Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets

Today, we have a unique episode on Alt Goes Mainstream. We have our first episode with a founder and their lead investor from their Series B.  We have the founder of leading alts fund investment platform, Moonfare , and their Series B lead investor, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures , on the podcast to talk about why both of them believe in the future of retail distribution in alts and the...

Today we have a guest who is an expert from both the traditional financial services world and the crypto world, which has equipped him with the ability to bridge the two worlds and build onramps into the crypteconomy. Tom Jessop , who heads Fidelity Digital Assets , is an expert in market structure, capital markets, and crypto. There are few who have seen as much as him when it comes to the evolut...

Today we have a guest who is transforming the private debt markets. Nelson Chu is the Founder & CEO of Percent (formerly known as Cadence), a leading digital securitization and investment platform for private credit. Nelson has built a marketplace to revolutionize private credit by leveraging technology and data to enable efficient price discovery and funding for originators so they can lower...

Today we have a founder who is creating a modern insurance provider for the collectibles industry that was made for collectors, by collectors. Calvin Bradley is the Founder of WAX, a digital insurance company for collectors to protect the value of their collections by making collecting safer, easier, and more community-oriented. Calvin and I had a fascinating conversation about how the modern worl...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who may be young in age, but has already done more and lived through more than many people twice his age. Anthony Zhang recently turned 26 but has already successfully built and sold two companies, secured funding from Mark Cuban, and received a Thiel Fellowship grant before starting Vinovest , his third company, which is making it easier to...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have one of the OGs of the crowdfunding space on to talk about how he’s built platforms that have evolved in tandem with the alts ecosystem. Slava Rubin is the founder of both Indiegogo , one of the first crowdfunding platforms, and Vincent , a platform that is making discovery and alternative investments easier for investors. He is also the founder of h...

Today we have a special episode of Alt Goes Mainstream – the co-founders of Rally on to discuss how people can now invest into defining cultural moments and assets that are aligned with their passions. Chris Bruno and Rob Petrozzo grew up together – and they have combined their respective talents to form what has become one of the symbols for the financialization of all sorts of assets. Rally, whi...

Today, we have an expert in lending and capital markets on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast to discuss how his company, Pipe , is building a new asset class. Michal Cieplinski is the Chief Business Officer for Pipe, a fast growing fintech company.   Pipe has seen a rapid rise over the past year. They are one of the fastest fintech companies to reach a $2 billion valuation – and it’s in large part b...

Today, we have our first LatAm guest on the AGM podcast. And it was a special one. Bitso, LatAm’s leading crypto exchange, is fresh off of raising a $250M round led by Tiger Global months after raising a $62M round led by QED and Kaszek - and has been minted as one of LatAm’s newest unicorns. We had Bitso’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Vogel on to talk about what it has been like to build a leading F...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a domain expert in the world of VC – and someone who has been a visionary when it has come to one of the biggest movements in VC over the past 8 years: emerging managers. Samir Kaji , the Founder & CEO of Allocate , is a well-respected industry leader in the VC world. He has spent over 20 years partnering with VCs at First Republic Bank and Sili...

Today we have a guest who is bringing farmland investing to the masses.  After working for one of Canada’s largest pension plans, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and running Operations and as the CFO at a platform for buying and selling produce, Artem Milinchuk founded FarmTogether to bring an asset that has largely been the domain of institutional investors to individuals.  Artem and I had a fasc...

Today we have one of the pioneers of the European tech ecosystem on to discuss how the European early-stage VC landscape has changed since its early days – and how their fund, Passion Capital, has unlocked access to investors with their latest fundraise . Eileen Burbidge , a Founding Partner of Passion Capital , and I had a fascinating conversation about all things VC , opening up access to the as...

Today we have a special guest who is one of the foremost leaders in the alternatives industry. Bill Kelly is the CEO of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), the leading global educational and professional credentialing body dedicated to delivering greater knowledge and alignment for investors in the alternative investments space. Bill and I had a fascinating conversatio...

Today, we have a special guest who is changing the mechanics of private company stock ownership and investing for the better for employees, companies, and investors alike. Kelly Rodriques is the CEO of Forge , the leading private company stock exchange and investment platform. On today’s podcast, Kelly and I discuss: How private markets are the new public markets. How companies like Forge are unlo...

We had a special live episode of Alt Goes Mainstream this past Wednesday on $COIN Day to celebrate a landmark moment in the crypto industry that has, in many respects, signified the mainstreaming of crypto - the Coinbase IPO. Adam Draper , the Co-Founder & MD at Boost VC , was one of the first investors in Coinbase’s Seed round in 2012.  He joined the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast to discuss wha...

Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have Matt Hougan , the Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise Asset Management and one of the leaders in the crypto industry.  On today's podcast, we talk about: * Matt's views on crypto. * How Bitwise is bringing crypto to the wealth advisory community. * How crypto's evolution is similar to that of the ETF market. * How community has played such a big rol...

Today, we have a special guest from an industry leader in the wealth management space.  Ed Swenson is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the wealth management space. Ed is the Co-Founder and COO of Dynasty Financial Partners , a leading RIA technology services platform. Ed and I had a really interesting discussion about the future of the wealth management industry – and how alts will play...

Today, we have a guest who's democratizing access to private investing. Ken Nguyen is the co-founder and CEO of Republic , a multi-asset investment platform for private markets. Ken is a pioneer in the private markets investing world and a serial operator who knows how to build businesses. He's helped grow Republic to hundreds of millions of dollars in gross transaction volume over the past three...

Today we have a guest who is building the infrastructure for a new asset class – sports cards. Leore Avidar is a visionary founder who is building a ground-breaking company, Alt , which is backed by Alexis Ohanian and Seven Seven Six , as well as First Round Capital , Addition , SV Angel , Box Group , and Kevin Durant ’s Thirty Five Ventures . Alt is on its way to changing how we think about inves...

I’m thrilled to kick off the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast with a special guest - one of the leaders in the alts industry, Lawrence Calcano of iCapital Network . Lawrence has built iCapital into one of the category defining companies in the alts space. They have democratized access to high quality alternative investment products for the wealth management industry. Lawrence and the iCapital team have...

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