Can the crowd make successful investments? Goncalo de Vasconcelos, Founder and CEO of SyndicateRoom, takes us through hybrid investment models and looks into how investment behaviour has changed with the introduction of crowdfunding. Presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global 2016. Learn more and join the next event: www.crowdsourcingweek.com

1. Why is crowdfunding growing?
Can the crowd make successful investments?
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Goncalo de Vasconcelos
Co-founder and CEO of SyndicateRoom
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2. Equity Crowdfunding is not Charity
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Key elements of crowdfunding
► Success is not money going in;
Will be money getting out.
► Crowdfunding has to be sustainable;
It has to work for investors.

5. Angels
Crowd Startups
SMEs
Investor-led
Company-led
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Investor-led Vs Company-led

6. Angels
Crowd Startups
SMEs
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Investor-led Vs Company-led

7. Angels
Crowd Startups
SMEs
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Investor-led Vs Company-led

8. Crowdfunding 2.0
Challenging the status-quo
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9. Sophisticated Deals
Sophisticated Retail
Investors
Professional Investors
The Investor-led Model
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Crowdfunding 2.0 – crowdfunding, but not as you know it

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Crowdfunding – but not as you know it
► Better for entrepreneurs:
► +80% of deals successfully funded
► Better for investors:
► 1 failure, 2 companies ceased trading out of over 70 companies

12. The future of Crowdfunding
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Growth of Investor-led Vs Company-led

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Investor-led model Company-led model
► Average investment
£16,000 (21.000€)
► Average funding round
£640,000 (860.000€)
► c80% of deals successfully funded
► Failure rate
<3% (as of 31/3/2016)
► Average investment1
£2,177 (2.900€)
► Average funding round2
£147,000 (200.000€)
► c20% of deals successfully funded
► Failure rate3
c25%
Sources:
1 NESTA ‘Understanding alternative finance’
2 British Business Bank / Beauhurst
3 AltFi Data

15. Crowdfunding 3.0
Disrupting the incumbents
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A new way to invest into IPOs and Private Placings

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From idea to IPO

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A new way to invest: from idea to IPO

19. Invest with the Professionals