We hosted an interesting talk on what’s happening in crowdfunding in the Visegrad Group: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The event was organized by Aspen Institute Prague and the main purpose was to present the results of its project called “Crowdfunding Visegrad”, supported by the International Visegrad Fund. Project’s authors, together with special guests addressed the main issues of crowdfunding in Central Europe and shared their personal experience.
Czech Republic
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we have several established platforms
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time and financial limits
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money raised: 28 million CZK (since 2011)
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specific projects
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law for various types of community funding
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lack of regulation
Collected amount (in CZK):
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Hithit 16,000,000
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Startovač 6,500,000
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Kreativcisobe.cz 1,099,000
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nakopni.mě 265,970
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Everfund 340,000
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Katalyzátor 60,587
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Vision Partners: 220,000
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Fondomat.cz Not available
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Music Cluster Not available
Hungary:
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situation: fail of traditional platforms
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distrust in community financing
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personal conflicts between the authors
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political situation
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money raised: < 30 000 EUR
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platforms:
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creativeselector.hu
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kezdheted.hu
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indulj.be
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osszedobjuk.hu
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Poland:
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the biggest market
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new law (2014):
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plenty of traditional platforms + investment crowdfunding: (Beesfund.com)
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money raised: 5,5 mil PLN (1.4 mil EUR)
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Polish association of crowdfunding
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Wspieram kulture: co-financing of public projects
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crowdfunding on the stock market
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find more: http://bitspiration.com/news/technology/crowdfunding-in-poland-can-a-pole-do-it/
Slovakia
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voluntary public fundraising + online fundraising
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international or Czech platforms
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Mesiaciky (movie, raised 33,000 EUR from 31 countries worldwide)
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CulChange ( raised 94,000 USD from 71 countries worldwide)
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Shooty ( a billboard campaign, over 80 000 EUR)
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New Synagogue (long term project, 70 000 EUR)
The first known case of crowdfunding was a film documentary involving Robert Puchert, who used the crowdfunding portal Kickstarter in 2012.
Find more: http://www.aspeninstitute.cz/