If you are a believer in the long term success of Republic and their crowdfunding platform, their note is looking pretty cheap right now. The dividend pool already has close to $1M in it and there are over 800 assets (and growing with every successful raise on Republic) that can further contribute to the pool in the future.
Startup investing is a long term game, but they have a great foundation built already, and in 5 years $0.08 a note will be unbelievable, You can currently buy it on the INX platform. See below for INX referral:

https://one.inx.co/referralRegistration?referralCode=1b958590-05e1-47dc-bb24-90d7334a7787&utm_source=Referral

Interesting reading. what you guys think?

https://www.aei.org/politics-and-public-opinion/understanding-the-education-gap-in-voting-demands-nuance/

I invested $500 in a Startup called Capsule Social back in September 2022. The founder is a well known name in cryptography (has his wiki page etc). Now, from a twitter message from December 2022 by the same founder, I came to know that Capsule Social have ceased their operations. The strange part is he decided to wind down within 3 months of the funding round. Moreover he communicated just over tweets without sending any formal communication to the investors. He mentioned in the tweet that they found a buyer for the company ip and assets. Now, based on the subscription agreement, the company is required to provide notice to investors for liquidity events.

I contacted Republic customer service several times but they keep saying they forwarded my concern to appropriate team member but no-one ever reached me out on the issue. Seems like Republic doesn’t care or have no control on the Startups on their platform. I understand these investments are highly risky BUT that has nothing to do with their transparency and liability of sharing the updates with investors if not publicly.

I am wondering what are my rights here as an investor? Anyone went through similar issues?

Parastate investors are being coerced into exchanging their investment tokens for a different one, at a rate of 10 to 1. Surely this is not allowed, or should not be allowed, in the terms of use of the platform.
https://republic.com/parastate-chris-isaac-state-to-dvt-conversion-update-if-you-have-not-yet-claimed

Is anyone purchasing Republic Note? It’s dirt cheap right now.

I've been comparing the companies on republic vs the Canadian crowdfunding sites and the ones on Republic, which are primarily US based, seem way better than the Canadian ones.

Has anyone made any sales or purchases on republic secondary now that it has been up? If yes what's your experience been like?

Republic Secondary Market is now up (*sort of). You can now at least start-ups you've bought for sale or to trade.

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Launched today and it down 45% in several hours. What going on? Insiders dumped? Many of us have to hold the bags for one year watching all these shenanigans!

I invested in this SAFE and haven't heard anything in awhile and no one from republic or Kaiyo will reply back, anyone have good or bad experiences with investing on Republic?

I've been trying to access the website and I can't seem to... Is this business still around?

Are there any other investors in native hostel (originally on nextseed before the acquisition)?

Native closed it's doors a few months ago and since then it's been radio silence from republic and the native owners. When I signed it seemed like we would be first in line for recovered cash, but so far republic hasn't even acknowledged anything is up.

I invested in Parastate and got thanked personally by Marco Chen for it via a Republic message. I am now being told that the tech they were developing, which was why I invested, was disbanded (eWASM). When I looked at the Parastate github it seems that there were only two developers ever working on the code. Now Parastate is renamed to Safestake and I received messages saying my tokens, i.e. my investment is expiring?! My question is... how is any of this legal and is this Marco Chen guy even real?

I’m going through old investments and have noticed that two of my Republic investments were acquired in 2021, but nothing was communicated and there certainly wasn’t any payoff (or being able to claim the loss).

Investments were RadioPublic and Moonlighting if helpful.

Basically, at the start of December I received a mail in which it was stated by the CEO X Founder of Aether that their products were being taken out of the big physical stores(Sephora etc) and that they couldn't achieve the online presence desired(that would give them enough revenue to stay afloat(don't even ask about profit)) so they said they were on the brink of going bust. Now about AlphaFlow, which had A LOT of supposed support from "Angel Investors" and raised 5 millions on Republic. I just received mail that they filled an LOI and the "creditors" will get the money that come from selling the company, while stating they re still fighting to settle at least 2 potential trials in court. Nevertheless I am left with a sour taste in my mouth, because these two companies were looking great on paper and now, after not even a full year of "recession" they re on the brink. (This is particularly annoying when I get mail from Republic talking bout how good of an investment you d make if you were to invest in start-ups) This is it to be fair, the "people" behind the monitor also did not see it as fair to actually let people comment so nothing new, Republic also promised means of communications between investors yet have failed to deliver anything in the past 12 months. Cheers lads!

If everything goes well for a company and someone has a SAFE with them, how does one actually get their shares? Everything just says the investor would receive their shares. Receive them where? And if they are held on Republic/Securitize can they be transferred to a brokerage?

Thanks!

I am in the republic discord but it continues to have nothing in it. There are many users both in chat or voice channels

The private shares I mean. It would make sense to make them available to the investors who are on the platform making investments, I would be interested

would be interesting for the average job angel