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Beyond Crypto: Digitalising Assets, Tokenisation and New Pathways to Retail Investment

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Can new digital models lower costs, widen access and overcome Europe’s persistent barriers to investment? Digitalisation is reshaping the way retail investors access financial markets. Looking beyond crypto-assets, new distribution models, such as digital investment platforms and crowdfunding, are emerging alongside underlying technologies such as distributed ledger technology (DLT) and tokenisation. Together, these developments are

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Fashion’s Climate Transition: Turning 14 SMEs’ Ambitions into Fundable, Sustainable Businesses

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Fashion SMEs are struggling to secure capital for sustainability initiatives, yet the are responsible for a significant part of the fashion sector’s very large carbon footprint. Traditional investors often dismiss these businesses due to perceived risk, lack of collateral, or unproven financial returns on climate actions. Meanwhile, regulatory frameworks like ESG disclosures and sustainable finance

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How Business Angels Can Spot Quality Crowdfunding Opportunities

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The growth of crowdfunding across Europe has created a new challenge for Business Angels: separating genuine investment opportunities from attractive marketing campaigns. Over the past decade, regulated crowdfunding platforms have opened access to thousands of startups across a wide range of sectors. For investors, this has dramatically expanded deal flow. Opportunities that might once have

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Crowdfunding and Angel Investing: Complementary Tools for Europe’s Early-Stage Investors

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For many founders, raising capital is about achieving scale as much as about personal involvement of investors. For some this is a community of backers via crowdfunding, for others a more hands-on business angel investors. But this seems increasingly a false choice. For early-stage companies, particularly those still proving product-market fit, crowdfunding and angel investment

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EUIPO launches new Train the Adviser session: A beginner-friendly introduction to IP for business advisors

Intellectual Property /

EUROCROWD is pleased to support and promote the next instalment of the EUIPO’s Train the Adviser programme, a long‑running initiative helping business advisers, crowdfunding platforms, and SME support organisations deepen their understanding of intellectual property (IP) as a strategic asset. As part of our ongoing collaboration within the Ideas Powered for Business Network, we encourage

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From Crowdfunding to Business Angel: online course for investing and mentoring deep-tech innovators via ESIL Angel Academy

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Europe’s future innovation needs skilled and confident investors. But where to start? Many newcomers test their luck with crowdfunding, some hope to turn into business angels over time. And now there’s a course designed to help them get started. The ESIL Angel Academy, developed by the EU-funded Early Stage Investing Launchpad (ESIL), is now live.

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When the AI becomes the Gatekeeper: What ECSPR didn’t see Coming

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Investors once began their journey with a platform. Increasingly, they begin with a question and that question is asked to a machine. Across insurance markets, AI systems have already crossed the line from information to intermediation. Crowdfunding may be next. When Europe adopted the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation (ECSPR), it set out to build

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Under Pressure: 11th Italian Crowdfunding Report by Politecnico di Milano

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The 11th Italian Crowdfunding Report by the Osservatori Entrepreneurship Finance & Innovation of Politecnico di Milano records a substantial contraction in market activity, with fundraising volumes falling across both equity and lending crowdfunding. The data also reveals structural changes: real estate as the dominant segment for now, but platform consolidation has accelerated and the industry

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ECSPR Doesn’t Have a Regulatory Problem. It Has a Market Problem.

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For much of the past decade, European crowdfunding has been defined by regulation. The debate began with the need for a Single Market, leading to the adoption of the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation (ECSPR). More recently, attention has shifted to questions such as increasing the €5 million fundraising threshold, expanding admitted instruments, refining disclosure

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