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SeedInvest

Equity crowdfunding marketplace

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21-100 employees
  • B2C
  • B2B
  • Marketplace
  • Investing
  • Crowdfunding
  • Venture Capital
Financial District, New York, NY

Company mission

SeedInvest's mission is to transform the broken fundraising system and make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital through its equity crowdsourcing marketplace.

Top investors

33% employee growth in 12 months

Our take

Investing in the early stages of a business startup can be a highly lucrative opportunity to help innovative companies raise the capital they need to commence business. However, startup assets are generally not available to individual investors outside of venture capital bubbles due to their high-minimum and high-risk investments, preventing most investors from accessing the asset class.

SeedInvest provides an equity crowdfunding marketplace, allowing individual investors to access the startup asset class as angel investors. The company offers lower investment minimums than traditional angel investment firms allowing investors to diversify their portfolio, with each listed startup being vetted through a curation process of due diligence.

Whilst angel investment is technically already available to anyone with sufficient capital and expertise, SeedInvest has recognized that the high-risk nature of high-minimum startup investments has siloed the asset within venture capital circles. By providing lower investments, the company allows individual investors to spread their investments across a larger range of companies, increasing their chances of positive returns whilst increasing crowdfunding access for startups.

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Benefits

  • Paid time off - We offer flexible paid time off — take what you need as long as it works with you and your team, and all SeedInvest employees get mobile phone and home office reimbursements
  • Health coverage - No matter where you live, we offer a market competitive suite of benefits. Enrol in health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurances, and SeedInvest covers some or all of the premiums
  • Invested in your future - All full-time employees enjoy 401(k) and pensions (with a 3% company match), and share Circle and SeedInvest's success via stock option grants
  • Learning & development - Your individual growth and development is important to us and we provide the resources to help you grow your career while at SeedInvest

Company values

  • We Are Doers - We move quickly, cut through excessive process, and take smart shortcuts to get the job done while keeping scalability and quality in mind at all times. We take pride in our work and in everything we tackle
  • We Are Passionate - We're a fast moving team motivated by our mission, which is why we have high expectations of ourselves, each other, and the entire team. Our drive comes from our desire to be the best at what we do
  • We Are Remote - First Our employees cross a variety of timezones. Through Slack trivia contests, virtual happy hours, and online meetups we stay connected, learn from each other, and build lasting relationships with the people we work with
  • Multistakeholder - As an institution, we exist in a broad stakeholder context, which means that we must organize, incentivize and measure ourselves against meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders — our customers, our shareholders, our employees and families, our local communities and our world
  • Mindful - We seek to be present and aware, to be respectful, active listeners (with each other and with our customers alike), and to pay attention to detail. We don’t rush to judgement, and when we are swept up by strong emotions we patiently observe and acknowledge them and try to not just react. Our mindfulness leads to better understanding, and more respectful, careful and deliberate choices
  • Driven By Excellence - We are driven by our mission and our passion for customer success. Being driven also means that we relentlessly pursue excellence, that we do not tolerate mediocrity, that we reward based on merit, and that we work intensely to achieve our goals. Being driven doesn’t mean that we are assholes and plough over people or tolerate a culture of aggressiveness. We are a team. Part of our drive is to bring everyone along in our collective achievement
  • High Integrity - We seek open and honest communication, and hold ourselves to very high moral and ethical standards. When we say we will do something, we do it. When we are having difficulty and need help, we talk about it. We treat each other and our customers with the utmost respect. We reject manipulation, dishonesty and intolerance. We welcome vulnerability and uncertainty, which needs to be listened to in order to bring people along, and helps us to constantly learn and improve

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jun 2016

$5.1m

LATE VC

May 2014

$4.2m

SERIES A

Total funding: $10.4m

This company has top investors

Leadership

Experience working in Private Equity and Investment Banking for Lehman Brothers and Wellspring Capital Management LLC from 2005 to 2010. Member of the FINRA Fintech Committee since 2017.

Experience as Technology Private Equity Investor for Francisco Partners from 2008 to 2010. COO of SI Securities, LLC from 2014 to 2022.