Access vetted deals alongside Professional Investors and Venture Partners

Mass affluent and high-net-worth individuals' allocation to alternative illiquid assets has grown at an 88% rate from 2015 to 2020, with the highest returns achieved by investments in early stage businesses. As a matter of fact, over the past few decades, the average US angel investor’s portfolio pocketed an average annual return of 26%. In 1977, Mike Markkula, a retired executive, financed Apple with $250k. Before Apple went public in 1980, he owned a third of the company. At IPO, in 1980, his initial capital had grown to $203m. Sequoia Capital made a $60m investment in WhatsApp. In 2014, the messaging app was sold to Meta for $19b. At the time of the sale, Sequoia's interest was worth about $3b - fifty times their original investment. 

Kobo Funds offers investors the opportunity to benefit from massive potential gains famously enjoyed by early-stage investors. Over our first 10 years the exits achieved by investors in our decentralised investment banking platform have yielded an IRR of 41% outperforming other asset classes.

Private capital: risk/return by asset class (vintages 2009-2019)

How we do it

At Kobo Funds investors* can write their own success story in high-yield private investments. We offer a new way of accessing companies raising capital, working alongside investment experts with the support of highly experienced Venture Partners, all within the comfort of a streamlined digital investment platform.
(*) qualified as professional investors according to the Directive 2014/65/EU - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”)

Added value

Our proprietary tools screen for opportunities at various stages of the investment cycle. Each offering is managed by highly experienced, industry-savvy, trusted partners and professionals acting as Venture Partners.