The data depicts the types of finance sought from alternative peer-to-peer financing and crowdfunding by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK as of 2015. It can be seen that 31% of SMEs stated that they sought equity finance from peer-to-peer financing and crowdfunding at that time.
Debt finance, i.e. a loan | 41 |
Equity finance | 31 |
Other | 22 |
Don't know | 5 |
Invoice discounting | 1 |