were drastically impacted by COVID-19. We examine all U.S. equity crowdfunding offerings starting with the very first … housing prices post-COVID-19 are a strong predictor of the number of equity crowdfunding campaigns and the amount of capital … raised. The impact of housing price changes on crowdfunding is more pronounced among more prosperous regions. The housing …

It is often assumed that entrepreneurs retain more control of their venture when they opt for equity crowdfunding as … by analysing the cash flow and control rights crowd investors receive in equity crowdfunding in Germany, where more … capital investment contracts are also used in equity crowdfunding contracts. We find that crowd investors are asked to pay …

crowdfunding ventures. This is done by applying standard economic theory and machine learning techniques from computer science to … analyzes transaction-level data in addition to information about completed crowdfunding projects. This provides an unique … perspective in the ways crowd finance ventures develop. The models reach an average of 83% accuracy in predicting the outcome of a …

that finished their ICOs by August 2017 to assess determinants of funding success that we derive from the crowdfunding and … venture capital literature. Our results show that ICOs exhibit similarities to classical crowdfunding and venture capital …