This article reviews the role and nature of equity crowdfunding (ECF) as a novel source of
entrepreneurial finance for unlisted startups and ventures. It is distinctive from extant reviews …

Due to the financial crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, entrepreneurs and small
businesses have had multiple difficulties accessing conventional types of financing …

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 …

We hypothesize that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals enable
crowdfunding platforms to attract more investors and thus survive longer. Using data on 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 …

In equity crowdfunding, firms raise capital online from a large pool of heterogeneous
investors, thereby providing primary market opportunities similar to traditional public …

This paper examines whether solo founders are more likely to succeed in an initial equity
crowdfunding (ECF) campaign and are subsequently less likely to fail than founder teams for …

This paper investigates three areas of corporate finance, and the role of alternative finance
in contributing to our understanding of these areas. First, we look at disclosure, information …

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

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 …