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Invest In Veteran-led Companies || VeteranCrowd, LLC

Wednesday, April 13th, 2016

If you’re looking to invest in veteran-led companies the team at VeteranCrowd has the platform to do so. More details below:

VeteranCrowd

The marketplace for investing in Veteran-led companies

Why Veterans? The leadership skills and values veterans develop in the military translate to greater success in the private business sector. Veterans are:

  • Team players.
  • Mission-oriented, effectively organizing teams to achieve objectives.
  • Good communicators, clearly stating goals and objectives as well as the “commander’s intent.”.
  • Creative problem-solvers, accustomed to working with limited time and resources.
  • Calm in stressful situations.
  • Personally accountable, holding themselves to a higher standard and maintaining a heightened sense of ethics.
  • Integrity first and always.

    • With change comes opportunity. Until recently, the business of raising capital remained virtually unchanged for the eighty years. The issuer’s reach was limited to the high net worth investors with whom they had existing relationships and could contact directly. Now, Regulation D Rule 506C of the JOBS Act allows for general solicitation. We list equity investment opportunities on the web and investors explore these investment options online, at their leisure.

    Timing. With millions of troops transitioning to civilian life, veterans becoming entrepreneurs in great numbers and the new rules surrounding raising capital, we believe our timing is ideal.

    Who can participate? Veteran-led businesses, family offices, professionally managed funds, and accredited investors. An accredited investor is anyone who:

  • earned income that exceeded $200,000 (or $300,000 together with a spouse) in each of the prior two years, and reasonably expects the same for the current year, OR
  • has a net worth over $1 million, either alone or together with a spouse (excluding the value of the person’s primary residence).

    • In addition, entities such as banks, partnerships, corporations, nonprofits and trusts may be accredited investors. Of the entities that would be considered accredited investors and depending on your circumstances, the following may be relevant to you:

  • any trust, with total assets in excess of $5 million, not formed to specifically purchase the subject securities, whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person,  OR
  • any entity in which all of the equity owners are accredited investors.

    • Many states have passed intrastate equity crowdfunding laws that allow non-accredited investors to participate in generally solicited equity offerings. The Federal Government is expected to enact similar rules in 2016.

    How it works. Interested parties simply create a free account on VeteranCrowd.com to view available equity offerings. Select offerings are thoroughly vetted for suitability and compliance before they are posted on VeteranCrowd.com. Qualified investors explore offering details and may request any further information and access to the management team. Once an investment is committed, our FINRA broker dealer conducts investor accreditation, processes the transaction and the securities are issued.

    Visit us at VeteranCrowd.com or call 804.601.8685

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