Our Mission

We’re Breaking Into the Smoke-Filled Room

Who’s Coming With Us?

The past few years have triggered a revolution in how regular people can invest. And we’re not talking about the stock market, or even crypto. In fact, the impact of recent legal and regulatory changes is so dramatic, so sweeping, that it’s still being sorted out in real time by some of the sharpest financial engineers on the Street.

For nearly 100 years, regular investors in America were locked out of the biggest and best opportunities: private deals. Unavailable on the stock market, these investments were reserved—by law—for the wealthy few such as hedge fund managers and other Wall Street fat cats. And while these deals were riskier, the rewards for those who had a piece of them were potentially much greater as well. Meanwhile back in the “real world” of the public markets, unless people happened to stumble into the next Amazon or Nvidia early, most have been happy to eke out a ~6% return, and be thankful for the privilege.

But amazingly, in the 2010s, the government actually identified a problem and solved it, passing the JOBS (or “Jumpstart Our Business Startups”) Act into law. The JOBS Act introduced “equity crowdfunding”, or the idea that—for the first time in generations—regular people could once again invest in early-stage companies that weren’t listed on a stock exchange, and the possibility that comes with it of earning many times their original investment.

Since then, we’ve seen an explosion of private startups using crowdfunding, several different ways for them to do it, funding portals, broker-dealers, specialty exchanges for buying and selling, and other specialized tech to power the whole system. The two most prominent crowdfunding platforms featured a combined 850 offerings in 2023, and they only amount to around 60% of the industry.

And it doesn’t stop at startups. The “tokenization” of assets now means that you can even buy partial ownership rights in all kinds of things, from real estate, to race horses, to barrels of whiskey, to luxury sports cars, to collectible sports memorabilia, to rare comic books, to the outcome of gigantic lawsuits, and even the future revenue streams of pro athletes. And if those assets rise in value, you get to come along for the ride.

If this seems like a lot to take in, that’s because it is.

But Disruptor Nation is here to make sense of it all. We cover the entire
equity crowdfunding space, including the hottest deals, the most fascinating
founders, the latest trends, and data, interviews and perspectives you won’t
find anywhere else.

So sign up with your email below, and join Disruptor Nation as we break down the doors to the smoke-filled room, and give the power back to the people.