What is Sprowtt
Sprowtt statecf is the first approved Funding portal for the State of Florida. Sprowtt has developed state of the art technology to enable companies to raise capital while remaining in compliance with the invest local rules and regulations we are inviting early-stage Companies with a Product or Service with a story to tell potential investors to apply to conduct a offering. Sprowtt will perform due diligence, on your company and Team. Sprowtt will facilitate the preparation of your registered offering so your investors are able to purchase an equity stake in your company posted on the sprowtt website. Sprowtt has a focus on Florida based companies its our experience investors like to invest close to home.
Learn MoreSprowtt is a full service online platform for early stage capital investment open to all investors both accredited and unaccredited investors.
OUR STORY
It turns out that Sprowtt isn't only awesome for business owners looking to raise capital and for investors. There are many ways to use Sprowtt.
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OUR TEAM
It turns out that Sprowtt isn't only awesome for business owners looking to raise capital and for investors. There are many ways to use Sprowtt.
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MARK JONES
Founder and Chairman
Mark brings over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience for successfully launching and managing large
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LANCE ABLIN
Advisor
Mr. Ablin has a diverse and experienced background in many areas of business, as both an investor and a serial entrepreneur.
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TIM LEARY
Advisor
Tim Leary is a seasoned entrepreneur with 35+ years marketing, sales and financial experience in high-growth
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Invest Local University
Invest Local University is an investment Invest Local platform designed for mission-driven entrepreneurs and everyday investors who want to invest directly in small businesses and startups that are trying to make a difference in their industries and in their communities.
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Invest Local Florida
Invest Local Florida is a local label (tradename) of Invest Local University. Invest Local Florida makes it easy to find offerings hosted by Florida area businesses that are seeking direct investment in their companies.
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Pink Bench Distiling
Cocktails that have the power to save bears
Florida USA
$500 minimum investment
29% funded of $58,000 minimum target
$172,500
of $337,000 maximum target
MARK JONES
Founder and Chairman
Mark brings over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience for successfully launching and managing large and small companies, including Sprowtt, Sprowtt Services, and Sprowtt Technologies. Mark is an advisor to, and routinely lectures on capital formation in the large entrepreneurial communities such as CEO space He was a lecturer at George Washington College of law on capital formation platforms to law students and SEC staff, and also spoken on Crowdfunding and related capital formation pathways such as Regulation A plus, and Regulation D 506c to the University of South Florida and a growing number of other number of other colleges and universities. Mark’s special expertise was one of the reasons he was accepted as an early participant in the crafting of historically important JOBS Act (Jump Start Our Business Startups) enacted in 2015. He was actively involved with senior Senators, Congressman together with regulatory heads of the SEC and FINRA in the crafting of this legislation, which resulted in Crowd Funding & other regulations. This innovative legislation made it easier for the millions of small businesses and early stage companies to raise venture growth capital. His public comments, referenced in several SEC Small Business symposiums on capital policy legislation, constitute all- important input for future legislation and clarification of regulatory guidance. He also has more than two decades of hardware and software development for very complex and financial related transactions as well development of automated software solutions for the direct sales industries.He was the principal architect in the development of Sprowtt’s patent pending software for its Crowdfunding, and Regulation A plus and Regulation D 506c financing platforms, and the formation of Sprowtt Technologies.. His financial platform automates the often onerous capital raising process and burdensome legal requirements, enabling young companies to cost effectively implement once expensive and challenging capital raising strategies. Mark’s unique blend of creativity, business and technical skills resulted in the development of an innovative new 3-D digital photo printing process. Currently the founder, Chairman and CEO of Intelligent Ink, Inc., he holds several ground breaking technology related patents and trademarks licensed to the Company.His entrepreneurial skills have led him to establish numerous relationships with internationally recognized partners such as Kodak, Sony Corporation of America, General Electric, the Marriott Hotels, Disney World Resorts, Microsoft, Wilson Sporting Goods,the National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association and Brunswick Corp.
LANCE ABLIN
Advisor
Mr. Ablin has a diverse and experienced background in many areas of business, as both an investor and a serial entrepreneur. It started with the same strong passion for making good things happen with everyday challenges that he holds dear and still practices today. Whether it’s a uniquely different idea, a game changer, or figuring out a better way of doing things, he is on it. His latest deep dive of energy is in the newest burgeoning capital markets and regulatory changes in 83 years: equity crowdfunding. Recently approved by congress and implemented in 2016, this new market will prove to be the best thing to help the average person who desires or needs to raise capital to either launch a new start-up business, service or product; or to simply obtain additional financing to grow their business to the next level of success. Mr. Ablin has directed his personal portfolio of diversified companies in various industries including real estate, industrial parts manufacturing, technology and intellectual property development and construction. Today he runs his own private asset management company. He has over thirty years of diversified and comprehensive experience in all facets of the real estate industry; working as a Broker, Broker Associate, Principal, Investor, Property Manager and Financier dealing in commercial, industrial, multi-residential income, single family residential, automotive, land, shopping centers, office complexes, and various other types of investments. As a licensed real estate broker in California, he also operates his own real estate brokerage and investment companies. He has the purchases of hundreds of properties over the past few decades to his credit. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from California State University, Bakersfield. Today, he concentrates his talents and skills on helping others, by applying his many years of experience and know-how to their dreams or challenges to achieve prosperity. He believes the best way of giving back and having a positive and lasting impact on future societies of America is by inspiring and motivating young minds through better educational channels and methodologies; namely enlightening them with the wonders for their own minds and the vast potential that lies within all of them. Role modeling & coaching, refining skillsets, establishing technology proficiencies, hands-on relevant real life experiences, business and mental modeling, developing nimble thinking and communicative skills, collaboration & cooperation, coupled with old fashioned encouragement from wherever sourced is all it takes to change the quality of many lives and families.
TIM LEARY
Advisor
Tim Leary is a seasoned entrepreneur with 35+ years marketing, sales and financial experience in high-growth public and private companies. Mr. Leary began his career as an analyst with Catalyst Ventures, the first seed venture capital incubator in Silicon Valley, spawning technologies that are now the grandparents of today’s cell phone GPS systems to robotics to consumer technologies. Mr. Leary’s core competency is aligning strategy and tactics to geometrically accelerate sales. As EVP of Worldwide Marketing and Sales for Expert Software, Mr. Leary oversaw the Expert Software brand from start-up to $80M in annual revenue, a successful public offering and later sale to Activision, Inc. As VP Marketing for Silicon Systems, Mr. Leary repositioned the company as a leader in industrial-grade solid state storage, driving revenue to $65M and a profitable sale to industry data storage leader, Western Digital. Mr. Leary serves on many advisory boards helping businesses grow, raise capital and plan their exit strategy.
Sprowtt works in the background while keeping your company out in front of the potential investors.Invest local act promotes technology transfer and commercialization of universities and colleges spin outs through the state of Florida from investors residing within the state. Collegiate Entrepreneurship and Tech Transfer if you like to partner with a university or college or Incubator within the state Sprowtt can assist you will be aligned with a team, or perhaps you have what it takes to lead the mission as the Team Leader. Through statecf.com (state crowdfunding), your company or spinout will gain state wide exposure and connect with Investors and other opportunities faster while maximizing innovation potential through Collaborate within the Invest local community through Sprowtt Portal on a statewide scale. Statecf.com powered by Sprowtt supports the growth of startups while securing investment through a state approved compliance platform. Sprowtt was the very first approved Florida Funding portal buy the office of OFR . Sprowtt is a Florida company with roots based within the state to help ensure your success.
The Sprowtt state of the art cloud based compliance platform is designed to support Companies, Broker Dealers, and Private Equity in raising capital in Compliance and with speed. Sprowtt supports Registered Securities offerings such as Regulation D 504, 506B & 506C Regulation A & A+ as well as Regulation A Test waters solicitation.
Sprowtt cloud based compliance platform assists in the completion of securities transaction between the issuer of the securities and the investor. Sprowtt supports full video multimedia files, and real time video conferencing communication as well as chat all within the portal. Sprowtt records the all communication to insure full compliance and to comply with the legal requirements of investor communication. The Sprowtt platform provides a legal audit trail of issuer securities offering to assist an issuer's legal team a full and compressive view of the offering for state and Federal securities law to ensure the issuer remains in compliance in real time. Sprowtt enables the issuer of the securities and its entire Investor relation team such as Officers, Directors, Investment Bankers, Broker Dealer, and Attorneys with full control of the digital rights to the issuer's content so you may control the sensitive information you're sharing with potential investors remains confidential on a secure platform while capturing the required potential investor information for suitability and qualifications. The Professionals will have the ability to effectively and rapidly create, distribute and share all necessary documents to support the offering of the issuers/ company.
Sprowtt.com does support Regulation CF offerings for Crowdfunding offerings Sprowtt owns and operates Sprowtt Crowdfunding Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Sprowtt Sprowtt Crowdfunding is a FINRA member and is registered with the SEC. If you're considering a crowdfunding offering please review the information on Sprowttcf.com