Excluding real estate projects, equity-based crowdfunding
for seed, start-up and early-stage financing reached £245
million in 2015. High growth rates were maintained
throughout all four quarters of 2015, with the amount
invested more than doubling from Q1 (£38.76 million)
to Q4 (£81.7 million). The average deal size stood at
£523,978, a considerable increase from the 2014 average
of £199,095. This perhaps demonstrates the maturing
of the equity-based crowdfunding model, by which
bigger, later stage and co-financing venture investment
deals are increasing on the platforms. A typical equitybased
crowdfunding campaign included investment from
77 investors on average. Each investor had an average
portfolio size of four to five (4.73) investments across the
platform.