What's Next Healthy Crowdfunder?

"Partners for Growth"

As a former (10-year) franchisee of Nutrition House Canada Inc. I have been a champion of health and wellness including CPGs. As the founder of Healthy Crowdfunder Corp (5-year), a venture capital funding platform intending to connect/match investors and investees in the health space, it is an extension of our mission. The pain points I have encountered as an investor and as an investee (entrepreneur) are strongly relevant to solving the problems of both sides of the platform. What gets created first: the chicken or the egg? Both sides have equally valuable needs but which side do you please first, the investor or the investee? You get my drift!

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Deferring the development of Healthy Crowdfunder because of the unfeasible securities rules for entrepreneurs is not an alibi. It is the reality all entrepreneurs face aiming to penetrate or redevelop big markets. Sometimes regulators who claim to protect certain parties are also protecting the economic interest of others. In other industries, watch the challenges encountered by Uber and AirBnB as they conquer certain resisting regions. Impartial regulators are the enemies of true entrepreneurs wanting to create value for its “customers”. If you wish to understand the good and not so good roles of regulators, just study the history of how each industry was born or aborted. Study the cannabis history as well. Certain regulators pose valid arguments during a certain phase in history, yet as we all evolve to a more emotionally intelligent society, we fix the things that we are being protected from. We innovate to make our lives better.

Instead of waiting for securities regulations to change, I have continued to develop the investee side. When I ask the question, who is more important in value creation: the investee or the investor? Hands down, it is the investee - the entrepreneur and his management team. As investors, we are just facilitators, connectors, and advisors. In the era of Quantitative Easing (post 2008 financial meltdown), money has become a commodity. The only reason some of us get respect is because we have the money or access to money. From an entrepreneur standpoint, the more important question is, what value do we bring other than money? As an entrepreneur, I am looking for more knowledge/expertise, connections to other investors, strategic alliances/partners, customers (markets). Therefore, as investors we aim to deliver the same benefits we would expect if we were the investees. In time, we will change our name into Health VCFunder or ALAMidas Capital Partners and focus on investing and providing post close value-adds to the investees while partnering with established equity funding platforms.

Call to Action

To Investees

As we capitalize our AgHealth Fund, we are seeking investment-ready management team/founders involved in health and wellness, ag tech, health tech, functional foods/organics, and "special opportunities". This is a long term partnership, so we will take whatever steps necessary to ensure we achieve our common mission.

To Investors

While deferring the platform development, we can use the current marketplace platforms in San Francisco, New York, and other cities, such as CircleUp or AgFunder. Watch our forthcoming deals. Where we are mission aligned, join us as we lead syndicate them. We are already in deep due diligence and de-risking process incubating our first targets.

We welcome your bright ideas. Twitter: @alamidas or @healthvcfunder

Antonio is a financial executive, an entrepreneur, and an investor interested in co-financing and co-developing health-wellness, health tech, and technology enabled businesses, from funding to exit. Serving as strategic advisors to execute an evidence based plan, his team offers interim executive services to businesses designed primarily to enhance their expansion and financing success. As soon as the target investees are "professionalized" we would prefer to step back as a director and watch the seed grows to harvest time.

www.alamidascapital.com  |@alamidas @healthvcfunder