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The VCapital team guides professional investment advisors and individuals who seek to add venture capital to diversify portfolios, manage risk, and meet wealth management goals. As important as it is to identify companies to support, it is also important to identify how and when to invest in them.
Why do wealthy investors seek alternative investments for their portfolio?
1. Opportunity for a higher return.
When economic uncertainty emerges, investors may liquidate stocks and bonds in declining markets, taking losses to amass cash or maybe even out of necessity to meet a margin call. Venture capital exits, on the other hand, are managed to align with the opportunity for attractive returns.
2. Diversification of investment portfolio.
Most individual investors’ assets are concentrated primarily in traditional asset classes, such as stocks, bonds, their homes, and their businesses. Within a total financial mix, venture capital can represent smart diversification as an alternative asset class that tends not to correlate with the ups-and-downs of the more traditional asset classes.
3. Attractive option in a low-interest-rate environment.
The bond market has spoiled investors over the past decade. With the Fed driving down interest rates since 2008, bond prices have surged over the decade. With interest rates low, the opportunity for further appreciation is negligible.
4. Platform for intergenerational unity.
While venture capital can potentially generate wealth to support current and future generations, it also can engage the next generation into conversations about the impact of supporting entrepreneurs and their contributions to society. This may provide unifying experiences across generations. For many families, venture investing may provide a connection to the original roots of entrepreneurship that created the family wealth.
Challenges individual investors face when looking to invest in venture capital:
WHERE to look for high quality opportunities?
HOW to gain access to investment deals?
WHAT criteria should be evaluated for investing?
WHO can advise me about associated costs and risk/reward factors?
Why VCapital?
With an in-depth focus on research and exceptional due diligence plus a 30-year track record, VCapital Management Co. identifies early-stage, institutional-quality venture capital opportunities with potential to grow, succeed, and deliver returns to investors. Operational support and active guidance are provided to entrepreneurs for increasing chances for a successful outcome. Of particular interest are technology, medical, and science-related deals where growth potential is greatest. Employing a concierge and flexible service structure for investors, the VCapital team guides professional investment advisors and individuals who seek to add venture capital to diversify portfolios, manage risk, and meet wealth management goals.
Six reasons why investors choose VCapital as their guide to adding venture to their portfolio:
1. Sourcing and selecting high-quality deals
Our industry connections, expansive network, and 30+ year track record result in unique choices among deals that might have only been available to institutions. An in-depth focus on research and exceptional due diligence typically leads to reviewing 350+ deals before investing in one.
2. Focus on early stage
We get in early before valuations are driven too high. We concentrate on the under-served $500K – $5million deal range.
3. Geographical and sector focus
Our first searches are in the Midwest, a geography whose values are not inflated by Silicon Valley standards. We focus on technology, medical, and science-related deals where growth potential is greatest.
4. Active guidance of our portfolio companies
In addition to capital, operational support and active guidance are provided to entrepreneurs for increasing chances for a successful outcome.
5. 30+ years of experience and track record
The long-term experience and expertise of our founders have contributed to positively navigating across a variety of economic cycles.
6. Concierge service for individual investors
Our minimum investment size of $25K is significantly lower than large VC firms that focus on serving institutions. A flexible structure allows for options to invest in the VCapital portfolio pool or in individual single deals. We provide ongoing updates and objective investor communications which angel and crowdfunding firms don’t typically offer.
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Direct
Invest in any open opportunity, acquire a share of that venture, and participate in the ultimate return upon exit. Institutional-quality investing at individual-size minimums.
Partner
Invest in VCapital Management Company and acquire your share of all companies in the portfolio. Participate in our 20% carried interest in return from any venture exit.
Mix
Allocate some to all companies via VCapital and some to one or several open opportunities.
Read “Diversify Differently” to learn more about your opportunity to customize your investments.
When the window is open for investing directly in a company, a share of each of those companies may be acquired and the opportunity to enjoy a proportionate share of the ultimate returns. Over time, our investors choose to invest in a large enough number of individual portfolio companies, as they become available, to intentionally build meaningful diversification within the asset class. We create long-term relationships with our investors who trust us to advise them and their professional wealth advisors about the value of diversification in their investment portfolios and within asset classes. The following are currently open to direct investment.
Utilizing gene therapy to combat age-related diseases.
Because of its significantly lower regulatory requirements combined with an increasing demand for care options for pets, the animal health market represents an attractive opportunity to generate revenue while also proving out the underlying technology for humans. The company’s lead therapeutic has shown improvements in the treatment of heart failure, kidney failure, diabetes, and obesity in mice and has proven to be safe and effective for dogs.
Read moreGuiding professional investment advisors and individuals to meet wealth management goals.
Invest in VCapital Management Company and acquire your share of all companies in the portfolio. Participate in our 20% carried interest in return from any venture exit.
Read moreThese descriptions herein should not be considered a recommendation to invest in any financial instrument and they do not depict the risks associated with each investment, including possible loss of all of your capital. Past performance of VCapital and/or any of its team members is no guarantee of future results.
With an investment as a partner in VCapital Management Company, a share of the firm’s 20% carried interest is acquired in the future returns across ALL of our portfolio companies — both currently open to direct investment and currently closed. This unique option increases the opportunity to participate in a successful exit of any individual company in the VCapital portfolio. The following are currently closed for direct investment and open for investing via a partnership with VCapital.
Empowering Global Access to Space
Employing a revolutionary approach to satellite communications driven by new thinking and new technology, ATLAS brings more data down from space, faster, and more affordable than ever before.
Read moreA Revolution in Prostate Cancer Therapy
An office-based focal therapy to treat prostate cancer while preserving the patient's quality of life
Read moreBetter qubits by design
This future is a world powered by quantum computing. It is coming sooner than anticipated, with needs and applications growing in record time.
Read moreCombination Therapy for Cancer
Intensity is pioneering a new field of cancer treatment – in situ immune activation. The Company’s drug approach, now in phase 2 testing, is to inject its novel high dispersing cytotoxic formulation directly into a patient’s malignant tumors.
Read moreOcient will enable much faster analysis of the world’s largest sets of data.
With the explosion of data volume outpacing current analysis tools, Ocient harnesses the untapped power of massive datasets.
Read moreTransforming Mobile Devices into a Video Studio
Padcaster is the leading provider of end-to-end professional mobile video solutions. The company designs, develops, and manufactures innovative, patented hardware and software products for high-quality video production and content creation.
Read moreKeeping Mothers and Babies Safe During Childbirth
Raydiant Oximetry is developing a more accurate fetal monitor to improve outcomes for mothers and babies during childbirth.
Read moreTransforming Interventional Procedures with Augmented Reality
SentiAR is a digital health, software device company adding a new dimension to clinical practice in interventional procedures.
Read moreThese descriptions herein should not be considered a recommendation to invest in any financial instrument and they do not depict the risks associated with each investment, including possible loss of all of your capital. Past performance of VCapital and/or any of its team members is no guarantee of future results.
VCapital’s objective for every investment is to hit a home run. We are very selective and perform extensive due diligence on every investment. While we only invest in ventures that we believe have home run potential, we are seasoned professionals and realists. We know they will not all turn out to be home runs. This is precisely why we advise our investors to intentionally diversify their investments within the venture capital asset class. The following exit profiles provide a transparent look inside the life cycle of a VCapital portfolio company.
Glaucoma Treatment to Stop Vision Loss
Alievio (previously named Camras Vision, Inc) has developed a medical device – a shunt for glaucoma treatment.
Read moreEnabling the Potential of a Trillion Internet-of-Things
EDJX is a distributed edge computing platform and decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace created to meet the exponential demand growth for data processing that will serve trillions of mobile, IoT, Web 3.0, and personal devices at the edge.
Read moreAutomating Complex Business Decisions
Decision management platform that allows enterprises to automate decisions and business rules in applications, without the need of modifying code.
Read moreA Secure Network Fabric for Edge Computing
Xaptum’s mission is to simplify IoT security. Forever.
Read moreExplainable Artificial Intelligence
Acquired by InRule Technology in 2021, Similarity machines or simMachines provides the most comprehensive set of nearest neighbor-based clustering, discovery, prediction, and regression algorithms.
Read moreIBM boosts object storage capability with Cleversafe acquisition
Data storage is a lynchpin for applications and services. Cleversafe’s object storage capabilities helped enable IBM to embrace growth in data content in a cost-effective manner. This is especially relevant given the amount of data for mobile, social, cloud, analytics and data storage for archive, business continuity and retention.
Read moreImagineer Technology Group Acquired by Dynamo Software
Since its founding in 1998, Imagineer Technology Group has provided relationship management software and services that help investor relations and fund marketing teams to effectively manage their clients, raise capital, and operate their businesses efficiently and intelligently.
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