Crowdfunding Statistics and Trends [Infographic]

The crowdfunding industry continues to see strong growth which gives life to more great ideas, projects and social good.

 

At GoGetFunding, month-on-month we’ve had more people raising more money for all types of campaigns. From creative projects and volunteering campaigns to medical fundraisers and more.

 

To help visualize the growth of the crowdfunding industry, we created the following infographic which we hope you enjoy:

 

 

 

 

You are welcome to publish this infographic on your own blog or website, but please remember to link back and credit GoGetFunding .

 

 

 

Inforgraphic data:

 

Estimated number of active Crowdfunding Platforms worldwide

Year	Active CFPs Worldwide
2012	536
2011	434
2010	283

 

Estimated volume of funds raised by CFPs worldwide

Year	Funds raised worldwide (in billions)
2011	1.5
2012	2.7
2013	5.1

 

North America and Europe dominated the Crowdfunding industry by raising 59% and 35% of worldwide capital raised in 2012

More than 1 Million successful campaigns were run by CFPs in 2012

Crowdfunding market growth and share by category

Crowdfunding Category	Share %age	Growth %age ( CAGR)
Reward Based Crowdfunding	43%	524%
Donation Based Crowdfunding	29%	43%
Equity Based Crowdfunding	15%	114%
Lending Based Crowdfunding	13%	78%

 

Equity-based Crowdfunding raises the largest amount of funds per project as compared to Donation-based and reward-based Crowdfunding

Funds paid out per Equity Based Project

Funds paid out per project	%age
Less than $10,000	6%
$10,0001-$25,000	10%
$25,001-$50,000	16%
$50,001-$100,000	26%
$100,000+	42%

 

Most active Crowdfunding categories of 2012

Category	%age
Social Causes	30%
Business & Entrepreneurship	16.9%
Films & Performing Arts	11.9%
Music & Recording Arts	7.5%
Energy & Environment	5.9%
Others	28%

 

Funds paid out per Donation Based and Reward Based Project

Funds paid out per project	%age
Less than $2,500	35%
$2,501-$5,000	28%
$5,001-$7,500	18%
$7,501-$10,000	9%
$10,000+	10%

 

Over 40% of CFPs charges a transaction fees based on percentage commission of funds pay out

45% of all CFPs require investors to deposit money in Escrow accounts and 63% use Paypal as payment method.

Average successful Crowdfunding campaign is around $7,000 and lasts around 9 weeks

Average timeframe of Crowdfunding campaign

Pharse	All (in weeks)	Equity Based (in weeks)	Lending Based (in weeks)	Reward Based (in weeks)	Donation Based (in weeks)
Launch to completion	9.1	8.2	4.8	10.0	10.2
First 25% milestone	2	2.5	2.3	2.9	3.6
Last 25% milestone	3.3	3.1	2.6	3.6	3.3

 

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