The most important challenge f aced by thestartups or young enterprises is to create thesource of f inance, which will give them the meansto survive. In addition to traditional sources off inance such as the entrepreneurs themselves,their f amilies, f riends, business angels andventure capital, crowdf unding has been added asan alternative source of f inance with the increasein the use of the internet and social media.Crowdf unding, which ensures that the businessidea off ered by the entrepreneur is f inanced bythe f unds collected at small amounts f rom manyinvestors by means of an open call made on theinternet, is a capital creation mechanism thatref lects the power of the crowds. The scientif icknowledge accumulation to constitute the basisf or crowdf unding decisions is lacking, ascrowdf unding is j ust a recently debated subj ectboth in the international and national body ofliterature. In this study, the current body ofliterature on crowdf unding is examined and itwas endeavoured to create the basic knowledgeaccumulation.