Direct did not start as a platform. It started as an idea that opportunities to invest in venture capital can be provided to accredited investors, on a deal by deal basis, with the same terms as a professional investor.
Tuff Yen invests his own capital alongside founders, as a principal, and invents the angel model that Direct is built on.
Tuff invents a way to pool capital from other investors while keeping principal-first economics: Group invests first, members co-invest alongside.
$230M+ deployed, with 400+ investors in 135+ cities and 6 countries.
Including 30.8x on Life360, 17.3x on Aarki, 13.4x on Silver Tail, 8.2x on Neurotic Media, and 7.2x on Noctrix.
The same principal-first model, opened to accredited investors, wealth managers, and angel-group operators through a private platform.
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