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The Repeat Founder Advantage: 5 Years of Data
Over the past five years, experienced founders have captured the majority of Reg CF deals and dollars—see the full breakdown.
CHART OF THE WEEK 📈
By Teddy Lyons | Read
Our new Chart of the Week reveals a consistent truth across five years of data: companies with at least one repeat founder raise more—and more often—than all-first-time teams in Regulation Crowdfunding. From 2021 to 2025, repeat-founder teams captured 59% of all Reg CF deals and 57% of total capital, often with a wide gap over first-time founders. Kingscrowd’s analysis shows why founder background may be one of the most underrated factors in online fundraising success.
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INSIDE STARTUP INVESTING
David Webb’s Yarnhub Animation Studios pulls 400 million annual views for cinematic WW2 stories—no ad spend required. On Inside Startup Investing, he shares with Chris how that captive audience now funds a historically accurate video-game, why the company’s CPMs beat integration ads, and the path to 3–5 billion monthly views across multiple channels. If MrBeast can sell burgers, Yarnhub can sell history.
UPCOMING WEBINARS
On August 20th at 1pm ET, join EquityMultiple’s Daniel Brereton to explore real estate opportunities beyond multifamily, office, retail, and industrial. Learn how emerging asset classes like self-storage, car washes, and mixed-use properties can offer strong returns and diversification—often with less competition. Accredited investors can access these middle-market deals with as little as $5,000.
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PITCH REVIEW 💸
By Léa Bouheier-Gautreau \ Deal Report
Brief: EnergyX is a renewable energy company advancing next-generation battery and direct lithium extraction technologies. Its patented LiTAS system, deployed across over 100,000 acres of lithium deposits in Chile, aims to boost lithium recovery rates from 30% to 90%. The company has agreements with four of the world’s top ten lithium producers and is raising up to $27.4 million via a Reg A+ crowdfunding campaign to fund commercialization, technology development, and corporate growth.
Léa’s Take: This is one of the rare companies to pull off a $75 million raise under Regulation A+. Investors who got in clearly see what we do: the lithium market, from extraction to battery production, is set for explosive growth. EnergyX has built tech that can extract lithium from brine faster, which is a smart way to cut costs and break into a commoditized space. On top of that, it is working on a lithium battery that could be cheaper and more efficient than what’s out there now.
Playing in multiple parts of the lithium supply chain is both smart and risky. If the market keeps booming, EnergyX could win big at every step and reap the benefits of vertical integration. But going that wide this early can also create operational headaches and make the company entirely dependent on fresh outside capital.
As always, the other side of the equation is valuation. In this round, Kingscrowd had to estimate the company’s value at under $2 billion. The fact that we even had to estimate speaks to a lack of transparency. And if our estimate is even close, the price tag is high enough to seriously limit the odds of investors making returns that match the risk.
ANNOUNCING INVESTMENT CROWDFUNDING WEEK
This fall, Kingscrowd is hosting its biggest virtual event ever: Investment Crowdfunding Week, running September 29 – October 2. Over four days, you'll gain direct access to 40+ startups, 10+ platforms, and expert-led sessions designed to deepen your deal flow, sharpen your diligence, and connect you with emerging private market opportunities across sectors like AI, healthcare, and climate tech.
Built around the theme “The Full Spectrum,” this event brings together the entire investment crowdfunding ecosystem—founders, platforms, and investors—for a curated experience that mirrors the full lifecycle of early-stage investing. From live pitch sessions to platform fireside chats and market analysis panels, you’ll see how top companies tell their stories and how the best investors evaluate them. Pre-register now to secure early access to the schedule and links.
STAFF PICKS 🌶️
By Teddy Lyons
We’ve seen a graveyard of failed robotics companies come-and-go in equity crowdfunding. However, with its autonomous farming robots already deployed in six states, is Greenfield Robotics going to change the narrative?
By Léa Bouhelier-Gautreau
When investing in capital-intensive innovative hardware companies, having serious backers tends to decrease the investment risk. Windlift checks these boxes: it has VC funding, DOD and DOE contract revenue, and a solid run rate of $1.8 million.
By Teddy Lyons
This company claims to identify and treat patients with rare genetic disease in just 12 weeks vs. the typical 7 years. Is this backed up by evidence?
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