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# How is a Community Round different from Kickstarter?

Backers on Kickstarter and other traditional crowdfunding platforms make donations to companies they support. In equity crowdfunding, their purchases represent actual securities, meaning they are literally invested in the company’s success (and might share in the upside if the company is ultimately successful)

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