A. Based on the 2015 Crowdfunding Industry Report by Crowdsourcing LLC’s Massolution.com, the latest industrywide data available (the report is not free, though), shows $16.2 billion raised through the various types of crowdfunding in 2014, up 167% from the year before. At the end of 2014 there were more than 1,250 crowdfunding portals world-wide, versus 850 in 2012.