MicroVentures: Venture Investments - To The Masses

MicroVentures offers investors who are not able to make large transactions to invest relatively small amounts (from $ 3000) in startups at the seed stage and subsequent stages of development.

Potential investors at Microventures.com express their interest in the form of the amount they are willing to invest in this startup. When you collect 20-90 rates, each of which is $ 3-5 thousand, they are combined to buy a share in the company. Since its inception in 2009, the service has invested $ 60 million in 130 companies, the size of investments was $ 200-500 thousand. At the same time on the site offers from 3-5 startups. The company's founder, Bill Clark, notes that they are not interested in one-time investments - instead of $ 50,000, it is better to get $ 5,000 dollars for ten companies and diversify risks.

On the one hand, the service helps startups to attract funds - not every young entrepreneur can go and get a hundred thousand dollars to create a prototype. On the other hand, it helps people who are unable to invest two hundred thousand dollars in companies they like. MicroVentures makes demands on the participants: accreditation according to the standards of the US SEC as an investor. Otherwise, the user must have an adequate investment experience, which the team of service brokers will appreciate.

The company collects investments from $ 10 thousand to invest them in three funds. 40% of the funds will go to the seed investment fund, 30% to the fund investing in growing companies previously financed by the business incubator 500 Startups, and the remaining 30% to the fund oriented to Latin America.
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