Europe’s largest economy has managed to turn the EU’s attempt to create a single capital market into something rather more German: the European regime exists, but the domestic legacy model refuses to die. The European platforms are now dying with it. On 1 October 2026, Bergfürst began its departure as a going concern. Its shareholders
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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
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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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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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
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.
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
When the AI becomes the Gatekeeper: What ECSPR didn’t see Coming Read More »
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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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
ECSPR Doesn’t Have a Regulatory Problem. It Has a Market Problem. Read More »
EUROCROWD has published a new research paper examining how the European Crowdfunding Service Providers Regulation (ECSPR) is shaping Europe’s crowdfunding market three years after its full implementation. Drawing on ESMA market reports, Member State notifications of admitted instruments and a structured assessment of publicly available platform disclosures, the paper argues that the emerging European crowdfunding
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