Crowdfunding platforms by country: where you can raise, back and get paid

How this is compiled

Every rule in the table is the platform's own, read from its help, terms or API pages on the date the table gives. Each page is listed below with that date. Nothing comes from someone else's summary. The platforms are the ones the comparison sets beside CoFunders, and the fee calculator shows what each would take from your campaign.

What each column means:

• Create a campaign: whether someone based there can open a campaign or a creator page under the platform's published rules. Most also ask for, and check, an identity document and a bank account in the same country.
• Back a campaign: whether someone paying from there can back, donate or subscribe.
• Turn the money into local currency: whether a creator there is paid out in the local currency. For CoFunders, where balances are in USDC, it's whether MoonPay lists the place: the licensed provider the app uses to sell USDC for money in a bank account or on a card.

Not published means the platform publishes no rule for that place. It's neither a yes nor a no, and the table doesn't guess.

For places under EU restrictive measures, every platform, CoFunders included, shows one line: EU sanctions apply to every platform established in the EU. It links the EU's own record of the measures there.

CoFunders doesn't restrict by country. Creating or backing a campaign needs an account and USDC. Our sign in provider has its own acceptable use policy, which the table applies. Selling USDC for local money runs through MoonPay, whose own list of countries applies:

You can send your stablecoin to any address you choose. The network fee comes out of your balance, and you see it before you confirm. Selling it for your local currency, to a card or a bank account, happens on a licensed provider's own screen, which verifies you and sets its own fee. The app offers that only where it's available.

What it doesn't know

• Tomorrow's rules. Platforms change where they operate without notice. Every rule is as read on the date shown. Check the platform's page before you rely on it.
• You. A place on a list isn't a promise that a platform will accept you. Each runs its own checks on identity, age and bank accounts.
• Rules about people rather than places. Sanctions also name individuals and companies wherever they are. The table is about places only.
• Places inside a country. A few rules apply to part of a country, such as a state. Where a platform publishes one, the cell says so. Where it doesn't, the table can't.
• The law. This table shows what platforms publish, not legal advice about what anyone may do. Whether crowdfunding is regulated in Portugal covers the rules there.

Questions

Can you run a crowdfunding campaign from any country?

Not on every platform. Each publishes its own rules on where you can create a campaign, and the table gives each rule with its source. CoFunders doesn't restrict by country, but selling USDC for local money runs through MoonPay, whose own list of countries applies.

Can you back a campaign from a country where you can't create one?

Usually, yes. Most platforms here let people back from more places than they let creators be based in. The Back a campaign column shows each platform's rule for your country.

Can you use Kickstarter from Portugal?

To back projects, yes. To create a campaign, no, as of the date in the table: Portugal isn't on Kickstarter's list of countries a creator can be based in. In the table, every other platform here lets you create a campaign from Portugal, each with its own conditions.

What does "Not published" mean in the table?

The platform publishes no rule for that place. It's neither a yes nor a no, and the table doesn't guess.