Tagged: stats

April 19, 2017 @ 9:17 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

It’s been over a year since the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) published its report on Private Securities Offerings post-JOBS Act. And while since that time, DERA has published more data about Regulation CF and Regulation A, the SEC has yet to… Read More

May 3, 2016 @ 9:42 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo unveiled seven key stats on campaign perks. The website stated that perks were created as a way to encourage backers to support an initiative. These range from tangible products (DVDs), personal (thank you tweets, notes, etc.) or an experience… Read More

January 22, 2016 @ 2:24 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

2015 was a great year for financial technology (fintech), as recently released stats from Berkery Noyes show. Among other findings, 2015 saw 427 fintech mergers and acquisitions, a total transaction volume increase by 14 percent over 2014, from 376.  Total transaction value in 2015 more than doubled over… Read More

March 6, 2014 @ 11:21 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Here’s an eye opener… This is a ranking of portfolio momentum among major VC firms. Second on the list: online venture capital firm FundersClub. That’s some impressive growth. Here’s an explanation of the meaning of this extrapolation from Mattermark’s blog… Firms receive points based on an average… Read More

March 5, 2014 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Most crowdfunding campaigns will fail to reach their funding goals, but that isn’t a bad thing. The crowd’s ability to vet campaigns and pick winners is just one of the many facets of “crowd wisdom.” Having said that, it helps to understand what successful campaigners… Read More

February 28, 2014 @ 3:38 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

February marks the one year anniversary for equity crowdfunding platform OurCrowd. As a way to reflect on their first year in business, they’ve released the following infographic. It’s a data-rich look at how the company operates and the process by which they curate deals. An… Read More

February 8, 2014 @ 3:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Joystiq’s Crowdfund Bookie report for the month of January is out, and the findings are pretty stark. Mike Suszek’s monthly breakdown of crowdfunding in video games suggests a 63% drop in funding from December to January on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The drop is largely attributed… Read More

February 6, 2014 @ 3:47 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has released a working paper entitled Crowd-funding: An Infant Industry Growing Fast. It aims to provide a macro perspective of the global “financial return” or “FR” crowdfunding space. (Can we get a standardized taxonomy?!) The main takeaway from the report… Read More

February 3, 2014 @ 12:01 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The US-based peer-to-peer lending space is off to a blistering start in 2014. January saw over $325 million in loan origination for Lending Club and Prosper. Lending Club accounted for over a quarter-billion in loans alone, up from $100 million in new loans in January… Read More

January 25, 2014 @ 1:20 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Last updated Sunday, January 26 at 11:52 AM Crowdnetic‘s umbrella of crowdfunding-related companies includes CrowdWatch, a deal aggregator for the nascent Rule 506(c) marketplace. It’s comprised of issuers Crowdnetic is calling PIPR’s, or Private Issuers Publicly Raising. As part of the JOBS Act under Title… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 1:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Yesterday we received word that Crowdfund Capital Advisors had released a research report and accompanying op-ed at VentureBeat examining some of the real, tangible benefits crowdfunding was creating for small businesses. Here are ten quick points from the report that show how crowdfunding is helping small businesses… Read More

January 9, 2014 @ 10:52 am By Charles Luzar  |  

For a lot of people, crowdfunding is Kickstarter. That is just how big New York City’s rewards-based crowdfunding stalwart has grown. Yesterday saw the release of Kickstarter’s 2013 recap. We covered it here on Crowdfund Insider, and it was inevitably picked up by just about every blog… Read More

December 18, 2013 @ 10:16 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Market research firm IBISWorld has released a report on the P2P lending industry and there is – as expected – some pretty staggering growth in the space. The breakdown comes via 54 companies the firm tracks as being active in P2P lending. Since 2008, revenues have… Read More

December 13, 2013 @ 11:24 am By Charles Luzar  |  

When it comes to crowdfunding, are women more generous than men? This is one of the questions the following infographic from FundRazr seeks to answer. FundRazr is a Canadian crowdfunding platform in operation since 2010. The platform shared the following stats with Crowdfund Insider and it… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 3:19 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kevin M. Duvall allowed us to share some charts he has compiled based in part on a list of the top 50 all-time Kickstarter campaigns we compiled back in September. The aim of the data is to show how Kickstarter success stories are dispersed across… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 12:35 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lend Academy’s Peter Renton shared stats from Lending Club and Prosper for the month of November. It should be no surprise that Lending Club continues to grow, issuing $280 million in new loans in the month of November. They issued just short of $100 million… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 11:05 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Lending-based platform Funding Circle recently shared a breakdown of statistics from October. Among revelations in the post: £12.5 million loaned to UK businesses last month alone. Over £3 million was lent to businesses across the UK last week, contributing to a total of £12.5 million… Read More

November 4, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It is almost hard to believe that Kickstarter has already been operating in the UK for a year already. Believe it; Kickstarter launched in the UK on Halloween 2012. From that first year, Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has gleaned a handful of statistics. Those stats… Read More

October 30, 2013 @ 10:25 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowd Valley has posted a report based on data collected from their operation as a crowdfunding technology provider. It provides insight into crowdfunding models, asset types, demographics and more. Crowd Valley COO Paul Higgins had the following to say about the report: “Having been operating… Read More

October 29, 2013 @ 11:54 am By Charles Luzar  |  

FundRazr has provided the following infographic on “US medical crowdfunding at a glance.” The statistics within provide a great overview of the crowdfunding landscape for medical causes in the last could of years, and provides some sense of what to expect from this sector in… Read More