Hello there,
Welcome to the best of the Alts Community.
We’re back from Southeast Asia and launching great stuff.
Performance update:
Let’s go 🚀
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🎬 New Film Lending Investment Portal!
If you’ve been following along with our journey, you’ve probably noticed that film bridge lending has been showing up more and more in what we do.
Our two film bridge loan funds (Film I and Launch JV) are closed to new investors.
But now, we have a shiny new Investor Portal where qualified, accredited investors can invest in these deals directly.
Qualified investors can see the active deal pipeline, review collateral summaries and the full scoring report for each opportunity, and opt in deal by deal.
Our platform comes with rigorous, standardized underwriting that gives you a genuinely powerful amount of information on each deal.
Reporting is in real-time via dashboard, not a quarterly letter.
Six loans have already been syndicated to investors. Minimum ticket size is $10,000 per deal. Typical hold period is 8 to 20 weeks. Capital is returned upon loan repayment.
Oh, and we have new loans you can invest in right now. 🔥
HOW TO INVEST
First things first: Access to these loans is strictly limited to verified accredited investors.
You’ll need to sign an NDA, verify your identity, and prove your accreditation status before seeing deal-specific information. This keeps the pipeline protected for everyone in the program.
Step 1: Qualification form
This is a short application to determine if you’re a potential fit.
Step 2: Take our free course
To make sure you’re prepared for this world, we’ve built a free five-module course on film bridge lending. What it is, how the collateral works, the common misconceptions, where it fits in a portfolio, and how to evaluate an opportunity.
This course is designed to get you up to speed quickly. If you’ve made it this far in the issue, you’re halfway done.
There’s quiz at the end. Passing the quiz will give you the confidence to invest in our deals (and +50 points in our Rewards Program.)
Step 3: Sign NDA
If approved, you’ll receive an NDA to sign. From there you can log in to the portal, access to the deal pipeline, full collateral scorecards, and co-invest invitations as deals come through.
This is a big launch for us. 🚀
Questions? Issues? Smash reply. We read everything.
👋 New Members
Welcome to the 41 new members since last week 👋
A few notable members..
🇳🇬 Chidera Umelo is a Private Equity investment professional in Lagos, Nigeria with a passion for driving development across developing economies by backing strong MSMEs in significant sectors.
☀️ Raj Raina is a former Wall St/Big Tech guy who now runs an art investing fund, focused on acquiring institutionally-backed emerging artwork. The long term play is to create a rigorous, industry-standard index for tracking prices of these works, which would enable tokenization and defensible secondary-market trading (think Case-Schiller, for art).
He also curates private, after-hours arts events in the SF-Bay Area and would love to have folks join.
🗽 Ellyn Ito is CEO and Cofounder of Innerstill Health, a neuroregulation platform with near-term wellness revenue and long-term upside.
She is currently raising a $500k bridge to accelerate commercial traction and operational readiness, followed by a planned $10m Series A to expand manufacturing, software, R&D, regulatory execution, and broader market reach.
💬 New Discussions
- Stefan’s issue on Australia’s Superannuation funds kicked off some intense discussion on Instagram
- The South Park guys are behind Hollywood’s best deepfakes
- Bertram Cameron has written a book about human displacement — people who have lost their country, legal status, or both, and built an identity on the other side of that loss.
🥂 Three New Meetups on Apr 29
We’ve got 3 new events happening around the world on April 29
🌴 Altea Flight Night #2: Tequila Masterclass in Laguna Beach, CA
You may have seen our first Altea Flight Night a few weeks ago: The tequila masterclass with House of Rare at The Beekman Hotel in New York.
It was a huge success, so we’re doing it again, this time on the West Coast, in Laguna Beach, CA on April 29.
A private home right on the coast
The venue is a private residence in the heart of downtown Laguna Beach — excellent location, steps from the water. We’re starting at 6pm so you catch the sunset over the Pacific before the tasting kicks off.
A guided tasting, and a public debut for the bottle
Miguel Ortiz will lead a curated tasting of House of Rare expressions, covering how the best agave spirits are made, what separates them, and where the collector market is heading.
April 29 is the public launch day for the House of Rare Genesis PX. Attendees will be among the first people in the world to taste it.
Learn more: Rare Añejo: Sip it or Flip It
Details:
- Date: Wed, April 29
- Time: 6pm – 8:30pm PT
- Location: Downtown Laguna Beach, CA (exact address to confirmed attendees)
- Capacity: ~16 guests
- Hosted by: Miguel Ortiz (House of Rare) and Morgan Keim (Altea OC City Captain)
Attendance is limited and invitations are extended selectively. Priority will be given to paying Altea members and their guests.
If you’re on the west coast and interested in alternative investing, we’d love to have you join!
🗽 New York City Casual Dinner
The next New York City event will be a casual go-Dutch dinner on Wednesday April 29. Location TBD.
These dinners are lots of fun. To save a seat, join the New York Group or contact New York City Captain Valerie Fristachi.
And if you have a friend who would be game to talk alts, collectibles, and favorite restaurants, feel free to bring them along!
🇦🇺 Sydney Sunrise Week Investor Meetup (Waitlist only)
We’re hosting an alternative investing meetup in Sydney for Altea members and friends of the Blackbird community.
Details
- Date: Wed, April 29, 3pm – 5pm
- Location: Clare Bar, The Old Clare Hotel. 1 Kensington St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia
- Hosts: Alts CEO Stefan von Imhof, and Sydney City Captain Peter Ng
- Cost: Free for Altea members | AUD $50 for guests. Ticket price includes drinks and bites.
Waitlist only
🤝 New Public Deal
🦘 One of Australia’s most celebrated luxury resorts is for sale
The beloved beach town of Byron Bay, Australia has become one of the most globally coveted destinations on the planet.
Blackbird Byron sits above it all. Twenty-eight acres high in the hinterland, with a private waterfall threading through rainforest, and a 180-degree ocean horizon.
This is a boutique estate hotel, ranked in the Top 101 Hotels in the World. Media, magazines, and influencers are all over this place. Just Google it.
The next owner inherits not just an operating asset, but a permitted growth platform that would be extremely difficult & unlikely to replicate from scratch in this region today.
Express interest
Blackbird is being offered privately, to serious, qualified buyers. Open to international buyers (FIRB-eligible). Accredited investors only.
This is a full property acquisition, not an Altea SPV.
🙏 New Asks & Offers
👩🏻⚖️ California estate planning attorney
Singapore City Captain Nico Monroy is looking for a recommendation for a California-based estate planning attorney experienced in trust amendments with an international dimension.
He have an existing California revocable trust that needs to be amended to change the trustee structure. One of the current joint trustees is no longer a US person, which is the primary driver of the change.
He’s looking for someone who:
- Knows California trust law well
- Has experience with expatriate or non-US person trustee issues
- Understands the tax implications of trustee status changes (US/foreign)
Know anyone? Chat with Nico.
🔮 AI prediction marker trader wanted
Bryan Cooley is trying to find someone who can build and manage agentic traders for prediction markets.
He will stake the person and pay out a percentage of the gains or pay a salary. Has to be someone who is trustworthy, but also has a knack for these things.
Anyone know someone who might fit the bill? Chat with Bryan.
🩺 MedTech opportunity
Omar Khokhar has come across a time sensitive opportunity to invest in a med tech company (specifically endoscopy, his field) that is looking to be acquired in the next 24 months.
They are looking to raise at least 250k in the next two weeks and the internal projected rate of return is 4 to 8x over the next 24-36 months.
Interested? Chat with Omar.
That’s it for today!
See you next week, Wyatt & Stefan
