Prizeo

As undergraduates at Oxford University, co-founders Bryan Baum and Leo Seigal worked with the Aloysius Society, a philanthropic group that organized high-priced charity events. The society raised $1 million running auctions, but Baum and Seigal were frustrated at the cost of their fundraising strategy and the lack of scale. In 2012, the duo teamed up with co-founder Andrej Pancik and Lukas Bosko to create Prizeo, a sweepstakes platform to help nonprofits raise funds and awareness.

In January 2013, Prizeo participated in the technology start-up incubator Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 program.^[4]

Since launching, the platform has held nearly 200 sweepstakes campaigns and raised more than $50M for hundreds of charities.^[2] Prizeo has also featured celebrities in certain campaigns.