Leading motivations for crowdfunding in the Netherlands 2016

This statistic shows the leading motivations for participation in crowdfunding in the Netherlands in 2016. In 2016, approximately eight percent of the respondents took part in crowdfunding because they wanted to be named as one of the funders. Crowdfunding involves the investments with or lending of relatively small amounts of money by a large group of investors to private individuals or companies. Usually, this happens through an online platform. There are roughly four types of this relatively new form of investing: donation, sponsorship and reward based crowdfunding, loan based crowdfunding and equity based crowdfunding. In 2015, the total market volume of equity based crowdfunding in the Netherlands was worth approximately 17 million euros. Between 2012 and 2016, the total value of crowdfunding investments in the Netherlands increased from 14 million euros in 2012 to a value of approximately 170 million euros in 2016. Whilst investments and the familiarity of these investments have increased, though, so have the warnings from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) on the risks involved in crowdfunding.

本统计数据显示了2016年荷兰众筹活动的主要参与动机。当年，大约有八分之一的受访者参与众筹，其动机在于希望成为资助者之一。众筹涉及大量投资者以相对较小的金额进行投资或贷款，以支持私人个体或公司。通常，这一活动通过在线平台进行。众筹这一新兴投资形式大致可分为四种类型：捐赠型、赞助型、基于奖励的众筹、基于贷款的众筹和基于股权的众筹。2015年，荷兰基于股权的众筹市场总额约为1700万欧元。在2012年至2016年期间，荷兰众筹投资的总价值从2012年的1400万欧元增长至2016年的约1.7亿欧元。尽管投资及其认知度有所提升，但荷兰金融市场管理局（AFM）就众筹所涉及的风险发出的警告亦随之增加。