Hypervestor is a platform for accredited investors to invest early (pre-IPO, and often as early as the Seed stage) into some of the world's most dynamic startup companies.
Any accredited investor is eligible to invest in Hypervestor deals. We perform strict upfront verification of every investor's accreditation status.
The minimum varies by opportunity, and will be stated on the deal page for each opportunity.
But in general, we try to keep the minimums fairly low (usually only a few thousand US dollars) – since our aim is to expand accredited investor access to the best early-stage startups on the planet.
Hypervestor aggregates all investor commitments on a given deal into a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that then invests the combined amount into the startup.
Individual investors receive partial stakes in the Hypervestor SPV.
The SPV, in turn, receives whatever form of stake is being offered by the startup's funding round (generally either equity, or a convertible holding such as a SAFE or note).
Hypervestor will oversee the SPV until the startup has a liquidity event (usually either an acquisition, IPO, or winddown, with or without partial return of capital). At that time, any capital distributions will be distributed to the investors who participated in the SPV.
Venture investing is characterized by exceptionally long holding periods.
With the world's most successful startups often waiting a decade or more to go public, investors should be prepared to wait at least this long before they can reasonably expect to get any money back.
Unlike venture capital funds, which typically start by skimming 20% of your invested amount right off the top as a management fee, regardless of eventual investment performance: Hypervestor does not charge any management fees.
We collect a nominal deal setup fee that's passed on in full to our SPV administrator, to cover their costs of administration (compliance, tax filings etc.) over the lifetime of the investment.
Besides collecting this small deal setup fee on behalf of our SPV provider: Hypervestor only charges carried interest (i.e. a share of whatever future profits we generate for investors, after they've received all of their initial capital back). The exact carried interest level will be displayed on a given opportunity's deal page.
The sole way Hypervestor ever makes any money is through profit-sharing – i.e. by first ensuring that we've delivered a profitable return to our investors.
Investors are not permitted to sell or transfer their stake in an SPV, outside of serious life events such as death or divorce.
Absolutely not.
Investing of any kind involves risk – and the early-stage startups showcased on Hypervestor are speculative ventures that could easily lose all of your money. Invest entirely at your own risk & discretion.
Hypervestor's aim is to offer a menu of the world's best startup investment opportunities available to accredited investors. However, it's up to you as the investor to select the subset of deals in which you have enough conviction to commit your own capital.
Venture investing is extremely speculative and risky; the most likely outcome of any given deal is a total loss of all capital invested.
Investors are urged to invest only amounts that they can afford to lose – and to spread their venture investing budget across at least 40 to 50 deals, to increase the chances of hitting at least one very large breakout success that may make up for their losses onmost or all of all their other deals.
This ultra-diversified portfolio approach is employed by venture capital firms who manage money professionally for wealthy institutions. Hypervestor users are urged to embrace the same policy: invest small amounts apiece, into many dozens of startups.
Yes, and we comply with all legal requirements.
Yes, we employ a range of security measures & encryption to protect your security & privacy.
Hypervestor has partnered with third-party verification service VerifyInvestor for initial verification of an investor's accreditation.
Hypervestor has partnered with Sydecar to administer deal SPVs.
Our SPV partner provides a dashboard where you can manage your investor account and your individual investments.
It's up to a startup's founders to decide how often (if at all) they release updates to investors. When updates are available, Hypervestor may, at its discretion, choose to circulate those updates to investors.
In practice, however: between initial investment and exit event, the most important feedback on whether your investment is performing well will be public announcements about the company's follow-on funding rounds – ideally at successively higher valuations.
For assistance with initial verification of accreditation, contact:
support@verifyinvestor.com
For assistance with the Hypervestor website, contact:
info@hypervestor.com
For assistance with your investor account or a particular investment, contact:
operations@sydecar.io
To join Hypervestor as an accredited investor, complete our application form.
Once our verification partner has verified your accreditation status, you will be invited to participate in current & future Hypervestor deals.
