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This is an interesting topic for companies looking for an investment. I would also be interested to see investor stories from this type of investing. I have lo

This is an interesting topic for companies looking for an investment. I would also be interested to see investor stories from this type of investing. I have looked at quite a few companies raising through these sites and never once saw a deal which remotely looked like a wise investment. I'm sure one will emerge, who's story will be replayed, and they will bring the next $1B of investment into this ecosystem but right now I'm struggling to see the investment benefit aside from cheap (out of pocket) investment options.

cloudjacker 10y ago
hm, I've interviewed at tech companies around the US that were "closing their series A or B funding round" and successfully did it Without fanfare from Crunchbase or the rest of the peanut gallery I was able to find Regulation D documents and pitch decks for those companies on sites like Wefunder.com and other "data rooms", the finance sector term for "overpriced shared file repository so potential investors can look at private securities offerings". Wefunder would be one of "those sites" you mentioned, and these are 8 figure deals. These companies are indistinct from any other tech company, so its happening. You might just be missing good deals According to Crunchbase several of these companies still only have a seed round completed. So much for their scraping.