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A Space Investment Worth Consideration
Last week I found a space SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) that I think has big potential. The SPAC is dMY Technology Group (NYSE: DMYQ), and it will soon merge with Planet Labs. Planet Labs owns and operates a fleet of around 200 imaging satellites in low-earth orbit. These satellites are constantly imaging and analyzing the earth. Customers include farmers,…
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New Pick: A Legal Services Marketplace Brimming With Upside Potential
Deal Details Startup: UpCounsel Security type: SAFE Valuation (cap): $28 million Minimum investment: $250 Where to invest: Wefunder Deadline: December 9, 2021 UpCounsel began as a traditional online marketplace play. There were lawyers on one side and clients needing legal assistance on the other. Making legal services cheaper and more accessible was a good idea. The company grew into a…
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Portfolio Update: Haven Protocol Makes Promising Progress
Our speculative portfolio coin Haven Protocol has bounced back pretty well from its recent troubles. It had an incident back in July where a hacker exploited a vulnerability. But Haven recently launched a successful fork of version 2.0. (Note the nice social traction on the Twitter announcement. There’s definitely a growing community.) Haven is trading around $12 today, far above…
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New Pick: Connecting Student Athletes and Brands for a Win-Win Video Ad Experience
Deal Details Startup: Curastory Security type: Crowd SAFE* Discount: 0% Valuation (cap): $9 million Minimum investment: $250 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: January 28, 2022 Video ads made by influencers are almost inescapable these days. Many of them try to direct viewers to take certain actions in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. How successful they are depends on two things: How…
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Slow Governments Won’t Stop This Startup From Saving the Planet
“We need decarbonization now, across every sector in every country,” U.N. Secretary General António Guterres tweeted earlier this week. Don’t kill the messenger here, but he’s spitting in the wind. A plea for governments to pick up the pace of decarbonization will do little good. Not even the increasing incidence of fires, floods and extreme heat has gotten governments to…
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October 2020 Recommendation: Ethereum Competitor
Editor’s Note: Due to a production error, we failed to post this recommendation from last October. You have our sincere apologies. We have taken measures to make sure that mistake does not happen again. Additionally, we’re in the process of updating our portfolio provider. Once that change is made, it will be added to the Crypto Asset Strategies portfolio page.…
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The Metaverse Must Be Decentralized
As soon as I saw the headline, I cringed. “Facebook changes its name to Meta.” The new name is a not-so-subtle reference to the Metaverse. Facebook plans to invest $10 billion to build an immersive VR platform (demo here). They envision a future where we all hang out virtually in 3D Facebook. It looks pretty lame. And I’m not convinced…
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New Pick: The Startup That’s Cleaning Up Space
Deal Details Startup: Launchspace Technologies Corporation Security type: Common stock Round size: Up to $1.07 million Share price: $100.26 Valuation: $48,999,970 Minimum investment: $100.26 Investment portal: Netcapital Deadline: November 8, 2021 Startup investors love big problems. The bigger the problem, the more rewarding the investment opportunity. Right now, it’s the best of times for startup investors. We’re facing huge problems,…
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Bitcoin Soars Past Altcoins
Bitcoin has been beating altcoins over the last few weeks — which is something we haven’t seen in a long time. And I think this trend may continue for a while. We could even get a situation where bitcoin “sucks all the air out of the room,” which we also haven’t seen for a while. High flyers like Avalanche (AVAX)…
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How to Avoid Getting Hacked
This week news broke that up to 6,000 Coinbase customers were hacked between March and May 2021. Here are the basics of the situation via Coindesk: Between March and May 20, the hacker or hackers used a flaw in Coinbase’s account recovery process to get the SMS two-factor authentication token to break into customers’ accounts and transfer funds out of…
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Bitcoin ETFs Are Almost Here
This week Coinbase sponsored an article in the prestigious Institutional Investor publication titled “Expect Growth in Crypto Funds and SEC-Approved ETF Soon.” Here’s an interesting excerpt from the article. …Confidence remains high among many market watchers that a crypto ETF will get regulatory approval in the U.S. in either 2021 or 2022, bolstered by the successful launch in Canada of…
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New Pick: Medical Robotics Company Still Leads Innovation in the Joint Replacement Space
Deal Details Startup: Monogram Orthopaedics Security type: Common stock Offering Maximum: $34.9 million Valuation: $89.9 million Price per share: $7.52 Minimum investment: $250.80 Where to invest: StartEngine Deadline: To be determined but likely in 10 to 12 weeks I first presented Monogram Orthopaedics to First Stage Investor members a little more than two years ago. The company has made such…
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$33 Billion Fintech Unicorn Uses Bitcoin for International Payments
Revolut is a fast-growing e-bank in the U.K. that’s worth $33 billion. And this week we found out that it is using bitcoin to pay for its U.S. office rental space. Ryan Weeks of The Block did a nice writeup on the news. Revolut has announced that it has used bitcoin to pay for office space for 300 employees in…
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The Dark Side of NFTs
A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about how NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are the perfect viral asset. NFTs have a lot of interesting characteristics. They’re speculative, subjectively valued and community-based. You could say they’re the perfect viral asset. And because it’s art, there are far fewer regulatory concerns than many crypto projects face. There will be price crashes —…
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New Pick: A Luxury Beverage Brand That’s Amassing a Global Following
Deal Details Startup: Amass Security type: Preferred equity Valuation: $75 million Share price: $3.8 Minimum investment: $498 Where to invest: SeedInvest Deadline: February 12, 2022 Amass is a luxury lifestyle beverage brand. But it’s also so much more. To help you grasp the breadth of its many markets, let’s consider another high-end beverage brand, Dom Pérignon. It makes the best champagne money can buy. And given its…
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New Pick: A Sparkling and Refreshing Take on Non-Alcoholic Beverages
Deal Details Startup: TÖST Security type: Crowd SAFE* Discount: 0% Valuation (cap): $12 million Minimum investment: $150 Where to invest: Republic Deadline: October 1, 2021 About a decade ago, a good friend asked me what makes a great food and beverage company. Here’s what I said. It’s about standing out. The vast majority of consumer packaged goods (CPG) products get…