This extended abstract (which builds on another piece of research by the Authors, The Italian Regulatory Framework for Equity-based Crowdfunding: An Overview and a Number of Critiques, in 2015 forthcoming in European Company Law, Wolters Kluwer International Publisher) provides the reader with a preliminary overview of the very essential contents of the final version of a paper aimed at “mapping” the main shortcoming that possibly affect the Italian regulatory framework for equity-based crowdfunding, thereby contributing to the discussion about how to regulate financial forms crowdfunding.