Crowdfunding Market Report 2026

Crowdfunding Market Overview

• Crowdfunding market size has reached to $20.34 billion in 2025 • Expected to grow to $44.75 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.1% • Growth Driver: Social Media's Role In Fueling Crowdfunding Growth • Market Trend: Soteria's Groundbreaking Crowdfunding Campaign Revolutionizing Battery Safety With Top Industry Collaborators • North America was the largest region in 2025 and Asia-pacific is the fastest growing region.

What Is Covered Under Crowdfunding Market?

Crowdfunding refers to a way to raise funds for a specific cause donated by a large number of interested people in small amounts and usually during a relatively short period of time, such as a few months. This is frequently done through social networks, which allow supporters to easily share a cause or project cause with their social networks. It allows fundraisers to collect funds from a huge number of individuals using online channels. The main types of crowdfunding are equity-based crowdfunding, debt-based crowdfunding, and other types. Equity-based crowdfunding often referred to as investment crowdfunding is used by startups and early-stage companies to raise money. The various platform types include open service platforms, and managed service platforms and are used in various applications such as food and beverage, technology, media, real estate, healthcare and others.

What Is The Crowdfunding Market Growth Forecast?

The crowdfunding market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $44.75 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 17.1%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing startup innovation funding demand, rising acceptance of peer supported financing, growth of regulated crowdfunding frameworks, expansion of platform based fundraising ecosystems, strengthening investor participation in alternative finance. Major trends in the forecast period include growing popularity of online fundraising platforms, rising adoption of equity and debt based crowdfunding models, increasing role of social media in campaign amplification, expansion of startup and innovation focused fundraising initiatives, strengthening acceptance of alternative funding mechanisms.

Global Crowdfunding Market Segmentation

1) By Type: Equity-Based Crowdfunding, Debt-Based Crowdfunding 2) By Platform Type: Open Service Platform, Managed Service Platform 3) By Application: Food And Beverage, Technology, Media, Real Estate, Healthcare Subsegments: 1) By Equity-Based Crowdfunding: Startup Equity Crowdfunding, Real Estate Equity Crowdfunding, 2) By Debt-Based Crowdfunding: Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Lending, Real Estate Debt Crowdfunding

What Is The Driver Of The Crowdfunding Market?

Increasing the use of social media platforms is expected to boost the growth of the crowdfunding market going forward. A social media platform offers a service to the general public for the purpose of disseminating communication, speech, news, or other content, usually in the form of messages, videos, pictures, or sound files. Social media acts as a tool to promote and publicize crowdfunding initiatives and also fetch funds for crowdfunding campaigns using an internet platform, as a result, the increasing use of social media increases the demand for crowdfunding. For instance, in January 2024, according to a report by We Are Social Ltd, a UK-based social media creativity and analytics company, social media user identities have grown by 5.6% in the past year, with 266 million new users joining social media for the first time throughout 2023. Therefore, increasing the use of social media platforms will drive growth of the crowdfunding industry.

Key Players In The Global Crowdfunding Market

Major companies operating in the crowdfunding market report are GoFundMe Inc., Kickstarter PBC, Indiegogo Inc., Crowdcube Limited, Seedrs, Wefunder Inc., StartEngine Inc., AngelList LLC, Kiva, Fundable, Ulule, Pozible Pty Ltd, Crowdfunder, Fundly, Mightycause, RocketHub, Fundrise LLC, RealtyMogul LLC, Realcrowd Inc., Funderbeam Inc., CircleUp, Patreon Inc.

Global Crowdfunding Market Trends and Insights

Major companies operating in the crowdfunding market are focused on developing new innovation products, such as crowdfunding campaigns to fund their fight against battery fires. For instance, in August 2023, Soteria, a US-based lithium-ion battery safety platform that includes both a technology to eliminate battery fires and a consortium to promote best practices for lithium-ion battery safety, launched a crowdfunding campaign on StartEngine to provide resources to develop and launch a line of inherently safe batteries for e-bikes and other devices. Soteria has assembled an organization of more than 125 top companies in the sector, such as NASA, Mercedes, Lenovo, and DuPont, to facilitate widespread access to its technologies. The campaign aims to raise funds from both accredited and non-accredited investors to support the development of Soteria's patented technology that prevents explosions in e-bikes, electric vehicles, and other devices by halting energy flow during a short circuit.

What Are Latest Mergers And Acquisitions In The Crowdfunding Market?

In May 2023, StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc., a US-based provider of equity crowdfunding services for startups and small businesses, acquired SeedInvest LLC for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, StartEngine aimed to expand its investor base and strengthen its position in the equity crowdfunding market by absorbing SeedInvest’s customer list, digital assets, and reputation, thereby consolidating its leadership in online capital formation. SeedInvest LLC is a US-based equity crowdfunding platform that connected startups seeking early-stage capital with retail and accredited investors through regulated online funding campaigns.

Regional Outlook

North America was the largest region in the crowdfunding market in 2025. Asia-pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the global crowdfunding market during the forecast period. The regions covered in this market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in this market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain

What Defines the Crowdfunding Market?

The crowdfunding market includes revenues earned by entities through reward-based crowdfunding, prosocial lending-based crowdfunding, and Lending-based crowdfunding (LBC). The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.

How is Market Value Defined and Measured?

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified). The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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