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Because of you we are building the future of investing!it is incredible to see how many people that have begun to participate, and we have just begun! ***new business progression announcements coming after the holidays!\u003e\u003e\u003e INSTAGRAM LINK \u003c\u003c\u003c","published_at":"2022-11-15T14:41:08Z","author_name":"Brian Harstine","url":"/feed/156882","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/156882"},{"id":156688,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:156688","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"A16Z Defines FinTech Landscape \u0026amp; Opportunity - Where does the Acquire App Fit in?","preview":"Hey! today im going to let venture capital leaders speak to market we are addressing right now. Andreeson Horowitz and their A16z venture capital fund is hyper active across many sectors, one of their specialties is Technology, Fintech and Web 3. As you dig in for the next 2min think about where the Acquire App lands! Comment on the post below or send us a direct message to engage your thoughts with out team directly.here is an excerpt from a research study that A16z conducted on our target m...","published_at":"2022-07-11T22:04:53Z","author_name":"Brian Harstine","url":"/feed/156688","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/156688"},{"id":156408,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:156408","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Acquire Invest: Market Opportunity Acquire Invest: Market Opportunity Acquire Invest: Market Opportunity","preview":"Hello ACQUIRE Community!Securities Tokenization is a massive trend. However, there is a lot more that goes into it than cryptocurrencies, NFTs, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), and blockchain.\u0026nbsp;Did you know that $80+ trillion dollars of investment opportunities are locked away every year? These opportunities have only been available to accredited investors. 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Horacio Ruiz and Stefan von Imhof host the show where they feature the entire run from al...","published_at":"2022-06-17T13:55:39Z","author_name":"Brian Harstine","url":"/feed/156160","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/156160"},{"id":156143,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:156143","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"WOW! 171k-\u0026gt;Huge support in just the first 12 days","preview":"Our team has been prepping to bring this to the public for 3 months all while building the product itself!Seeing the participation at this early of a stage in the campaign is amazing! Every person that invests in Acquire is shaping what the company will become. Every person that invests adds to the user count and shows our VCs the demand for our product and what we bring you with it! Keep this up, bring in your friends, colleagues, family, The more users we Acquire the bigger the market will ...","published_at":"2022-06-16T15:04:04Z","author_name":"Brian Harstine","url":"/feed/156143","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/156143"},{"id":156024,"entity_id":"wefunder:feed_item:156024","type":"FeedItem::Update","visibility":"public","title":"Is Investing in FinTech Good for Your Portfolio? NEW BLOG! Is Investing in FinTech Good for Your Portfolio?","preview":"Just launched a new article on our blogWe have tons of these coming...https://medium.com/acquire-invest/is-investing-in-fintech-good-for-your-portfolio-311852f93e78","published_at":"2022-06-10T14:15:30Z","author_name":"Brian Harstine","url":"/feed/156024","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/feed/156024"}],"q_and_a":[{"id":208176,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208176","question":"What would trading fees look like?","author_name":"Krishna Aswani","votes":6,"created_at":"2022-06-13T01:02:06Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-208176","answers":[{"id":208256,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208256","answer":"Our team has been mapping the industry for trade fee scales. Without saying too much, We aim to be at or less than Coinbase fee structure. We are servicing assets that have less availability for users, so this is a moving target till launch. We are locking in all the backend costs with will be the final deciding factor. CUSTOMERS are the driving force behind our decisions, we are focused on creating and fostering a consumer driven market. Your input and feedback during these early stages are key. Id love to see you as an investor and have you become a part of that process.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":6,"created_at":"2022-06-13T21:49:46Z"}]},{"id":208174,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208174","question":"Please look into Raison.ai or Orderbook.ai. These were built on top of amibisafe platform. They tried to launch in US however SEC had problems with launching here. They therefore allow user from all over the world except USA and few other countries. They were the first to tokenize SpaceX shares. Now they have a huge portfolio with Neuralink as one of the companies as well.","author_name":"Krishna Aswani","votes":6,"created_at":"2022-06-13T00:56:37Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-208174","answers":[{"id":208468,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208468","answer":"First off, great insights Krishna, would love to have you on our investors list! To your question, This is one of the most exciting parts about ACQUIRE's App. We only deal in regulated and registered investment offerings that have gone through proper channels with the SEC, third party assessments, and our own Qualitative and Quantitative analysis before being listed on our platform. We utilize technology that embraces the rules and regulations and programmatically embeds and enforces rules into the assets token and our platform to stay compliant. Further we operate with proper KYC/AML standards for all users participating to keep those issuances safe and the investors safe and comply with regulations all at the same time. We also have accredited investor checks when necessary, as not all offerings are restricted but many will be Open and not requite that specific check for various users. We work with industry leading partners to apply institutional grade technologies to service our offerings. We also partner with specific Broker Dealers and Transfer agents to handle compliant offerings the way regulators require. we just get the huge benefit of adding blockchain to these functions to automate many of the functions where costs typically accrue.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":4,"created_at":"2022-06-15T20:52:27Z"}]},{"id":208094,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208094","question":"How will the tokenized equity work for investors if the company decides to do a traditional IPO?","author_name":"Clifford Butler","votes":5,"created_at":"2022-06-12T17:12:22Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-208094","answers":[{"id":208470,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208470","answer":"This is an exciting time for any investor and any company in this position. Big gains if you got in that early and it goes public id bet. If you happen to invest into a company that is doing well, and in the future they do an IPO and you still hold those shares during and through the IPO, there will be an event where your shares could carry over into the public market. In this event We run a bridge to a public market like the NYSE through a brokerage partner, and we run a parallel market for this asset where the orders can fill from the Acquire app with on-chain transactions, but also settle in that public market with their \"old tech\" lol (this is a future item, but available for us to utilize and deploy within a 30-60 day timeframe of the occurrence ). NOW our main goal is to have markets trading public and private assets that are all tokenized, so we hope that the NYSE and other primary markets adopt blockchain technology as its trading and settlement rails, in turn further enabling the seemless interoperability of our tokenized smart-shares into and out of their systems. I hope this helps with your Question.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":4,"created_at":"2022-06-15T21:00:20Z"}]},{"id":207848,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207848","question":"Hi there. Will you also be launching a token for the platform? If so, what are the utilities for the token?","author_name":"Roni Shah Mustapha","votes":5,"created_at":"2022-06-10T01:32:29Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-207848","answers":[{"id":207929,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207929","answer":"We are a DeFi and Web 3 company, so we will be integrating certain blockchain+token elements however we are not launching an ecosystem token. Here is what we are doing! 1. We are tokenizing our own equity! so when you invest in this campaign we will be delivering securities token representing ownership in our SAFE directly in our upcoming user dashboard at the close of this WeFunder Round! PLUS... 2. We are launching exclusive claimable NFT's to investors at the $500 and $1500 level, these NFTs will get you discounts on trade fees and first looks on investments inside the app along with other community benefits. more on this here in our NFT article https://medium.com/acquire-invest/acquire-nft-access-card-announcement-13fb5a75363b YOU CAN GET MORE THAN ONE OF EACH AS WELL! These NFTs will be claimable in our upcoming user dashboards for each investor at the end of the Wefunder round. 3. Every asset you will have access to invest in within the app will be a tokenized investment offering that exists on the Ethereum blockchain with our own custom ERC1404 standard token. These are our Smart-Shares. 4. We will have a certain SEC registered fund that will provided a trade pair inside of the app when you trade between your various equity investments and either USD or our \"trading pair\" but that's all I can say about this. We aim to have this ready Q3 2023! and for the DeFi guys out there you may know what this could be to some extent.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":5,"created_at":"2022-06-10T18:16:28Z"}]},{"id":207831,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207831","question":"Being both pre-product and pre-revenue, can you explain how you settled on a $15M valuation cap?","author_name":"Kevin Hardman","votes":5,"created_at":"2022-06-09T22:43:37Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-207831","answers":[{"id":207922,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207922","answer":"THE SHORT ANSWER Knowing that we aim to raise 6.5m of SEED capital for growth and ops before our SERIES-A, we determined that our early investors would own roughly 20% +/- of ACQUIRE at that time. Meaning that our valuation going into the SERIES-A should be +/- $32.5m as a SEED company, hypothetically. So we wanted our early investors like you to benefit with a lower valuation cap than our projected valuation at the time of the SERIES-A. Our financial team dug into both mid level and successful companies in our space to verify that this was comparable to the valuation that those competitors or parallel companies have received. The numbers we found showed that we were correct if not a bit conservative. Take a look at the Series A valuations of (Masterworks, Yieldstreet, Robinhood, Coinbase, Opensea, Acorns, Titan invest, Rally Rd, Collectible.com, Fundrise, etc.) All of these companies solved similar problems surrounding access to a product, simplicity and secondary market liquidity. Scroll into our page, we show a chart of competitors and their valuations vs user counts, this helps to illustrate the data we found on other comparable companies in our space and what our potential is in comparison. We are under 2 months from launching our MVP web app, and the beta Mobile app, available only to you as investors, we aim to launch by the end of the year, as long as we get support from each of you. ——————————————— ——————————————— Forgive me as I will do a bit of explaining for those reading this that may not already know; DIFFERENCE WITH VALUATION CAP — VS — VALUATION 1. Put simply, a valuation cap ensures that an investor's contribution to a startup or company via SAFE is converted into equity at a set maximum price so that you pay less for more when new money comes in. It's important to note that this maximum price is limited, hence the valuation cap. This is good. Valuation caps provide investors with an incentive to invest early in promising startups . If , for example , the valuation cap is half the valuation of a startup or company at the time of the next funding round, then the investor will receive twice the amount of equity in return for their investment . A lower valuation cap will provide an investor with a potentially higher equity percentage at the next funding round . A valuation cap also protects investors from disproportionately small equity conversion percentages during subsequent valuation rounds (I.e. dilution protection of a kind). A valuation cap is a derivative of the expectations of a valuation. 2. Valuation is the analytical process of determining the current (or projected) worth of an asset or a company. In general, a company can be valued on its own on an absolute basis, or else on a relative basis compared to other similar companies or assets. An analyst placing a value on a company looks at the business's management, the composition of its capital structure, the prospect of future earnings, and the market value of its assets, market share/size potential, among other metrics. WHY IS THE SAFE GOOD FOR YOU AND OTHER INVESTORS? This Wefunder raise for Acquire is Tranche 1/3 of our SEED round, with this round of capital we aim to accelerate our development, growth, and user count with you as investors and as core users. Your participation shows demand and helps us get to market faster! Having a Pre-Money SAFE with a lower \"valuation cap\" than the companies future valuation can be a great incentive for investors as it operates in a way to reward the early investors and protect the investors from dilution when new money comes in at a higher valuation during the first priced round, like a Series A. (meaning you get a higher ownership percentage) This SERIES-A is where the company gets its first official valuation by an outside firm. So we could be valued at 20m or 100m at SERIES-A... This structure we have chosen is always going to give the investor a better price per share than the new money entering at the SERIES-A (like another large venture group investing 25m of new money). WHY $6.5m of SEED CAPITAL As a company we expect we that $6.5m is the capital we need for the next 18mo to get to our Series A Funds are used in the below 4 macro ways to accelerate ACUIRE’s growth and demand a massive SERIES-A round. 1. Finish the build of the full product (Development, beyond MVP, beyond beta) 2. Launch successfully at scale (Legal, customer support, Marketing) 3. Acquire large user counts (Marketing and Engagement) 4. Launch significant deal volume (Partnerships, Sales, Deal acquisition) 👉#4 always rapidly follows a successful #3 (deals follow, demand, deals follow capital)","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":4,"created_at":"2022-06-10T17:56:52Z"}]},{"id":207648,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207648","question":"How is the current market forecast affecting your 12 - 18 month goals?","author_name":"Jeff Wenzel","votes":5,"created_at":"2022-06-08T14:24:59Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-207648","answers":[{"id":207895,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207895","answer":"Great question, Markets like this are tough for many people, patience for stock market investors is key, but for startups a few things come to mind, and I talk about it a bit in the last podcast appearance I did with ALTS, link at bottom. 1. It offers us an opportunity to build, get our heads down and accelerate internal initiatives because we have less distraction. \"any market winter\" allows companies to build, you may have heard of crypto winter and following it you saw major new products and features being announced by many companies. 2. When the market is down people look for alternatives to rebalance their portfolios, this is where ACQUIRE is positioned, so it helps us with awareness. 3. Operationally, we are focused on efficient use of capital, while attracting new investors like you, This keeps us on track and we need more than just our team to do this. Hope to see you on our cap table! ALTS: Building on the Blockchain, Crypto Law, and DAOs with Brian Harstine and Andrew Hill, Esquire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH7FVTq09xI","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":5,"created_at":"2022-06-10T15:02:18Z"}]},{"id":207943,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207943","question":"Hello, some questions 1. Will SEC have any problem for creating service platform like this one? 2. All other platforms like wefunder, republic, start-engine etc, which already have lot of retail investors, can they also create similar thing quickly and become competition for Acquire? or do you have any plans to merge with them? I think start-engine already have market place to buy/sell. 3. The investment raising on acquire platform will be entirely new investment deals or investment deals from other platforms? 4. In any startup investment, money is tied for many years and investors don't know the fate of the deal. On acquire, how to cash out any investment? Thank you","author_name":"Manoj SONJE","votes":4,"created_at":"2022-06-10T19:04:09Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-207943","answers":[{"id":208539,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:208539","answer":"Hey Manoj! i'm glad you see the industry, and its clear you see some of the industries currentproblems that we are confident we will solve and solve better or more comprehensively than competitors. Before I dive in, we are user obsessed as a company, With you and others like you providing user insights and with your voice as a stakeholder, in Acquire the company, we will shape the app and its features to redefine personal investing. Would love to see you as an investor! 1. for this answer I will refer to an answer I wrote up on June 15th from Krishna Aswani. I cover much of the details regarding this there. 2. The main question I would pose here is; why have they not already? the simple answer is that this is a huge endeavor, an entirely new business with new challenges and it requires a team that is dedicated to the secondary. Not all secondary markets are created equal, we have an internal product build and innovation roadmap specifically for our secondary market and at its core is blockchain. Blockchain is yet another hurdle that competitors need to grasp and build entire teams and focuses around or in the future they end up using third party blockchain providers (potentially us as B2B😉) to attempt to add this feature to their current primary issuance models. Yes start engine has begun a secondary market, it is not a blockchain system, ours will begin with partial blockchain system interactions and finite with and end to end blockchain powered secondary. I encourage investors looking at this to see what is occurring on their secondary market, and again ask why. We believe strongly that this path is the path that changes the market entirely and bridges major financial deals into the space where institutions, funds, accredited investors and retail investors all touch. We expect to see assets from other platforms eventually seek a secondary for their offering. This is a key place for us. Think about the early days of internet video streaming, Netflix was hosting the content from every studio on the planet. Those studios did not want to build the streaming business model due to cost and tech expertise needed, they wanted the additional revenue. Not until streaming was an out of the box solution that was easily built and implemented did those studios enter the picture. I cant speak about any potential merger, or acquisition at this stage. 3. We expect our of the gate to be curating entirely new deals, setting us apart will be deal size and deal type. Here is a good time to remind people of the total market size, in our deck above we showed a total market size of $80T for private and alternatives, the question to ask here is will Acquire capture 1/1000 of this market size or more... this equals $80B. I mentioned above that we do expect other assets from other platforms to emerge on our platform, we likely will see them emerge and join us in the secondary trading market and not as primary issuances unless they are raising new capital in a new round and believe we are a good fit for whatever reason they determine. 4. The core of your question is EXIT strategies. Short answer: sell your shares on the Acquire App's secondary trading market at that asset's current market value. (yes! Acquire itself will be an asset that will be traded on our own platform after our lockup lifts) There are levels to this many of which the issuer of the offering controls, The issuer being say Apple raising funds for a new deal. We focus on assets that seek clear exit strategies and companies that desire a secondary market for their investors like you. This is a part of our selection process during our curation, qualitative and quantitative analysis and listing procedures, that leads us to a unique market of offerings for you the investor. Investors in the Acquire platform may find primary issuances like you see on Wefunder, start engine, etc.. these legally have a certain period of lockup imposed by the filing or the company. On The Acquire App, once this lockup lifts, the secondary market will be available for you to enter or exit at will as long as the market is flowing. Other exit strategies depend on the company itself doing the issuance, in this example there are a few scenarios I can speak to, --maybe Apple decides to sell itself after 3 years, this is the example you gave. --maybe the deal apple offers is a form of hybrid debt with a shorter term on the \"note\" where you the investor get 120% return after 6, 12 or 18mo. --maybe the deal apple offers has terms that dictate a dividend over a set period of time that repays the investment. --maybe the deal apple offers states a partial return in 2 years and a full return with upside in 4. Acquire has the capability to bring diverse deals to our investors. all of these scenarios are term sheets that we will simplify for our users and make available in the app. at our stage we aim to just launch 5 flagship offerings during our beta, then rapidly and aggressively grow assets and users from there.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":4,"created_at":"2022-06-16T14:42:23Z"}]},{"id":207646,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207646","question":"What are your goals around #of accounts, users and AUM in the next 12months?","author_name":"Derek Alonzi","votes":3,"created_at":"2022-06-08T14:20:41Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-207646","answers":[{"id":207650,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207650","answer":"Hey Derek! Regarding users: Some other alternative asset companies like masterworks are operating with less than 200k users after 5 years of operations and valued at $1B. With Acquire based on our current marketing efforts, and where we fit in the market and your portfolio... We expect to see a minimum of 3-5k participants in these public raise rounds like this one here on Wefunder, and these will be our early beta users by the end of the year. We expect to hit 15k early access users by the main apps launch in Q1 of 2023. Following the main app launch our goals are to hit marketing hard and grow to 50k+ users by Q3 2023. as with any marketing, it depends on marketing spend, with this current raise we are allocating a portion to marketing efforts to reach these goals, hop into the raise now! Regarding AUM: Assets Under Management, \u0026gt;\u0026gt; We are not acting as a fund or asset manager, instead we are a marketplace just like Coinbase or NYSE. Bringing asset issuers with great investments into the platform, and tokenize their shares for users to discover, invest and trade. In the Beta launch we will have 5 assets launched over the life of the beta apps duration. These offerings will be raising significant capital, but we cant disclose the offering or raise goals for those issuers yet.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":3,"created_at":"2022-06-08T14:38:32Z"}]},{"id":207625,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207625","question":"Hello! Love the initial look and feel of the app! I have a question though - along with Crypto and other assets, will we also be able to trade NFT's using your app? Is this gonna be like a one-stop-shop for all investments in that case?","author_name":"Prash Poovaiah","votes":3,"created_at":"2022-06-08T06:57:08Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-207625","answers":[{"id":207645,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207645","answer":"Hi Prash, thanks for the question. to clarify our app is offering tokenized securities, real world investments in companies and traditional assets that are now powered by blockchain instead of old financial tech. You can buy these investments with either FIAT cash like USD or with your Crypto in the app. We currently do not have plans to allow crypto to crypto trading within the app. We will be offering crypto to real assets trading. Specifically private placement assets that nearly all retail investors currently do not have access to. Acquire is an app that offers users access to unique and mostly exclusive digitized assets using blockchain tech. It allows for access to assets that would otherwise be inaccessible to the regular investor. The regular investor can invest alongside of wealthy accredited investors who do have access to these and typically have 50% of their portfolios allocated to this asset class?","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":4,"created_at":"2022-06-08T14:18:40Z"}]},{"id":207560,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207560","question":"Hey! Really looking forward to the arrival of the Beta app later this year. How is that process coming along? Are you still on schedule?","author_name":"Doug French","votes":3,"created_at":"2022-06-07T16:57:51Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-207560","answers":[{"id":207595,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:207595","answer":"Hey Doug! Awesome question. Beta development is well underway, we have 2 phases and phase 1 is going to be complete by July 7th then we go into testing on phase 1 and implementation. Our main hurdle to accelerating and finishing phase 2 (beta launch and dev) is completing this fundraise. our team has been shipping code fast over the last few months and its accelerated recently, we just need the funds to keep this pace up! Hop in and join the raise now and the schedule should remain in tact! aiming for the end of this year. REMEMBER our beta will only be open to investors in this round.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":5,"created_at":"2022-06-07T22:14:07Z"}]},{"id":231518,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231518","question":"I'm all in Brian! I make my investment in Acquire in 2 days, and I can't wait!! ..... Hey folks, wanna ride bare back on a future Unicorn??? Then buy shares in Acquire RIGHT NOW. ....... Giddyupppp!!!","author_name":"Tom Wright","votes":2,"created_at":"2023-01-17T21:41:15Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-231518","answers":[]},{"id":231489,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231489","question":"Please look at Blockchain Laboratories(BLab) is a web3 software development company and venture studio. We are developing web3 platforms in multiple verticals with huge Total Addressable Markets. We are bringing to market web3 solutions for the ESG industry, Voluntary Carbon Markets, Real Estate industry, and Advertising at this time, and will look for other opportunities once we capture market share in those markets. Also we white-label and license our web3 Software as a Service (w3SaaS) to others wanting to tokenize assets or Tokenization as a Serve. We have $500k RegCF live now https://netcapital.com/companies/blockchainlaboratories and looking for help to bring in Angel investors to close out the round.......AM AN ADVISOR AND MENTOR TO THE FOUNDER, BOONE BERGSMA.!@#@! ON MENTORITY.NEWCHIP PROGRAM.","author_name":"George Simons","votes":2,"created_at":"2023-01-17T18:23:05Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-231489","answers":[]},{"id":231488,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231488","question":"Acquire Invest is a game changer and am proud to be an investor of Acquire Invest.","author_name":"George Simons","votes":2,"created_at":"2023-01-17T18:19:18Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-231488","answers":[]},{"id":294112,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:294112","question":"If any distribution of profit sharing or income or Payback of some sort to shareholders??? How will the Payback of the loan be made to international non-accredited shareholders as income to our bank accounts or wallets?? As shareholders at least communicate with us on a bi-annually or quarterly basis or wharver is regulated by the SEC. I believe accountability, transparency and responsibility should be held to the standards of any company.","author_name":"George Simons","votes":1,"created_at":"2024-10-14T11:39:25Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-294112","answers":[]},{"id":232132,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:232132","question":"Brian, it's me again this isn't easy for me and this is the first time that I can remember me doing this asking if not requesting that a deadline be pushed back so I can be apart of what I consider a once in a lifetime opportunity called ACQUIREINVEST, I see that the current deadline is tomorrow night 11/25 @ 11:59PM EST unfortunately I won't have the minimum of $300 by then as I stated on 1/13/23 if this deadline could be pushed back one last time to 1/31/23 @11:59 EST I should finally receive some funds that I'm expecting and waiting on by then this would be greatly appreciated. If I didn't strongly fill that great things would happen with ACQUIREINVEST I won't have wasted my time sending you these messages to begin with, very much want to be a part of the family! When you REPLY to this message, if you could do so by including your direct ACQUIREINVEST email address as well as it's office/mailing address I would greatly appreciate it! Looking forward to receiving some good news from you!!!!!","author_name":"Nahiem Hood","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-01-24T20:00:21Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-232132","answers":[{"id":232136,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:232136","answer":"Unfortunately we are now on a deadline as we are moving into another phase of our raise to VCs. thank you for your support and if you miss out we will likely have opportunities for you to become a user in the not so distant future.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-01-24T20:28:13Z"}]},{"id":231861,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231861","question":"Wow, Brian, what a response return on my small question investment! Do I take that as a good sign? :-) Let's see what you'll do with this: I don't see how your numbers match up with the numbers presented on the Overview page. You say here that your TAM is $26-80T*20% = $5.2-16T SAM x 5% = $260-800B SOM, so even at the lower end of that you'd have a valuation of a magnitude greater than the 12x Masterwork's of $1B you imply there. I also don't understand at all how you arrived at that 12x Masterwork's total market size of $350B = $80T, as $350B*12 = $4.2T, and if somehow that $4.2T is the SAM, you're then comparing apples to oranges, Masterwork's TAM to your SAM. And using the above equations for the estimated users or revenues also don't match up to the data in the Investment Landscape. What am I getting wrong here? But getting back to bottom line again, how big are the valuation stars you are realistically shooting for and how far away are they (in earthly years, not light years...)? Thanks","author_name":"Josh S.","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-01-21T16:04:23Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-231861","answers":[{"id":231863,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231863","answer":"I see where you are leading the conversation. Personally I love people that dive deep, and these deeper conversations! That's why my reply is substantial :) Here is an important distinction that must be made when doing the math the way you and I in this conversation have done above. \u0026gt;\u0026gt;The SOM that you have calculated at 260B-800B represents the total asset value (or AUM of our target clients, not applied here is the revenue model) this would be the volume of assets we would be able to service for funds and offering issuers bringing assets into our market to be made available to our end users. this SOM number is not the value of our company. Our companies value and valuation lies in the business/revenue model as it applies to the SOM or total potential assets that we aim to have on the marketplace in 5 to 7 years. if you look at our revenue model slide you will see that we will capture a portion of the SOM with our various services and fee structures. for example trade fees apply to trade volume of the assets represented in the SOM. Ex. Robinhood is primarily trading and management of public assets that globally make up around 44T. I.e. one look at their TAM for potential assets flowing through their marketplace. their SAM is smaller considering they focus on only a portion of public markets available in their app. their SOM would be the portion of those assets that actually flows through the app. I.e. not all trades in that portion of the public market are powered by Robinhood but could be. Robinhood then applies their revenue model to the SAM to show their potential for making money and in turn a valuation is derived from this. The goal is to build a company solving a universal problem in an incredibly large market as illustrated in the market size comparison chart. Our goal in this campaign is not to make promises but to show the market size and potential opportunity. What we will capture TAM SAM SOM is conjecture until we enter the market with the product and operate for at least 1 year. Capturing a small percentage of the over all market would yield an incredibly strong company no matter how you cut it. without getting caught in the specifics surrounding specific goals, It is an incredibly massive market, one that is underserved compared to the public markets, and with our new product announcement we will show how we are bringing this market a new suite of tech to improve it from issuance through lifecycle management, those items affect the ability for private market investments to get to down market and retail participants, which is the problem we solve and ultimate end vision!","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-01-21T16:49:43Z"}]},{"id":231800,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231800","question":"Hi there, I'm not clear. Is your app already up and running? Will it be available on PCs or only on smartphones? In the \"Use of Funds\" section you mention a 15% discount. Was that only for early birds? Do you mean to imply in the paragraph below \"Investment App Landscape\" that you expect your valuation to reach $12B since your total market is 12x that of Masterwork - and that within just a few years, as Masterwork reached their $1B valuation? Is that the Total Addressable Market (TAM) or the Serviceable Obtainable Market (SOM), what you can realistically hope to capture? Thanks","author_name":"Josh S.","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-01-20T20:09:08Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-231800","answers":[{"id":231855,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231855","answer":"Thank you for the time and depth. 1. the app is being built, we are complete with our first product's MVP and we have an announcement regarding this coming up. Regarding the B2B side with out B2B2C product. \u0026gt; The first product is Web based, and will have a companion mobile app later this year. \u0026gt; The B2C app pictured in this Wefunder is going to be mobile only when we launch that product. 2. 15% clarification = The 15% discount refers to two items on our page. \u0026gt; 1st item = NFT access card which at the $500 investment level will unlock a 15% discount on trade fees inside of our apps trading exchange when that is launched. \u0026gt; 2nd item = Investment term sheet, to invest in our company itself (Acquire invest, Inc.) you are putting money into what is known as a SAFE note (simple agreement for future equity) created by the Y-Combinator team and used across tech companies. this investment term sheet contains 2 ways to get a better share price at the conversion event for early investors like those in this round. 15% refers to the discount applied to your shares purchase when they are converted and distributed. this conversion and distribution happens at the first priced round, usually a SERIES-A. please look up SAFE notes on investopedia.com to learn more about their format and calculation method to get investors like you preferable share prices to those in later rounds. 3. This is the competitive landscape for consumer investment apps. the page is not meant to be exhaustive but to illustrate the path most companies with a similar business model take. \u0026gt;We expect a great valuation come our SERIES-A, SERIES-A is normally 18mo after the close of a SEED, we are in a SEED now. To get to a 12B valuation is a challenge, but one we are up for, this depends on many factors and the success rate varies based on a number of both known and unknown factors. Without making any legal statements of claim, we shoot for the stars, I can say that. -- For further context: if you look at Crunchbase.com and search for robin hood for example you will see how many funding rounds they had to raise to achieve their valuation \u0026gt;Timeline is a moving target for startups: roadmaps are a living thing. With the market in an uncertain spot and recession looming, our business will take measures to maintain a lean operational structure and extend our runway as long as possible, we do this for many reasons but mainly to provide our company the best chance to take advantage of market disruptions during a time like this and to raise our next SERIES-A round hopefully in better market conditions where greater valuations are expected. \u0026gt;Market cap is massive - as you mention the chart shows 12x masterworks market. with our B2C app we will only capture a small portion of this market. to your question about TAM, SAM, SOM -- TAM for us can be calculated in many ways depending on what sectors you include in the private market segment, according to our research its lowest calculation is around 26T, highest around 80T. -- SAM for us is focused on financial products that have consumer appeal and a desire to reach new investors outside of the institutionals. we estimate this using the basic 80/20 rule. so take 20% of the TAM to identify the most correlated SAM we can make with the data available in this market, which is not alot due to the private markets being notoriously OPAQUE. -- SOM we expect that we can take strong market share being one of the first movers in this space. to be conservative we estimate SOM to be 5% of the SAM. These estimates are made based on rule of thumb calculations used and taught at Ivy League institutions, as a company we aim to begin to solve the Opaque world of private markets and provide better data to the public on the market as a whole. This is especially true with our B2B2C product announcement coming soon. I hope this helps! if you have more questions toss them at us!","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-01-21T14:14:00Z"}]},{"id":231730,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231730","question":"Good evening. According to your site a 1500.00 dollar investment will get you 25% discount. When I invested 1500.00 dollars it said it would be 15%. Just a little confused. Could you advise me on this?","author_name":"Shawn Alverson","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-01-20T01:24:51Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-231730","answers":[{"id":231738,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231738","answer":"Those are 2 different items 15% is the discount on the share price when issued at the conversion event. Conversion events are defined as our first priced round like a series A. Please look at SAFE note explanations on investopedia to learn more about how a valuation cap and SAFE discount work. 25% is the discount you will enjoy on trading fees inside our our app when you eventually are able to use it to make your own investments and trades using our technology.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-01-20T02:23:53Z"}]},{"id":231235,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231235","question":"Would like to invest in ACQUIRE INVEST but I don't currently have the minimum $300 to invest right now, I'm asking if the deadline to invest could be pushed back until at least 01/31/23 I should have some money by then that would be awesome and great?","author_name":"Nahiem Hood","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-01-13T17:33:13Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-231235","answers":[{"id":231262,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:231262","answer":"it is possible the team may extend the investment period.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":1,"created_at":"2023-01-13T22:43:49Z"}]},{"id":211032,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:211032","question":"Is there a current go-to-market strategy with staggered available alternative assets or will this be rolling out all assets at once? How much do you think your cost-per-member will be to get people to join your platform? I'm a venture scout at a seed/early-stage VC firm and would be very interested in speaking more. Thanks!","author_name":"Ryan Schechter","votes":1,"created_at":"2022-07-08T20:34:32Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-211032","answers":[{"id":211487,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:211487","answer":"Here is the macro view answer for this page: yes we have actually a 3 stage go to market strategy - 1. our Web App goes live in a few weeks, this is primarily a B2B tool for issuers, offerings, Asset managers and funds to utilize, streamlining the investor onboarding and investment collection process using a custom smart contract! This will serve to being in new clients, and in turn new offerings that will appear on the app when launched. 2. Beta launch - this phase will have several assets from #1 and a few new assets featured in the mobile app launch (aimed at late 2022) this will last 3-5 months. During this time we finalize development and testing, while in parallel our sales team interfaces with the next batch of assets for the platform. 3. V1.0 Launch - The complete mobile app will have every available asset from the beta mobile app and those new offerings that were onboarded during the beta operating time window. NOTE: important point here is that we can serve offerings to users in several lifecycle states. A. new offering seeking new capital or B. offerings choosing to open up their shares held by their investors from their last round into a secondary market for users to access if they missed the initial raise. This is our marketing plan CAC expectations for after this raise: CAC expectations scale down over time, especially with our company growing its organic user acquisition channels. We believe our paid channels only, over the first year, true CAC average, will sit initially around 8$/user account creation and $225-300/active invested user. In year 2 these numbers will drop by 20%-40%+ due to established demographics, organic and content driven acquisition methods etc. Our growth leads believe the CAC can be as low as 3$/user account created and $150-225 per active invested user. Regarding a discussion for VC recruiting absolutely, Lets speak on a private zoom. Here is my calendly link for quick meetings https://calendly.com/acquirebrian/15-minute-meeting-clone .","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":1,"created_at":"2022-07-13T15:06:54Z"}]},{"id":209481,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:209481","question":"When does this raise end? I'm considering investing but you haven't even raised 20% of your goal. Have you considered lowering the $500 perk to $300 or lowering your minimum investment?","author_name":"Baron Huntington","votes":1,"created_at":"2022-06-26T14:15:42Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-209481","answers":[{"id":210448,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:210448","answer":"Hey Baron! Cant wait to have you on, 1. regarding lowering the minimum, we chose this number to validate the level of user we expect to have on the platform, $300 is the minimum. 2. Regarding the 1st tier reward $500 is when you unlock the Membership Access Card NFT that comes with 15% discount inside the app plus a variety of other features, this benefit is for users that intend to really participate, or they can sell theirs on Opensea after release to subsidize their investment and give that cards powers to another user that missed this campaign. We expect these cards to gain in value as the platform gains in size and volume! 3. regarding your 20% observation, So we just began the campaign just over 1 month ago, we plan to run it for several more months. given that we started recently, this was surprisingly fast uptick, we started from 0$ and now have 200k in about 30days. Our growth team has been developing the audience from scratch on day 1, this first phase will go on till the end of July. Then we scale this campaign for another month or so based on the info from the first 60 days. It is important to note that this is the first time our company has released anything to the public, which is an exciting time for the team that has been preparing this since mid Q1. Our dev team is now working 4x as fast as Q1, all to get the product ready for a B2B product and subsequent beta phase which will be a few months after the close of this campaign. Hope this answers your questions, We are an open book, and would love to have you join more of these conversations on our channels. Cant wait to see you on the stakeholder cap-table!","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":2,"created_at":"2022-07-05T19:46:45Z"}]},{"id":307617,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:307617","question":"Any update??? It's frustrating that some companies don't seem to keep investors in the loop.","author_name":"Thomas Mueller","votes":0,"created_at":"2025-05-07T04:50:43Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-307617","answers":[{"id":307638,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:307638","answer":"Hi Thomas, thanks for checking in. We have faced significant headwinds during the Biden administration considering the movements of former Chair Gensler. We utilized this time to continue to build, pivot our focus and iterate towards a viable target market. We launched successfully a pilot where our platform was used by an asset manager to unify their operations for 5 assets onboarding and communicating with more than 200 investors and several million in transactions. this was a key milestone to showing the next group of investors live functionality. We are currently coordinating another much larger pilot that features cross boarder investment operations functionality for operators and administrators, this pilot is a key element to locking in follow on capital from strategic partners. Following the success of this pilot and raise we aim to press towards broader commercialization of our platform.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":1,"created_at":"2025-05-07T12:19:31Z"}]},{"id":294113,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:294113","question":"If any distribution of profit sharing or income or Payback of some sort to shareholders??? How will the Payback of the loan be made to international non-accredited shareholders as income to our bank accounts or wallets?? As shareholders at least communicate with us on a bi-annually or quarterly basis or wharver is regulated by the SEC. I believe accountability, transparency and responsibility should be held to the standards of any company.","author_name":"George Simons","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-10-14T11:39:33Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-294113","answers":[{"id":294123,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:294123","answer":"Hi George, good to hear from a supporter of our company! I have made semi regular announcements to the blog portion of this offering. we have updated the participants of the shift in company focus, our product evolution and pointed to our website where we maintain additional updates on our blog. As we are still very very early stage as a company we do not have any realization events to report. When we have a distribution event or an exit we will notify all investors and arrange payments according to their position, location and preference. we have been on a few podcasts over the last year as well talking about the company, the product and our market focus. I am happy to report that we are going into an elevated investment round to raise another batch of capital from affluent investors primarily in the California area over this quarter. this raise is to fund a successful next stage of commercialization. we have proven the product and worked our the \"bugs\" over the later half of this year with our first 5 launched offerings on the INVEST I.Q. platform, these offerings are managed by our client ALTS.CO. ALTS.CO is available to most investors, head over to their community and apply to become a part of their investor community if you would like. Our companies next move is to expand, move up market towards our ICP of middle market and higher operators with more complex compliance requirements, along with fund administrators. the targets will benefit from our platform as we help automate and increase efficiency for their ops across front middle and back office tasks - aligning data and providing a better experience for both sides of a private market investment transaction. Wish us luck and good fortune in this next phase!","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":0,"created_at":"2024-10-14T15:38:31Z"}]},{"id":237102,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:237102","question":"When will the beta app be available?","author_name":"Shawn Alverson","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-03-03T00:06:08Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-237102","answers":[{"id":237556,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:237556","answer":"Thanks for checking in. The Retail app is going to follow the launch of our B2B2C app for fund managers, and asset managers seeking to bring their investments direct to investors like you. We provide the software for them to bring investments to investors. When we launch out first clients on this B2B2C platform we will be notifying all investors in our WEFUNDER of the launch and providing an opportunity to create a web based account for access to these exclusive opportunities powered by Acquire's technology. Following this we will launch a marketplace for investors and the mobile app. Excited to share what the team has been diligently working on over the last 10 months!","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-03-06T18:00:00Z"}]},{"id":232367,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:232367","question":"Is it too late to invest or is there still a way?","author_name":"Micah Matson","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-01-26T15:11:03Z","canonical_url":"https://wefunder.com/acquireinvest#question-232367","answers":[{"id":232369,"entity_id":"wefunder:comment:232369","answer":"Unfortunately yes. We are taking subscription agreements privately starting at a minimum of 50k. This is now the time for vcs to step in.","author_name":"Brian Harstine","votes":0,"created_at":"2023-01-26T15:32:39Z"}]}],"faq":[{"question":"Hey! Really looking forward to the arrival of the Beta app later this year. How is that process coming along? Are you still on schedule?","answer":"Hey Doug! Awesome question. Beta development is well underway, we have 2 phases and phase 1 is going to be complete by July 7th then we go into testing on phase 1 and implementation. Our main hurdle to accelerating and finishing phase 2 (beta launch and dev) is completing this fundraise. our team has been shipping code fast over the last few months and its accelerated recently, we just need the funds to keep this pace up! Hop in and join the raise now and the schedule should remain in tact! a..."},{"question":"Hello! Love the initial look and feel of the app! I have a question though - along with Crypto and other assets, will we also be able to trade NFT's using your app? Is this gonna be like a one-stop-shop for all investments in that case?","answer":"Hi Prash, thanks for the question. to clarify our app is offering tokenized securities, real world investments in companies and traditional assets that are now powered by blockchain instead of old financial tech. You can buy these investments with either FIAT cash like USD or with your Crypto in the app. We currently do not have plans to allow crypto to crypto trading within the app. We will be offering crypto to real assets trading. Specifically private placement assets that nearly all retai..."},{"question":"What are your goals around #of accounts, users and AUM in the next 12months?","answer":"Hey Derek! Regarding users: Some other alternative asset companies like masterworks are operating with less than 200k users after 5 years of operations and valued at $1B. With Acquire based on our current marketing efforts, and where we fit in the market and your portfolio... We expect to see a minimum of 3-5k participants in these public raise rounds like this one here on Wefunder, and these will be our early beta users by the end of the year. We expect to hit 15k early access users by the m..."},{"question":"How is the current market forecast affecting your 12 - 18 month goals?","answer":"Great question, Markets like this are tough for many people, patience for stock market investors is key, but for startups a few things come to mind, and I talk about it a bit in the last podcast appearance I did with ALTS, link at bottom. 1. It offers us an opportunity to build, get our heads down and accelerate internal initiatives because we have less distraction. \"any market winter\" allows companies to build, you may have heard of crypto winter and following it you saw major new products a..."},{"question":"Being both pre-product and pre-revenue, can you explain how you settled on a $15M valuation cap?","answer":"THE SHORT ANSWER Knowing that we aim to raise 6.5m of SEED capital for growth and ops before our SERIES-A, we determined that our early investors would own roughly 20% +/- of ACQUIRE at that time. Meaning that our valuation going into the SERIES-A should be +/- $32.5m as a SEED company, hypothetically. So we wanted our early investors like you to benefit with a lower valuation cap than our projected valuation at the time of the SERIES-A. Our financial team dug into both mid level and successf..."}]}}}