Who are we?

Our team is led by Joel Arberman. His background includes being a fixed-income analyst at First Investors Asset Management, an equity-analyst at SunAmerica Asset Management, a partner and top-ranked technology analyst at Yorkton Securities, a large investment banking firm, and founder of Meraki Partners, a public listing advisory firm that helps entrepreneurs take their company public by direct listing, reverse merger and initial public offering. His clients have created more than $10 billion in shareholder value.

Why are we doing this?

We ask ourselves that question pretty frequently. Kidding aside:

First, we've seen a very concerning trend in capital markets. Government regulation has made it relatively easy for entrepreneurs to raise capital from anyone through exempt securities offerings like Regulation CF and Regulation A. Now, anyone with $100 can be an "investor". We've watched billions of dollars flow one-way, from millions of investors to a relatively small number of entrepreneurs. 

With few exceptions, investors never receive any of their money back. Private companies rarely pay dividends, repurchase shares, get acquired or go public. Investors and their capital are permanently stuck until there's a liquidity event. It's an enormous problem for investors, ethical companies and for efficient capital markets.

While most investors focus on their potential return on investment, we are also highly concerned about the prospects for a return of capital. That's why we focus on companies that are going public, are already public, or are offering securities that pay dividends or interest.

Second, we started Growth Backers to help the entrepreneurs and companies our founder represents. As a strategic advisor, he plans and manages the process by which private companies go public and provides strategic advice on how to leverage the benefits of a public listing to scale bigger and faster. Growth Backers profiles some of his clients to increase their exposure to investors like you. Of course, we will fully disclose any financial consideration or other relationship we have with a company or entrepreneur we profile.

Lastly, we do offer paid plans for those who want more information than offered under our standard free plan.

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