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Type of site | Crowdfunding |
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Headquarters | |
Founder(s) | Priyanka Agarwal Anshulika Dubey |
URL | wishberry |
Wishberry Online Services Pvt. Ltd. (Wishberry) is a Kickstarter-inspired crowdfunding platform based in India. It launched in 2012. [1] The founders are Priyanka Agarwal and Anshulika Dubey.
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