The Spillover Effect of Equity Crowdfunding
An estimated 49.4% of new businesses close within their first five years, with financial strain and capital shortages accounting for 38% of venture failures.
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An estimated 49.4% of new businesses close within their first five years, with financial strain and capital shortages accounting for 38% of venture failures.
Startups in Algeria face high operational risks and financial constraints, with a failure rate between 60 % and 90 %, and around 10 % failing during their first year of existence.
Africa attracts less than 1 percent of global venture capital, with more than 80 percent concentrated in just four countries.
Sri Lanka recorded record foreign direct investment inflows reaching $1.04–1.06 billion in 2025, up from $759 million in 2024, alongside stock market record highs.
The study analyzes survey data from 331 university students in Valencia, Spain, to examine funding source preferences at the pre-early stage of entrepreneurship.
The study conducted qualitative in-depth interviews with 26 FinTech users across Kano (14) and Abuja (12) to examine digital payment experiences.
In 2025, the total volume of factoring services in Uzbekistan reached 9.5 trillion soums.
The study conducts a qualitative literature review of academic sources published between 2014 and 2025 on Brazilian startup financing.
The study analyzes institutional, socioeconomic, and human capital factors affecting enterprise income in the canton of Quevedo, Ecuador.
The European Investment Fund covers about 60% of public intervention in the European venture capital market.
The study evaluated 5 technology-based startups in Manaus to measure their technological and managerial readiness to access non-reimbursable public grants under the Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB) policy for 2024 to 2026.
The research is grounded in 37 qualitative interviews with founders of early-stage tech startups supported by accelerators, collected across two waves between May 2021 and August 2022, and during 2025.
Nigeria attracted more than $1 billion in FinTech-related investments between 2020 and 2023.
The Indian fintech market is projected to reach US$1 trillion by 2030, driven by rapid digital transformation across financial services.
Addressing climate change relies heavily on developing climate technologies, which require significant annual investment volumes (page 2).
The German venture capital business climate indicator fell by 10.2 points to -35.8 points in the second quarter of 2026.
Mega-rounds of $100 million or more accounted for 81% of total global venture capital funding in Q2 2026.
In 2025, 74% of UK VC investment by deal value originated from outside the UK, the highest level in ten years.
Grassroots innovations are community-led local initiatives operating with limited resources to solve context-specific problems across journal pages 293 to 312.
In 2019, Brazil invested R$ 89.5 billion in science and technology, representing about 1.2% of GDP according to OECD data.
More than 70% of startups in Colombia do not survive beyond five years of existence due to limited financing and administrative constraints.
The Fondo Emprender was established in Colombia in 2002 to foster sustainable venture creation through seed capital and technical advisory [p.3].
The study collected survey data from 100 equity crowdfunding investors in Indonesia using a five-point Likert scale.
Overall invested capital declined by 15.5% compared to the first half of 2025.
The study conducts a systematic literature review analyzing 95 papers published between 2002 and 2025.
The early entrepreneurial activity rate (TEA) among Colombian youth aged 18 to 24 reaches 22%, surpassing the regional average of 15.7%.
A study conducted at the Universidad Nacional de Chimborazo surveyed a sample of 406 students from a population of 9,690 to evaluate student financial capacity for entrepreneurial investment.
Research and development (R&D) investment remains persistently low across Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, staying below 0.1% of GDP in all three countries.
OpenAI's $122 billion round collected more value than all other quarterly totals ever recorded in US venture capital.
Norwegian early-stage companies raised about €170 million in 2025, lagging behind Sweden at €1.2 billion and Denmark at €530 million.