CrowdDiligence Insights
Independent commentary on equity crowdfunding, investor protection under the EU Crowdfunding Regulation (ECSPR) and the practice of structured, crowd-sourced due diligence. Articles are written by the CrowdDiligence team and are free to read.
What we write about
- Methodology — how weighted topic scoring, bias management and DD Lead verification work in practice.
- Regulation — ECSPR rules, key investment information sheets (KIIS) and retail-investor protection across the EU.
- Market commentary — observations from European equity crowdfunding platforms and campaigns we cover.
Latest articles
- Only 8% of European Crowdfunding Is Cross-Border. That's a Market Problem, Not a Rules Problem. — Three years into ECSPR, legal passporting works but capital still stays home. The bottleneck is not the rulebook - it is the missing information and decision infrastructure around the offers.
- Europe Built a Cross-Border Crowdfunding Market. Investors Didn't Go Cross-Border. — New research shows geographic home bias survives even after investors find and study an offering. ECSPR solved distribution. It did not solve the investor's ability to verify a company 2,000 kilometres away.