Minimum investment:
100,000 JPY
Advertised return:
N/A
Investors:
N/A
Payment options:
N/A
Total funding volume:
N/A
What does Ecrowd offer ?
Offer for Investors:
- Invest in professionally vetted, unlisted Japanese startups; investment tiers are set individually per deal.
- Every deal includes a shareholder agreement between investor and company, meant to keep the company’s operations orderly as its shareholder base grows.
- Potential returns are pitched as “several to several hundred times” the investment on a successful IPO or acquisition — though most investee companies pay no dividends, and there’s no guarantee of an exit.
- Eligible deals can qualify for Japan’s angel-tax incentives.
- A separate, member-only product, Ecrowd NEXT, targets mid-to-later-stage pre-IPO companies for larger rounds; Academic Round focuses on university-spinout ventures.
Offer for Fundraisers:
- Ecrowd screens (“professionally vetted”) each company before listing.
- Standard national equity-crowdfunding limits apply on the main track: issuers typically raise up to ¥100 million a year, with individual retail investors capped at ¥500,000 per company per year.
- Companies that outgrow the standard track can move to Ecrowd NEXT for larger, member-only rounds.
- Exact fee structure for issuers isn’t published on the public site.
Who can invest on Ecrowd ?
Individual investors register online via smartphone (email plus identity verification) and can invest the same day. Retail investors are capped at ¥500,000 per company per year under Japan’s national equity-crowdfunding rules;
Ecrowd also documents a specified/professional-investor track exempt from that cap. Losses can’t exceed the amount invested.
Profile strength:
Intermediate
Would you invest via Ecrowd?
What is the target industry of the Ecrowd crowdfunding website?
Ecrowd offers to invest in various crowdfunding opportunities from the Startups, Health & Science sector.
What is the minimum amount needed to invest at Ecrowd crowdfunding platform?
At Ecrowd, you can start investing with JP¥100,000.
What types of investment does the Ecrowd crowdfunding platform provide?
The investment models Ecrowd operates is Equity.
