Crowdfunding: financing operations for VSCs-SMEs in France

This statistic presents the types of operation that medium, small and very small businesses (VSCs-SMEs) could finance via a crowdfunding platform in France in December 2014. At that time, almost 40 percent of respondents declared that the financing of material assets was something that they could finance on a crowdfunding platform.

Types of operations that medium, small and very small businesses (VSCs-SMEs) could finance via a crowdfunding platform in France in December 2014

Characteristic	Share of respondents
Fiinancing of material investment	38%
Financing the development of activities*	30%
Financing external growth (acquisition)	22%
Growth in working capital requirements	17%
A need for short-term cash flow (invoices awaiting payment...)	11%
Ffinancing of immaterial assets	6%
Don't know	25%

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Release date

January 2015

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Region

France

Survey time period

December 9-15, 2014

Number of respondents

317 respondents

Special properties

French VSC-SME managers (excluding auto-entrepreneurs)

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

Supplementary notes

The question asked was formulated by the source as follows: "What types of operations could you finance on a crowdfunding platform? "
The source indicates the following information: “Several possible answers.”
*recruitment, commercial and marketing reinforcement, internationalization, innovation, research and development.

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