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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: We welcome back our Bloomberg Radio, TV and YouTube audiences

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Speaker 2: worldwide here on the Close with a discussion about unlocking

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Speaker 2: venture capital. Well that's the mission of our next two guests,

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Speaker 2: who are working to expand access to opportunities usually just

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Speaker 2: reserved for the big guys, the institutional investors. Joining us

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Speaker 2: right now is kind of well, the face of the

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Speaker 2: retail rise of the retail investor, Kathy Would. She's a

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Speaker 2: CEO of ARC invest You know her. She's joined alongside

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Speaker 2: Rebecca Cassava. She's co founder and CEO of a company

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Speaker 2: called deal Maker, which is revolution how revolutionizing how companies

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Speaker 2: raise capital by providing a tech driven platform for companies

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Speaker 2: to use. Welcome to both of you, and I'm going

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Speaker 2: to start with you, Rebecca. We all know Kathy and

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Speaker 2: we all know just how responsible she is for a

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Speaker 2: lot of sot of I guests, the democratization, if you will,

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Speaker 2: of a lot of investment vehicles. You're also doing something similar,

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Speaker 2: and I'm wondering if you just kind of explain how

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Speaker 2: deal Maker fits into that landscape.

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Speaker 3: Sure things, So, what we're doing is bringing a really

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Speaker 3: technology driven approach to raising capital. If you think about it,

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Speaker 3: if you rein invented capital raising today, it would be

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Speaker 3: on the intranet, it would be data driven, and it

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Speaker 3: would be democratized.

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Speaker 4: And so that's what our technology brings.

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Speaker 3: It essentially allows you to run ad campaigns and target

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Speaker 3: investors who might be interested in your deal based on

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Speaker 2: I am curious, Kathy about these new types of platforms.

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Speaker 2: We talk about the evolution of financial markets. We went

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Speaker 2: from a day and age where financial markets were just

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Speaker 2: for institutional investors. Then you had, of course, the rise

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Speaker 2: now a lot of new products in the private space

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Speaker 2: and now trying to draw in individual investors. This is

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Speaker 2: just the natural evolution as you see it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's natural in a way.

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Speaker 5: But I think during COVID it was turbo charged a

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Speaker 5: lot of especially younger people who would not meet the

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Speaker 5: trying to figure out what these new technologies were all about,

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Speaker 5: and you know, happened upon private companies to which.

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Speaker 1: They had no or little access.

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Speaker 5: And I think because of that, and because I know,

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Speaker 5: we started our venture fund for that reason, they came

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Speaker 5: we don't have enough, We don't make enough money two

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Speaker 5: and we don't have a million dollars in net worth

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Speaker 5: to become accredited and have access to these you know,

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Speaker 5: incredible technologies early in their lifetimes. Can you help us

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Speaker 5: solve that problem? And so yes, that's why we started

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Speaker 5: our venture fund. It has no carry and people can

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Speaker 1: X for as little as five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So that's one solution to democratizing access of these

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Speaker 6: companies to everyday individual investors. Kathy, could you explain a

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Speaker 5: Well, actually, our venture team met Rebecca recently and I

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Speaker 5: have yet to be briefed on exactly what we're doing together.

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Speaker 5: Maybe Rebecca would want to talk about how far a

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's opportunities like this where we can

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Speaker 3: understand we can talk to Washington about what the investors

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Speaker 3: a slightly different approach on it, where we see retail

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Speaker 3: And so we're both two different businesses taking a totally

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Speaker 3: face it, there's a lot of ways that the capital

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Speaker 3: market's ecosystem is broken that both what ar kids doing

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Speaker 1: That's what I thought had happened. We are so like minded.

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Speaker 5: Charlie Roberts, who leads our VC effort, and Rebecca met

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Speaker 5: different way, from different angles, but this idea of democratization

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Speaker 6: You both encounter the same issues and you're looking to

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Speaker 6: Pain points of capital raising that founders tend to face

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Speaker 4: Business in a different way.

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Speaker 3: So we have technology companies, you know, Monograms building a

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Speaker 3: all of their beta users and really supporting bringing that

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Speaker 2: Was there any issues when you were starting this, Rebecca,

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Speaker 2: and was there any issues about regulatory concerns? I mean,

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Speaker 2: sophisticated enough to buy this type of vehicle. How did

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Speaker 3: I think the regulators were brilliant in the way that

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Speaker 2: Kathy, I do have to kind of ask you about

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 5: If you look at the performance of our funds since

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Speaker 6: So Kathy following on that, the President elect has outlined

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Speaker 6: Of the different proposals of pro growth items that he

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Speaker 5: can weaken economic activity. Beyond that, deregulation critically important. I

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Speaker 5: We'll see how much they're really worth. This has not

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Speaker 2: the catalysts, is that going to really push this industry forward?

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Speaker 4: It definitely feels that way, it really does.

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Speaker 3: I think the momentum is there, the street is excited

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Speaker 3: and feeling the effects of deregulation. And you know, one

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Speaker 3: of the benefits that we saw over the down market

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Speaker 3: activity was that retail investors stay strong. Like while VC

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Speaker 3: what Congress intended when they originally passed the legislation. So

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Speaker 3: we expect to just consider that upswing continuing.

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Speaker 6: Kathy, you had mentioned the ARC Venture Fund. I'm wondering,

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Speaker 6: with this new administration coming in, the deregulation that you

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Speaker 6: you think that startups will choose to stay private less.

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Speaker 6: They'll start to look to the public markets as an

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Speaker 5: Well, I think one of the changes, again back to regulation,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they haven't been in the past because it was

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Speaker 6: joining us from Saint Petersburg, Florida,