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Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment IndustryMichael Sidgmore – Alternatives Go MainstreamMichael Sidgmore is the Co-Founder of Broadhaven Ventures and the creator of the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, which explores the intersection of private markets, technology, and wealth management. His career spans early roles at Goldman Sachs and iCapital, experience building businesses in fintech and asset management, and investing across the private market ecosystem. Our conversation offers an in-depth introduction to the intersection of private markets and private wealth. We discuss the origins of Alt Goes Mainstream, the rapid evolution of private markets, the convergence of institutional and wealth channels, and the rise of evergreen structures and...2025-05-0551 min
Alt Goes Mainstream🎙Ritholtz Wealth Management's Ben Carlson - bringing a wealth of common sense to asset allocationWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today’s show features a guest who brings a wealth of common sense to wealth management and asset allocation.We talk with Ben Carlson, the Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, a $5B AUM wealth management firm. He’s managed institutional portfolios for his entire career. He started out with an institutional investment consulting firm, where he deployed portfolio strategies and created investment plans for foundations, endowments, pensions, hospitals, insurance companies, and HNW individuals. More recently, he was part of the portfolio management team for...2024-10-3152 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsRitholtz Wealth Management's Ben Carlson - bringing a wealth of common sense to asset allocationWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today’s show features a guest who brings a wealth of common sense to wealth management and asset allocation.We talk with Ben Carlson, the Director of Institutional Asset Management at Ritholtz Wealth Management, a $5B AUM wealth management firm. He’s managed institutional portfolios for his entire career. He started out with an institutional investment consulting firm, where he deployed portfolio strategies and created investment plans for foundations, endowments, pensions, hospitals, insurance companies, and HNW individuals. More recently, he was part of the portfolio management team for...2024-10-3052 min
Alt Goes Mainstream🎙T. Rowe Price's Cheri Belski - how a $1.59T asset manager is approaching private markets: AGM x Pangea Private Markets Live PodcastWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Recently, AGM partnered with Pangea to bring together a group of executives in private markets and wealth management in London for a live AGM podcast featuring Cheri Belski of T. Rowe Price, one of the largest asset managers in the world with over $1.59T AUM. Cheri is the Global Head of Product at T. Rowe Price, where she's responsible for setting the vision for T. Rowe Price's product development and their strategy in private markets. Cheri also chairs the Product Strategy Committee and is a m...2024-09-1026 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsT. Rowe Price's Cheri Belski - how a $1.59T asset manager is approaching private markets: AGM x Pangea Private Markets Live PodcastWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Recently, AGM partnered with Pangea to bring together a group of executives in private markets and wealth management in London for a live AGM podcast featuring Cheri Belski of T. Rowe Price, one of the largest asset managers in the world with over $1.59T AUM. Cheri is the Global Head of Product at T. Rowe Price, where she's responsible for setting the vision for T. Rowe Price's product development and their strategy in private markets. Cheri also chairs the Product Strategy Committee and is a me...2024-09-1026 min
Alt Goes Mainstream[Repost] 🎙Animal Spirits: Alt Goes Mainstream with Michael SidgmoreI went into The Compound and came out alive.Recently, I joined Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management on their Animal Spirits podcast by The Compound. It is a fantastic show that produces frank and thoughtful conversations on markets and the wealth management world. They invited me on their show to discuss why alts are going mainstream.We had a great conversation on the animal spirits of alts and we unpacked the opportunities and challenges ahead for private markets, wealth managers, and the alternative asset managers looking to work with the wealth...2024-08-2851 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private Markets[Repost] Animal Spirits: Alt Goes Mainstream with Michael SidgmoreI went into The Compound and came out alive.Recently, I joined Michael Batnick and Ben Carlson of Ritholtz Wealth Management on their Animal Spirits podcast by The Compound. It is a fantastic show that produces frank and thoughtful conversations on markets and the wealth management world. They invited me on their show to discuss why alts are going mainstream.We had a great conversation on the animal spirits of alts and we unpacked the opportunities and challenges ahead for private markets, wealth managers, and the alternative asset managers looking to work with the wealth...2024-08-2851 min
Animal Spirits PodcastTalk Your Book: Alt Goes Mainstream with Michael SidgmoreOn today's show, we are joined by Michael Sidgmore, Partner and Co-Founder of Broadhaven Ventures to discuss all things Alternatives, how that world has changed in recent years, why financial advisors in the RIA channel is such a big opportunity for alternative investments, and much more!Find complete show notes on our blogs...Ben Carlson’s A Wealth of Common SenseMichael Batnick’s The Irrelevant InvestorFeel free to shoot us an email at animalspirits@thecompoundnews.com with any feedback, questions, recommendations, or ideas for future topics of c...2024-08-2451 min
Alt Goes Mainstream🎙Ritholtz Wealth Management's Michael Batnick - real talk on private marketsWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.On today’s show, we turned the tables. We welcomed famed podcast co-host of Animal Spirits and The Compound and Friends and writer at The Irrelevant Investor, and Managing Partner and Director of Research at $4B AUM Ritholtz Wealth Management Michael Batnick to come on the show to share a wealth manager’s perspective on private markets.Michael’s career has taken a number of fascinating turns. He started selling insurance, before a chance meeting on the platform of the subway station with Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth...2024-06-121h 06
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsRitholtz Wealth Management's Michael Batnick - real talk on private marketsWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.On today’s show, we turned the tables. We welcomed famed podcast co-host of Animal Spirits and The Compound and Friends and writer at The Irrelevant Investor, and Managing Partner and Director of Research at $4B AUM Ritholtz Wealth Management Michael Batnick to come on the show to share a wealth manager’s perspective on private markets.Michael’s career has taken a number of fascinating turns. He started selling insurance, before a chance meeting on the platform of the subway station with Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth...2024-06-121h 06
Alt Goes Mainstream🎙Yieldstreet's Michael Weisz on unlocking access to alternativesWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today’s episode is with a fintech founder who has scaled one of the larger private markets investing platforms for individual investors.Michael Weisz is the Founder and CEO of Yieldstreet, a leading private markets investing platform, with more than 450K members and $3.9B invested (as of October 2023). An award-winning entrepreneur, he co-founded Yieldstreet in 2015 with the ambition to provide individual investors with access to curated private market assets typically reserved for institutions. As CEO, Michael leads Yieldstreet’s strategic vision to make alternatives a fund...2024-04-2558 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsYieldstreet's Michael Weisz on unlocking access to alternativesWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today’s episode is with a fintech founder who has scaled one of the larger private markets investing platforms for individual investors.Michael Weisz is the Founder and CEO of Yieldstreet, a leading private markets investing platform, with more than 450K members and $3.9B invested (as of October 2023). An award-winning entrepreneur, he co-founded Yieldstreet in 2015 with the ambition to provide individual investors with access to curated private market assets typically reserved for institutions. As CEO, Michael leads Yieldstreet’s strategic vision to make alternatives a funda...2024-04-2558 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsMonthly Alts Pulse Ep. 6: Taking the pulse of private markets with Lawrence Calcano, Chairman & CEO of iCapitalWelcome to the 6th episode of a collaboration between iCapital x Alt Goes Mainstream.Here’s the latest episode of the Monthly Alts Pulse, a live conversation in studio with Lawrence Calcano, the Chairman & CEO of iCapital, who as the leader of a platform that is responsible for the majority of individual and advisor-led investment flows into the alts space, has his finger on the pulse of what’s happening in private markets.On this episode, Lawrence and I had a fun and lively discussion. We covered:Will private equity save the day?Why the...2024-01-1022 min
EUVCEUVC #227 Marc Penkala, āltitude & Michael Sidgmore, BroadhavenThis episode is a first of its kind, ‘cos we sat down one of the managers we’ve decided to back here at eu.vc for a pitch session with one of our good friends in the LP ecosystem. So in this episode, you’ll hear two voices from each side of the table: that of Marc Penkala founding GP of Altitude, a 70 M€ early stage fund to close the European SME gap, and Michael Sidgmore, Partner and co-founder of Broadhaven Ventures, a US-based global early-stage financial technology investor that invests principal capital into fintech companies, VC funds, and incubates asset ma...2023-10-0253 min
Private CapitalMichael Sidgmore - Alts Going MainstreamMichael Sidgmore is a co-founder and partner at Broadhaven Ventures, which is part of Broadhaven Capital Partners. Michael is a leading expert in the alternatives going mainstream movement in fintech and was an early employee at iCapital. He was an early investor in Carta, MoneyLion, Republic, Nowports, Pipe, and Allocate, among many others. He was educated at Middlebury and the London School of Economics and started his career working on the Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments team. I was looking forward to talking to Michael about the great interest in fintech platforms providing more access to alternative investments to RIAs...2023-03-2753 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsHow the digitization of fund accounting will take alts into the mainstream with LemonEdge CEO & Co-Founder Gareth HewittWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.On today’s podcast, we have an expert in alternative assets and fund accounting. We welcome Gareth Hewitt, a fund accounting veteran and co-founder of LemonEdge, to the show.Gareth is the CEO and Co-Founder of LemonEdge, where they are building a better, more efficient fund accounting software platform.With backing from Blackstone, Lauren Iaslovits, the founder of pioneering fund accounting software Investran (acq by SunGard), Sidekick Partners, and others deep in the PE and alts world, Gareth has been building a next generation fu...2023-03-1541 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsRevolutionizing Fundraising for Fund Managers with Michel Geolier of BetterfrontWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.Today’s episode of Alt Goes Mainstream features someone who is building a vertical SaaS solution for fund managers and LPs.Today’s guest is Michel Geolier, the Co-Founder and CEO of Betterfront, a b2b vertical SaaS company dedicated to private markets. He’s building a comprehensive solution to enable fund managers to more efficiently and effectively fundraise trade secondary market fund interests.Betterfront’s mission is to transform the way alternative fund managers engage, win, and retain investor by using technology, data, and analytic...2023-03-0141 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsWelcome to Wrexham: A Hollywood Story of Football (Soccer) Success with Shaun Harvey, Advisor to the Board at Wrexham AFCWelcome back to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast and Welcome to Wrexham.On today’s show, we go to Wrexham, the town in North Wales that has become a football (soccer) mecca due to a blend of its rich history as home to the 3rd oldest club in the world and a recent injection of Hollywood with Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney buying the club.We talk with Shaun Harvey, the Advisor to the Board at Wrexham AFC, and a highly experienced football club and league CEO to discuss how teams can have success on an...2023-02-141h 01
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsFundrise Co-Founder & CEO and online investment pioneer Ben Miller on using data to transform alternative investing for everyoneOn the latest episode of Alt Goes Mainstream, we talk with one of the pioneers of the online investment space.Today’s guest is Ben Miller, the Co-Founder and CEO of Fundrise, America’s largest direct-to-investor alternatives investment manager.Ben has tremendous experience and expertise in both the real estate space and in building innovative alternative investment technology solutions. Prior to founding Fundrise, Ben was a Managing Partner of WestMill Capital Partners and President of Western Development Corporation, where he was responsible for acquiring, developing, and financing more than $500M worth of property.In F...2023-02-0946 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsUnlocking Private Company Liquidity & Standardizing private markets with Semper Co-Founder Mathias PastorWe have an exciting episode today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast.We are joined by Mathias Pastor, the Co-Founder of Semper, a London and Paris based company that uses liquidity to align the interests of private companies, employees and investors.Mathias and his co-founder Balthazar de Lavergne created Semper after observing that private companies are staying private longer and employees and founders need ways to unlock liquidity in a systematic, recurring way. Working at The Family, a European VC fund, Mathias saw that employees at some of their largest and fastest growing companies were...2023-01-1950 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsCarta CEO Henry Ward on the Ownership Era and what it means for the future of private marketsWe have a special episode today on Alt Goes Mainstream. Our guest today is Henry Ward, the CEO and co-founder of Carta, one of the most innovative and exciting companies in private markets.Henry founded Carta from the kernel of an idea and they are now trusted by over 30,000 companies, 5,000 investment funds and 2.1 million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions and more. They’ve raised over $1B from the likes of Silver Lake, Union Square Ventures, a16z, Tribe Capital, Meritech, and many others.Carta has been included on...2022-12-2054 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsLevent Altunel & Enrico Ohnemuller, Co-Founders of Bunch, on creating the operating system for private market investorsWe believe that good things come in bunches. On the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we’ve covered a number of innovative ways in which more investors are now able to access alternative investments thanks to innovation in infrastructure that pools investors together.Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we are lucky enough to peer into a market that’s creating a bunch of excitement: the early stage venture market in Europe.Levent Altunel and Enrico Ohnemuller are a big part of making alts go mainstream in Europe with their company, Bunch.In Bunc...2022-12-1249 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsJenny Johnson, CEO of Franklin Templeton, on how to build and maintain a $1.5T global investment firm across multiple decadesToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the third podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world.We are partnering with CAIA, the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client centered outcomes for the Portfolio of the Future.We are lucky enough to have Jenny Johnson, the CEO of Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest asset managers with over $1.5T AU...2022-11-1649 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsMichelle Seitz, former CEO of $1.2T AUA Russell Investments and Founder & CEO of MeydenVest Partners, on the continuing evolution of the asset management industry: A special podcast series with CAIAToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the second podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world.We are partnering with CAIA, the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client centered outcomes for the Portfolio of the Future.We are lucky enough to have Michelle Seitz, a stalwart and veteran of the asset management industry who is the Founder and CEO of MeydenVest...2022-11-0453 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsLuke Ellis, CEO of Man Group, on how a $142B investment manager creates client-centered outcomes: A special podcast series with CAIAToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have the first podcast in a special three part series with some of the titans in the alts world on how they’ve built and run some of the world’s largest asset managers.We have partnered with CAIA, the leading global professional body in alternative investment credentialing programs, for a very special episode that dovetails with the release of their latest report on Renewed Professionalism and creating client-centered outcomes for the Portfolio of the Future.We are lucky enough to have Luke Ellis, the CEO of Man...2022-10-061h 07
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsiCapital CEO Lawrence Calcano & SIMON CEO Jason Broder on iCapital's landmark acquisition of SIMON and why they want to build a one-stop shop for altsToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast, we have two guests who have built alts behemoths: the CEOs of iCapital, Lawrence Calcano, and SIMON, Jason Broder. iCapital and Simon recently completed a landmark transaction in the alts space, with the joining together of two of the largest digital platforms that enable advisors and individuals to invest into private markets through iCapital’s acquisition of SIMON. iCapital has built the leading platform to drive efficiency and alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries. They had grown to over $138B in platform assets before acquiring SIMO...2022-09-2254 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsHightower's Robert Picard on how a $117B wealth management platform approaches alternative investmentsToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has rich experience in the alts space.Robert Picard, who was recently tapped to become the Head of Alternatives at Hightower, a $117B AUM wealth management platform, has over 32 years of experience on the buy and sell side in alts.Robert came onto the podcast to discuss how he’s witnessed alts evolve over the past 30 years. He’s worked with top-tier asset managers, built private wealth units for banks, and is now building out Hightower’s expansive alts capabilities in-house to provide bespok...2022-09-0254 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsManhattan West's CEO and Founding Principal Lorenzo Esparza on how alternative investing can transform wealth managementToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a fascinating episode with a wealth management veteran who has transformed his firm into a full fledged asset manager with significant private markets capabilities.Lorenzo Esparza is the CEO and Founding Principal at Manhattan West where he leveraged his legal, corporate, and financial experience to form the modern version of an investment firm.Lorenzo and I had a fascinating conversation that spanned the evolution of wealth management, how advisors are approaching the alts space, how platforms and tech is democratizing access to alts, and Manhattan West’s...2022-08-0933 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsBuilding a Bridge to a Decentralized World & Web3: Insights from CoinList CEO Graham JenkinToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has seen virtually every evolution of the internet and financial services since the 1990s.Graham Jenkin is the co-founder and CEO of CoinList, the leading token issuance platform in the crypto space that has helped a large number of the top crypto projects by market cap get their earliest funding and customers with an initial token sale on CoinList.CoinList has played a critical role in the crypto ecosystem for early-stage token projects from doing token issuances for Flow to Solana to Mina...2022-07-2148 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsGlobal Founders Capital Partner Don Stalter on the evolution of technology innovation, venture capital, and cryptoToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who has seen the alts and crypto worlds from multiple angles.Don Stalter is a Partner at Global Founders Capital (GFC) where he focuses primarily on the US early stage venture market. He has a deep operating background as a founder and operator at some of tech’s leading marketplaces.He co-founded CityDeal, which was acquired by Groupon. He then built Groupon’s international offices in Europe and Asia.He subsequently led BD at Airbnb globally and launched multiple offices organically and thro...2022-07-0639 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Rise of Latin America's Startup Ecosystem: Investments, Building Infrastructure, and Accelerating Growth with Brian Requarth, Co-founder of LatitudHi from Mexico City. Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream Podcast we travel to one of the most exciting regions in the startup world – Latin America, which has seen venture backed funding dollars of $14.8B flowing into the region in 2021 come in higher than the prior 6 years combined.Brian Requarth comes onto the podcast to talk about building the company that he wish he had when he was an entrepreneur in Latin America.He’s the co-founder of Latitud, the a16z and NFX backed infrastructure and accelerator for startups. With Latitud, he’s building the op...2022-06-1451 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsPassthrough Co-Founder Tim Flannery on how automating fund closing changes the alts spaceToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who is making alts go mainstream by streamlining the process of investing into funds.Carta and fund manager veteran Tim Flannery is the Co-Founder of Passthrough, a fund workflow automation tool that digitizes and automates the fund subscription process.We had a fascinating discussion about how Passthrough is providing critical market infrastructure to the alts space and what the future of investing into funds looks like with Passthrough.We discuss:Why there needs to be innovation around fund closings.How data...2022-06-0538 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsAltsLA Conference: Industry Leaders Discuss the Portfolio of the Future with Alt Goes Mainstream and CAIA Episode 10 with Bill Kelly & John Bowman of CAIAA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments.With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important...2022-05-1432 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsCAIA AltsLA Mini-Series #9 with Alicia McElhaney, Institutional Investor, Senior ReporterA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments.With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important...2022-05-1313 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsAllocating Capital in Uncertain Times: Insights from Martlet Asset Management CEO Jane BuchanA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments.With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important...2022-05-1312 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsCAIA AltsLA Mini-Series #7 with Matt Hougan, Bitwise Asset Management, CIOA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments.With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important...2022-05-1325 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsMaking Smarter, Impactful Investment Decisions: A Conversation with Ashby Monk, Head of Research at AddeparA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments.With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important...2022-05-1214 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Changing GP and LP Investing Landscape At the Hands of a Technological Revolution with Evan Darr, Partner at Invesco Private CapitalA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments.With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important...2022-05-1230 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsAlternatives to the 60/40 Portfolio: Insights from Elizabeth Burton, CIO of Employees' Retirement System of State of Hawaii, a $23B Pension FundA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments.With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important...2022-05-1211 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsUnlocking Idiosyncratic Alpha: Top Allocators Discuss Blurring Lines Between Public and Private Assets with Dominic Garcia, Chief Pension Investment Strategist at CBREA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important p...2022-05-1117 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsWhy Investors Should Adopt a Long-term Perspective & Capital Markets Should be More Supportive of Longer-term Businesses & Investments with Ariel Babcock, MD and Head of Research at FCLTGlobalA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important p...2022-05-1121 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsShould Private Credit Fit Into Investors' Portfolios? A Discussion with James Keenan, BlackRock CIO and Global Co-Head of CreditA few weeks ago, Alt Goes Mainstream went to the capitol of capital for alts, AltsLA by CAIA, the largest alternative investments conference on the West Coast, to speak with industry leaders about how they are allocating capital.Alt Goes Mainstream partnered with CAIA, the premier educational organization for the alts space, to have topical conversations on the world of alternative investments. With the backdrop of an uncertain macro environment and changing investor preferences that have resulted in a 60/40 portfolio no longer, top allocators in the industry discussed how alts are becoming an increasingly important p...2022-05-1119 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsBuilding Engaged Communities in Financial Services Companies: Insights from Max Rothery, VP Community at FinimizeToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a special guest on an important topic that is core to why alts are going mainstream – community.We have community builder extraordinaire Max Rothery, the VP Community at Finimize. Max is responsible for engaging and serving Finimize’s 1 million global audience. Finimize is building the world’s largest finance community of investors globally – and building community are they doing.In 4 years, they reached over 1 million subscribers, 60 thousand per year attend member organized events, and Finimize was recently acquired by 197 year old Abrdn plc, formerly Standard Life Aberdeen...2022-05-0251 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsBessemer Venture Partners' Ethan Kurzweil on bridging Web2 and Web3: A conversation on private markets, crypto, & the BessemerDAOToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who helps us bridge the gap between the past, the present, and the future.Ethan Kurzweil, a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, who is leading BVP’s crypto efforts and the BessemerDAO, comes onto the show to help us make sense of the evolution from the Web2 to Web2.5 to Web3 world.Ethan and I had a fascinating discussion. We talked about: The evolution of venture capital and private markets. Bessemer’s thesis on Web3.Why Bessemer decided to start a DAO and how th...2022-04-1054 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsSoccer as an Alternative Investment: A Fascinating Conversation with Justin Papadakis of the United Soccer LeagueToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a fascinating conversation about how soccer is a compelling alternative investment. We talk with Justin Papadakis, the COO & Chief Real Estate Officer of the United Soccer League. The USL is the largest and one of the fastest growing professional soccer organizations in the United States. Justin and I had a fascinating conversation about how sports and investing are emerging in large part because of the collision of culture and finance.We discussed:How soccer is such an underrated investment opportunity.Ho...2022-03-2752 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsHow mission and capital can co-exist as sports is becoming a compelling alternative investment. A conversation with Julie Uhrman on how Angel City FC is changing the game in sports and businessToday, we have a guest on Alt Goes Mainstream who lives at the intersection of culture and finance as sports is increasingly becoming an investable asset class.Angel City FC Co-Founder & President Julie Uhrman and I had a fascinating conversation about how sports and investing are merging together – and how that’s informed how she’s building Angel City FC.Julie and team have been innovative in the way that they’ve engaged fans, players, and investors. We discuss: How ACFC has used entertainment to have an impact.How athletes are building t...2022-03-0249 min
The Altogether Show with Eric SatzMichael Sidgmore on the Mainstreaming of Alt InvestmentsLately, each week seems to bring a new headline about yet another hot trend in the alt investment space. It’s easy to get lost in this current wave of alternative investments. In this episode, Michael Sidgmore helps make sense of all these trends by breaking down how they’re playing out within the familiar arena of sports. Michael has a unique appreciation for the sports world, having grown up playing soccer around the world. It’s an international experience that led to him attending undergrad in London and staying for an accidental gap year with the UK nonprofit Room to...2022-02-2347 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Intersection of Sports, Entertainment, and Finance: Sorare's Nicolas Julia on Building the Next Gen Entertainment Giant with NFTs“Our aim is to create the biggest entertainment brand in the world, starting with sports … we are building a cult brand around NFT collectibles and we are bringing usage value for them in the fantasy game and the physical world.” - Nicolas Julia, Sorare.Today on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a fascinating discussion about the intersection of culture and finance with Nicolas Julia, the Co-Founder & CEO of Sorare.Nicolas founded Sorare to build the next entertainment giant. His NFT platform, Sorare, is enabling people to own their game and live a...2022-02-1640 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsRe-architecting the world of investing with Ian Lee, Co-Founder of Syndicate“What I’ve come to realize is that investing literally shapes the world that we have. It is effectively at the highest of levels, allocating resources, whether financial or human capital, to things and teams that build the future that we all live in. Investing builds the world.” - Ian Lee, Syndicate.Today we discuss the topic of a revolutionary new construct – DAOs – and how it can change investing for the better.Today’s guest is Ian Lee, the Co-Founder of Syndicate.Ian combines a background in financial services with a prescient view on the futur...2022-02-011h 02
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Wizard with Words: How Jarrod Dicker is Bridging the Gap Between Web3 and Media and Enabling the Consumerization of CryptoToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have Web3’s wizard with words. Jarrod Dicker, Partner at TCG, where he focuses on crypto investments that are enabling the consumerization of crypto.Jarrod is an expert at the intersection of crypto / NFTs and the media world. He was both an entrepreneur and investor in the media world prior to joining TCG.We had a fascinating discussion about the transition to the Web3 world.We covered:Whether or not everyone is now an investor and everything is now investable.How social credentialism and th...2022-01-1643 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Future of Retail Distribution in Alternative Assets: Moonfare's Founder Steffen Pauls and Fidelity International Strategic Ventures Managing Partner Alokik Advani Discuss their Series BToday, we have a unique episode on Alt Goes Mainstream. We have our first episode with a founder and their lead investor from their Series B. We have the founder of leading alts fund investment platform, Moonfare, and their Series B lead investor, Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, on the podcast to talk about why both of them believe in the future of retail distribution in alts and the anatomy of their deal.Steffen Pauls, the founder of Moonfare, has had an illustrious career in the private equity world. Prior to founding Moonfare in 2016, Steffen was a...2021-12-1750 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsFidelity Digital Assets President Tom Jessop on the promise of Web3 and building an enterprise-grade platform for digital assets and crypto within an $11 trillion AUM financial institutionToday we have a guest who is an expert from both the traditional financial services world and the crypto world, which has equipped him with the ability to bridge the two worlds and build onramps into the crypteconomy.Tom Jessop, who heads Fidelity Digital Assets, is an expert in market structure, capital markets, and crypto.There are few who have seen as much as him when it comes to the evolution of market structure.He’s an OG FinTech investor, investing into FinTech before it even had that moniker.He has a...2021-12-1046 min
Community x Capital💎🤲 but how do you find the 💎?Pt. 2: The collision of financial value, cultural value, community value.How do financial institutions survive in the age of Community x Capital?On last week’s episode, we covered how asset ownership has changed. What happens to markets when people have 💎🤲 (diamond hands)?We ended Part 1 on a cliff hanger, asking how do traditional financial institutions and emerging companies think about underwriting new types of assets in order to enable investor to access liquidity. In Part 2, we ask the questions about how companies can transition to the world of Web3.Just...2021-11-2827 min
Community x CapitalThe 💎🤲 (Diamond Hands) MindsetPt. 1: The collision of financial value, cultural value, community value.Worlds are colliding. When culture becomes finance and when community is at the center of culture, the meaning of asset ownership changes. Financial value, cultural value, and community value have now merged together.Owning certain assets that have community value or sentimental value, like CryptoPunks or Bored Apes (BAYC) or sports cards, may drive a different type of behavior around asset ownership.Will holders of a certain rare sports card sell because they can achieve financial returns? Possibly, but now sentimental v...2021-11-2119 min
Community x CapitalWhere riches can be made by research on RedditIn a world where community-driven investing is now a defining feature of the retail investing world in equities and crypto, how should people create an investment framework?Perhaps the framework for investing becomes different in a world where any asset in the world can be investable and tradable. A modern day investment thesis looks a lot different in a world where memes matter and riches are made from primary research on Reddit rather than by roaming retail stores to understand consumer behavior (as many hedge funds would do). Crypto has unlocked the ability fo...2021-11-1418 min
Community x Capital"Late, but long-term early"Twitter, Discord, and Time. When Bitcoin was pushing $20,000 in late December 2017, people asked: “are we late?”When Ethereum was approaching $4,000 in August 2021, people asked: “are we late?”When NFT sales hit a record-breaking $900M in the month of August, people asked: “are we late?”Maybe we are late, but long-term early.Yes, the early adopters may benefit most from being truly early - buying Bitcoin in 2010 or taking part in the Ethereum pre-sale in 2014 - but there will always be those who are earlier than others. And it doesn’t mean we are l...2021-09-1935 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Future of Debt Capital Markets & Digital Securitization: How Nelson Chu's Percent is Transforming Private Credit with Technology and DataToday we have a guest who is transforming the private debt markets.Nelson Chu is the Founder & CEO of Percent (formerly known as Cadence), a leading digital securitization and investment platform for private credit.Nelson has built a marketplace to revolutionize private credit by leveraging technology and data to enable efficient price discovery and funding for originators so they can lower their cost of capital. The business has started to take off in the past year, with Percent recently completing their largest securitization ever - $144 million for FAT Brands – and raising a $12.5M Ser...2021-09-0846 min
Venture Unlocked: The playbook for venture capital managersBroadhaven Ventures' Michael Sidgmore on democratization of venture capital, why Alts are the future of private portfolios, and the role of wealth management firms.Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape.Today we’re thrilled to bring you a very unique conversation with Michael Sidgmore, Co-Founder of Broadhaven Ventures and host of the Alt Goes mainstream podcast. Broadhaven Ventures is fintech focused and has invested in several platforms that make alternatives more accessible including, Republic, Party Round, iCapital, Alt, and of course our startup Allocate. Additionally, Michael was an early employee at iCapital (currently valued at $4B), which enabled private wealth managers to offer top al...2021-09-0745 min
Community x CapitalSo, is it just a JPEG?We want to own what others own, says Rene Girard.Human desire is based on the desire of others, with no regard.Why are people willing to pay millions of dollars for a JPEG?Maybe because it’s more than just a JPEG.What if it’s a movement? What if it has beauty? What if it has utility?We’ve reached the point where cultural assets have become financial assets. Art has always had cultural and financial value, but something feels different this time. Cultu...2021-09-0732 min
Community x CapitalAll that glitters goldWhy has gold been valuable for as long as time?Gold is chemically uninteresting - it barely reacts with other elements. Yes it’s scarce, but not incredibly rare. And yes, unlike silver, it doesn’t tarnish so it will maintain value thousands of years later.Sure, gold is a store of value and an inflation hedge. But the big reason why gold is so valuable? It’s the stuff of stories. Gold is beautiful, which is a narrative that has been carried through generations. It’s aesthetically pleasing nature makes it somethi...2021-08-3125 min
Community x CapitalCommunity, Camaraderie, & CapitalThe competition for consumers' attention.The bar has been raised.As culture collides with finance, the stakes are higher to compete for consumers’ attention.And in a world where everything has been gamified, and where every platform has to compete for attention, it is user experience that becomes the critical feature.User experience changes everything. We have already discussed the first step to creating a better user experience - access. That’s been unlocked as finance has been democratized and investing has gone into the mainstream.Now, as fi...2021-08-1532 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsHow to Insure & Proctect Your Collectibles: Calvin Bradely of WAX, the Digital Insurance Company Making Investing in Collectibles Safer, Easier, and more Community-oriented.Today we have a founder who is creating a modern insurance provider for the collectibles industry that was made for collectors, by collectors.Calvin Bradley is the Founder of WAX, a digital insurance company for collectors to protect the value of their collections by making collecting safer, easier, and more community-oriented.Calvin and I had a fascinating conversation about how the modern world of collectibles requires a modern, digital insurance solution, how NFTs factors into the world of collectibles, and what the future looks like for WAX.Insurance is a major challenge in...2021-08-1138 min
Community x CapitalWhen Wall Street Meets Trust Fund TerryIt’s time to read the meme leaves. Doge, GameStop, AMC are but a few recent examples that have proven that the memeification of financial services is real. Memes, in large part due to their representation of culture, have dramatically influenced how many people invest. And financial services could do well to learn from powerful features of consumer social. Features that have enabled online communities to be born for people to interact, create online identities, and build trust.There are features of online communities that make people more comfortable trusting strangers on th...2021-08-0836 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsHow Vinovest Founder & CEO Anthony Zhang is turning a passion for wine into an investable asset classToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a guest who may be young in age, but has already done more and lived through more than many people twice his age.Anthony Zhang recently turned 26 but has already successfully built and sold two companies, secured funding from Mark Cuban, and received a Thiel Fellowship grant before starting Vinovest, his third company, which is making it easier to access fine wine as an investment product.He also has an admirable and awe-inspiring personal story, working hard to come back from a devastating accident that left...2021-07-3039 min
Community x CapitalWork or play? The Gaming Episode (feat. Robinhood, Netflix, Sorare, & Axie Infinity)“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he appears to be doing both.” - Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman.What is work? What is play? What if people could live in a...2021-07-2544 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsFrom Crowdfunding Pioneer to Alts Expert: Listen to Serial Entrepreneur Slava Rubin on the Evolution of Alternative InvestmentsToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have one of the OGs of the crowdfunding space on to talk about how he’s built platforms that have evolved in tandem with the alts ecosystem.Slava Rubin is the founder of both Indiegogo, one of the first crowdfunding platforms, and Vincent, a platform that is making discovery and alternative investments easier for investors. He is also the founder of humbition, an early-stage investment firm.We had a fascinating conversation about the evolution of the alts space – from the early days of equity crowdfunding to now wadi...2021-07-2346 min
Alt Goes Mainstream[AGM Podcast] How Rally Co-Founders Chris Bruno & Rob Petrozzo have turned culture into an investable assetToday we have a special episode of Alt Goes Mainstream – the co-founders of Rally on to discuss how people can now invest into defining cultural moments and assets that are aligned with their passions.Chris Bruno and Rob Petrozzo grew up together - and they have combined their respective talents to form what has become one of the symbols for the financialization of all sorts of assets.Rally, which started as a platform to enable investors to invest into shares of classic cars that would be unattainable to many investors, has become a multi-asset investment pl...2021-07-1651 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsHow Rally Co-Founders Chris Bruno & Rob Petrozzo have turned culture into an investable assetToday we have a special episode of Alt Goes Mainstream – the co-founders of Rally on to discuss how people can now invest into defining cultural moments and assets that are aligned with their passions.Chris Bruno and Rob Petrozzo grew up together – and they have combined their respective talents to form what has become one of the symbols for the financialization of all sorts of assets.Rally, which started as a platform to enable investors to invest into shares of classic cars that would be unattainable to many investors, has become a multi-asset investment platform that...2021-07-1651 min
Community x CapitalInvesting as a Team SportThe internet has profoundly changed the human experience by bringing us together in ways unimaginable. Investing might have been later to the party, but now investors are joining the party (rounds).“Investing has become a team sport that you play with your friends on the internet.” Jesse Walden’s prescient quote kicked off our episode on how community - and the internet - play such an important role in investing.The big question is how do we get everyone in the stadium? We talk about traditional financial rails and how the transiti...2021-07-0341 min
Community x CapitalThe MVC (Minimum Viable Community) EpisodeFrom 776 launching their new venture fund with a diverse community of LPs and founders to incumbent financial institution Goldman Sachs running their own Clubhouse room, community is the fabric that brings us together.How can we understand the value of communities?In finance, we can no longer avoid community. People aggregate themselves and their views in ways that can change markets. In startups, we can no longer avoid community. Customers are more likely to engage with a company or product that they feel an affinity towards.How can companies learn from n...2021-06-2847 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsBuilding a New Asset Class: Unlocking Recurring Revenue for Institutional Investors with Michal Cieplinski, Expert in Lending and Capital Markets and Chief Business Officer of PipeToday, we have an expert in lending and capital markets on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast to discuss how his company, Pipe, is building a new asset class.Michal Cieplinski is the Chief Business Officer for Pipe, a fast growing fintech company. Pipe has seen a rapid rise over the past year. They are one of the fastest fintech companies to reach a $2 billion valuation – and it’s in large part because investors see the potential to build a platform that unlocks recurring revenue as an investable asset class for the world’s largest institu...2021-06-2748 min
Community x CapitalThe New World - It's Coming Fast EpisodeFinancializing signal? Monetizing engagement? Get ready for the new world. There’s no stopping it now with the creation of NFTs.Crypto has the potential to change the world by unlocking monetary freedom and giving creators control over their relationships with their communities and fans.It seems as if we’ve finally reached the point of the mainstreaming of crypto - people are transacting on platforms like Sorare in fiat while using crypto rails.We covered a lot of ground on this podcast from crypto to cards to counterfactuals:What are the sign...2021-06-1343 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsHow Bitso's Co-Founder & CEO Daniel Vogel has built a unicorn by making crypto usefulToday, we have our first LatAm guest on the AGM podcast. And it was a special one.Bitso, LatAm’s leading crypto exchange, is fresh off of raising a $250M round led by Tiger Global months after raising a $62M round led by QED and Kaszek - and has been minted as one of LatAm’s newest unicorns.We had Bitso’s co-founder and CEO Daniel Vogel on to talk about what it has been like to build a leading FinTech company in the region and provide access to investments and financial services.This w...2021-06-121h 03
Community x CapitalThe Startup Cities EpisodeWith Miami taking up much of the conversation in startupland’s Twitterverse as it tries to brand itself the “capitol of capital,” we wanted to dive deeper into what it means to create a startup ecosystem in the age of online communities. What does it take to build a great startup ecosystem?What comes first - Community, which creates highly engaged networks of operators, or Capital, which brings the investors to fund promising new ideas?Why does reputation matter more than geography in the golden age of online identity?What about the str...2021-06-0933 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsEmerging Managers & The Future of Venture Capital: An Expert's Perspective with Samir Kaji, Founder & CEO of AllocateToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have a domain expert in the world of VC – and someone who has been a visionary when it has come to one of the biggest movements in VC over the past 8 years: emerging managers.Samir Kaji, the Founder & CEO of Allocate, is a well-respected industry leader in the VC world. He has spent over 20 years partnering with VCs at First Republic Bank and Silicon Valley Bank, where he led the Venture Capital and Private Equity banking efforts. At First Republic, he built out the infrastructure and client base that se...2021-06-0150 min
Community x CapitalThe Power of Communities EpisodeOn this holiday weekend, we want to release a special episode about the power of community.Communities have the power to shape movements.This episode was recorded a few weeks ago. Our recording was scheduled for 5 pm ET on the day of the George Floyd verdict. At 4:55 pm ET, the George Floyd verdict was announced. We felt that it was only appropriate to start with the news and see where it took us. From the Colin Kaepernick jerseys hanging on Alexis’ office wall to the European Super League, we covered a number of top...2021-05-3041 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastMichael Sidgmore, Partner at Broadhaven Ventures: Why Alts Are Going Mainstream!Ryan Zauk sits down with fintech investor & frequent Wharton Fintech collaborator, Michael Sidgmore!
Michael is a Partner at Broadhaven Ventures, part of Broadhaven Capital Partners, a leading merchant bank focused on financial services. In addition to Broadhaven, Michael runs a media platform called Alt Goes Mainstream, as well as Community x Capital with Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian. These platforms focus on the emergence of alternative assets, 'culture assets,' investing, and the convergence of community & capital.
Michael is ultra-deep in fintech, with years of experience as an investor, operator, advisor, angel, and more in this space.
In today’s episode, th...2021-05-2453 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsDemocratizing Farmland Investing as an Asset Class for the Masses with Artem Milinchuk, Founder of FarmTogetherToday we have a guest who is bringing farmland investing to the masses. After working for one of Canada’s largest pension plans, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and running Operations and as the CFO at a platform for buying and selling produce, Artem Milinchuk founded FarmTogether to bring an asset that has largely been the domain of institutional investors to individuals. Artem and I had a fascinating conversation. We discussed: How farmland deserves a place in all investors’ portfolios – in large part due to its features as a hedge against inflation and a passive income gene...2021-05-2353 min
Community x CapitalThe Venture Capital EpisodeVenture Capital is changing before our eyes. What does it mean to be a venture capitalist in today’s world?Is the industry of venture immune to the tsunami of software and technology? Or do VCs need to innovate their own businesses in order to be the best performing investors?How can software transform how VCs service their companies? What’s the balance between VC as a services business vs. VC as a product business?We talk about all this and more on the latest episode of Community x Capital. And, of co...2021-05-1633 min
Community x CapitalThe Cards EpisodeCards are about community. Cards are about capital. Cards are about culture … so we decided to write a few words to accompany this episode.What's in a card?That's why putting it into words can be so hard.Cards are about culture.Yeah, sure there will be vultures,Trying to make it just about capital.But there's a reason why President Biden has a Topps card on his desk right near the Capitol.That 1953 Topps Satchel Paige,It was from a time where black athletes were fighting for eq...2021-05-0630 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe trailblazing "Queen of British VC," Passion Capital Partner Eileen Burbidge, on startup royalty and venturing into the crowdToday we have one of the pioneers of the European tech ecosystem on to discuss how the European early-stage VC landscape has changed since its early days – and how their fund, Passion Capital, has unlocked access to investors with their latest fundraise.Eileen Burbidge, a Founding Partner of Passion Capital, and I had a fascinating conversation about all things VC, opening up access to the asset class to individual investors, what it means for the future of venture capital, and Eileen’s love of Arsenal and why she’s not a fan of the European Super League.2021-05-0450 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsExploring the Future of Alternative Investments with CAIA CEO Bill Kelly: A Conversation on the Importance of Fiduciary Duty, Crypto, and the Retirement PromiseToday we have a special guest who is one of the foremost leaders in the alternatives industry.Bill Kelly is the CEO of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), the leading global educational and professional credentialing body dedicated to delivering greater knowledge and alignment for investors in the alternative investments space.Bill and I had a fascinating conversation. His thoughtful and eloquent views on the evolution of the alternatives space led us to talk about:How the Retirement Promise has impacted consumers and investors and what it means for alternative...2021-04-271h 00
Community x CapitalThe Dogecoin Episode“If this is not the epitome of Community x Capital, I don’t know what is.” What is the value of memes? Of money? Of mastery of a subject in an online world?On one hand, as long as a big enough community of people believe in something, it can have value.On the other hand, if something has no fundamental value - or if the community no longer believes in its value - then what is it worth?Oh, and we now have sound effects 🔥You can...2021-04-2331 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsSecondary Market Liquidity & Revolutionizing Private Company Stock Ownership & Investment with Forge CEO Kelly RodriquesToday, we have a special guest who is changing the mechanics of private company stock ownership and investing for the better for employees, companies, and investors alike.Kelly Rodriques is the CEO of Forge, the leading private company stock exchange and investment platform.On today’s podcast, Kelly and I discuss:How private markets are the new public markets.How companies like Forge are unlocking a huge wealth management opportunity hidden in plain sight.How Forge is creating new accredited investors directly on their platform thanks to secondary market liquidity - an...2021-04-2053 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Inside Story of Coinbase's Early Days From A Seed Investor's Perspective: Insights from Boost VC Co-Founder Adam DraperWe had a special live episode of Alt Goes Mainstream this past Wednesday on $COIN Day to celebrate a landmark moment in the crypto industry that has, in many respects, signified the mainstreaming of crypto - the Coinbase IPO.Adam Draper, the Co-Founder & MD at Boost VC, was one of the first investors in Coinbase’s Seed round in 2012. He joined the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast to discuss what he saw in Brian Armstrong, Coinbase’s Co-Founder, when he decided to invest in their Seed round, what excites him about the future of crypto, and w...2021-04-181h 13
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Future of Crypto and Wealth Management: Insights from Bitwise's CIO, Matt HouganToday on the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast we have Matt Hougan, the Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise Asset Management and one of the leaders in the crypto industry. On today's podcast, we talk about:* Matt's views on crypto.* How Bitwise is bringing crypto to the wealth advisory community.* How crypto's evolution is similar to that of the ETF market.* How community has played such a big role in making crypto go mainstream.Matt has had an illustrious career at the forefront of major industry shifts in financial services. He's been a...2021-04-1545 min
Community x CapitalThe Coinbase EpisodeThis episode opens with: “Coinbase, is that a thing?”Should Coinbase go into traditional financial services or should they go deeper down the crypto rabbit hole?Alexis says why not just build the new world order?Michael says wait, what about institutions? How do they keep one foot in the traditional world while gaining exposure to the cryptoeconomy?With the IPO of Coinbase tomorrow and Alexis being one of Coinbase’s earliest investors in their initial Seed round, we thought it would only be fitting to stick to the news and discus...2021-04-1335 min
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Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsThe Future of Wealth Management and the Role of Alternative Investments With Dynasty Financial Partners Co-Founder, Ed SwensonToday, we have a special guest from an industry leader in the wealth management space. Ed Swenson is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the wealth management space. Ed is the Co-Founder and COO of Dynasty Financial Partners, a leading RIA technology services platform.Ed and I had a really interesting discussion about the future of the wealth management industry – and how alts will play a role in the evolution of the space. We discussed:How and why the wealth management industry is changing.How Dynasty is a champion of entrepreneurs in the wea...2021-04-0647 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsDemocratizing Access to Private Investing & Wealth Creation in Private Markets With Republic Co-Founder and CEO, Ken NguyenToday, we have a guest who's democratizing access to private investing. Ken Nguyen is the co-founder and CEO of Republic, a multi-asset investment platform for private markets. Ken is a pioneer in the private markets investing world and a serial operator who knows how to build businesses. He's helped grow Republic to hundreds of millions of dollars in gross transaction volume over the past three years after Republic spun out of AngelList. After Ken was an instrumental part of building the investment and regulatory infrastructure at AngelList, as their General Counsel, Ken founded Republic to c...2021-03-3154 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsBuilding The Infrastructure for the New Investible Asset Class of Sports Trading Cards with Leore Avidar of AltToday we have a guest who is building the infrastructure for a new asset class – sports cards.Leore Avidar is a visionary founder who is building a ground-breaking company, Alt, which is backed by Alexis Ohanian and Seven Seven Six, as well as First Round Capital, Addition, SV Angel, Box Group, and Kevin Durant’s Thirty Five Ventures.Alt is on its way to changing how we think about investing. This was such a fun conversation. We talked about:How Leore’s experience and excitement for building infrastructure has dovetailed with his passion...2021-03-1651 min
Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsDemocratizing Access to Alternative Investments: Insights from iCapital's Lawrence CalcanoI’m thrilled to kick off the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast with a special guest - one of the leaders in the alts industry, Lawrence Calcano of iCapital Network.Lawrence has built iCapital into one of the category defining companies in the alts space. They have democratized access to high quality alternative investment products for the wealth management industry.Lawrence and the iCapital team have built the de facto operating system for the wealth management community to invest in and access leading institutional quality alternative investment fund managers. They’ve grown to almost $70 billi...2021-03-1242 min
Alt Goes MainstreamWelcome to the Alt Goes Mainstream PodcastWelcome to the Alt Goes Mainstream podcast. I’m excited to share the Alt Goes Mainstream trailer here in advance of our first episode that drops later this week.We’ve been building up to this point for a while … and 2020 has witnessed a shift in how people think about investing.There have been a confluence of events that have changed people’s minds on how they invest. Everything from a low interest rate environment to technology innovation that has democratized access to alternative investments to the rise of influencer investors.No...2021-03-0802 min
Money Talks with Hugh Meyer049 - Money Talks - Michael SidgmoreMichael Sidgmore is a Partner at Broadhaven Ventures, where he focuses on sourcing, investing, and managing investments into early-stage FinTech companies globally. Michael has led Broadhaven Ventures' investments into Liveoak Technologies, Credijusto (Seed, Board Director / Observer & Advisor), as well as his work as a Venture partner at Goodwater Capital. We discussed: 1) Michael’s background in Venture 2) The impetus for his Alt goes Mainstream blog 3) Social Capital meets Financial Cap 4) Alternatives investments goes mainstream
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Alt Goes Mainstream: The Latest on Alternative Investments, WealthTech, & Private MarketsWelcome to Alt Goes Mainstream - Podcast TrailerWelcome to Alt Goes Mainstream!2021-03-0102 min
Wharton FinTech PodcastFinTech Investing with Michael Sidgmore, Partner at Broadhaven VenturesIn our latest episode, Hinal Shah (WG’20) is joined by Michael Sidgmore, a Partner at Broadhaven Ventures. Broadhaven is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investment opportunities at the intersection of financial services and technology.
Broadhaven Ventures is a VC fund affiliated with Broadhaven Capital Partners, an independent fintech investment bank that has done over $50 billion in transaction volume. Broadhaven Ventures has investments in companies like Liveoak (acquired by DocuSign), Credijusto, Kyash, MoneyLion, Starship, BioCatch, Harvest Wealth, Kovi, and Nowports.
Michael Sidgmore is also a Venture Partner at Goodwater Capital, a consumer tech VC that has invested in fintech co...2020-10-1635 min
Tearsheet Podcast: Exploring Financial Services TogetherBroadhaven Ventures’ Michael Sidgmore on global trends in embedded financeA global perspective on fintech helps Broadhaven Ventures cross-pollinate customer experience best practices from the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Today’s guest is Michael Sidgmore, who is a partner at Broadhaven Ventures, a venture capital fund affiliated with Broadhaven Capital Partners, an independent fintech investment bank. Broadhaven Ventures has investments in known fintechs like Credijusto, Kyash, MoneyLion, Starship, Liveoak (recently acquired by DocuSign), BioCatch, Harvest Wealth, Kovi and Nowports. Michael is also a venture partner at Goodwater Capital, a consumer tech venture capital firm that’s invested in Toss, Monzo, Stash, Kyash and Tide, among others.
Michael join...2020-07-2029 min
Crossing Borders with Nathan LustigMichael Sidgmore, Broadhaven Ventures: Investing in LatAm’s Fintech Ecosystem, Ep 97When Michael Sidgmore thinks about investing, he thinks about making the biggest impact possible in people’s lives. His passion for economic development and financial inclusion has led him to build a career as a fintech investor and entrepreneur focused on financial infrastructure, wealth management, and financial inclusion. Today, he is a Partner and cofounder of Broadhaven Ventures, a Silicon Valley based fintech venture capital firm that has invested in 5 startups in Latin America. Broadhaven Ventures invests globally in early-stage fintech startups but largely focuses on Latin America and the US. The fund was built out of a market leading fi...2019-11-2636 min
"Can't Be Done"Ep. 92: The VC’s Role as the Sixth Man—with FinTech Investor Michael Sidgmore of Broadhaven VenturesHow is an early-stage VC a lot like Shane Battier or Andre Iguodala? When they are on the court, they make the players around them better. That’s how Michael Sidgmore sees his role as a pre-seed and seed round FinTech investor: He’s the sixth man, coming off the bench to serve as the glue that helps his team get to the next level. He may not be in the trenches on a daily basis, but when he does get in the game, good things happen.
Michael is a Partner at Broadhaven Ventures, an independent investment bank...2019-04-0438 min
Fintech Family HourMichael Sidgmore, Partner at Broadhaven Ventures: Say Yes and Figure It Out LaterListen now (53 min) | An interview Michael Sidgmore, Partner at Broadhaven Ventures Helpful/Interesting links from the show: Michael's Linkedin Michael's Twitter Broadhaven Beam Scale Factor Money Lion Credijusto Get on the email list at www.forfintechsake.com2019-03-271h 47