For Investors
As one of the first ‘angel investors,’ Mr. Spencer Trask backed Thomas Edison a century ago to create the first electrical network. Since that time, Spencer Trask & Co. has supported and financed startups that enabled genomics research, stem cell research, the growth of the internet, improvement in healthcare and the adoption of open innovation, to name a few.
Today, through the Spencer Trask Value Creation Network, we connect ideas, people and capital to create and grow a new generation of companies that will impact how we live and work for years to come.
How You Can Get Involved
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Our Investment Approach: Using the Value Creation Network
High-return, early-stage companies can play an important role in the investment portfolio of most sophisticated high net-worth investors. Our objective is to maximize absolute returns over a long-term investment horizon while simultaneously reducing the overall risk of this asset class in the portfolio.
We use the Spencer Trask Value Creation Network to achieve these investment objectives.
- Access to early-stage deals. Spencer Trask offers its clients “ground floor” access to a wide range of exciting opportunities. Carefully screened Series A, B and C offerings with a commitment of long-term support are difficult, if not impossible, to find for most investors.
- A disciplined screening process. Each venture opportunity passes rigorous initial evaluation hurdles. Only after meeting the screening criteria and careful due diligence do we introduce companies to our clients for consideration.
- Value creation process. Our value creation process identifies gaps and fills them through the Value Creation Network and by leveraging internet-based crowdsourced solutions.
- Investor participation. Some investors choose to remain passive investors while others become actively involved in the company and leverage professional experience as advisor, board members or executive team members.
- Open and transparent information access. We ensure timely information about both new opportunities and current investments. This transparency is key to leveraging the strengths of our Value Creation Network, both pre- and post-funding of the company.
- Deal-by-deal investments. The Spencer Trask investment model offers clients the opportunity to select and invest directly in individual companies based their interest and risk preference.
By joining a network of successful executives, thought leaders, entrepreneurs and fellow investors, Members of the Spencer Trask Value Creation Network become part of an elite group of passionate, intelligent and imaginative individuals searching for both superior returns and a chance to create a company that will have a meaningful impact on the world.
