FundedByMe doubles total money raised in 2016.
Scandinavia’s fastest-growing crowdfunding platform closes its 2016 activities with a cheer. With more than 74,000 registered members from 179 countries, FundedByMe has thus far raised almost €30 million to 461 successful crowdfunding campaigns, averaging €5,500 per investment and investments from 45 countries. This is almost double the total amount raised during the first five years up to December 2015.
“The crowdfunding trend is only going to get bigger from here, as 2016 has shown a maturity of the market while FundedByMe attracts bigger parts of the early majority than early adopters
Sweden’s first urban electric car, Uniti, today launched its global equity crowdfunding round on FundedByMe with a goal to raise €500.000 for 5,1% ownership in the company. The company, which is developing a lightweight electric city car that combines holistic sustainability, a futuristic user experience and is developed in an open-source manner, reached 63% of its investment goal from 68 crowd investors in the first 4 hours after launching to the public. The Uniti crowdfunding campaign will run until November 15, 2016 and a total of 50,000 shares are available for crowd ownership – at a