Alexandra Daly (born 1987) is an American crowdfunding consultant and author.

Early life

Daly was born in

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, where she attended Ransom Everglades High School. She graduated from

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, where she majored in

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Honors, and minored in

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. After school, Daly interned at ''

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'' and ''

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'' before working as a fact-checker at ''

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'', and then as a production manager for documentary films.

Career

Daly was the founder of Vann Alexandra, a

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based consultancy focused on the preparation, promotion, and launch of crowdfunding campaigns on platforms such as

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and

Indiegogo Indiegogo is an American crowdfunding website founded in 2008 by Danae Ringelmann, Slava Rubin, and Eric Schell. Its headquarters are in San Francisco, California. The site is one of the first sites to offer crowd funding. Indiegogo allows peo ...

. The company also offered marketing and public relations services, which they refer to as "crowd relations." Daly specialises in the crowdfunding field, leading her to entitle her to entitle her book "The Crowdsourceress". As of 2016, Daly raised over $20 million from 100,000 people worldwide. Notable clients include

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, filmmaker

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, director

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and producer Annabelle Dunne for the

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documentary '' The Center Will Not Hold'', film production company

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for the

Einstein on the Beach ''Einstein on the Beach'' is an opera in four acts composed by Philip Glass with libretto in collaboration with Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson, who also designed and directed early productions. The opera eschews traditional narrative in ...

documentary, British journalist

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, and

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partner Marina Willer. In 2016, she was named a ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 in the Marketing & Advertising category. In 2019, Vann Alexandra and Daly's PR company DalyPR merged and rebranded into Daly, a marketing and PR company offering publicity, crowdfunding and events services.

References

External links

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