This is NOT investment advice. Investing in startups is risky whether it is via StartEngine or any of the other platforms. Liquidity may or may not be an option for an extended period of time.
Let's see if we can toss out a few names on a monthly basis for people to debate and evaluate and see if this is useful. At times, we have only one name or zero.
The types of firms that typically catch our attention are generally based on seeking a potential "bet a little, win a lot" approach where we seek potential "winner takes all or most" outcomes. We tend to focus on those and avoid battles with low barriers to entry UNLESS the firm is simply executing at a very high level and clearly advancing to a few different potential exits.
First, a couple of recent posts here on this platform:
When Will Bitcoin For A Bottom?
The Submerge - Ether Merge Debacle
What Will It Take For A New Bull Market to Emerge
Here is what made it through our screening:
Ecolution Power - here is how the firm describes itself in italics:
Ecolution Power is a pre-revenue company with world-class partners, two American cities that have signed Letters of Intent, and five patents focused on recycling wasted kinetic energy from moving vehicles. The company is helping smart cities and the transportation industry achieve a net-zero carbon footprint. Ecolution Power has two engineering partners; Day & Zimmermann and KTM, both in Greenville, South Carolina. The engineers have completed the bench testing phase and have successfully completed a prototype trailer that is now on the road generating energy.
Catches our attention as a novel and unique way to potentially help and/or solve a problem that is persistent and won't be going away. This could also help create network effects where the technology is the cornerstone of a way to preserve and create energy - thus an ecosystem where multiple stakeholders are incentivized to help and reinforce the effects.
Another mentioned previously still raising might be worth a minute of one's time:
