The platform is built around several core AI-powered products: (1) 众杰 AI Leads — enterprise AI customer acquisition platform combining AI models, data analysis, CRM, and automated marketing; (2) 众杰 AI外贸营销CRM — an AI-powered foreign trade marketing CRM integrating customer management, marketing automation, and AI sales assistance; (3) AI+CRM 企业私有化智能销售系统 — a private-deployed intelligent sales decision system. Supporting offerings include smart hardware (众杰 AI家庭记忆相框 — AI family memory photo frame), creative project initiatives (AI avatar figurines, short drama crowdfunding), and platform services (project crowdfunding, community forum, advisor network). The product portfolio centers on using AI to enhance customer acquisition, sales conversion, and creative production workflows.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• 众筹网主站平台 (Zhongchou Crowdfunding Platform) The core crowdfunding marketplace where project creators launch campaigns with funding goals and reward tiers across nine verticals (technology, charity, agriculture, education, cultural/creative, entertainment, lifestyle/consumer, art, local community). Provides project launch, management, updates, funding tracking, and category-based browsing for individual creators and backers.
• 众杰 AI Leads — Enterprise AI Customer Acquisition Platform AI-powered enterprise customer acquisition platform combining AI large models, intelligent data analysis, CRM management, and automated marketing workflows. Helps enterprises discover leads, analyze customer needs, generate marketing content, and manage customer relationships through AI-assisted workflows. Crowdfunding goal: ¥500,000.
• 众杰 AI Foreign Trade Marketing CRM System (AI外贸营销CRM) Enterprise-grade AI foreign trade marketing CRM integrating AI, customer management, marketing automation, and sales growth capabilities. Acts as an AI sales assistant that helps enterprises develop customers, analyze needs, formulate sales strategies, generate marketing content, and predict deal opportunities across the full customer lifecycle. Crowdfunding goal: ¥250,000.
• AI+CRM Enterprise Private Intelligent Sales System Private-deployed intelligent sales system that deeply integrates AI with CRM. Analyzes customer needs, judges purchase intent, predicts deal probability, generates sales plans, formulates communication strategies, and assists salespeople throughout the entire deal-closing process.
• 众杰 AI Family Memory Photo Frame (AI家庭记忆相框) AI-powered smart digital photo frame that preserves and presents family memories. Features AI photo dynamic effects (animating faces in old photos, adding smiles, movement), AI-generated family story videos, AI voice companionship, and cloud-synced multi-device display. Crowdfunding goal: ¥50,000.
• 众筹网 Forum (众筹网论坛) Community forum attached to the main platform supporting project experience sharing, creative discussions, Q&A, casual chat, and official announcements. Structured into sections for project exchange, creative discussion, help Q&A, casual chat, and official engagement.
• 众筹网 Advisory Team (众筹网顾问团) Team of professional advisors providing project strategy, brand/content consultation, and financial/fulfillment guidance to project creators launching campaigns on the platform. Includes Li Mingyuan (Strategy), Chen Siying (Brand & Content), and Wang Haoran (Finance & Fulfillment).

Named customers1 record

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability12 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• JD Crowdfunding (京东众筹): JD Crowdfunding operates within JD.com's ecosystem with strong emphasis on hardware and technology products, directly comparable to Zhongchou's tech vertical and AI hardware projects like the AI Family Memory Photo Frame. JD's incumbent position provides supply chain and distribution advantages that Zhongchou lacks.
• Taobao Crowdfunding (淘宝众筹): Taobao Crowdfunding is Alibaba's crowdfunding arm embedded within the Tmall ecosystem, offering a broad marketplace that overlaps directly with Zhongchou's technology and consumer product categories. As a broad incumbent, it leverages Alibaba's massive user base, payments, and logistics — advantages a standalone platform cannot replicate.

Emerging players

• Patreon: Patreon enables creators to receive ongoing financial support from fans via subscription tiers, an emerging model adjacent to Zhongchou's project-based crowdfunding. While not directly competing in one-off project funding, Patreon represents an alternative creator monetization approach that could attract creators evaluating Zhongchou.
• GoFundMe: GoFundMe is a leading donation-based crowdfunding platform for personal, charitable, and community causes, partially overlapping with Zhongchou's charity and local community project categories. It demonstrates an alternative model in the same broad crowdfunding market.

Others

• Salesforce: Salesforce is the global leader in CRM and sales automation, serving as the dominant enterprise competitor to any AI-augmented CRM product including Zhongchou's AI Foreign Trade Marketing CRM and AI+CRM private deployment system. It is included as an adjacent reference for the AI CRM ambitions embedded in Zhongchou's product roadmap.
• HubSpot: HubSpot is a leading CRM and marketing automation platform relevant as an adjacent benchmark for the AI-powered CRM products Zhongchou is developing (AI Leads, AI Foreign Trade CRM). While not a crowdfunding peer, it represents the incumbent category that Zhongchou's enterprise AI CRM products would need to compete against.

Direct peers

• Indiegogo: Indiegogo operates a global reward-based crowdfunding platform with flexible funding options, directly comparable to Zhongchou's per-project funding model. Both platforms serve creators across technology, creative, and community categories with similar commission-based revenue mechanics.
• Modian (摩点): Modian is a leading Chinese crowdfunding platform focused on entertainment, comics, animation, and creative projects, making it a direct regional peer to Zhongchou's cultural/creative and entertainment verticals. Both platforms operate reward-based crowdfunding for Chinese creators and backers in the same language and regulatory environment.
• Kickstarter: Kickstarter is the archetypal reward-based crowdfunding marketplace, directly comparable to Zhongchou.com's project-based model across creative categories including technology, art, and design. Both platforms rely on transaction-fee monetization on successfully funded projects and serve creators seeking community-backed funding rather than equity financing.

Regional players

• 众筹之家 (Zhongchou Home): Zhongchou Home is a Chinese crowdfunding media and information platform serving the same domestic crowdfunding ecosystem as Zhongchou.com. While more media-focused, it operates in the same regional market and serves overlapping Chinese creator and backer audiences.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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