Patrick Kitano has been looking at crowdfunding for a long time and has come up with some of the biggest innovations in the space since the first crowdfunding sites were launched over a decade ago. He explained it to me this way: The current crowdfunding model is inadequate, it needs to adopt the “investment banking model” of syndication and marketing for campaigns. Investment banks “share” campaigns through syndication, crowdfunding portals don’t. Investment banks do local dog and pony shows to actively recruit investors, with portals, project creators are on their own with no way to easily connect to local investors.