Direct's team sources, screens, and performs due diligence on every deal, and negotiates the terms. Direct's network, built through 20+ years of relationships and spanning many industries, brings in deal flow and lends its expertise where members' judgment adds the most.
In the early 2000s, financial institutions and advisors offered accredited investors no real access to direct angel investing.
Individuals faced flawed structures and little portfolio strategy.
Without diversified, screened opportunities, individual returns suffer.
Geographic and sector limits reduce the opportunities seen by investors
Opportunities arrive from members, other investors, and Direct's own network, built through 20+ years of relationships.
Direct screens the deal flow.
Direct and industry veterans evaluate the strongest deals.
Direct's investment committee leads the diligence, drawing on the industry expertise of members across the network.
Direct negotiates and accepts the investment structure. Direct invests in the opportunity with its own capital.
Direct prepares an investment memorandum and shares it with members.
The company’s founders and executive team presents to members, live, for co-investment.
Each member decides whether, and how much, to invest.
Direct invests in national and global opportunities across all industries and sectors, in a mix of early-, mid-, and late-stage companies.
See the process at work in the next live deal.