This book focuses on various types of crowdfunding and the lessons learned from academic
research. Crowdfunding a new and important source of financing for entrepreneurs fills a
funding gap that was traditionally difficult to close. Chapters from expert contributors define
and carefully evaluate the various market segments: donation-based and reward-based
crowdfunding crowdinvesting and crowdlending. They further provide an assessment of startups
market structure as well as backers and investors for each segment. Attention is given to the
theoretical and empirical findings from the recent economics and finance literature.
Furthermore the authors evaluate relevant regulatory efforts in several jurisdictions. This
book will appeal to finance entrepreneurship and legal scholars as well as entrepreneurs and
platform operators.
