Providing a website at which users can conduct fundraising events to raise money for projects and make financial pledge to projects; art brokerage; on-line business fundraising services; on-line escrow service for exchange of services; providing fundraising services for others via a global computer network; providing grants for research in the arts; financial services, namely, business fundraising provided over a computer network such as the internet; providing fundraising services for entrepreneurs and inventors, namely, organizing and conducting fundraising events to raise money for creative projects; crowd funding services in the nature of accepting and administering monetary contributions from a group of individuals; providing venture capital, development capital, private equity and investment funding; venture capital funding services to emerging and start-up companies; financial intermediary services, namely, facilitating the channeling of funds between lenders and borrowers; providing venture capital funding consultation services to emerging and start-up companies; providing venture capital, development capital, private equity and investment funding