Best Crowdfunding Companies in Germany
The 98 best Crowdfunding companies in Germany in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Ecoligo.
Germany's Crowdfunding sector gets a proper ranking here, 98 companies tracked and sorted by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, so you can cut straight to who's actually capitalized. Total disclosed funding across the cohort sits at $41M, and one name explains most of it: Ecoligo, at $30M, towers over the field. Brickblock follows at $6M, biddz at $5M, and then the drop-off is steep, with Betterplace and Bettervest counting funding in the hundreds of thousands. That concentration tells you something real about where German crowdfunding conviction has landed, which is squarely on green energy and asset-backed models, not the charitable end of the spectrum.
Globally, the market was valued at roughly $1.4B in 2022 and is projected to reach $6.7B by 2031, a 15.82% CAGR driven by sustainability tailwinds and social media distribution. Coverage in Germany is flat right now, but the hot themes are charity transparency and ethical philanthropy, a current that's reshaping donor expectations everywhere. That TikTok-fueled Spirit Airlines pledge campaign is a perfect, slightly chaotic illustration of how crowd mobilization works when trust and narrative align fast. Fraud risk and cybersecurity exposure remain structural headwinds any serious player in this space has to price in. I'd watch whether that ethical-giving momentum eventually lifts the charitable-tier companies here out of sub-$250K territory.
Ranked: Best Crowdfunding companies in Germany
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ecoligo Project crowdfunding platform for solar developers | $30M | 27 mo ago | Series B | Markus Schwaninger Co-Founder & Board Member | 2016 | SentryApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+29 | — |
| 2 | Brickblock Platform utilizing blockchain technology for real estate investment and fundraising | $6M | 84 mo ago | Deadpooled | Martin Mischke Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — |
| 3 | biddz Online crowdfunding platform for the music industry | $5M | 36 mo ago | Seed | — | 2021 | — | — |
| 4 | Bettervest Developer of a P2P lending platform for energy efficiency projects | $224K | 125 mo ago | Funding Raised | Marilyn Heib Mitbegründer und CEO | 2006 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 5 | Betterplace Donation-based crowdfunding platform | $124K | 101 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2007 | SentryZendeskApple iCloud Mail+13 | — |
| 6 | GroupEstate Portal for community building projects. | $57K | 136 mo ago | Deadpooled | Joel Dullroy Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 7 | Addact Reward-based crowdfunding platform for concerts projects | $56K | 120 mo ago | Funding Raised | Hilko Aikens Co-Founder | 2013 | — | — |
| 8 | Steadyhq Reward-based crowdfunding platform to help publisher | — | 86 mo ago | Seed | Gabriel Yoran Co-Founder | 2016 | Framer SitesCannyZendesk+13 | 1 partnership |
Top 12 Crowdfunding companies in Germany
#1
Series B · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2016 · 17 employees$29.9Mraised▾
Ecoligo has developed a solar project crowd-funding platform that helps retail individual investors receive a higher return on their investment as compared to a regular banking product and on the same note, assists project developers with capital infusion in their solar projects. All projects pass a technical and financial due diligence and furthermore need to fulfil social and ecological criteria.
- Feb 2024Series B$11.9M
- Jun 2023Conventional Debt$2.1M
- Mar 2023PE$5.4M
- Oct 2022Series A$9.8M
#2
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2021 · 17 employees$4.7Mraised▾
Online crowdfunding platform for the music industry. The platform allows fans to support their favorite artists, bands, and more.
- Jun 2023Seed$4.7M
#3
Deadpooled · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2016 · 12 employees$6.4Mraised▾
Platform utilizing blockchain technology for real estate investment and fundraising. It is a blockchain-based platform that utilizes digital tokenization to facilitate real estate investment and capital raising for developers. It invests in assets such as exchange-traded funds, real estate funds, and passive coin-traded funds. It facilitates cross-border investments and access to capital markets round the clock. It develops managed CTFs and offers actively managed CMFs, providing a range of investment options.
- Jun 2019Conventional Debt$5.7M
- May 2018Series A$6.4M
#4
Funding Raised · Frankfurt, State of Hessen · founded 2006 · 12 employees$224.5Kraised▾
Developer of a P2P lending platform for energy efficiency projects. Every single crowd investor is a party to the loan contract with the project owner. The investor receives an annual payment, consisting of interest and repayment. The platform charges a commission based on the initial investment sum and an annual handling fee from the project owner.
- Jan 2016Grant (prize money)$107.2K
- Mar 2015Grant (prize money)$54.3K
- Jan 2014Grant (prize money)$63.1K
#5
Funding Raised · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2007 · 56 employees$124Kraised▾
Betterplace is an online donation-based crowdfunding platform. The project categories include Disasters, Women, animal, and women etc. The backers can donate money or time for a social project of their choice. The platform provides the details of the projects and other similar projects for donation at the time of donation. The platform offers flexible funding model and charges 2.5% of the collected fund as a fee including transaction cost.
- Jan 2018Grant (prize money)$124K
#6
Funding Raised · Hamburg, Hamburg · founded 2013$55.6Kraised▾
Addact is an online reward-based crowdfunding platform for concert-based projects. It empowers music fans to decide where their favourite artist's tour. Fans pledge for tickets of their favourite artists in their cities. If a city gets enough pledges the concert will happen. Fan powered Concert is a mixture of ticketing and crowdfunding. It makes money by charging a ticketing fee. ADDACT is an awarded startup by Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Germany.
- May 2016Grant (prize money)$55.6K
#7
Deadpooled · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2014$56.5Kraised▾
Group Estate aimto make homeownership affordable by allowing groups to purchase residential property in common and to build together. The platform helps to form a community of owners to who share home ownership and supporting them with the functions and information.
- Feb 2015Grant (prize money)$56.5K
#8
Seed · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2016 · 21 employees—raised▾
Steadyhq is an online reward-based crowdfunding platform to help publisher. The platform helps the publishers to get funding from readers, viewer, listener, and audience etc. Each project listed on the platform has monthly funding goal and the publisher gets the amount at the end of the month. The platform charges 10% of the collected fund as a fee. It also offers subscription-based services to the publisher to create and manage the project on the platform.
- Apr 2019Seed—
- 2017Seed—
#9
Series A · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2015 · 24 employees—raised▾
Zinsbaustein is a German real estate investing platform. It offers individual investors access to institutional-grade real estate development investments. It allows for a minimum investment of EUR 500 allowing and invests through mezzanine loans.
- Sep 2018Series A—
#10
Deadpooled · Berlin, Berlin · founded 2012 · 10 employees—raised▾
Stagelink is a crowdfunding platform for concerts that lets artists, agents, promoters, and artist managers sell tickets to prospective events. Lets users collect location preferences from fans, track real-time demand, launch & sell tickets, analyze customer data, and check-in guests with Stagelink app at the venue. Clientele includes Viacom, Messe Berlin, Pioneers, and others.
- Jul 2016Seed—
- Sep 2015Seed—
- Oct 2014Seed—
#11
Deadpooled · Munich, Bavaria · founded 2013 · 2 employees—raised▾
Crowdfunding platform for art collections. It is a platform where art-interested people can participate. The ownership share corresponds to the proportion of your participation in the total value of the artwork. At the time of sale, the investors make a sale decision together with the co-owners.
- Mar 2016Seed—
#12
Seed · Pullach, Bavaria · founded 2013—raised▾
CrowdPatent allows investors to directly invest into inventions, patent applications, and patents. Thus, it offers an entirely new asset class where investors can purchase so-called InventionShares. And when the industry acquires Intellectual Property rights, investors generate returns for inventors and investors. For inventors it offers a unique opportunity to monetize their invention and, more importantly, get it deployed by industry, without the need of investing themselves.
- May 2015Angel—
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