How Ordinary Investors Invest in Startups

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Jay Clayton is not happy with the limited access retail investors have to private companies. “If the growth opportunities have shifted… into our private markets and ordinary investors don’t have access to them, that’s not good,” Clayton said recently. “The question is, what do we do about it?” he asked, suggesting in very general terms “appropriately structured funds.”

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