Technology Improving Safety of Crowdfunding Platforms Functioning in the Context of the Protection of the Start-Up Investors in the Financial and Transport Sectors.

The information technology models improving security functioning of crowdfunding platforms and advice on a new type of business were developed. The article solves the problem of safety of crowdfunding platform functioning based on developed models: rating assignment system of unified assessment crowdfunding platforms; startup projects assessment; startup projects risk assessment concerning their financing safety level and criminal law protection of investors against the financial fraud. The models are based on the correct usage of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set device to reveal the uncertainty of experts' consideration that insures authenticity of scientific results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]