Newchip - Find Investments You Believe In That's All on One Platform

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The 411: Investment Opportunity - Place Deals in One Place for Investors to Compare Investments and to Help People Invest More, and Invest, Intelligently

Found on: https://wefunder.com/newchip

INVEST IN NEWCHIP

Helping everyday investors find and compare investments online

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Our goal is to be the NASDAQ for the alternative investment market. We help people find and invest in companies they believe in. The passing of the JOBS Act in 2012 granted everyday people the ability to invest in startups, pre-IPO companies, real estate, and securitized tokens. But it also created a fragmented market, making it it difficult to discover, connect, and manage a portfolio. We simplify the investment process using machine learning and help investors track their investments online.

Ryan Rafols

FOUNDER & CEO, NEWCHIP

OUR AMBITION

We believe that in order for this new market to thrive, there needs to be an integrated and transparent marketplace to give people complete control over their investments. We're building a new central hub for investing in startups, real estate, and securitized tokens.

We want to become the one-stop-shop for investing online!

INVEST IN THE FUTURE OF FINANCE

Newchip is a new type of financial technology (FinTech) company built from the ground up to be owned by the people it brings the most value to, it's own users. You can get in on the ground floor of a pre-IPO FinTech company that is going to revolutionize how people find and make investments online.

In 2016, the JOBS Act made it legal for everyday Americans to invest alongside accredited investors. Two years later, the market is growing rapidly. Close to $100M has been invested through Regulation Crowdfunding and the number of successful offerings increased 202% in 2017. 

The problem is that the current market is fragmented across 50+ platforms around the nation. 

This fragmentation makes it difficult for investors to find and compare deals. Additionally, customer acquisition cost is a challenge for Regulation Crowdfunding platforms. At Newchip, we shrink that fragmentation one investment at a time to help investors find and invest in companies they believe in, while also helping platforms connect to investors. 

Newchip Pulls Together a Fragmented Market

Our vision is to bring together the entire market through data and transparency to build a virtual market hub. We want to help investors make informed and educated decisions with their hard earned money. 

As an aggregator marketplace, we make it easy to search, explore and compare investment deals from a wide variety of investment platforms through our simple and easy to use interface.          

Our long-term goal is to build an exchange that would become the underlying infrastructure for investors to trade upon between our partner network, much like NASDAQ or NYSE are for the traditional markets.

We truly believe and our vision is to make Main Street the new Wall Street and make venture and startup investing affordable and available to everyone.

Letter From Our CEO

           

Our CEO speaking at the North American Regulators Conference

Dear Investors,

Newchip simplifies investing online. We have a rapidly growing user base and revenue, and most importantly, we’re helping new investors and entrepreneurs every day. The reason we are raising with Wefunder is to give our own users and people who see our vision the opportunity to join our community - to be a part of the team here at Newchip. We want you to become a part of this, a part of our journey, because at Newchip, we are changing the future of investing.

Our team has the background to make this dream a reality and with your help, we bel we can become bigger than Robinhood, bigger than E*Trade, and bigger than the NASDAQ. Traditional finance and the wealth of the world is held and controlled by a select few. Our vision is a world where everyone has a stake in their futures, our dollar is our vote, and the best companies, entrepreneurs, and those that truly give back to their investors win.

I'll be available 24/7 to answer all your questions below in the comment section! Together lets can change the world $100 at a time!

Sincerely,

WF: Who are you and what is your company all about? 

RAFOLS: My name is Ryan Rafols and I'm the founder and CEO of Newchip. I’m an army veteran, electrical engineer, and founder of three startups, one of which was acquired. I’ve spent the last ten years building and leading internationally diverse teams in the public and private sectors and have an extensive background in fundraising, corporate boards, and lobbying.

Newchip is building a new NASDAQ for investments in startups, pre-IPO companies, real estate, security tokens, and blockchain technologies. We’re an aggregator marketplace where you can find and compare investment deals from platforms around the nation. Our goal is to help educate and connect investors to investments based on their interest and preferences.

Our vision is to eventually build an exchange platform and we see ourselves as a software and service provider within the entire industry. We envision Newchip as the underlying network between platforms for investors to invest and trade on.

Newchip is an opportunity to bring together the entire market from a data and transparency perspective so that investors can make informed and educated investment decisions.

It will be the destination for investors across the ecosystem to connect with all of the flow and find investments that are most appealing to them as quickly and efficiently as possible.

WF: What's new about what you're making? How is it different? 

RAFOLS: There are a lot of platforms out there -- if you've invested on more than one, you know how hard it is to keep up with all of your investments.

We make it simple for you to find investments you believe in across our platform network. After you've invested, our goal is to make tracking and managing your investments simple.

What differentiates us is our vision is to eventually build a new NASDAQ like exchange for private equity, fully integrate in with our partner network, and as the industry grows and regulation changes- help create liquidity for investors around the globe.

WF: What about this idea appealed to you? 

RAFOLS: I've always been an entrepreneur. In fact, I've been a crowdfunder for over 10 years and I've always wanted to own a piece of the companies I backed. 

After about five or six years in, I realized that I really wasn't investing. I felt like I was an investor, but companies weren't delivering, there was no ROI, and no accountability. For example, I backed Occulus Rift and then it sold for $2B and I didn’t get a cent. 

So when a friend shared a business article on crowd-investing a few years back, I knew I want to be a part of this industry. I knew I wanted to build a new market. I was taking a break from politics to build schools and volunteer teach in China at the time, but I found myself jumping on a plane and moving back to Austin a few days later.

I had this realization that this is what I want to do with my life. I came home, sold my sports car, my house, sold everything, and put my all into this company. I even lived in the office for the first couple of months. I AirBnB-ed my apartment just to pay the rent and we did whatever it took to get off the ground.

When I met Travis, he'd been doing crowdfunding for as long as me, if not longer. We realized what we needed to do was create an aggregator model. If we put as many deals in one place as possible and made it easy to show and compare investments, people would invest more and do so intelligently. We compared it to Trivago, Priceline, and Hotels.com and it made sense.

Our goal was to save on the margins platforms spend on diligence, on-boarding, and all the man hours and work that goes into getting deals listed. As engineers we wanted to automate and streamline everything. 

We believed that if we automated enough, that we could build our platform just around marketing the deals online and connecting investors to platform partners. 

That's how Newchip was born.

We didn't even dream about the exchange at first, it was something our users said they wanted and we're listening. 

It's a tough thing building a new market. I talked to different platforms, and a lot of CEOs were nervous. I thought to myself no matter how many users we have in the future, it's gonna be hard to build an exchange because we need access to other users. You need a mass traction volume of users and interoperability between different platforms. 

But the NASDAQ didn't start off as a monopoly and thats where we learned. There was a lot of regional exchanges, kind of like where we are with crowdfunding right now with different platforms. 

So we believe that if we can create an underlying technical exchange infrastructure, we can enable everyone to work together to build this market, and we'll all be successful.