Equity Crowdfunding: A New Phenomena

18 Pages Posted: 15 Dec 2015

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Nir Vulkan

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Thomas B. Astebro

HEC Paris - Economics and Decision Sciences

Manuel Fernández Sierra

Universidad de Los Andes; IZA

Date Written: November 2015

Abstract

Crowdfunding has recently become available for entrepreneurs. Most academic studies analyse data from rewards-based (pre-selling) campaigns. In contrast, in this paper we analyse 636 campaigns, encompassing 17,188 investors and 64,831 investments between 2012 and 2015, from one of the leading European equity crowdfunding platforms. We provide descriptive statistics and carry out cross-campaign regression analysis. The descriptive statistics address its size, growth and geographic distributions in the UK. The regressions analyse which factors are associated with the probability of a successful campaign. We find some similarities and some interesting dissimilarities in both descriptives and regression results compared to research on rewards-based crowdfunding. Practically, the data show that equity crowdfunding will likely pose great challenges to VC and business angel financiers in the near future. We discuss some research challenges and opportunities with these kind of data.

Keywords: equity crowdfunding, U.K., campaign success

Suggested Citation

Vulkan, Nir and Astebro, Thomas B. and Fernández Sierra, Manuel, Equity Crowdfunding: A New Phenomena (November 2015). Saïd Business School WP 2015-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2700236 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2700236

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