{"id":159621,"date":"2025-09-16T00:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159621\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T00:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T00:15:10","slug":"robinhood-plans-to-launch-a-startups-fund-open-to-all-retail-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159621\/","title":{"rendered":"Robinhood plans to launch a startups fund open to all retail investors\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robinhood announced<\/a> Monday it has filed an application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to launch a new publicly traded fund that will hold shares of startups.<\/p>\n

The idea behind the \u201cRobinhood Ventures Fund I\u201d is to allow every retail investor access to\u00a0make money on the hottest startups before they go public. <\/p>\n

While the current version of the application is public,<\/a> Robinhood hasn\u2019t filled in the fine-print yet. This means we don\u2019t know how many shares it plans to sell, nor other details like the management fee it plans to charge. It\u2019s also unclear which startups it hopes this fund will eventually hold. The paperwork says it \u201cexpects\u201d to invest in aerospace and defense, AI, fintech, robotics as well as software for consumers and enterprises. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Robinhood\u2019s big pitch is that retail investors are being left out of the gains that are amassed by startup investors like\u00a0VCs. That\u2019s true to an extent. \u201cAccredited investors\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0or those with a net worth large enough to handle\u00a0riskier investments \u2014\u00a0already have a variety of ways of buying equity in startups, such as with venture firms like OurCrowd<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Retail investors that are not rich enough to be accredited have more limited options. There are funds similar to what Robinhood has proposed, including Cathy Wood\u2019s ARK Venture Fund, a mutual fund which holds stakes in companies like Anthropic, Databricks, OpenAI, SpaceX, and others.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Robinhood\u2019s last such effort was controversial. The trading company launched what it called private \u201ctokenized\u201d stocks<\/a>\u00a0in the EU earlier this year, implying these tokens gave retail investors the ability to make money from\u00a0shares of private companies like OpenAI. However, OpenAI denounced the product<\/a>, pointing out that buyers of these tokens were not actually buying OpenAI stock \u2014 tokenized or otherwise. They were simply buying tokens pegged to prices of a private company\u2019s stock.<\/p>\n

This new closed-end \u201cVentures Fund I\u201d is a more classic, mutual fund-style, approach. As to when Robinhood\u2019s new fund will be available we don\u2019t know that either yet. Robinhood, which is in a quiet period, declined to comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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