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We are at the dawn of an exciting time in the alternative asset space.

There will be companies that come to define this space and help usher alternative assets into the mainstream investing world.

This post maps out the alt assets space as we know it today. It defines what makes the potential Index Companies different and valuable, takes a look at who can be the potential Index Companies in this nascent space.

Alexis Ohanian is a long-time champion of creators and community. Michael Sidgmore is a long-time believer in democratizing access to financial services. We are living in unprecedented times. The way of working is being redefined. The meaning of money is being reshaped. Investing has become more social than ever and more mainstream than ever. People want to invest in culture. And the most powerful cultures are defined by a strong, engaged community.

There are two things that are foundational to the human experience. One is capital and the other is community. Many of the most interesting opportunities of the future are a result of the merging of culture x finance, a collision of Community x Capital. Alexis and Michael are excited to share their thoughts on this topic because they believe that the next decade will be defined by Community x Capital.

Alt, who just announced their $31 million fundraise today, Alt, is on a mission to bring transparency and liquidity to the sports card asset class, enables investors to learn and discover asset values of cards, track the value, invest into, and store their card assets, is the Coinbase of the Card Economy. Alt is the gateway for individuals and institutions to access cards as an investable asset class. Investors can research, buy/sell, and store their cards.

We are surprisingly bad at planning for the deaths of ourselves and our loved ones. And we often put off planning for the inevitable until it’s too late.

Farewill has brought dealing with death into the modern age with an end-to-end process, and they’ve done so in a way that allows people to confront death in a way that positively impacts them and their loved ones, both emotionally and financially.

The car you’re driving, the phone you’re using, the clothes you’re wearing were, at one point, most likely transported by a maritime container and shipped across the ocean so that a company could sell those goods to a consumer. Shipping is the engine that powers global trade and an increasingly globalized economy.

Nowports, a digital freight forwarder based in Monterrey, Mexico, is on a mission to revolutionize international logistics from factory to showroom — and every point along the journey.

A changing workforce needs a different structure for workers. With 81% of American households subject to falling or flat incomes from 2005–2014 and increasing cost of living, many Americans have needed to work multiple jobs to make ends meet.

That’s why Sean Engelking, Adam Pruden, and Christoph Oberhofer decided to team up to build Starship, a health savings account that is purpose-built for the future of work. as we aim to build a savings account with superpowers so that no American is left out in the cold when it comes to saving for healthcare and retirement.

Ride hailing apps like Uber, Lyft, and Didi Chuxing have unlocked an economic opportunity with the push of a button on a smartphone. In countries like Brazil, participation in the ride hailing economy is hindered by the fact that only 20% of Brazil's population owns a car. Kovi, a managed car rental marketplace for on-demand drivers, helps solve for the lack of car ownership and unlock economic opportunity for a large pool of potential drivers who otherwise would not be able to participate in the gig economy.

Fundraising is possibly one of the hardest things that an entrepreneur has to do. It’s also one of the most important.

This Medium post will be the first of a three-part series that will cover questions that entrepreneurs can ask their prospective VCs about their funds, how they think about board dynamics, and how they add value post-investment.

With a $41tn wealth transfer from baby boomers to millennials comes hope for a shift towards addressing the world's biggest problems.

In the first of a new series in the Guardian about millennials and sustainable finance, Michael Sidgmore talks profit with purpose.

Peer-to-peer marketplaces have leveraged what venture capitalist Bill Gurley calls the "connective tissue of the internet" to bring us closer together. Some of today's marketplace businesses are now multi-billion dollar enterprises toppling the traditional incumbents in their respective industries.

While much has been discussed about why and how marketplace businesses are great business models, what is less often discussed is how marketplace business models can help solve some of the world's biggest problems.