6 Best Crowdfunding Courses on Coursera
We compared 6 Crowdfunding courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 3 come from a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, Macquarie University and Duke University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 6
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 6 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "crowdfunding" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Raising Capital: Credit Tech, Coin Offerings, and Crowdfunding
Offered by University of Michigan
Consider the benefits and challenges of disruptive capital-raising technology. Advances in technology have both systematized and democratized consumers’ and business’ access to capital. In this course, you will explore t...
$49.00listed price -
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Structure, Funding and Negotiation For Startups
Offered by Macquarie University
Building a startup takes more than a great idea. You need to understand how to protect it, fund it, and negotiate for it. This course gives you the practical legal and financial knowledge every early-stage founder needs...
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Financing for Startup Businesses
Offered by Duke University
This course will teach you how to manage a startup’s financing strategy, where you will learn how to build capitalization tables (or “cap tables”) in Excel. Cap tables will help you explore different financing strategies...
$49.00listed price -
4
Music Business
Offered by Berklee
This specialization will give you the knowledge, both theoretical and practical, to launch your career in the music business as an artist, manager, agent, and/or producer. You will begin with Music Business Foundations,...
$49.00listed price -
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Create a fundraising page on Chuffed
Offered by Coursera
At the end of this project, you will learn how to create a fundraising page on Chuffed for a collaborative project for personal or professional purposes. This Guided Project is an introduction to Chuffed and is designed...
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The DIY Musician
Offered by Berklee
With social media platforms and powerful recording technology at your fingertips, it’s easier now than ever before to create music and share it with your fans. But where do you begin and how do you get started? This spec...
$49.00listed price
Best Crowdfunding Courses on Coursera compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Raising Capital: Credit Tech, Coin Offerings, and Crowdfunding | Coursera | University of Michigan | $49.00 | View → |
| 2 | Structure, Funding and Negotiation For Startups | Coursera | Macquarie University | $49.00 | View → |
| 3 | Financing for Startup Businesses | Coursera | Duke University | $49.00 | View → |
| 4 | Music Business | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
| 5 | Create a fundraising page on Chuffed | Coursera | Coursera | $9.99 | View → |
| 6 | The DIY Musician | Coursera | Berklee | $49.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 6 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 3 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Michigan, Macquarie University and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.