Pursuant to Rule 302(b) of Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) Regulation Crowdfunding under the Securities Act of 1933 (Title III of the JOBS Act), as amended (the “Securities Act”), all potential investors who open an account on TycoonoInvest.com or TycoonInvest.com and/or commit to purchasing securities are required to receive and acknowledge certain educational information from TycoonInvest related to the posting of securities offerings on TycoonInvest, including: (i) how securities on TycoonInvest are offered and purchased; (ii) the types of securities offered and any resale restrictions on such securities; (iii) the risks of investing in such securities; (iv) investment limits for certain investors; (v) the disclosure generally required to be made available by issuers offering securities on TycoonInvest (“Issuers”); and (vi) the relationship between TycoonInvest, posted Issuers and investors. Please review the important information below before you begin to register on TycoonInvest and before you make any investment commitment.

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Under recently adopted rules, companies can use crowdfunding to offer and sell securities to the investing public, and anyone can invest in a crowdfunding securities offering. Since May 16th, 2016, the general public has had the opportunity to participate in the early capital raising activities of start-up and early-stage companies and businesses.

About TycoonInvest

TycoonInvest is a funding portal designed to connect issuing companies with investors through real estate crowdfunding.  In order to provide these opportunities, TycoonoInvest Portal LLC has registered with the SEC and become a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“FINRA”) as a funding portal. If you’re interested in learning more about FINRA and their Broker Check, click here.

As a registered funding portal, TycoonInvest is unable to:

• Offer investment advice or make recommendations; solicit purchases, sales, or offers to buy securities; compensate promoters and other persons for solicitations or based on the sale of securities, and hold, possess, or handle investor funds or securities.
• Allow companies to list securities on our platform that we have a reasonable basis for believing have the potential for fraud or raise other investor protection concerns.
• Have a financial interest in a company that is offering or selling securities on our platform under Regulation Crowdfunding outside of financial interest paid as compensation for the services.
• Compensate any person for providing us with personally identifiable information of any investor or potential investor.

Please note – following the completion of an offering conducted through the intermediary, there may or may not be an ongoing relationship between the issuer and intermediary.

Investment Considerations and Risks

Prior to registering on TycoonInvest and before making an investment commitment, you must consider the risks of investing in crowdfunded securities offerings and determine whether such an investment is appropriate for you. TycoonInvest and its employees are prohibited from offering advice about any offering posted on TycoonInvest and from recommending any investment. No SEC review is involved in Regulation Crowdfunding offerings.

This means the decision to invest must be based solely on your own individualized consideration and analysis of the risks involved in a particular investment opportunity posted on the TycoonInvest.

Potential investors acknowledge and agree that they are solely responsible for determining their own suitability for an investment or strategy on TycoonInvest and must accept the risks associated with such decisions, which include the risk of losing the entire amount of their principal. Investors must be able to afford to lose their entire investment.

TycoonInvest has no special relationship with or fiduciary duty to potential investors, and investors’ use of the funding portal does not create such a relationship. Potential investors agree and acknowledge that they are responsible for conducting their own legal, accounting, and other due diligence reviews of the investment opportunities posted on TycoonInvest.

EACH INVESTOR IS STRONGLY ADVISED TO CONSULT LEGAL, TAX, INVESTMENT, ACCOUNTING, AND/OR OTHER PROFESSIONALS BEFORE INVESTING, AND TO CAREFULLY REVIEW ALL THE SPECIFIC RISK DISCLOSURES PROVIDED AS PART OF ANY OFFERING MATERIALS. INVESTORS MUST POST ANY QUESTIONS TO THE ISSUERS Q&A SECTION OF THEIR CAMPAIGN PAGE PRIOR TO MAKING AN INVESTMENT.

• Investment in small, especially start-up and early-stage companies, is speculative and involves a high degree of risk. While targeted returns on the amount invested should reflect the perceived level of risk in the investment, such returns may never be realized and/or may not be adequate to compensate an Investor for risks taken. Loss of an Investor’s entire investment is very possible and can easily occur. Even the timing of any payment of a return on an investment is highly speculative.
• Unlike listed companies that are valued publicly through market-driven stock prices, the valuation of startups can be difficult to determine and is often subjective. You may risk overpaying for the equity stake you receive.
• There may be additional classes of equity or derivatives with rights that are superior to the class of equity being sold through crowdfunding.  Additionally, investments are subject to dilution, which is when early investors see a reduction in ownership percentage as new stock is issued.
• A regulation crowdfunding investment may need to be held for an indefinite period.  Unlike investing in companies listed on a stock exchange where you can quickly and easily trade securities on a market, you may have to locate an interested buyer privately when you seek to resell your crowdfunded investment even after the one-year restriction expires. There is no assurance these securities will ever be publicly tradable.
• An early-stage company may be able to provide only limited information about their business plan and operations because they do not have fully developed operations or a long history to provide more disclosure.
• Publicly listed companies generally are required to disclose information about their performance at least on a quarterly and annual basis and on a more frequent basis about material events that affect the issuer.  In contrast, crowdfunding companies are only required to disclose their results of operations and financial statements annually. Therefore, you may have only limited continuing disclosure about your crowdfunding investment.
• Investment opportunities posted on TycoonInvest, the adequacy of the disclosures, or the Fairness of the terms of any such investment opportunity have not been reviewed or approved by a state or federal agency.
• The Issuer may not have an internal control infrastructure and there can be no assurance that there are no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in the quality of the Issuer’s financial and disclosure controls and procedures. Indeed, if it were necessary to implement such financial and disclosure controls and procedures, the cost to the Issuer might even have a material adverse effect on the Issuer’s operations.
• A portion of your investment may fund the compensation of the issuer’s employees, including its founders and management. Due to inexperience, management may not be able to execute its business plan. Additionally, unless the issuer has agreed to a specific use of the proceeds from the offering, the Issuer’s management will usually have considerable discretion over how to use the capital raised. You may not have any assurance the Issuer will use the proceeds appropriately. You should pay close attention to what the issuer says about how offering proceeds are to be used.
• Because the Issuer’s founders, directors, and executive officers may be among its largest stockholders, they may be able to exert significant control or influence over the Issuer’s business and affairs and may even have actual or potential interests that diverge from those of other Investors.  This may worsen as time goes on if the holdings of the issuer’s directors and executive officers increase upon vesting or other maturation of exercise rights under options or warrants they may hold, or in the future be granted. In addition to holding or controlling board seats and offices, these persons may well have significant influence over and control of corporate actions requiring shareholder approval, separate from how the Issuer’s other stockholders, including Investors, may vote in a given offering.
• The issuing company may have serious risks specific to its industry or its business model. Demand for a product or service may be seasonal or be impacted by the overall economy. Small businesses in particular, often depend heavily upon a single customer, supplier, or upon one or a small number of employee(s). It may have difficulty competing against larger companies that can negotiate for better prices from suppliers, produce goods and services on a large scale more economically, or take advantage of bigger marketing budgets.
• In light of the relative ease with which early-stage companies can raise funds through crowdfunding, it may be the case that certain opportunities turn out to be money-losing fraudulent schemes. As with other investments, there is no guarantee that crowdfunding investments will be immune from fraud. Even with the SEC’s thorough investigation of companies and their executive teams, there is a risk of fraudulent activity.
• Many successful companies partially attribute their early success to the guidance of professional early-stage investors (e.g., angel investors and venture capital firms). These investors often negotiate for seats on the issuer’s board of directors and play an important role through their resources, contacts, and experience in assisting early-stage companies in executing their business plans.  An early-stage company primarily financed through crowdfunding may not have the benefit of such professional investors.
• Audited financial statements are not required for regulation crowdfunding offerings under $535,000.00. The issuer is not required to provide you with annual audited financial statements or quarterly unaudited financial statements, except as explained above. The Issuer may not even have its financial statements audited, or even reviewed by outside auditors.  Your decision to make an investment in the Issuer will be based upon the information the Issuer provides in its offering materials, which may not completely or even accurately represent the financial condition of the issuer.
• As explained above, an Investor may not be able to obtain the information it wants regarding a particular Issuer on a timely basis, or at all. It is possible that the investor may not be aware of material adverse changes that have occurred to the Issuer. An Investor may not be able to get accurate information about an Issuer’s current value at any given time.
• Federal securities law requires securities sold in the United States to be registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) unless the sale qualifies for an exemption. The securities offered on TycoonoInvest have not been registered under the Securities Act, and are offered in reliance on the crowdfunding exemption provisions of Section 4(a) (6) of the Securities Act [and/or Regulation S promulgated thereunder]. Securities sold on TycoonInvest are restricted and not publicly traded, and are therefore illiquid. No assurance can be given that any investment opportunity will continue to qualify under one or more of such exemption provisions of the Securities Act due to, among other things, the adequacy of disclosure and the manner of distribution, the existence of similar offerings in the past or in the future, or a change of any securities law or regulation that has retroactive effect.

The risks highlighted above are non-exhaustive. Investors must carefully review each issuer’s offering materials for a more complete set of risk factors specific to the investment. You should only invest an amount of money you can afford to lose without impacting your lifestyle

Types of Securities Offered

The most common forms of securities an issuer can offer are equity or debt. The securities we offer include the following:

Common Stock: Conveys a portion of the ownership interest in the company to the holder of the security. Stockholders are usually entitled to receive dividends when and if declared, vote on corporate matters, and receive information about the company, including financial statements. This is the riskiest type of equity security since common stock is last in line to be paid if a company fails. You should read our discussion of the risks of early-stage investing here, and pay special attention to the fact that your investment will only make money if the company’s business succeeds. Common Stock is a long-term investment.

Preferred Stock: Stock that has priority over common stock as to dividend payments and/or the distribution of the assets of the company. Preferred stock can have the characteristics of either common stock or debt securities. While preferred stock gets paid ahead of common stock, it will still only be repaid on liquidation if there is money left over after the company’s debts are paid. In certain circumstances (such as an initial public offering or a corporate takeover) the preferred stock might be convertible into common stock (the riskiest class of equity). You should review the terms of the preferred stock to know when that might happen.

Debt / Revenue Share: Securities in which the seller must repay the investor’s original investment amount at maturity plus interest. Debt securities are essentially loans to the company and the major risk they bear is that the company does not repay them, in which case they are likely to become worthless.

Convertible Note: This form of investment is popular with technology startups because it allows investors to initially lend money to the company and later receive shares if new professional investors decide to invest. The sort of convertible note that is most often offered on TycoonInvest may limit the circumstances in which any part of the loan is repaid, and the note may only convert when specified events (such as a preferred stock offering of a specific amount) happen in the future. You will not know how much your investment is “worth” until that time, which may never happen. You should treat this sort of convertible note as having the same risks as common stock.

Investment Limitations

Due to the inherent risks involved with this type of investing, non-accredited investors are limited to how much you can invest during a 12-month period.  The investment maximum will depend on your annual income and net worth. Accredited investors are NOT limited to how much they can invest.  Click here to find out if you meet the requirements to qualify as an accredited investor.

If either your annual income or your net worth is less than $124,000, then during any 12-month period, you can invest up to the greater of either $2,500 or 5% of the greater of your annual income or net worth.

If both your annual income and your net worth are equal to or more than $124,000, then during any 12-month period, you can invest up to 10% of annual income or net worth, whichever is greater, but not to exceed $124,000.   For more information, see the SEC Investor Bulletin.

Calculating Net Worth

Calculating net worth involves adding up all your assets and subtracting all your liabilities. The resulting sum is your net worth. For purposes of crowdfunding, the value of your primary residence is not included in your net worth calculation.

The SEC’s Investor Bulletin Crowdfunding for Investors contains detailed and useful information about how to perform these calculations and examples here.

Cancellations

As an investor, you will have up to 48 hours prior to a rolling close, or 48 hours prior to the offering deadline to change your mind and cancel your investment commitment for any reason.

Changing Your Mind

If you do not cancel an investment commitment 48 hours prior to the offering deadline or a rolling close, the funds will be released to the Issuer by the escrow agent.  Following the close on funds, you will then receive securities in exchange for your investment.

If you do cancel an investment commitment before the 48-hour deadline, TycoonInvest will direct the return of any funds that have been committed by you in the offering.

However, once the offering period is within 48 hours of ending, you will not be able to cancel for any reason, even if you make your commitment during this period.

Restrictions on Resale

The securities offered on TycoonInvest are only suitable for potential investors who are familiar with and willing to accept the high risks associated with high risk and illiquid private investments. Securities sold through TycoonInvest are restricted and not publicly traded and, therefore, cannot be sold unless registered with the SEC or an exemption from registration is available.

You are generally restricted from reselling your shares for a one-year period after they were issued unless the shares are transferred:

• to the company that issued the securities;
• to an accredited investor;
• to a family member (defined as a child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, spouse or spousal equivalent, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships.);
• in connection with your death or divorce or similar circumstance;
• to a trust controlled by you or a trust created for the benefit of a family member;
• as part of an offering registered with SEC

Material Changes

Material changes to an offering include but are not limited to: A change in minimum offering amount, change in security price, change in management, a material change to financial information, etc. If an issuer makes a material change to the offering terms or other information disclosed, including a change to the offering deadline, investors will be given five business days to reconfirm their investment commitment. If investors do not reconfirm, their investment will be canceled and the funds will be returned.

The Investment Process on TycoonInvest

In order to invest, to commit to an investment, or to communicate on our platform, you must open an account on TycoonInvest, which entails providing certain personal and non-personal information to TycoonInvest and its affiliates and/or service providers, including information related to your income and net worth, and other investments. This information is used to verify you as a potential investor who is qualified to invest in investment opportunities posted on TycoonInvest. For further information on investment limitations, please see “Investment Limitations” above, and for information on handling your personal information, please see our Privacy Policy.

Platform Compensation

As compensation for the services provided by TycoonInvest, the issuer is required to pay to TycoonInvest a fee consisting of an initial setup fee of $25,000 and a 3% fee to be paid in cash prior to the closing of the live Offering based on the dollar amount of securities sold in the Offering and paid upon disbursement of funds from escrow at the time of a closing. Additionally, the issuer may be required to reimburse certain expenses related to the Offering. The securities issued to TycoonInvest, if any, will be of the same class and have the same terms, conditions, and rights as the securities being offered and sold by the issuer on TycoonInvest’s website.

Hitting the Target Goal Early & Oversubscriptions

TycoonInvest will notify investors by email when the target offering amount has hit 25%, 50%, and 100% of the funding goal. If the issuer hits its goal early, and the minimum offering period of 21 days has been met, the issuer can create a new target deadline at least 5 business days out. Investors will be notified of the new target deadline via email and will then have the opportunity to cancel up to 48 hours before the new deadline.

Oversubscriptions: We require all issuers to accept oversubscriptions. This may not be possible if: 1) it vaults an issuer into a different category for financial statement requirements (and they do not have the requisite financial statements), or 2) they reach $1.07M in investments. In the event of an oversubscription, shares will be allocated at the discretion of the issuer.

If the sum of the investment commitments does not equal or exceed the target offering amount at the offering deadline, no securities will be sold in the offering, investment commitments will be canceled and committed funds will be returned.

If an issuer reaches its target offering amount prior to the deadline, it may conduct an initial closing of the offering early if they provide notice of the new offering deadline at least five business days prior to the new offering deadline (absent a material change that would require an extension of the offering and reconfirmation of the investment commitment). TycoonInvest will notify investors when the issuer meets its target offering amount. Thereafter, the issuer may conduct additional closings until the offering deadline.

Updated January 18, 2023