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Avestor runs a $5M internal fund to test transaction volumes

Badri Malinar · This SaaS For Fund Manager's Just Hit $40k of MRR charing a % of AUM Managed · Oct 12, 2023 · at 3:42

Badri Malinar, co-founder of Avestor, outlines the size and testing purpose of their internal fund.

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“The company run fund is less than five million, about five million dollars. It's less than the intent of that fund was never to grow the fund. It was purely to test out large volumes of transactions.”

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