The crowd-funding concept had its roots in United States in 2004 and 2005. And it slowly spreads across the world. Today, Europe and rest of the world is driven by strong growth and has approximately 23% market share in terms of volume of money raised.
In Europe the large chunk of market share is dominated by United kingdom (63%), Germany (15%) and the rest followed by Poland, France, Italy and Spain.
Source: Market share estimation based on organic growth of 19 Crowd funding platforms from the United States and European Union.