Roundtable - Launch your EU investment fund in days, not months
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Setting up a fund in Europe used to take €200k+ (legal/tax included) and months of waiting. We built Roundtable to change that.
With our EUVECA license, emerging fund managers can launch a compliant EU fund in days, not months.
Market to professional and non-professional investors across Europe, onboard LPs digitally, manage capital calls and distributions, all from one platform. US LPs welcome too.
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Congrats on the launch! Amazing to see how you're filling this critical gap in our ecosystem! Onwards!
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@eggertxyz Thanks!
Indeed, it's crazy how hard it still is to launch a fund in Europe!
Let's go!
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Thanks Christian ! indeed :)
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Well done Roundtable! Awesome product and team, let's go 🚀
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Thank you@gregcha !
Thanks for your support @gregcha !!
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I am the biggest fan of Roundtable, what you guys have built is incredible
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Thanks Roxanne ! And it's just the beginning :)
Thanks for your support @roxannevarza !!
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@roxannevarza Thanks for the kind words, means a lot coming from you!
Have been a user at Roundtable for a couple of years, I can't ever remember how we handled investment workflows, clubs and compliance before!
Thanks for your support @amaury_sepulchre2 !!
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Thanks for your support Amaury !!
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@amaury_sepulchre2 Thanks for using us from the start!
ngl if you are raising for a fund and not using it your ngmi
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@tibozaurus
ngl if you’re raising a fund and still running ops on spreadsheets you’re ngmi!
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This is long overdue. The barrier to entry for emerging fund managers in Europe has been absurd for years €200k+ just to exist legally before raising a single euro. Congrats on the launch, will be watching this closely.
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@pierre_lemaire2
Exactly, it's really a high barrier to entry to fund formation in Europe!
We're hoping this will help the ecosystem as a whole
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How does Roundtable’s financial infrastructure automate the complex regulatory compliance and capital call processes across different asset classes like Real Estate and Venture Capital within a single marketplace?
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Hello @mordrag ,
We are getting the different required licenses from the regulator and then we open one asset class by one asset class and map all required processes specific for each!
Thanks to AI and an agnostic central data model, we manage to provide a high level of automation to our operation teams and our customers (bringing back high level of reliability compare to multiple excels which are commonly used in the ecosystem as of now)
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@mordrag Indeed, great question!
@evan_testa said it well : an agnostic general ledger + AI to help!
@julien_fissette Interesting problem to tackle.
The infrastructure barrier in Europe is real. €200k/year and months of setup effectively block emerging managers before they even place their first deal.
The ‘fund-as-a-service’ angle feels like the real unlock here, especially if launch timelines drop from months to days.
One thing I’m curious about.
For new fund managers raising their first vehicle, does Roundtable also help with investor visibility or discovery, or is the focus mainly on infrastructure and compliance?
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@taimur_haider1
Hi Taimur,
This is a great question!
We're an infrastructure player, so we don't actively push investment opportunities to investors.
This is a difference with a crowdfunding platform for instance.
We consider that it avoids conflicts of interest on our part!
@julien_fissette Thanks for clarifying. That makes sense. Keeping infrastructure neutral definitely avoids conflicts.
I'm curious though, for first-time fund managers, have you seen any patterns or best practices around how they increase investor visibility once they’re set up on Roundtable?
What's the minimum / average emerging fund size you are looking to enable?
It's more ~ 2/3MM or double digit?
Would an Emerging Manager already need (some sort of) capital commitments in order to start off?
Thanks :) @julien_fissette
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For now our funds are ranging from 8M€ (single digit) to 300M€ with an average around 20/30M. But with the level of automation in front of us we will soon be able to support 3/5M€ funds too !
@evan_testa ok thanks for sharing
So it's still in the upper range of what one can define "Emerging" Fund manager.
The complexity of opening up to the lower end is more demand driven (aka "we don't see the use case of such funds in EU?") or price-related (aka "price wise is not sustainable with usual 2/20 fee structure to have fund smaller than 8/10MM)?
Reason why I am asking is because Decile - which you might know - are tailoring this more towards the lower end, with a focus on US legislation of course
Hence my question if this could be the European-focused alternative for that "tier"
Will monitor how it evolves!
Big congrats on the launch @julien_fissette !
Speaking from experience: we used Roundtable at Phacet to structure our seed round SPV and to run our BA club. What would have been months of legal back-and-forth was done in days.
Europe desperately needed this kind of infrastructure. Excited to see you open the door for more emerging managers !
Thanks for your support @willpa !!
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Thanks for the kind words@willpa 🙌