SpaceX lockup ends: Insiders can now sell
This week’s Alts Cafe tracks major shifts across alternative markets, from yen intervention and SpaceX’s lockup to creator finance, private credit, and commodity risks.
August 10, 2026
Debt financing (also known as Private Credit) is one of the “OG” alternative investments — a $1.2 trillion alternative investment market that is top of mind for institutions around the world. Common uses include equipment financing, inventory financing, and acquisition financing.
As an investor, you can help provide secured and unsecured loans. Firms use your capital to finance equipment and pay you back with interest.
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This week’s Alts Cafe tracks major shifts across alternative markets, from yen intervention and SpaceX’s lockup to creator finance, private credit, and commodity risks.
Japan’s akiya homes look like cheap real estate. We break down the renovation costs, local rules, demographic risks, and what it takes to make the model work.
This week’s Alts Community spotlights Farmland I’s final commitments, dives into film financing and equity risk, and flags new opportunities, meetups, and investor warnings.
Today’s more of a collab than usual. Tax minimisation is a hobby an obsession for wealthy folks, and when it comes to paying less, tax havens are the name of the game.
This week’s Altea Community highlights new litigation-finance safeguards, a growing real-time member network, and fresh opportunities spanning athlete earnings, whisky, and defense tech.
Today, we’re revisiting litigation finance, unpacking how two investor blowups inspired a new due diligence course, and what it means for private credit allocators going forward.
Today, Groundfloor is expanding beyond real estate, with options for both accredited andnon-accredited investors.
This week, we revisit film bridge lending, explain how receivables-backed loans in film actually work, and map the implications for investors seeking short-duration, collateralized private credit exposure.
This week, we track how investors can position portfolios for unconventional policy risk, mapping scenario-driven trades, defensive plays, and where asymmetric opportunities may emerge across real assets and credit.
This week’s Alts Cafe tracks turmoil across alternative markets—from FranShares’ shutdown and prediction market scrutiny to gold’s surge, major catalog deals, and signals across collectibles, private credit, and global assets.
Earn fixed income from high-volume UK legal claims. Fenchurch turns consumer lawsuits into secured private credit, offering investors 12–14% yields with multi-layered downside protection.
Inheritance is the biggest financial event most people ever face, but it often comes too late to make a real difference. Forward Inhertiance is using HEIs to speed things up.
We create indices for eclectic modern alts. We’ve got a vinyl index, a whiskey index, and more. This helps us find the best buying opportunities for our alternative investment fund
We wrap everything up with a rich qualitative analysis. You’ll understand the pros & cons of investing in all sorts of alternative asset classes.
