What is Vincent?
Vincent is a first-of-its-kind search engine designed to help you find new, high-quality investment opportunities. Vincent aggregates thousands of investment offers from platforms and unite those offers with third-party data and insights. This means a better investing experience, one tailored specifically for you and your future portfolio.
How does Vincent work?
At roots, Vincent is a meta-search engine. This means the website searches hundreds of other brokerages, websites, and platforms for qualified investment opportunities in real-time. Vincent allows you to look at the full range of investments across several asset classes, including Real Estate, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Debt, Lending Collectibles, and more.
How is Vincent different?
Vincent is not an investment broker, advisor or investment platform. With investment platforms, you generally pay a fee to participate with them. This means they are incentivized for you to invest with them so that they can make money. Vincent charges you nothing and do not transact investments on our site.
How does Vincent make money?
Vincent is entirely free to use. We charge no fees. In fact, we never transact investments on our site. We also do not sell investments, which means we do not earn commission or payment for your participation in an investment – even if found on Vincent. Vincent earns money when people click on search results and decide to visit one of our investment partners. We charge our partners a flat rate fee for each click we send to their website. This is a revenue model (for all you MBAs) similar to that of Google, and we get paid this fee whether you choose to invest or not.
What’s important to note is that Vincent does not get paid when you choose to invest. This means Vincent is not trying to sell you anything. Vincent gives, comprehensive investment information to use however you see fit. Vincent does not make recommendations, nor curate the offerings. You select the investment you want to explore, and Vincent passes you off to the portal or broker where you can decide whether to invest. For us, this is all about trust. Operating this way ensures Vincent incentives always stay aligned with you, the investor. Trust is essential for any investing relationship.
There’s no better way to earn trust than to remove any additional financial incentives we may have for you to invest with a partner. Vincent is here to help you navigate the complex world of investing. Vincent hopes it can help you get closer to solving the more important question “Where should I invest my money?”
Is Vincent open to all investors?
Anyone can use the Vincent search engine. This means Vincent is open to all types of investors, whether you are accredited, qualified or not.
That said, certain investment opportunities on Vincent may have restrictions on who can participate.
Vincent goal is to show you investments available to you. By providing Vincent more information about your investment experience and portfolio, the platform can tailor its results to provide the right available investment opportunities. If Vincent believes you may be unqualified for an investment, that offer may not show up in your search results.
Securities are governed by SEC regulations, about which you can learn more here.
Is Vincent regulated by the SEC?
No. Vincent is not currently an entity regulated by the SEC or FINRA. As an information search engine, we do not transact investments and thus fall out of the purview of these regulators.
That said, platforms and brokers who offer investments on Vincent ARE regulated entities.
While we do not originate or vet investment offers, we are curating which brokers and platforms can list in our results. Before we decide to integrate a platform into Vincent, we check to make sure they are qualified and registered to offer quality investments.
We take investor trust very seriously, and diligence each platform prior to deciding to list their offers in our results.
What is the investment minimum?
Vincent currently supports a wide array of asset classes and investment types, which means investment minimums can vary greatly.
The minimums on Vincent can range between $10 – $50,000 depending on the asset. Some sites even enable accounts and participation in airdrops and other activities with no minimums. For each investment on Vincent, we highlight the minimum amount required to participate.
How do I invest on Vincent?
You don’t. Vincent is not an investment portal, meaning we do not transact investments on your behalf. This means we’ll never take your money, and if anyone ever tells you differently please report them to us directly.
We will connect you with investment portals who can help you invest with them. Please note these are third parties unrelated to Vincent, so be sure to review them carefully before sending over your money.
What kind of investments does Vincent aggregate?
As a search engine, we pull in a wide variety of investment types from different asset classes.
We currently offer investments into the following asset types:
-Real Estate
-Venture Capital
-Fixed Income & Debt
-Collectibles
-Digital Currency & Cryptocurrency
-Debt & Lending
We’re regularly adding new investments every week, so this list will grow over time.
Investments in each of these categories vary widely, so please be sure to review carefully before investing.
Do you offer custodial accounts?
Vincent does not offer custodial accounts. In fact, at Vincent never holds investor money.
We have many partners who operate as custodians, including some for retirement accounts. Vincent will connect you with one if you need, please reach out to help@withvincent.com.
Is Vincent actually free to use?
Yes, Vincent is totally free for users. As a search engine, we do not transact investments on our platform. In fact, at no point do we ever collect payment information from users who sign-up for Vincent.
As a Vincent user, you may be redirected to an investment platform or broker which may have fees associated with their services. These fees are totally unrelated to Vincent as we do not get compensated for your choice to invest or not.