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Republic

149 5th Avenue, #1314, New York, NY, 10010, United States

Overview

Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a global team in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more.

Total investments
50
Lead investments
22
Investments · 12mo
7
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Crowdfunding
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Financial Services
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Investment portfolio

  • Rentberry

    Led · Crowdfunding · Aug 2026

    Rentberry positions itself as the first AI-powered real estate agent, enabling renters to submit offers, negotiate lease terms, and complete rental applications online. The company says it unlocks over $500 billion tied up in security deposits and reduces move-in costs, while helping landlords identify reputable tenants and streamline lease management to reduce leasing risks. Rentberry reports over 50 million users and 20 million properties on its platform worldwide. It has previously raised over $40 million in venture capital and has run prior securities crowdfunding under Reg A and Reg CF. The company is pursuing additional growth capital and plans a $15 million round after the current Reg CF, describing that as its final raise before an intended public offering in 2027.

  • KOR Protocol

    Participated · Series A · Jul 2026

    KOR Protocol offers an end-to-end platform intended to serve as a clearinghouse for creative assets and talent in the AI era. Its product stack centers on three layers—production (establishing origin, authenticity, ownership, and clearance), distribution (intelligence and workflow tools to route talent and content), and monetization (payments, splits, licensing flows, and revenue management). Several apps already build on the protocol, including KORUS (music remixing and release packs), Pacer (an AI operating system for music release and audience management), VRSNS, Streamline, and KOR Hubs. Since launch the company reports over 1 million lifetime sign-ups, 400,000 connected wallets, 1,000+ IP partners (including Black Mirror, Beatport, mau5trap, Imogen Heap, Banijay Group, and KDDI), and more than $2 million in gross revenue. Ritty Quin was appointed CEO late in the prior year to lead the company’s growth across technology and the creator economy. KOR intends to expand licensed IP supply, deepen its protocol and products, scale partnerships across music and entertainment, and onboard more creators and commercial partners as it builds toward a larger network rollout.

  • Sentient

    Participated · Seed · Jul 2026

    Sentient develops a decentralized AI infrastructure called GRID that connects more than 100 models, data sources and reasoning agents to enable compositional multi-model responses. Built products include Dobby (a family of open-source LLMs tuned for community-aligned values), Sentient Chat (an agent-aggregation interface) and Open Deep Search, which the team says outperformed closed alternatives on the FRAMES benchmark. The project issues the SENT token for staking, governance, service payments and contributor rewards to coordinate a distributed community of developers, data providers and infrastructure operators. Sentient was founded in January 2024 by Sandeep Nailwal, Pramod Viswanath and Himanshu Tyagi and has secured an $85M seed round plus a $42M grants/investment program for open AGI research, bringing total committed capital above $125M. The team emphasizes keeping advanced models and agents openly available and auditable rather than proprietary. Following a listing of SENT on a major exchange, the token jumped about 20% on July 9, 2026, an event the coverage characterizes as liquidity-driven and highlights execution and adoption risk as key determinants of long-term value.

  • GOODFOLIO

    Led · Seed · Apr 2026

    GOODFOLIO builds an enterprise AI platform that embeds models into business workflows and emphasizes production-grade implementations rather than pilot projects. The company has developed a repeatable deployment system and reusable components to enable scalable product lines, plus internal agent-driven systems to identify, qualify and develop enterprise opportunities at scale. Its stated customers span financial regulation, emerging markets and healthcare, sectors that require compliance and robust implementations. GOODFOLIO reports more than £1m in revenue over three years and says early monthly recurring revenue is emerging across use cases and geographies. The company also reports a growing pipeline with signed contracts and advanced-stage opportunities, which it says are larger and involve longer payment schedules. Planned priorities include scaling delivery teams and expanding internationally to convert multi-year deployments into recurring revenue.

  • allocatte

    Participated · Series B · Mar 2026

    allocatte is a DFSA-regulated fractional real estate investment platform headquartered in Dubai that offers tokenized shares in prime Dubai and Saudi Arabian properties. The platform reports over 2 million registered users from 211 nationalities, more than USD 1.4 billion in total property transactions facilitated, and USD 169.2 million in total investor returns distributed. In 2025 allocatte delivered an average annual yield of 10% for investors and is dual-regulated by the DFSA (UAE) and the CMA (Saudi Arabia). With the newly closed Series B, allocatte plans to launch new real estate funds spanning logistics, hospitality, and student housing, expand into additional MENA and Southeast Asian markets, and deepen its regulated fund offerings. The company also intends to enhance AI-powered portfolio analytics, develop a deeper secondary market for liquidity, and expand visa-related offerings such as UAE Golden Visa pathways for qualifying investors.

Team

  • Kendrick Nguyen

    Co-Founder and CEO

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  • Chuck Pettid

    CEO, Republic Crowdfunding Portal

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  • Léo Galley

    Co-founder & Design director

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  • Peter Green

    Co-founder, Head of Product

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