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followers on Facebook, EkoRent had 25 to 30 bloggers and media representatives at
hand as well as “approximately 800 people on the mailing list” and Juuri had about 8
to 10 thousand people on their mailing list. Pyynikin Käsityöläispanimo did not have
a specific amount on their mailing list, but did have 1000 shareholders by the third
crowdfunding project that were sent news about upcoming events such as the equity
funding initiative. These details are shown in Table 5.
Project
Ambronite
Autolla
Nepaliin
EkoRent
Juuri
Pyynikin
Käsityöläispanimo
Crowdfunding
Model
Reward-
based
Reward-
based
Reward-based
Equity
Equity
Network Size
Hundreds
ready to
fund and
share
11 to 12
thousand
Facebook
followers
25-30 bloggers
and media
representatives
800 on the
mailing list
8-10
thousand
on the
mailing list
1000 shareholders
Amount of
Funding
Raised
103
thousand
US dollars
33
thousand
euros
6550 and 5660
euros (in two
simultaneous
campaigns)
173
thousand
euros
336 thousand euros
(in third
crowdfunding
project)
Table 5: Network size and amounts raised by interviewed projects
All the interviewed projects had a large amount of interested individuals in their net-
work before launching their campaigns. It would seem Autolla Nepaliin had the big-
gest reach, with Juuri a close second. Both projects reached their target, but did not
raise the biggest amounts within the chosen crowdfunding model. In the reward-based
crowdfunding, Ambronite raised 103 thousand US dollars with a target of 50 thou-
sand US dollars, whereas Autolla Nepaliin raised 33 thousand euros having targeted
25 thousand euros. As for equity funding, Pyynikin Käsityöläispanimo raised a total
of 336 thousand euros in their third campaign, whereas Juuri raised 173 thousand eu-
ros. According to
Ahlers et al. (2015) better and bigger networks increase the likeli-
hood of attracting funding and investors in equity crowdfunding. The results of this
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