A Golden Opportunity, meanwhile Government “Needs New Thinking” says MP
Below local and national government’s RADAR thousands of local entrepreneurs, including hundreds locally, are getting the leg up, and finance, they need to get started and to grow according to new data just released for UK Crowdfunding Week. Around twenty times as many as current official government estimates.
The CrowdDataCenter.com who have collected data on more than a quarter of a million crowdfunds from across the globe in 216 countries over the last two years just released the latest update on global and UK data for 2015, to October – plus this infographic.
The latest government figures, quoted in the House of Commons this week, could hardly have been much further from the mark, missing more than 95% of those funded.
The contribution from [equity] crowdfunding has grown strongly since 2012. By the third quarter of 2014, deal numbers exceeded those of private equity, accounting for almost one-third of seed fundin…