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Early Investing’s mission is to help its readers find the most promising investment opportunities outside the stock market. Our research is focused on two areas in particular: private startups and cryptocurrencies. We provide both educational material and recommendations on specific investments. With more than 140,000 readers and 40,000 subscribers, Early Investing is a leading destination for guidance in the alternative investment space.

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Angel Insider: KingsCrowd Capital Fund Investment Opportunity

Today we have a fund investment opportunity that we’re very excited about. It comes from KingsCrowd, the parent company of Early Investing. The KingsCrowd Capital Fund I is a basket of 100 early-stage startups. And even better — the fund is data-driven. KingsCrowd gathers more than 300 real-time data points on every available investment deal and uses that data to determine benchmarks for success and…

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Startup Insider: The Evolution of Crowdfunding

By Early Investing on May 16, 2022

Break out the cake and champagne — it’s Regulation Crowdfunding’s sixth anniversary! On May 16, 2016, Regulation Crowdfunding — or Reg CF — went into effect and allowed startups to offer and sell securities through crowdfunding. Reg CF was first made possible by the JOBS Act,…
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Crypto Monitor: Crypto Investing When There’s Blood in the Streets

By Early Investing on May 13, 2022

The crypto markets are a bloodbath right now. Bitcoin crashed around 22% over the last week, dipping down to $26,638 on Thursday. And the crypto markets as a whole lost more than 16% of their overall capitalization overnight.  Investors…
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Startup Insider: Winc Explores Sake, Non-Alcoholic Wines and More

By Early Investing on May 9, 2022

The wine market was worth $64 billion in 2021 — and that’s just in the U.S. Yet this gargantuan industry has been sorely lacking in innovation. Until Winc came along, that is. Winc is a wine club…
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Crypto Insider: A Closer Look at Our Ethereum Competitor Recommendation

By Early Investing on May 2, 2022

Ethereum is a crucial network within the crypto ecosystem. It’s the backbone for much of the decentralized finance world. It’s by far the most popular network for decentralized apps. And most NFTs — which reached a trading volume of more than $17 billion last year — trade on…
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Behind the Pick: Our Take on a Unique Interoperability Coin

By Early Investing on April 29, 2022

Today we’re presenting Behind the Pick, a special edition of Crypto Monitor.  Last Friday, we recommended a new crypto to Crypto Asset Strategies subscribers: Stargate Finance. It’s an interoperability coin created by LayerZero, a startup backed by…
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Startup Insider: Exploring Equity Crowdfunding’s Explosive Growth

By Early Investing on April 25, 2022

Our friends at KingsCrowd have been tracking online startup investing since 2018. They gather data on deal volume, industry growth, investor check sizes, founder demographics and everything in between. So we were excited to learn about their…
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Crypto Insider: The NFT Bubble Is Not a Death Knell

By Early Investing on April 18, 2022

What’s one word that will spook any investor in any market? Bubble. The word tends to stir up painful memories of the dot-com boom and bust of the late ‘90s, the financial crisis of 2008… and now, the NFT market. The NFT…
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Crypto Monitor: The Critical Role of Interoperability Chains

By Early Investing on April 15, 2022

Various crypto networks have made money transfers and transaction verification fast and efficient. But there are still limitations on how different networks can communicate with each other. Ethereum and Ripple, for example, can’t exchange data.  That’s where interoperability chains come in. Interoperability chains allow for data…
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Angel Insider: SEC Proposes SPAC Rule Changes

By Early Investing on April 12, 2022

SPACs (special purpose acquisition companies) soared in popularity last year. In 2021, the market saw a record 613 SPAC ICOs.  The popularity of these “blank check companies” is unsurprising. Going public via IPO is a complicated and expensive process.
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Startup Insider: What Instacart’s Valuation Trim Means for the Startup Market

By Early Investing on April 11, 2022

Instacart got a haircut. The company sliced its valuation by nearly 40% from $39 billion to $24 billion — despite the fact that it saw 30% year-over-year growth last year. And Instacart is not the only high-tech company trimming its valuation. So what’s going on?…
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Crypto Insider: Vitalik Buterin Is Concerned About Crypto’s Future

By Early Investing on April 4, 2022

Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum, is worried about the future of crypto. In an interview with Time magazine, he said he was concerned about the dangers to overeager investors, high transaction fees and the exorbitant displays of wealth that have come to be synonymous…
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Crypto Monitor: Goldman Sachs Makes First OTC Crypto Trade

By Early Investing on April 1, 2022

Last week, Goldman Sachs made crypto history. The bank completed its first over-the-counter crypto trade with crypto firm Galaxy Digital.  Goldman executed the transaction in the form of a bitcoin non-deliverable option (NDO). Goldman and Galaxy – which have an ongoing partnership – seem pleased with…
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Angel Insider: VCs Are Missing Out on Female Founders

By Early Investing on March 29, 2022

Historically speaking, funding for female founders has been pretty paltry in the venture capital (VC) world. From 2011 to 2020, the amount of VC money going to female-only-founded startups never went above $4 billion. In 2020 — despite U.S. startups raising a record $143 billion — funding to…
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Startup Insider: Data Takes Over

By Early Investing on March 28, 2022

In 2011, Marc Andreessen — co-founder of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — proclaimed that “software is eating the world.” It’s been a mantra of tech investors ever since. But today an even more powerful force is overtaking software: data. Data is a gold mine for…
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Crypto Insider: Microsoft Invests in Ethereum

By Early Investing on March 21, 2022

Microsoft is officially paying attention to the crypto space. The tech giant backed a recent $450 million funding round for ConsenSys, a blockchain startup founded by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin. ConsenSys develops software that runs on the Ethereum network. And its valuation jumped to $7 billion with this…