Robinhood Plans To Launch a Startups Fund Open To All Retail Investors (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/09/15/2159203/robinhood-plans-to-launch-a-startups-fund-open-to-all-retail-investors
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/robinhood-plans-to-launch-a-startups-fund-open-to-all-retail-investors/
> While the current version of the [3]application is public , Robinhood hasn't filled in the fine-print yet. This means we don't know how many shares it plans to sell, nor other details like the management fee it plans to charge. It's also unclear which startups it hopes this fund will eventually hold. The paperwork says it "expects" to invest in aerospace and defense, AI, fintech, robotics as well as software for consumers and enterprises.
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> Robinhood's big pitch is that retail investors are being left out of the gains that are amassed by startup investors like VCs. That's true to an extent. "Accredited investors" -- or those with a net worth large enough to handle riskier investments -- already have a variety of ways of buying equity in startups, such as with venture firms like OurCrowd. Retail investors that are not rich enough to be accredited have more limited options. There are funds similar to what Robinhood has proposed, including Cathy Wood's ARK Venture Fund, a mutual fund which holds stakes in companies like Anthropic, Databricks, OpenAI, SpaceX, and others. [...] This new closed-end "Ventures Fund I" is a more classic, mutual fund-style, approach. As to when Robinhood's new fund will be available we don't know that either yet.
[1] https://newsroom.aboutrobinhood.com/introducing-robinhood-ventures/
[2] https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/robinhood-plans-to-launch-a-startups-fund-open-to-all-retail-investors/
[3] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2085091/000208509125000009/robinhoodventuresfundi-nx2.htm
This is great news (Score:3)
Now idiots who don't know any better can lose money even faster!
Venture capitalists can afford to lose lots and lots of money and make it all back on one big hit. Small retail investors can't do that.
Furthermore small retail investors generally aren't sophisticated enough to tell the difference between scam artists and actual businesses. Hell we just had a run of Chinese scam artists covered by the greatest rap channel on YouTube. One of them managed to pump their value up 60,000% before cashing out with everybody's money.
Once again this is a chesterton's fence moment. Don't take down the fence if you don't know why it was put up.
But with the current administration Jesus fucking Christ it's open season. If you're a scam artist it's like shooting fish in a barrel. As long as you keep a few million around for a pardon and make sure you do your crimes in a red state so there's a governor to bribe on the top of the president you are probably okay.
Politics poisoned your mind (Score:2)
> But with the current administration Jesus fucking Christ it's open season. If you're a scam artist it's like shooting fish in a barrel. As long as you keep a few million around for a pardon and make sure you do your crimes in a red state so there's a governor to bribe on the top of the president you are probably okay.
What any of this has to do with the current administration?
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They have basically gutted the SEC and virtually all regulation enforcement.
Remember it doesn't matter if something is a crime if there's nobody enforcing the law.
Instead of going after a scam artists JD Vance and Donald Trump are now openly attacking left wing organizations full force of the Department of justice. Their words not mine.
Under those circumstances scam artists know they can get away with all sorts of crap.
If you have elderly relatives get ready to have them moving in with you
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The lottery and sports book are so much better.
Just in time after DT closed suit against RHood (Score:2)
Over the early first three weeks of DT 2nd term, the SEC closed or paused a series of investigations into crypto firms, starting with a request for a legal pause in its suit against Binance, the worlds largest cryptocurrency exchange.
In a court filing, the regulatory agency said a new crypto task force, launched by acting Chair Mark Uyeda, may impact and facilitate the potential resolution of the Binance case, which originally accused the exchange of engaging in a web of deception.
And over the first wee
Robinhood that banned WallStreetBets (Score:2)
Robinhood is only there to help you lose money. If its Wallstreet backers get squeezed, like with the Gamestop short squeeze, they will suspend your trades and ban your account. No reason to expect they will be any different in this.
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Totally. Let me know when GameStop gets in on the game. I'm still HODLing fast.