I’m starting a new project on equity crowd investing.

I’ve been interested in crowd investing platforms for quite a while. Investment opportunities that would previously have been deemed too risky for the general public are now accessible to ordinary people like me, and often for a small buy in.

I’ve never put any money in however, mostly because I haven’t understood them very well. Why would a startup use these platforms instead of pursuing VC money? Are the startups on offer the discards that private equity passed over? It’s unlikely the next AirBNB or Uber will be found via crowd investing but are the startups on offer genuine prospects or are they taking advantage of the novelty of this new-found access.

Instead of speculating, I’m going to learn through doing. I’m making regular small investments in these platforms to understand them better and hopefully gauge if they’re something that regular people should.

Follow along as I document the process at https://adventuresincrowdinvesting.com/
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