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Can you elaborate? I assume you have to be an accredited investor?

dodobirdlord 8y ago
Often in these sorts of scenarios you can find an investment fund that has a stake in the non-public company that you are interested in and invest in the company by proxy by investing in the fund.
- exacube 8y ago
  the issue would now be that you're investing in everything else in that fund.. i'd have to believe in the fund, not just SpaceX.
  - whatshisface 8y ago
    You could design a portfolio of short and long positions that exactly cancelled out everything else the fund had.
    - mLuby 8y ago
      I smell a SaaS product…
      - jlmorton 8y ago
        I smell financial regulation. The secondary market is generally only available to accredited investors. If you're investing in a fund, that's one thing, but if a product is unwinding all of that to allow unsophisticated investors to essentially buy secondary stock in private companies, the SEC is going to have something to say about that.
    - whatok 8y ago
      Good luck with that considering most if not all of the other investments would be private investments that would be difficult, if not impossible to replicate in public markets.
      - whatshisface 8y ago
        Maybe you could find a bunch of other funds with slightly different positions in the same companies, and then form a linear combination that cancelled out the differences.
        erikpukinskis 8y ago
        You'd end up with an "error portfolio" that was somewhat random that you'd be investing in proportionally with your SpaceX investment.
        whatshisface 8y ago
        If I started a few listed companies and bought carefully constructed portfolios of unlisted securities specifically so that this would be possible, I wonder if the SEC would get mad.
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- TomMarius 8y ago
  Wow! Do you happen to know any reputable ones where it'd be possible to single out (as much as possible, probably not possible completely) the investment into SpaceX?
ian0 8y ago
Fundnel, a Singaporean crowdfunding platform was assisting spaceX with a recent raise[1]. The minimum investment value is 250k on the website now but if I recall correctly it was as low as 50k a few months back. [1] https://fundnel.com/investor/deal-feed/funded https://fundnel.com/investor/deal-feed/funded

Often in these sorts of scenarios you can find an investment fund that has a stake in the non-public company that you are interested in and invest in the company by proxy by investing in the fund.

exacube 8y ago
the issue would now be that you're investing in everything else in that fund.. i'd have to believe in the fund, not just SpaceX.
- whatshisface 8y ago
  You could design a portfolio of short and long positions that exactly cancelled out everything else the fund had.
  - mLuby 8y ago
    I smell a SaaS product…
    - jlmorton 8y ago
      I smell financial regulation. The secondary market is generally only available to accredited investors. If you're investing in a fund, that's one thing, but if a product is unwinding all of that to allow unsophisticated investors to essentially buy secondary stock in private companies, the SEC is going to have something to say about that.
  - whatok 8y ago
    Good luck with that considering most if not all of the other investments would be private investments that would be difficult, if not impossible to replicate in public markets.
    - whatshisface 8y ago
      Maybe you could find a bunch of other funds with slightly different positions in the same companies, and then form a linear combination that cancelled out the differences.
      - erikpukinskis 8y ago
        You'd end up with an "error portfolio" that was somewhat random that you'd be investing in proportionally with your SpaceX investment.
        whatshisface 8y ago
        If I started a few listed companies and bought carefully constructed portfolios of unlisted securities specifically so that this would be possible, I wonder if the SEC would get mad.
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TomMarius 8y ago
Wow! Do you happen to know any reputable ones where it'd be possible to single out (as much as possible, probably not possible completely) the investment into SpaceX?

ian0 8y ago

Fundnel, a Singaporean crowdfunding platform was assisting spaceX with a recent raise[1]. The minimum investment value is 250k on the website now but if I recall correctly it was as low as 50k a few months back. [1] https://fundnel.com/investor/deal-feed/funded https://fundnel.com/investor/deal-feed/funded