Crowd Finance

Collaborative or decentralized models of finance and investing, including equity crowdfunding, reward crowdfunding, crowd currencies, peer-to-peer lending and peer-to-peer commerce.

Benefits of NFTs for Crowdfunding

Benefits of NFTs for Crowdfunding

NFTs are unique and indivisible digital assets, making them ideal for representing one-of-a-kind items such as art, music, and collectibles. Whilst each NFT is unique, an NFT can also verify part-ownership of an item or asset. Company stocks and shares, and real...

How to Leverage Crowdfunding for an Indie Film

How to Leverage Crowdfunding for an Indie Film

Crowdfunding can be a powerful tool for independent filmmakers to raise funds for their next project, while at the same time also doubling up as a marketing exercise to build an audience and generate a buzz. Both Indiegogo and Kickstarter are international...

What Does The Future Hold For Donations Crowdfunding?

What Does The Future Hold For Donations Crowdfunding?

Donations crowdfunding has already made a significant impact on the way people support charitable causes. Driven by social media and online platforms, it allows individuals and organizations to access a wider audience of potential donors and has made it easier for...

Top Crowdsourced Inventions In Recent Times

Top Crowdsourced Inventions In Recent Times

It was an article published by the Harvard Business Review that stated: “In practice, most crowdsourcing initiatives end up with an overwhelming amount of useless ideas.” Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, though we thought we’d outline some of the top...

How Crowdsourcing Supports Entrepreneurs

How Crowdsourcing Supports Entrepreneurs

Crowdsourcing supports entrepreneurs by helping them to be more efficient, effective and successful in developing and growing their businesses. It supports entrepreneurship in several valuable ways, including validating and improving an initial idea, generating...

Countries With CBDCs, Or At Least Testing

Countries With CBDCs, Or At Least Testing

The issues associated with central bank digital currencies, for good or for worse, are far from a universal one-size-fits all. Different central banks, and their national governments, have a range of different priorities of what they want CBDCs to resolve. The needs...

The Risks and Returns of Crowdfunding

The Risks and Returns of Crowdfunding

The higher the returns anyone wants from making an investment, the more uncertainty (or risk) they need to expose their money to. This is certainly true in crowdfunding. This article looks at the risks and returns involved in reward, debt and equity crowdfunding, with...

UK Equity Crowdfunding Platform Backs Startups in India

UK Equity Crowdfunding Platform Backs Startups in India

Our Head of Content, Clive Reffell, caught up with the co-founder and director of CrowdInvest, Nakul Garg. It is a new cross-border equity crowdfunding platform that will begin trading in the UK in Q4 2022. Nakul is creating a win-win: through Crowdinvest, Indian tech...

The Fundamentals of Farmland Investing

The Fundamentals of Farmland Investing

In the early 2000's, a sudden realization that the world would need to feed a rapidly expanding population led several US institutional investors to create investment vehicles in farmland. In the early 2010s, famous funds like the Soros Fund Management further...

Decentralization and Deglobalization

Decentralization and Deglobalization

Crowdsourcing Week’s Theme of 2022 I believe 2022 will be a pivotal year for how we live and work, and for many aspects of the crowd economy. Decentralization and deglobalization deliver a more even distribution of power in society, and it’s our theme in 2022. There...