Alternative Investment Opportunities Tailored For Individual Investors

After working as an investment banker with two of the largest financial institutions in the U.S.,  Andres Sandate founded Endurance Strategies in 2010 to serve emerging alternative investment managers and their clients. Additionally, Andres has served as a senior executive and voting investment committee member at multiple alternative investment firms including hedge funds, private equity firms, real estate investment firms, and multi-asset managers. 

During his nearly 20 year career working in investment banking, asset management, and alternative investments, Andres has worked on billions of dollars in transactions. Through all of these deals, individual investors rarely had an insiders seat at the table and an opportunity to participate. In 2021 Endurance Strategies set out to change this dynamic.

As a first step, Andres launched ATLalts, a media platform dedicated to educating investors about alternative investments and private markets investing. On the heels of launching the ATLalts podcast, Andres began laying the groundwork to operationalize his vision to democratize private markets investments for individual investors.

Today, Endurance Strategies is in position, after years of relationship building and transactions across real estate, financial services, technology, and alternative investments, to offer investors direct access to leading private markets deals in real estate, pre-IPO technology companies, crypto, blockchain, and special situations.

A special purpose vehicle (SPV) is a legal entity used to pool capital and is used as a subsidiary designated by a parent company to mitigate financial risk.

SPVs have become an accepted vehicle to invest in a variety of alternative assets and direct investment opportunities and have the added benefit of facilitating joint ventures, ensuring asset security, protecting specified corporate assets, or to execute certain investment or financial transactions.

An SPVs underlying assets can be utilized to invest in the equity of startup companies, real estate transactions, or other alternative assets such as crypto or blockchain opportunities. From a legal perspective SPVs have the added benefit of providing protection to the partners in the entity from certain risk factors through the architecture of the SPV vehicle, even if the underlying assets underperform.

An SPVs investors can be individuals, LLCs, limited partnerships, trusts, corporations, IRAs, and other entity options. 

While commingled investment funds have a meaningful place and purpose in the alternative investment industry, SPVs offer investors the opportunity to access discrete private investment opportunities at a lower minimum, more quickly, and in a cost effective manner. 

Investors have the ability to customize exposures via SPVs and allocate their investment dollars to different opportunities from a variety of asset classes and sponsors. With commingled fund investments the investor is largely at the discretion of the fund manager to decide which investments to select.

• Flexible structure for individual investors to access a single, discrete private asset
• In the rapidly growing alternative asset marketplace the SPV can be a fast, flexible way to invest in the venture, technology, startup, and pre-IPO ecosystem at a lower minimum amount
• Certain real estate, crypto or blockchain deals require significant minimum investments to participate, SPVs may reduce this barrier to entry
• Reduced minimum investment (sometimes as low as $1,000)
• Lower fees (no management company, no management fee)
• No capital calls
• Reduced costs for financials 
• Only file tax returns when there is a taxable event

Like any investment structure, vehicle, fund, offering, etc. - risks are involved. Private assets like real estate, pre-IPO technology companies, crypto and blockchain startups, and special situations opportunities, have different risk factors than traditional assets like stocks and bonds. Risks include, but are not limited to, a permanent loss of capital, illiquidity, and lack of a secondary market to sell your investment. If the assets held by the SPV don't result in positive returns, the investors in the SPV will lose money. 

Endurance Strategies is focused on sourcing private markets opportunities across real estate, pre-IPO technology companies, crypto and  blockchain companies, and special situations and then structuring a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for aggregating capital from multiple sources to make a single investment. We target lower minimum investment amounts, give investors the choice which deals they want to invest in, and offer the ability to utilize retirement accounts such as IRAs to access private markets investments.

Every SPV is set up differently and the terms and conditions vary by deal but investors can get started for as little as $1,000. At this time all clients and investors must be be Accredited Investors as defined by the SEC.

Yes. Please provide some basic contact details and answer a few questions and you will be added to our mailing list. If you qualify you will receive notices when we launch an SPV. We are not a technology marketplace or equity crowdfunding model and are not attempting to feature a high volume of deals. Each team and deal we present to investors has undergone a substantial amount of underwriting, diligence, and research before we consider presenting it to investors. 

Yes. We have partnered with next-generation self-directed IRA platforms to make it easy to invest in alternative assets using your retirement assets.

Every investment opportunity is different and each offering has unique terms, conditions, investment objectives, and target duration. Generally speaking private markets investment opportunities will require investors to commit capital for multiple years at a minimum. Principal invested in an SPV is not guaranteed, loss is possible, and past investment results are not an indication of future returns.