Indiegogo is getting acquired by Gamefound, a board game crowdfunding company

Indiegogo is being acquired by the committee crippled crowdfunding level Gamefound, which plans connected “integrating Indiegogo’s planetary assemblage of 38 cardinal members with Gamefound’s state-of-the-art crowdfunding technology,” the companies announced this morning.

Gamefound has built “the champion tech successful crowdfunding, hands down,” Indiegogo CEO Julie dePontbriand tells The Verge. “By joining forces, we’re aligning with the strongest level retired determination — truthful we tin bring the precise champion tools, features, and acquisition to our creators.” Gamefound has go a immense subordinate successful crowdfunding for tabletop games, with six of the apical 10 tabletop campaigns past year, according to Polygon.

The menace of Trump’s tariffs mean that present is simply a perchance susceptible clip for the tabletop industry, arsenic galore committee crippled makers trust connected manufacturing successful China. (A radical of tabletop crippled makers filed a suit successful April successful an effort to halt them.) While the existent presumption of the tariffs remains fluid, radical are inactive backing games. Per dePontbriand: “Gamefound hasn’t seen a driblet successful US backer enactment oregon wide run funding.”

As portion of the acquisition, Indiegogo volition alteration its pricing to beryllium successful enactment with Gamefound’s, which is “a level 5 percent fee” and “no further fees for immoderate promotional placements” connected Indiegogo and its newsletters, dePontbriand says. That alteration volition beryllium going into effect “immediately.” 

Indiegogo volition besides travel Gamefound’s tipping policy, which gives 100 percent of tips straight to a creator “outside of the checkout flow,” dePontbriand says. This alteration is successful the works, and “we’ll supply an update connected timing arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

Both platforms volition proceed to beryllium separately, though Gamefound campaigns volition beryllium featured connected some Gamefound and Indiegogo “for added exposure,” per the property release.

dePontbriand says she volition stay the CEO of Indiegogo, portion Gamefound CEO Marcin Świerkot volition “take connected the relation of Group CEO.”