Fees and Charges

Crowdbase does not charge platform fees. What you pay depends on the campaign you invest in, and every figure is set out in that campaign’s Key Investment Information Sheet before you commit a cent.

If you are an investor

There is no charge for having a Crowdbase account. We charge nothing to open one, nothing to keep it open and nothing to close it. Browsing campaigns, reading the documents and taking the knowledge test all cost nothing.

Individual campaigns can carry a cost to you, and it varies. It may be a share of any profit you make when the investment pays out, or a fee charged at the point of investment. There is no standard figure, because the structure of each campaign is negotiated separately.

Whatever applies to a given campaign is in that campaign’s Key Investment Information Sheet, or KIIS. Read it before you invest. We check every KIIS before a campaign goes live, and we require every cost an investor will bear to be set out in it. If a cost is not there, we do not charge it.

If you are raising funds

Our commission is negotiated with each company and depends on how much you are raising and how the round is structured.

Part of it may be payable up front, to cover the cost of due diligence. If the campaign raises its full target, we normally deduct that amount from the final commission so you are not charged twice.

We will give you the full fee position in writing before you sign anything.

Payment processing

Card and transfer processing costs on a campaign are borne by the company raising the funds, not by investors.

We are not paid to point you at anything

We neither pay nor accept any remuneration, discount or non-monetary benefit for routing investors’ orders to a particular crowdfunding offer, whether on our platform or on anyone else’s. That is prohibited by Article 3(3) of Regulation (EU) 2020/1503.

The only money we receive from a company is the fee for running its campaign. Nothing about the order in which campaigns appear, or what we say about them, is for sale.

Any other cost a campaign carries, including regulatory and payment processing costs, is set out in the KIIS.

Fees are set campaign by campaign

Because fees are negotiated per campaign, the terms of one tell you nothing about the next. Each KIIS governs its own campaign, and we will not apply a cost to your investment that was not disclosed before you made it.