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HALF A MIL, UP FOR GRABS

I came across a Facebook post unlike one I had ever seen before - a man by the name of Fred Klaske was looking to sell his portfolio of startup investments.

That part wasn’t too novel, but the value of this portfolio was quite staggering for a retail investor.

All told, Klaske is offloading half a million dollars worth of startup equity - with one stipulation.

The buyer can’t pick and choose which equity they want, they have to take the whole thing.

I connected with Klaske to learn more about the portfolio and why he was offloading all of his shares.

75 STARTUPS STRONG

Klaske grew up in Wisconsin and was the only one of 5 siblings to go to college. He graduated from Yale with a double major in Molecular Biophysics & Art (an obvious combo).

Klaske proceeded to garner an MBA from Berkeley for Investment Finance - education isn’t everything, but there’s some semblance that this isn’t your average Joe picking the stocks that comprise his portfolio.

Over the years, Klaske has poured $262,102 into his portfolio of startup investments. Although this number should be even higher, as he’s removed the 15-20 now defunct startups from the list.

After removing these duds, the portfolio contains 75 startups invested in across 10 different crowdfunding platforms.

I asked Klaske if there’s any crowdfunding platform he likes best to which he responded:

I tend to agree with the general premise of this approach - you’re investing in a startup, not the platform that hosts their raise. 

I don’t view investments on StartEngine vs Republic vs Wefunder all that differently for example, but there are some platforms I would not invest through. 

Take TruCrowd - they knowingly allowed fraud on their crowdfunding platform, and subsequently became disqualified from issuing startup raises.

I tend to stick to the top 5-6 portals, and don’t mess around outside of that.

WORLD-KLASKE PORTFOLIO

The most Klaske has invested into a single deal is $25,000. This went to a Deep Tech fund run by Alumni Ventures, so realistically this is split across 15-20 startups itself.

The average check size throughout the portfolio is $3,235, and the lowest invested in a deal is ~$1,000.

There are some notable positions included in the portfolio: StartEngine, AtomBeam, Boxabl, LegionM, Virtuix, Future Cardia, and AtomLimbs to name a few.

Klaske has all his positions detailed in a spreadsheet that he shared with me. The document includes the increase/decrease for each equity position, and the portfolio appears to be in a strong position.

Not factoring in dilution, Klaske claims that his basket of startups has grown on paper from $262K → $542K (2.07x). 

Here’s the kicker - Klaske is only looking to recoup his initial investment of $262K from a potential buyer.

WHY THE SALE?

Why would someone who has spent years establishing an angel portfolio suddenly decide to liquidate their positions at cost?

Klaske has a background in residential construction and has scoped out an opportunity that he believes could generate 3-5x returns in a (slightly) more liquid fashion.

I personally do not have a quarter of a million dollars lying around for this purchase, but I figured I’d share with my readers in case I got some rich folks lurking.

The whole portfolio can be found linked below:

If you’re interested in learning more about the portfolio that’s up for sale, respond to this email and I’ll get you connected!