Symbid

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Symbid

Type of business	Public
Type of site	Equity crowdfunding platform
Available in	Multilingual (4)
Traded as	OTCQB: SBID
Founded	April 1, 2011 (13 years ago) (2011-04-01)
Headquarters	Rotterdam, Netherlands
Area served	Eurozone (2011–present)
Founder(s)	Korstiaan Zandvliet Robin Slakhorst (CCO) Maarten van der Sanden (COO) Sjoerd Geurts
Key people	Maarten van der Sanden (COO) Jeroen Bontje (Managing Director) Robin Slakhorst (CCO)
Industry	Crowdfunding
Subsidiaries	Equidam Krediet Paspoort
URL	symbid.com
Users	30,000 (active, March 2015)
Current status	Active

Symbid (also known as The Funding Network) is an online funding platform providing access to traditional and alternative finance for small and medium-sized enterprises. Headquartered in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Symbid was founded in April 2011 by Dutch entrepreneurs Robin Slakhorst and Korstiaan Zandvliet as one of the first equity crowdfunding platforms worldwide. Since 2017, Symbid operated under the license of Ilfa Group, that bought Symbid early 2019.^[1]