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Crowdsurfer: Mapping the Crowdfunding Universe

Crowdsurfer: Mapping the Crowdfunding Universe

Crowdfunding is an exploding online marketplace that rang up a whopping $5 billion in transactions in 2013. However, there is a problem: opportunities in this "crowd economy" are growing at such a fast clip in number and variety that data analysis has lagged, leaving investors and industry wading into uncharted territory. As crowdfunding expands—revenue could hit $100 billion by 2018 if the annual doubling continues—the need to make sense of the trend grows along with it. Crowdsurfer is a global Bloomberg-like data aggregator for crowdfunding and peer-to-peer finance.

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