A visual toolkit for crowdfunding beginners
Identify the relevant crowdfunding platforms for your project
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- Visual arts Film, video, installations and more
- Design Product, fashion, interior, exterior, architecture, identity, digital and more
- Performing arts Theater, dance, a wider range of performance acts that take place in dedicated spaces or improvised ones
- Music Album recordings, concerts, tours, music videos
- Publ. and Journalism Newspapers, online and offline publications and more
- Creative business small start-ups and business that have a social and/or creative output
- Research and scienceAcademic papers, experiments, travel costs and more
- TechnologyApplications, tools, platforms and more
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- EquityFunders are allowed to invest in projects (expect profits, receive shares etc)
- DonationFunders are allowed to support projects by donating (no profits expected)
- LoansFunders are allowed to lend money to projects (expect loans to be repaid with interest)
- Pre-ordersFunders are allowed to support projects with money and expect a service or product in return
- SubscriptionFunders are allowed to support projects with money and expect recurring products or services
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- SymbolicFunders receive back symbolic rewards such as thank you notes or small objects (T-shirts, cards, etc)
- ProductFunders receive back an object/service that is a concrete output of that project (a CD, a ticket, an app etc)
- SharesFunders receive a share in the project that they invested in (most common in equity crowdfunding)
- NoneFunders do not receive anything
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- SmallLess than 5000 euro
- Medium5000 to 10000 euro
- Largemore than 10000 euro
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- Avg funders/project (AF) AF is an indicative of the most common number of funders a successful campaign gathers on a given platform
- Avg contribution (AC) AC is an indicative of the amount of money most commonly offered by an individual funder to a successful campaign
- Raised sums (RS) RS is the total amount of money that was successfully raised on a given platform
Voordekunst is a Dutch crowdfunding platform dedicated to arts and culture. It has partnerships with established cultural and art funds. The latter can choose to financially support campaigns.
voordekunst.nl
Tilburg voor Cultuur is a crowdfunding platform targeting small art projects that take place in Tilburg. The platform design does not allow the viewer to see how many funders a campaign has, nor how much they donate, hence statistics were impossible to calculate.
tilburgvoorcultuur.nl
EU1 is an international crowdfunding platform dedicated to financing film and television productions.It is not uncommon for public funds institutions or private companies to support the campaigns crowdfunding on this platform.
eu1.tv
Sponsorkunst Amersfoort is a crowdfunding platform supporting local art projects in Amersfoort. It currently hosts only a handful of campaigns.
sponsorkunst.nl
Dutch Design Starter is a crowdfunding platform for design projects. It acts in two ways. First, it hosts campaigns that can be financed on its own platform. Second, it promotes campaigns that are crowdfunding on other platforms. The average contribution per projects (146 euro) is calculated with the last 15 successfully funded campaigns, regardless of platform.
dutchdesignstarter.com
Crowdaboutnow is a Dutch crowfunding platform targeting creative start-ups and creative projects. It allows campaigns to raise money via donation, loans or equity investment.
crowdaboutnow.nl
Crowdaboutnow is a Dutch crowfunding platform targeting creative start-ups and creative projects. It allows projects to raise money via donation, loans or equity investment. Only one project allowed equity investment so far.
crowdaboutnow.nl
Crowdaboutnow is a Dutch crowfunding platform targeting creative start-ups and creative projects. It allows projects to raise money via donation, loans or equity investment.
crowdaboutnow.nl
Oneplanetcrowd is a Dutch crowfunding platform for creative start-ups, technology and design projects, as well as projects outside the creative sector. It allows campaigns to raise money mostly via donation but there are a few projects offering equity investment and interest loans. The average number of funders is 158 (for the most recent 15 successful projects, irrespective of the crowdfunding model). The average contribution - 321 euro - applies to all crowdfunding models and was calculated by dividing the average budget of the most recent 15 successful projects - 50800 euro - to 158. The average contribution might differ though for donation, loan or equity, but it is not possible to calculate this from the platform.
oneplanetcrowd.nl
Oneplanetcrowd is a Dutch crowfunding platform for creative start-ups, technology and design projects, as well as projects outside the creative sector. It allows campaigns to raise money mostly via donation but there are a few projects offering equity investment and interest loans. The average number of funders is 158 (for the most recent 15 successful projects, irrespective of the crowdfunding model). The average contribution - 321 euro - applies to all crowdfunding models and was calculated by dividing the average budget of the most recent 15 successful projects - 50800 euro - to 158. The average contribution might differ though for donation, loan or equity, but it is not possible to calculate this from the platform.
oneplanetcrowd.nl
Oneplanetcrowd is a Dutch crowfunding platform for creative start-ups, technology and design projects, as well as projects outside the creative sector. It allows campaigns to raise money mostly via donation but there are a few projects offering equity investment and interest loans. The average number of funders is 158 (for the most recent 15 successful projects, irrespective of the crowdfunding model). The average contribution - 321 euro - applies to all crowdfunding models and was calculated by dividing the average budget of the most recent 15 successful projects - 50800 euro - to 158. The average contribution might differ though for donation, loan or equity, but it is not possible to calculate this from the platform.
oneplanetcrowd.nl
Geldvooronderzoek is a Dutch crowdfunding platform for researchers. It hosts only a handful of campagins, all unsuccessful. There are very few successful crowdfunding platforms for research in general.
geldvooronderzoek.nl
Dream or donate is a Dutch crowdfunding platform that targets a wide range of causes, arts and culture amongst them.
dreamordonate.nl
Sellaband is an international crowfunding platform for music projects. An artist can allow fans to donate or invest in album recording. production, funding concerts, videos etc. The average financial contribution is 10 euro (typically the price of an album or a share). However, campaigns that allow equity tend to see more funders - a small portion of which invest heavily.
sellaband.com
Sellaband is an international crowfunding platform for music projects. An artist can allow fans to donate or invest in album recording or productions, funding concerts, videos etc.
sellaband.com
Verkami is a crowdfunding platform for creative industries based in Spain, but with international reach.
verkami.com
Booomerang is a Danish crowfunding platform for creatives. It hosts mostly national projects but could work well for financing projects that involve collaborations between Danish-Dutch-international creatives.
booomerang.dk
Pozible is an Australian crowdfunding platform with international reach. Most campaigns ask for donation and offer rewards. However, there is a handful of projects offering subscription-based content as well.
pozible.com
FundedbyMe is a Swedish crowdfunding platform with international reach. Funding can be done as donation or investment.
fundedbyme.com
FundedbyMe is a Swedish crowdfunding platform with international reach. Funding can be done as donation or investment.
fundedbyme.com
Unglue IT is a US-based crowdfunding platform with international reach, dedicated to publishing.
unglue.it
Pledge Music is an UK crowdfunding platform with international reach, dedicated to musicians. A musical project initially gets funded for recording and/or production. If it raises the money and enters production phase, it remains open for pre-orders.
pledgemusic.com
Pledge Music is an UK-based crowdfunding platform with international reach, dedicated to musicians. A musical project initially gets funded for recording and/or production. If it raises the money and enters production phase, it remains open for pre-orders.
pledgemusic.com
Apps Funder is a Belgian crowdfunding platform with international reach, dedicated to funding apps. An app maker can first fund for the development stage. If successful, the app maker can fund again for extra features. Apps can receive donations or investment, but when looking at successful projects it is hard to tell what crowdfunding model they used. Success ratio seems to be quite low.
appsfunder.com
Apps Funder is a Belgian crowdfunding platform with international reach, dedicated to funding apps. An app is initially funding for development work. If successful, it can fund again for extra features. Apps can receive donations or investment, but when looking at successful projects it is hard to tell what crowdfunding model they used. Success ratio seems to be quite low.
appsfunder.com
The SciFund Challenge is an US-based crowdfunding platform for research and science. It is only open to US citizens but could be used for collaborative projects where at least one member is US-based.The platform is transparent and publishes various statistics and trends on how people donate to research projects.
experiment.com
Ulule is a French crowdfunding platform with international reach. The platform is transparent and publishes various statistics and trends on how people donate to projects.
ulule.com
Indiegogo is an US crowdfunding platform with international reach. It is widely considered the most popular, especially for creatives industries. However, statistics were difficult to calcutate due to the platform's design choice. First, because one cannot view 100% funded projects, as the only relevant filtering criteria is "75-100% funded projects". There is an option to filter using the criteria "Ended campaigns" instead. In either case, results can only then be ordered by the critera "most funded". This means that big winners always remain on top. Smaller campaigns are hard to find, since a page index is missing - one has to infinitely scroll down to see them. In this context, and because Indiegogo does not publish statistics on its platform, it is hard to give a fair analysis on average donations or number of funders. indiegogo.com
GoFundMe is an US crowdfuning platform with international reach.Statistics are impossible to calculate as one cannot view 100% funded projects but only those currently funding.
gofundme.com
Pledgie is an international crowdfunding platform that does not charge fees for hosting campaigns.
pledgie.com
Appsplit is a crowdfunding platform for app creators. The latter can raise money for the development phase and can afterwards sell the apps or app source code. The platform seems largely unsuccessful.
appsplit.com
Appsplit is an crowdfunding platform for app creators. The latter can raise money for the development phase and can afterwards sell the apps or app source code. The platform seems largely unsuccessful.
appsplit.com
Goteo is a crowdfunding platform for creative industries based in Spain, but with international reach. It offers not just a space for financing projects, but also for crowd-sourcing and collaboration.
goteo.org
Touscoprod is a French crowdfunding platform with international reach. It targets film projects.
touscoprod.com
Startnext is a German crowdfunding platform. It mostly hosts national projects but could be used in the case of collaborative cross-borders projects.
startnext.de
