Easily invest in private funds
The traditional process of investing in private funds is tedious, difficult, and expensive. We’re here to make private funds simple and transparent.
We save investors time by listing funds at scale, automating diligence, and simplifying the investment process. Velvet helps you easily discover funds, connect with managers, evaluate track records, and make investments on behalf of clients or yourself.
Discover dozens of vetted private funds in minutes
Don’t limit yourself or your firm to your broker’s shortlist. See the whole picture of the private fund marketplace. Velvet curates hedge funds, venture capital, private credit, and private equity at scale. Our listings platform makes it easy to find funds based on mandates, categories, fund types, asset exposure, size, returns, and more.
Hedge Funds
Categories:Venture Capital
Categories:Private Funds
Categories:All the information you need about a fund
Velvet listings were designed with the LP in mind. Start the investment decision long before meeting a manager.
Sectors and strategies
Venture funds are categorized by which types of companies they invest in, and hedge funds are categorized by strategy type.Staff profiles
Key fund staff are required to fill out a profile including their track record and background checks.Summary Information
Quickly review important info like qualification requirements, minimums, fund structure, target fund size, vintage year, and more.Data and analytics
Performance data and risk metrics are directly on every listing - monthly returns for hedge funds and a schedule of investments for venture funds.Marketing documents
Every listing includes full marketing documents like PPMs, fund decks, research reports, and anything else they want to include.Qualitative info
Dive deeper than the numbers and get a full view of the fund. Read descriptions and thesis of managers in their own words.What private finance looks like now:
1. Buy databases of funds for $30,000 each
Sit through multiple sales calls per year and spend thousands of dollars for access to a database that lists each type of fund.
2. Spend hours on planes and days at conferences
Get spammed via email, approached at conferences, hard pitched, soft pitched, and spend thousands on travel.
3. Filter 80% of the listings that are out of date or unusable
The vast majority of listings on databases like preqin and pitchbook are unusable, out of date, or incorrect. In a database of 30,000 funds, less than 1000 of the funds are active. In real life, 95% of the approaches are unusable or uninvestable.
4. Cold outreach the manager
Write a cold email or call to the manager and send an email.
5. Ask for a fund deck via email
To learn the basics about a fund, you’ll need to request a deck or PPM.
6. Set up a meeting to talk specifics
Weeks after you got started, you’ll talk with the manager face to face.
What private finance should be:
1. Sign up for velvet
Onboard in less than 3 minutes for yourself or your institution.
2. Browse the whole market of vetted private funds
Look at a diverse set of curated funds in HF, VC, and PE categories.
3. Chat with the manager at the click of a button
You can schedule a meeting directly with the manager on every single fund.
Simplicity built from the ground up for sophisticated investors
Even though it’s simple, Velvet supports investments from authorized third parties investing on behalf of entities and individuals. We built it for investment advisors, family offices, endowments, pension funds, trusts, fund-of-funds, and other institutional clients.
Velvet for financial institutions
Research, evaluate, and offer private funds to your clients
High resolution fund benchmarking
Velvet listings are designed to present every piece of information available on a fund. Start the investment decision long before meeting a manager.
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Disclosure:
All depictions on this site are fictional and do not represent real investment funds. Any investment funds displayed to the public on this site are for illustrative purposes only.
velvetfs.com is a website owned and operated by Decheque Inc. (DBA “Velvet” or “Decheque”), which provides SaaS tools and technology, and lists information pertaining to financial performance, personnel, and hedge fund and private fund management profiles. Velvet fosters communication between parties. Velvet does not solicit its services to non-accredited investors or non-qualified purchasers. Velvet is not a broker-dealer and does not offer securities. Nothing in this website is intended to be an offer to buy or sell securities. All securities are offered through Decheque Securities LLC, a member of FINRA, SIPC, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Velvet. For more information regarding Decheque Securities, LLC, please visit FINRA BrokerCheck.
A private placement is an offering of unregistered securities to a limited pool of investors. In a private placement, a company sells shares of stock in the company or other interest in the company, such as warrants or bonds, in exchange for cash.
The following represent some general disclosures in regards to private placements. This list is not exhaustive, and potential investors should carefully review each prospective investment and the risks specific to such investment.
- Private placements are suitable only for investors that do not require immediate liquidity for their investments. Private placements are subject to limited liquidity and significant restrictions on transferability and resale. Investors bear the financial risks of an investment for an indefinite period of time.
- Private placements are suitable only for sophisticated investors that fully understand and are willing and able to assume the risks of an investment.
- Investors must be able to afford the loss of their entire investment. Investments in private placements are speculative and involve a high degree of risk and those investors who cannot afford to lose their entire investment should not invest.
- Private placements are not filed with, registered, approved by or disapproved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") or any other governmental agency, regulatory authority or national securities exchange of any country or jurisdiction.
- There is no established secondary market for private placements, and none is expected to develop.
- Private placements are NOT bank deposits and thus NOT insured by the FDIC or any other federal governmental agency.
- Private placements are NOT guaranteed by VelvetFS, the issuer, or any other party.
- Private placements should not represent an investor’s entire investment portfolio.
- Investing in Private Placements listed on VelvetFS pose risks including, but not limited to, credit risk, interest rate risk, and the risk of losing some or all of your investment. Before investing, you should (1) conduct your own investigation and analysis; (2) carefully consider the investment and all related charges, expenses, risks, potential conflicts of interests, and uncertainties; and (3) consult with your own investment, tax, financial and legal advisors.