Monthly financed loan volume of Kickstarter in the Netherlands 2017-2018
In 2018, the total Dutch crowdfunding investments were worth 329 million euros. Crowdfunding involves the investments with or lending of relatively small amounts of money by a large group of investors to private individuals or companies. Usually, this happens through an online platform. There are roughly four types of this relatively new form of investing: donation, sponsorship and reward based crowdfunding, loan based crowdfunding and equity based crowdfunding.