Answer
Is CoFunders the same as co-founders?
Short answer
No, and it is not a typo either. CoFunders is a compound of co and funders — the people funding a project together. It is a reward crowdfunding platform, not a co-founder matching service, and backing a campaign gives you no share of the company.
The name describes what a backer is here. A campaign on CoFunders is not funded by one person; it is funded by everyone who backs it, at the same time, into the same escrow. Those people are the co-funders. The word is doing the same job as co-author or co-owner, and it is deliberate rather than a misspelling of the more familiar word it sits beside.
What you get for backing a campaign is the reward the creator offers — the product, early access, whatever they have described. You are pre-paying for a thing so it can be built. You are not buying equity, you are not lending money, and you do not receive a share of profits. That distinction is the one that matters legally, and it is covered in more detail in the answer on whether this is an investment.
What CoFunders is not is a place to find someone to start a company with. Those services exist and they are a different product entirely: they match people who want to build a business together. Nothing here introduces you to a founder as a partner. You back their project, they build it, you get what they promised — and if they miss the goal, the escrow refunds you in full.
One thing the two ideas do share is the reason the name works. Being a co-funder is closer to being early to something than to being a customer: you are taking on the risk that it does not get built, which is why the refund guarantee is a property of the contract rather than a policy, and why the reward exists at all.