Mara’s Co-Founder Sasha Batica recently held a live webinar with legendary venture capital investor Dr Cornelius Boersch, to talk about his latest venture fund. During the webinar we discussed: Conny has given us access to his fund for a minimum ticket of $5,000, compared to the usual minimum $1,000,000 required to access.
It’s a buyer’s market right now
As one of our fund managers told us last week, “it’s a buyer’s market right now”… Things may seem scary with the recent stock market tumbles and economic concerns, but past fund performance data shows that funds investing through periods of distress are the best performing. Data from Cambridge Associates’ global benchmarks for private equity […]
Inflation is driving investors into private equity and venture capital
The highest inflation in 30 years is driving investors out of cash, fixed income, and passive equity in favour of Alternative Investments, specifically Private Equity and Venture Capital. Source: Barclays Strategic Consulting Survey results We highlighted in a previous blog post that Private market funds that invest through periods of distress and dislocation perform the […]
Venture backed companies outperform Crowdfunded companies
Crowdfunding platforms are the easiest way to access startup investment opportunities for investors. However, the data shows that companies receiving crowdfunding massively underperform companies that received venture funding. Venture backed companies experienced an Exit for their investors 4x more than crowdfunding companies and were nearly half as likely to have Died. There are a number […]
Who are the institutional investors we keep talking about?
We talk a lot about institutional investors on this platform, but who are they? They are pension funds, insurance companies, state owned investment vehicles (Sovereign Wealth Funds), university endowments, and charities. 99% of the $1.1 trillion assets currently managed by private markets fund managers comes from investors like these. Our vision at Mara is to […]
Venture backed companies outperform Crowdfunded companies
Crowdfunding platforms are the easiest way to access startup investment opportunities for investors. However, the data shows that companies receiving crowdfunding massively underperform companies that received venture funding. Venture backed companies experienced an Exit for their investors 4x more than crowdfunding companies and were nearly half as likely to have Died. There are a number […]
Mara meets Velocity Ventures
Mara’s Co-Founder Sasha Batica recently held a live webinar with Velocity Ventures Managing Partner Nicholas Cocks and the founder of one of their portfolio companies (Hyper) Yariv Reches. During the webinar we discussed: We were privileged to be able to give our clients access to this fund for much lower than the fund’s usual minimum […]







