Spaced Ventures is, to put it simply, an equity crowdfunding platform that pools money from individual investors to buy shares in privately held aerospace companies. The company is currently attempting its most ambitious initiative yet — securing enough pledges to get SpaceX’s attention and have its community members become investors in the private space company.
Aaron Burnett, Founder and CEO of Spaced Ventures
If the initiative succeeds, Spaced Ventures will become one of the few firms that were able to get individual shareholders into SpaceX. Achieving such a feat is not easy, as Elon Musk has openly expressed his reservations about taking SpaceX public in the past. SpaceX may be spinning off some of its divisions like Starlink and making those public, but for now, investing in the private space company is still an incredibly tricky endeavor.
As cool as this may be, we need to remember, that SpaceX is private for a reason. This is about Musk's vision of making humanity a multiplanetary species, and he want's to see it through without interference, as would be the case if he had to account to a board of directors. This is his explanation that I'm paraphrasing here as I know many of you are aware....