{"id":8553,"date":"2026-01-23T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:00:27","slug":"romanias-crowdfunding-market-up-140-y-y-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=8553","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s crowdfunding market up 140% y\/y in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were almost 7,000 fundraising campaigns in Romania last year \u2013 that is, approximately 19 per day \u2013 and they managed to raise a total of over EUR 450,000 (+140% y\/y), according to\u00a04fund.com\u00a0analysis cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zf.ro\/zf-gen-z\/stiai-ca-romania-este-una-dintre-pietele-cu-cea-mai-rapida-crestere-23023971?mc_cid=34d5451a08&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\">Ziarul Financiar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crowdfunding is a type of financial support in which people choose to contribute directly to causes or projects they believe in.<\/p>\n<p>One such example is Tiny Transylvania, a different kind of tourism business, with three mobile homes located on the edge of the F\u0103get forest near Cluj-Napoca. Another example of a project that relies on financial support from the community is Beer Wall Cafe, a craft beer business started by entrepreneur Alin Deac in Cluj-Napoca.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the value of funds collected through Romanian campaigns increased by over 140% compared to the previous year, a significantly higher advance than in more mature markets, according to data collected from the\u00a04fund.com\u00a0analysis.<\/p>\n<p>In Italy, for example, the increase in campaign value was around 49% year-on-year, and in Hungary, around 40\u201345%, which indicates a stable but considerably slower evolution.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Kwanchai Phanthong\/Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were almost 7,000 fundraising campaigns in Romania last year \u2013 that is, approximately 19 per day \u2013 and they managed to raise a total of over EUR 450,000 (+140% y\/y), according to\u00a04fund.com\u00a0analysis cited by Ziarul Financiar.\u00a0 Crowdfunding is a type of financial support in which people choose to contribute directly to causes or projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}