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NEW STARTUPS
Startups that you can invest in with as little as $100 right now:
🌊 Pelagion - I refuse to travel across water in any other way after this (LINK)
☀️ Solariste - Solar panels that don’t look like… ugly solar panels (LINK)
🤖 Zero Cheating - AI exam proctoring (LINK)
Everyday investors net +$60M in proceeds from the sale of exclusive assets
From CEOs to shop owners, investors in Masterworks’ art offerings have received more than +$60,000,000 in total net proceeds to date (including principal) across their 23 exits.*
Surprised that so many people are interested in art investing? Bank of America recently found 83% of wealthy American investors 43 and under already collect, or want to. Normally, only the top 1% of investors would be able to diversify with art like Picassos and Banksys. But with Masterworks, you can easily diversify into this asset class without needing millions, or art expertise.
With a team that’s been working since 2019, Masterworks investors have realized representative annualized net returns like +17.6%, +17.8%, and +21.5% (among assets held for longer than one year).
Past performance not indicative of future returns. Investing Involves Risk. See Important Disclosures at masterworks.com/cd.
COMING OUT THE GATE STRONG
We’re nearly two months into 2025, and the data is indicating that crowdfunding investment is surging.
Through February, the Reg CF industry is on pace to jump 37% YoY (via data from Kingscrowd).
Total Reg CF investment climbed upwards from $45M → $62M. This comes on the tail-end of layoffs at most of the major crowdfunding platforms, so it’s impressive to see lean teams powering the space forward.
Wefunder maintains an edge in Reg CF, although the margin between them and StartEngine narrowed.
Wefunder: $13.8M → $16.6M (+20%)
StartEngine: $11.5M → $15.5M (+35%)
DealMaker: $3.1M → $10M (+219%)
Republic: $3.6M → $2.6M (-26%)
And absolutely crushing it in early 2025 is DealMaker - they went from a distant 4th to right behind the heavy weights in the space.
I’ve written extensively about the downfall of Republic’s crowdfunding platform, and the data isn’t showing any reprieve. Amid slowing deal volume and low-profile startups, they are not finding their footing as a crowdfunding platform.
I should note that the above data doesn’t include Reg A investment tallies, nor the burgeoning secondary markets that StartEngine has seen tremendous success with.
If positive trends continue past February, crowdfunding is in for a breakout year in 2025.
WHY THE HELL AM I…
Bepo hits 1,400+ workers on its tipping platform, which i estimate to be a ~$111,600 boon to ARR. I invested back in November, you can see my investment memo here.
Kara Water just passed $1.5M raised and are shipping their new model in March. Their round closes March 6th.
I invested $1,000 back in December. Every metric is up and to the right (and hoping they stay that way!)
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