Grow VC Group is a leading crowd investing group that operates marketplaces for crowd and peer-to-peer (P2P) funding of companies and assets. Jouko Ahvenainen of Grow VC Group gave a presentation at CrowdConf 2013 in San Francisco on their models and infrastructure for effective crowd and P2P investing marketplaces that connect companies/assets with investors and resources. Their goal is to innovate investing and build the #1 crowd investing and P2P ecosystem globally.

1. Grow VC Group
www.growvc.com
@growvc
Innovating Investing
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Models and assets for crowd and p2p investing
CrowdConf 2013 – Mission Bay Conference Center, San Francisco
October 22, 2013 - Jouko Ahvenainen
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2. The first and leading crowd investing group in the world ++
Finance and Services
Infrastructure
Investment Portfolio
London - New York - San Francisco - Hong Kong - Sao Paolo
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3. Go back to the idea of stock market ++
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4. Effective market places ++
Companies /
Assets
Market Places
Investors / resources
Crowd
funding 1
P2P
Lending
Market
Place
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5. Get it work with the existing models ++
1. Funding
round or loan
application
• A company opens a funding round or apply a
loan
2. Crowd
funding or
p2p lending
• Crowd, i.e. ordinary people, can offer
an investment or loan, and if enough
money available, the company gets
money
3. Coinvestment or
co-lending
• A bank or investment
company can join to a deal,
i.e. make co-investment or
participate the loan
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6. Current status ++
JOBS Act, regulation
• Title II:
– Non-solicitation ban lifted
on September 23, 2013
– Market places for all kind
of assets
– Accredited investors
– Broker Dealer license
• Title III:
– Startup crowdfunding (<
1M investments)
– SEC draft for comments on
October 23
– Also non-accreted
investors with limits
– Lighter licensing and
registration for platforms
Current Global Status:
http://www.crowdvalley.com/blog/
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7. #1 crowd investing and p2p ecosystem ++
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8. Innovating
Investing
Jouko Ahvenainen
jouko@growvc.com
+1 646 363 6664 (US)
+44 7889 833 165 (UK)
Grow VC Group ++
www.growvc.com ++
@growvc ++
Slideshare: Grow VC