Massolution
analyzed data from 1250 crowdfunding platforms. In 2014, the market grew by 167% - the amount of funds raised amounted to $ 16.2 billion. Researchers predict a more than twofold increase in this indicator in 2015: companies will collect $ 34.4 billion.
Asia showed the greatest growth. In this region, the crowdfunding market grew by 320% to $ 3.4 billion. Asia is slightly ahead of Europe, where the amount of funds raised amounted to $ 3.26 billion. North America is moving ahead of the curve - with a growth of 145%, the market volume amounted to $ 9.46 billion.
Entrepreneurs are the most active users of crowdfunding, investments in business projects in 2014 amounted to $ 6.7 billion - this is 41.3% of the market. People donated $ 3.06 billion for social needs, $ 1.97 billion for films and performances, slightly more than $ 1 billion for real estate. People gave $ 736 million for recording music.
