Crowdfunder Update: CEO Chance Barnett Announces VC Fund

crowdfunderCrowdfunder now provides unprecedented access — for both experienced institutional investors and everyday investors — to early-stage deals from many of Silicon Valley’s leading VC firms. 

Crowdfunder has launched a VC Index Fund which co-invests with a select list of leading VCs (the Index), investing $100,000 per deal in Seed and Series A stage companies.

Chance Barnett “We then look to help the Founders with strategic opportunities and follow-on capital from our network,” wrote Crowdfunder CEO Chance Barnett in a email. “With this milestone, our mission of democratizing early-stage venture finance now extends beyond our platform and includes an innovative fund model. With our Fund, we’re opening up access to investing alongside the world’s leading VCs, in the same round/terms…Our model is accelerating our growth, and today we’re already at 74 investor-led deals in our portfolio.”

Barnett noted that the Fund had been privately rolled out several months ago,  investing with deals alongside Silicon Valley giants including Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercase Capital, SV Angel, NEA, Kapor Capital, Arena Ventures, Structure Capital, Rothenberg Ventures, CrunchFund, Greylock and 500 Startups.

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Crowdfunder gains access to deals through a combination of direct referrals from investors, startups which qualify via our Platform, and through direct outreach by our team to Founders, cited Barnett in the email,

Money Eyes Benjamin Look See“Once a VC Index firm invests, we are able to quickly qualify a startup for investment from the Fund. The Fund is highly diversified, targeting hundreds of early-stage deals per year. Rather than trying to pick big winning investments (the ‘unicorns’) at the Seed stage, we listen to the data, which suggests that the winning strategy is to follow top VCs into their deals, but diversify much more than they do,” added Barnett. “We then leverage our Platform and data to scale our portfolio companies and help these Founders be more successful over the long term.”

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