Purpose Crowdfunding, an alternative funding source to support entrepreneurial initiatives,
has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars. However, knowledge of the drivers and …

Purpose This paper aims to provide a multidisciplinary framework that allows an integrated
understanding of reasons of success or failure in equity crowdfunding (ECF), a Fintech …

Nowadays equity crowdfunding plays an important role in the entrepreneurial finance
markets. To better understand the functioning of the industry, it is important to consider the …

Little is known about what happens after an un successful equity crowdfunding campaign.
Taking a socioemotional wealth perspective, we hypothesize that family business start-ups …

Equity crowdfunding (ECF) has spread rapidly worldwide, however its use by university spin-
offs (USOs) along with scholarly attention to it, is still extremely limited. In this qualitative …

This paper studies the impact of competition, Brexit and the Covid‐19 pandemic on UK
equity crowdfunding success. Using data from Crowdcube, we account for competition from …

This paper investigates strategic entrepreneurial choice between the UK Big 3 platforms–
Crowdcube, Seedrs and SyndicateRoom–that exemplify the three main equity crowdfunding …

Despite the rapid spread of equity crowdfunding, the role and actions played by
entrepreneurial teams in this context have been neglected; the few studies in this field …

Finance studies on the impact of market timing (or “windows of opportunity”) have almost
exclusively focused on publicly traded firms and initial public offering firms. We provide first …

Purpose Crowdfunding is a relatively new alternative method of raising capital for new
ventures. In recent years, crowdfunding has also gained prominence within the food …