This statistic shows the fundraising sources that were approached by survey respondents before turning to peer-to-peer alternative financing platforms in the United Kingdom (UK), detailed for whether or not support was sought and whether or not it was offered, as of 2014. At that time, approximately 79 percent of respondents turned to the bank before using a P2P business lending scheme and out of those, 22 percent received an offer of funding, yet decided to go with the P2P funding.
Did you try to fundraise from the following sources before approaching P2P business lending and did you receive an offer of funding from them?
Characteristic
Sought funding
Received offer of funding
Bank
79%
22%
Friends and family
30%
26%
Government/ Public Funder
19%
2%
Building society / Credit union
13%
3%
Angel investors
13%
4%
Venture capital firms
12%
5%
Philanthropic/ Third sector founder
7%
2%
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0%20%40%60%80%100%
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primary industry figures as well as extensive surveys of businesses and consumers
Supplementary notes
The source adds the following information: "Four stages of research activity were carried out from March to September 2014. (1) Stage one involved collecting primary transactional data directly from alternative finance platforms. (2) Stage two consisted of designing and distributing model-specific questionnaires to survey funders and fundraisers of alternative finance. In total 15,658 users were surveyed. (3) Stage three conducted in association with ACCA and PwC included two external national surveys to understand the level of awareness among consumers of alternative finance. 2,007 consumers and 506 SMEs were surveyed. (4) Stage four was the industry-wide tracking survey among UK crowdfunding associations and P2P associations to gather industrial figures for year 2014. Transactional data was collected for quarters one to three of 2014."
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Nesta. (November 7, 2014). Did you try to fundraise from the following sources before approaching P2P business lending and did you receive an offer of funding from them? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved February 23, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/372459/uk-alternative-finance-prior-p2p-fundraising-options/
Nesta. "Did you try to fundraise from the following sources before approaching P2P business lending and did you receive an offer of funding from them?." Chart. November 7, 2014. Statista. Accessed February 23, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/372459/uk-alternative-finance-prior-p2p-fundraising-options/
Nesta. (2014). Did you try to fundraise from the following sources before approaching P2P business lending and did you receive an offer of funding from them?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: February 23, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/372459/uk-alternative-finance-prior-p2p-fundraising-options/
Nesta. "Did You Try to Fundraise from The following Sources before Approaching P2p Business Lending and Did You Receive An Offer of Funding from Them?." Statista, Statista Inc., 7 Nov 2014, https://www.statista.com/statistics/372459/uk-alternative-finance-prior-p2p-fundraising-options/
Nesta, Did you try to fundraise from the following sources before approaching P2P business lending and did you receive an offer of funding from them? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/372459/uk-alternative-finance-prior-p2p-fundraising-options/ (last visited February 23, 2025)
Did you try to fundraise from the following sources before approaching P2P business lending and did you receive an offer of funding from them? [Graph], Nesta, November 7, 2014. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/372459/uk-alternative-finance-prior-p2p-fundraising-options/
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