As part of the re-launch and expansion of Legacy Education Alliance (OTCQB: LEAI) from a pure education company to an investment platform, we are building a sister company, Legacy Cap to advise our network of entrepreneurs on capital market strategies for funding and going public.
The most successful small cap public companies achieve success through active engagement with retail stock investors. The relaunch of the Legacy Education business and engagement with students is a solid foundations for Legacy Cap.
As a result of its 26-year history, including almost $900M in revenue, the majority under Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad, Poor Dad brand, Legacy Education has a database of over 5 M clients interested in entrepreneurial education and investments, including over 50,000students who have invested over $250M in education in the U.S. from 2016through 2019.
The liquidity of public markets results in public companies often having higher valuations than equivalent private companies, even with recent market volatility.
This in part has been driven by the remarkable success of FAMGA stocks. As enterprise values and revenue growth has exploded, these tech industry leaders have accelerated their acquisitions of unicorns to maintain growth. This acquisition dynamics drives valuations of all private and public companies.
We are actively working with family offices and high net worth investors to finance the investments originated by Legacy Education student.
Since the expansion of day trading activity during Covid and blog-driven rise of “meme” stocks, we believe that there is a significant value in the creation of Nasdaq vehicles.
An issue is that in the crowded world of social media, it is important to engage actively in telling the company’s story through short videos and “tweets”, a strategy not frequently practiced by traditional CEOs.
Additionally, we have identified paths to taking private companies public at a far lower cost than the traditional IPO path. Crowdfunding / Reg A+ offerings are a unique strategy that we are pursuing as an alternative to OTC reverse mergers, with potentially a significantly lower cost, while still achieving a clean Nasdaq listing.
The benefits of acquiring a distressed SPAC over originating a new SPAC is a significantly lower up-front investment, and saving time in avoiding the initial IPO process.
The other benefit of acquiring an existing SPAC is the ability to be engaged on behalf of a single business, as opposed to requiring that the sponsor be a portfolio manager with multiple appropriate opportunities.
In order to go down this path, Legacy Cap can advise on the process, from getting a PCAOB audit and retaining a law firm that has experience in M&A and SEC offerings, to preparing presentation materials and engaging with retail investors.
Legacy Cap will be partnering with cutting edge business tech consulting leaders to go beyond Legacy Cap’s public markets expertise to advise Legacy Education students and synergistic businesses on building the resources needed to succeed; from vision to detailed operations implementation using the latest technology tools and management techniques.