Crowdfunding platforms offer promising opportunities for project founders to publish their project ideas and to collect money in order to be able to realize them. Consequently, the question of what influences the successful funding of projects, i.e., reaching the target amount of money, is very...

Online crowdfunding websites are multi-sided platforms that offer project founders the possibility to publish their project ideas, to address potential investors, and to ask for funding. The successful funding of crowdfunding campaigns is important for founders, investors, platform operators,...