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The Firm That Says It Only Gets Paid When You Do
A Saint Paul private equity shop is betting that warehouses, refrigerated trucks and neighborhood restaurants - not startups - are where patient money still compounds. Its promise to investors is a structure where the firm wins only when they do.
Masterworks
Masterworks is a New York fintech that lets everyday investors buy fractional shares in multimillion-dollar blue-chip paintings by artists such as Basquiat, Picasso, Warhol and Banksy. Founded in 2017 by serial entrepreneur Scott Lynn, the company buys individual artworks, registers each as a public offering with the SEC, and sells shares for as little as $20, then holds the work for several years before selling it and distributing proceeds. It reached unicorn status in 2021 after a $110M Series A and has grown to more than one million members.
Plotify
Plotify is a New York-based wealthtech, proptech and fintech company that lets sophisticated and high-net-worth investors around the world buy, finance and manage income-generating residential rental homes in the US and UK through a single app. Its signature 'Plot' - a single tenanted property held in its own single-owner LLC/SPV - bundles underwriting, optional point-of-purchase financing, property management, tenant management, insurance, tax and accounting into a tradable unit, compressing a single-family-rental purchase from an industry-average 52 days to about 10 minutes.
Tickeron
Tickeron is an AI-driven financial marketplace that packages quantitative research into automated trading tools for retail and professional investors. Founded by PhD mathematicians, it builds pattern-recognition engines, trend-prediction models, and a growing fleet of AI trading robots powered by its proprietary Financial Learning Models (FLMs). The pitch: compress thousands of hours of investment research into minutes, and let non-experts trade on statistical probabilities instead of gut feel.
Equi
Equi is part hedge fund, part technology platform - an alternative investment manager that gives high-net-worth individuals, wealth advisors and family offices access to the kind of uncorrelated, absolute-return strategies that were historically reserved for institutions and billionaires. Founded in 2020 by Tory Reiss, Itay Vinik and Jeremy Smith, the company pairs Wall Street investing expertise with Silicon Valley software, screening thousands of private funds to build diversified portfolios designed to perform across market cycles. Equi reached roughly $100M in assets under management within its first year and has raised about $25M in venture funding.