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Invest in the Next Super Material
DEAL DETAILS Startup: BNNano Security type: Common stock Round size: Up to $1.07 million under Reg. CF Share price: $1.70 Valuation: $20,211,463 Minimum investment: $100.30 Investment portal: Netcapital Deadline: May 1, 2021 After 100 years, plastic is still being used in new ways. A decade ago my lawn mower was made with a steel frame and handle. Now I use…
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Startup Insider: Medical Testing’s Golden Age
We have a special treat for you this week. Our First Stage Investor members (click here to sign up) regularly get to hear Andy Gordon and Vin Narayanan interview founders. This week, we’re releasing a very special interview they conducted Friday to the entire Early Investing community. On Friday, Andy and Vin talked to Jonathan Cohen, the founder and CEO…
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Bitcoin Sell-Off is Nothing to Panic About
My phone woke me up unexpectedly Sunday morning. It was buzzing with the news that bitcoin had suffered a flash crash — dropping as much as 14% to $51,141. I saw the alerts, checked my Twitter timeline and then rolled over and went back to sleep. And I slept soundly. Because — in my mind — there’s nothing to worry…
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Government Interference With Bitcoin Is Growing
In Washington’s latest round of sanctions against Russia, the U.S. government targeted specific bitcoin addresses. Here’s an excerpt from Bitcoin Magazine’s reporting. “…the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), recently announced sweeping sanctions to curb the work of Russian online influence outfit the Internet Research Agency (IRA). This included adding several bitcoin addresses to its…
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14 Reason to Invest in the Startup Disrupting Beer and Liquor Sales
Deal Details Startup: TapRm Security type: Crowd SAFE* Discount: 0% Valuation (cap): $22 million Minimum investment: $100.98 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: May 1, 2021 TapRm has managed to do something no other company has done before. That’s a remarkable statement to make about an e-commerce startup. But TapRm is a remarkable startup. E-commerce is everywhere. If you can’t buy…
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Why Founders Refuse VC Money
Venture capital (VC) investing isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Last week I talked about the many things that crowdfunding does that appeal to founders and investors alike. Today, I’d like to focus more on the VC side of investing. And why founders do not always seek or accept VC’s offers of money and help. Without funding, nothing else…
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Three AngelList Syndicates Worth A Look
I’m an AngelList superfan. It’s a beautiful marketplace for early-stage investors. The site has grown incredibly since I started investing in 2014, and today there are more than 100 syndicates to choose from. Here are some of my favorites. Jenny Rooke – Biotech Jenny Rooke is a fantastic biotech investor. Her investments include Caribou Biosciences (a leader in CRISPR technology),…
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What VC Gets Wrong About Crowdfunding
A tech startup founder was bragging to me about his recent hires a couple of days ago. He found some outstanding people and said that the talent available in 2021 was off the charts. But it wasn’t just luck or happenstance. The highly experienced people he interviewed all told the same basic story. It went something like this: “My company…
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New Pick: Invest in the Future of Capital Formation
DEAL DETAILS Startup: Wefunder Security: Preferred Stock Round size: Side-by-side round — up to $5 million under Reg CF Valuation: $160,000,000 Share price: $2.19862 Minimum investment: $100 Investment portal: Honeycomb Deadline: April 30, 2022 (The round is already filling up — don’t wait to invest) For the first time ever, Wefunder has opened a funding round for itself that everyone…
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New Pick: Invest in Ending Opioid Addiction
DEAL DETAILS Startup: Phoenix PharmaLabs Security type: Common stock Round size: Side-by-side raise – up to $1.07 million under Reg. CF Share price: $1.00 Valuation: $26,790,283 Minimum investment: $99.00 Investment portal: Netcapital Deadline: March 23, 2021 (Phoenix has requested an extension to April 23, 2021, but it has not yet been approved.) Dear First Stage Investor: We’ve already recommended Phoenix…
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Crowdfunding is the Next Evolution of Startup Investing
The tech sector is under attack. Lawsuits. Politicians. Regulators. They’re all gunning for the tech industry. But what about the venture capital firms that financed the industry’s growth? These companies should also command our attention. Their money nurtured big tech companies in their early years. More than that, these deep-pocketed investors also supplied them with many of the values that…
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Goldman Sachs is on the Bullish Bitcoin Train
This week we got a new podcast featuring Mathew McDermott, head of Digital Assets for Goldman Sachs’ Global Markets Division. He discussed booming crypto demand from clients and what’s driving the move. Bitcoin.com provided a nice summary of the conversation. Here are some of my favorite excerpts. “… all of our institutional client discussion is really focused around bitcoin …”…
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Explaining Bitcoin’s Rise From $6k to $56k in a Single Year
One year ago — on March 12th, 2020 — bitcoin was trading at $6,131 per coin. It had been valued at more than $12,000 in June 2019. But markets everywhere were in a bit of a panic last March, and stocks were trading near the lowest level of the year. BTC sold off during the initial crash, just like almost…
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Financial Rebellions: Investors Are Pushing Back
We are living through a very unique period in financial history. On one side, we’re in the midst of an amazing technological revolution. Software and new technologies are streamlining the way the world runs. Advances in renewable energy are picking up steam. Medicine is leaping forward in new and incredible ways. There are, however, troubling financial storm clouds on the…
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New Pick: Invest in Detecting Heart Failure Early
Deal Details Startup: Oracle Health Security type: Stock Purchase Agreement Price per security: $2.00 Valuation: $20 million Minimum investment: $250 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: July 16, 2021 Medical technology is going through an amazing outlier period. There’s been dozens and dozens of medical technology breakthroughs — from the Covid-19 vaccines that use new mRNA technology to earlier and earlier…
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Big Tech Censorship Creating Startup Opportunities
Back in October, I wrote a piece titled Big Tech’s Growing Vulnerability. In it, I discussed the rapidly increasing amount of censorship on sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. No matter how you view the big tech controversy, I think most of us can agree that these platforms are angering a portion of their audiences — and likely some of their…