Comments on: GrowVC - community angel investing

By: Viswanath

Viswanath — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:55:54 +0000

Would this investment will be governed by SEBI or any other regulatory body.
Whether units will be allotted or in other words, whether the functions will be akin to the operations of Mutual Fund. How to redeem the investment.

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Growvc – 2.0 funding community | Venturebin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:13:26 +0000

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By: Jouko Ahvenainen

Jouko Ahvenainen — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:13:43 +0000

Thank you for all comments. I’m Grow VC’s cofounder, and I can tell, India is one of the key markets for us. We have cooperation there, e.g. one of our advisors. I also would like to emphasize that our model is very new, and different from angel networks. We are totally global and it is transparent model for both directions, to investors and startups. Startups must also have opportunity to search and compare investors globally. And we all know that new solutions for seed funding are really needed. You can start investments with USD20 that has important value, when people can also practice startup investments with small money.

Our plan is also to “open” our platform, so that local or some niche communities can also start to run their own funding network on our platform. Members can belong to a local community, and then also upgrade to the global one if they want. If you interested in this option, please contact us.

I also plan to visit India in near future and hopefully meet a lot of entrepreneur and investor communities. This is something we must do together, to get this startup funding work better!

By: Alok Mittal

Alok Mittal — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:29:10 +0000

Rehan - I believe the meeting aspect is there but outside the scope of the site.

By: Praneet

Praneet — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:35:42 +0000

Spandana…Kiva is the model for loans..

By: Rehan yar Khan

Rehan yar Khan — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:56:11 +0000

I’m not sure how it’ll do, does one fund startups without meeting the team?

By: Rantej Singh

Rantej Singh — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:30:36 +0000

A similar model is run by Helyos Partners (http://www.helyospartners.com/ ) in Europe. They have offices in Geneva, Madrid and Luxembourg and they work closely with European centers of innovation, like Lausanne based EPFL. They started as a regular set of Business Angels and evolved into exactly the above mentioned structure by late 2008. It may be interesting to talk to them to understand their experiences, and to explore cooperation opportunities. Anyone interested in talking to them can get in touch with one of the three founding Partners - Emmanuel Fournier, or can contact me for personal introduction with him.

By: Venu

Venu — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:54:49 +0000

It remains to be seen how this will evolve…Looks like they have to do a lot of number crunching to arrive at how the returns will be split if and when the returns do come out positively….

By: Praneet

Praneet — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:16:29 +0000

Implementation needed in India…who will bell the cat?

By: Spandana

Spandana — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:19:41 +0000

That is a very good idea - except I’d prefer the money raised to be a loan versus stake as there will be a lot of them.On the other hand, isn’t this like issuing stocks of your company.All in all, a great idea