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The main aim of this paper is to identify the changes on the Polish market of equity crowdfunding on the cusp of disturbing external factors, such as the pandemic COVID-19. The authors analyzed data from the four leading equity crowdfunding platforms: beesfund, crowdway, findfunds and crowdconnect through the prism of the basic efficiency factors. Comparing the reached results within the time before pandemic to the period of years 2020 and 2021 shows that Polish equity crowdfunding market is very resistant to such unpredictable conditions as pandemic COVID-19 and develops in a very stable way, in meantime experiencing a challenging process of professionalization and matching the rules of law to the requirements of the EU.
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Klocek, P., Motylska-Kuzma, A. (2022). The Polish Market of Equity Crowdfunding - Pre and During Pandemic COVID-19 Situation. In: Nguyen, N.T., Kowalczyk, R., Mercik, J., Motylska-Kuźma, A. (eds) Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence XXXVII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66597-8_8
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