Meet Stick

Victor Koch
3 min readNov 30, 2019

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Summary

  • Stick is one of the fast-growing platforms in the financial market.
  • Stick has enjoyed exponential growth in its user base since the company’s initial launch in March 2019. Over 20,000 accounts have already joined the platform.
  • The main platform tools are based on machine learning and powered by AI.

Not many startups have the real potential to produce macroeconomic changes out of the gate, but Stick is one of those rare fast-growing startups that, if successful, might have an impact on the bigger picture. That’s the most interesting thing about vision — what would the possible impact of Stick on the private market and economy be?

Before we can go into the bigger picture, we first need to understand the idea behind Stick and what makes it different from regular brokerage services. Stick is a zero-commission mobile and web platform for the private markets and financial data-service — in other words, their app allows anyone (whose account is approved) to search the lowest price of private companies from their phones without any fees, unlike traditional brokerages.

Stick ready to disrupt this market problem and show investors the right way. The company is out to prove that young people do care about investment — it’s just been too expensive for them to invest small sums. Sticks tech-fueled, automated approach could change those moments.

Is zero-commission for PRE-IPO companies even possible? Yes.

It doesn’t actually cost a brokerage much money to place a trade. In fact, Stick’s found ways to earn money doing it. But decades-old financial companies have been charging their users 5%-7.25%-10% trade to pay for their brick-and-mortar retail locations, army of employees, and big profit margins. Stick plans to replace all that with apps and a lean engineering team.

The main focus of the platform is tools that allow investors to better understand the company before going public and make decisions.

Available Tools

  1. Valuation Traction
  2. Price Traction
  3. Signals
  4. Financial and Growth-Rate Metrics
  5. Feedback tool
  6. Portfolio tools
  7. Screener
  8. Company Tracker
  9. Stock Finder
  10. Smart Score [ The Ai-based indicator measures the growth rate and upside based hundreds of dynamic data — valuation, S&P 500/NASDAQ index, signals, news, funding metrics, feedbacks, growth cycle, market opportunity, and other data. ]
PE Tools

Many investors will ask if the Stick platform does not earn on commissions from transactions, like all other agents and brokers, then how does the company provide its services? The platform provides all the features through the monthly subscription model — $99 and takes 1.5% for a stock search request.

Stick first launched in March for tracking private companies and currently processes more than 34 private companies: Postmates, Robinhood, Airbnb, Coursera, Docker, Juul, Datastax, Bill.com, WeWork, Tanium, Gusto, Chime, Casper, Impossible Foods and other.

Stick’s protocol is the most flexible, secure tool for investors who are interested in private markets. No surprise fees, just surprise upgrades. There’s nothing more important to us than keeping you safe, we use cutting-edge security technologies to protect your personal information, exceeding industry-wide standards, all your data is protected by bank-level security and 256-bit encryption.

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Victor Koch
Victor Koch

Written by Victor Koch

Serial entrepreneur, accredited investor, and hedge fund manager. Ex-General Partner of Koch Fund

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