Hi fellas, I'm Shafiq and I'm building Invnex for private investors

After having to drop out of high school, I put up a number of hats. Starting from hosting events when I was 15 and bringing hundreds of people together, to learning how to invest in commodities and later crypto. I went on to lead a boutique advisory firm and became a consultant where I worked with central banks, financial institutions and a range of private sector and government entities. While I enjoyed working and learning all these new stuffs, I wasn't a big fan of consulting. However, one of the last projects that I was working on had elements of currency, capital markets and tokenization which I found very exciting. Needless to say, it provided a lot of insights and paved the way that led me to where I am today, building Invnex.

I looked into private markets (private equity, real estate, etc) and I didn't like the fact that in order to invest in these markets, I need to have a bunch of cash. Maybe that's by design so the wealthy can keep getting wealthy. Some would say gatekeeping is necessary when private markets have outperformed public markets over the past 20 years. Still, I took it personally and started this journey to bring access to world-class investment opportunities en masse.

Apart from Invnex, I'm founder of Chain Reaction (www.crsummit.io), an innovation, tech and finance conference. So, more than a decade after the first, I'm still hosting events, maybe I just like community building.

I look forward to connecting with the Product Hunt community and please feel free to reach out if I can be of any help.