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Why create an investment platform

Why create an investment platform

By Gweltaz Le Coz
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February 06, 2024
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Plateforme Investissement
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1. Introduction

The market for investment platforms is experiencing continuous acceleration, with an average annual growth of 11.8% and a projection of 1,814.5 billion dollars by 2032. This increase reflects a profound change in uses: the new profiles of investors, younger, digitized, autonomous, are shaking up traditional formats and pushing players to adapt their models.

In this context, investment platforms are no longer simple technological interfaces: they are becoming strategic levers for structuring an offer, managing its development and differentiating themselves sustainably.

We will see why having your own platform is a lever in terms of operational management, development and loyalty, while securing your investor base.

2. An investment platform: a strategic tool for structuring and developing your business

In an environment where the structuring of offers becomes a determining factor in competitiveness, having your own investment platform makes it possible to anchor your business on solid, scalable and differentiating bases. It is not limited to a simple digital window: it constitutes an operational lever at the service of an economic model based on recurrence, pooling and upgrading.

The primary logic is that of creating value through co-investment or participatory financing. By offering investment opportunities to a network or targeted audience via a dedicated interface, the operator transforms its know-how into a structured, monetizable and reproducible product. This makes it possible to abandon a one-off transaction logic in favor of a model based on continuous flow capture and loyalty.. This approach paves the way for a hybrid positioning, between an asset management player and a publisher of investment solutions.

The platform also acts as a support for formalizing the offer.. It allows clarifying the value proposition, of frame investment processes and to centralize interactions. Through it, the operator becomes able to offer perfectly identified investment vehicles, backed by controlled and compliant subscription mechanisms. This reinforces the credibility of its approach among investors, especially in the middle and high-end segments where expectations of professionalism and transparency are high.

Finally, the investment platform plays a crucial role in the organization and management of projects. It allows for fine segmentation of offers, efficient allocation of resources and centralized supervision of operations. Thanks to the standardization of key steps (structuring, distribution, subscription, reporting), it promotes the growth of the activity, while reducing the usual points of friction related to the manual or dispersed management of opportunities. It thus becomes a growth accelerator and a strategic management tool.

3. A tool to reach, retain and monetize your network of investors

In an ecosystem where competition between investment players is intensifying, the ability to capture the attention of one's network or audience, to maintain a relationship of trust in order to establish a lasting collaboration becomes a decisive advantage. A well-structured investment platform precisely makes it possible to centralize these dynamics in a single point, which is at the same time accessible, reliable and designed to last.

Broadcast your offers to a qualified audience or your network of investors


The establishment of an investment platform represents a powerful lever for strengthening the relationship with its network of investors and developing a long-term commitment strategy. By centralizing the dissemination of opportunities and by securing exchanges, it creates an environment conducive to trust, recurrence and the valuation of the investment community.

The main strength of the platform lies in its ability to establish a direct channel between the operator and its network. It allows you to distribute your offers yourself, without going through external intermediaries, and to immediately reach qualified investors. By making opportunities available online at any time, it streamlines interactions and multiplies contact points. This method of distribution facilitates the rapid activation of subscriptions as soon as a project is ready, without depending on the schedules or constraints of third parties.

Create a premium and secure environment for its investors


Beyond distribution, the platform plays a decisive role in building loyalty. It provides a dedicated, clear and secure space, where each investor can consult their history, follow the evolution of their investments and access management documents. By strengthening transparency, it professionalizes the relationship and creates the conditions for a lasting commitment. This dynamic is all the more essential as investors, now accustomed to high standards in terms of digital services, expect an interface that is fluid, available and adapted to their uses.

Retention and control of your audience


Not having your own tool exposes you to the risk of dispersion. In the absence of a platform, investors are forced to turn to other online solutions, which are often competing. The platform makes it possible to channel attention to a centralized space, where all the proposed projects are clear, structured and coherent.

Finally, the investment platform makes it possible to gradually transform a base of passive investors into an active and recurring community. It becomes a tool for indirect monetization, through the cumulative effect of the projects subscribed to and through the increase in confidence that favors higher or more frequent tickets.

This ability to structure a network of committed investors is a real differentiating advantage in a market where attention and loyalty have become rare resources.

4. A tool that facilitates and democratizes investment

The investment world has undergone profound transformations over the last decade, and investment platforms are both a reflection and a driver of this. By relying on increasingly sophisticated technologies, they contribute to a profound rethinking of the conditions for accessing financial opportunities.

Permanent accessibility, regardless of where the investor is located, and what time he logs in, is one of the major assets of investment platforms. Thanks to its digital format, it allows investors to subscribe, monitor and manage their investments independently, from any connected device. This contributes directly to the reduction of friction and the overall improvement of the user experience, regardless of the level of expertise.

The use of asset fractionation, commonly used to structure co-investments via SPVs, finds a new dynamic when integrated into digital platforms. Thanks to blockchain, these mechanisms become automatable: we then speak of asset tokenization. This feature makes it possible to divide an asset, or more precisely the vehicle that holds it, into a large number of digital titles issued in the form of tokens.

On a platform, tokenization becomes a powerful lever for democratization, by significantly lowering entry tickets. It makes it possible to mobilize several hundred or even thousands of investors around a project, while ensuring smooth and secure management.

But the strength of platform tokenization is not limited to opening up the market: it also strengthens high-end models. Some operators choose to maintain high entry thresholds or restricted subscription systems, while taking advantage of technology to automate underwriting, revenue distribution, and administrative management. Integrated natively into the platform, tokenization provides security, traceability and transparency at each stage, without burdening processes.

Finally, tokenization opens access to a decisive feature: resale on secondary markets. By integrating this possibility into their infrastructure, investment platforms contribute to making assets that were previously inaccessible more liquid. For investors, this option broadens exit strategies and decreases risk perception. For operators, it reinforces the attractiveness of proposed projects, while increasing their ability to build loyalty.

5. A gain of time and savings for the operator

Well designed, an investment platform does not only transform the user experience on the investor side. It is also a strategic tool for those who operate it by centralizing flows and automating a large part of the tasks, it improves productivity and reduces operating costs.

Automating key processes is one of the first tangible benefits. Subscriptions can be managed end-to-end via smart forms, with automatic document verification (KYC/KYB), contract generation, electronic signature, and accounting integration. Revenue distribution can also be automated, as can the editing of reports and the reporting of regulatory indicators. Fewer manual interventions mean less risk of errors, easier compliance, and lower operational costs.

This fluidity greatly reduces the workload associated with time-consuming tasks. Relaunching investors, managing documents, organizing subscriptions, updating records or responding to redundant requests are part of the daily routine of teams. A well-thought-out platform makes it possible to relieve these repetitive operations, in favor of actions with higher added value: supporting investors, structuring projects, managing the strategy.

The economic impact goes beyond reducing costs alone. A platform is a unified environment, which avoids using a multitude of external providers or fragmented tools. It allows you to maintain control of the entire distribution cycle, while being more agile. For a growing player, this also means the possibility to take charge without recruiting immediately, and therefore to better control its economic model as the activity intensifies.

6. A solution that allows you to focus on your core business

One of the major benefits of an investment platform lies in its ability to offload The person who structures investment transactions numerous constraints which, without direct value, nevertheless mobilize a significant part of its energy. Whether they are administrative, technical or operational issues, the platform makes it possible to centralize them, automate them, or even partially outsource them, to allow the project leader to refocus on his primary mission.

The search for and the acquisition of profitable assets remain the true core business. By doing away with subscription management, manual processing or documentary production, The person who structures investment transactions saves precious time to identify the best opportunities, structure your projects and develop your partnerships. Operational monitoring of investments is becoming lighter, without compromising rigor or compliance.

The platform also accelerates the marketing of new opportunities. Thanks to the reuse of elements already in place (legal structures such as SPVs, investors already onboarded, functionalities configured), the launch of a new project does not require starting from scratch. This functional continuity makes it possible to shorten implementation times, increase the pace of marketing and streamline business growth.

7. A more advantageous alternative to investment marketplaces

Relying on an investment platform in your own name allows you to keep control of your image, your relationship with investors, and your distribution strategy.

It is a way to secure your investor base. Distributing your projects on third-party platforms also means exposing your subscribers to competing offers. By creating a closed environment and

controlled, you limit the risk of dilution and you preserve your community in the long term.

It is also an economically rational choice. The commissions charged by marketplaces can reach significant levels. Once a certain volume of projects has been completed, a proprietary platform becomes more profitable, by eliminating intermediation fees.

Having your own platform also offers much greater flexibility. Each operator can personalize its offers, integrate functionalities adapted to its model, and evolve its tool without depending on a third party. This technical mastery reinforces commercial agility.

Finally, controlling your environment means imposing your signature. A dedicated platform makes it possible to manage all interactions with its investors, in a professional, exclusive framework that is in line with its positioning. The experience becomes consistent, from the first visit to the subscription.

Conclusion

In an increasingly competitive sector, the investment platform is no longer a simple digital medium: it is becoming a structuring lever to gain autonomy, efficiency and credibility.

It makes it possible to create an environment that reflects your image, to control your relationship with investors, to automate critical operations, and to accelerate the marketing of each project.

Some functionalities are becoming essential such as: asset tokenization, digital subscriptions with automated KYC verification, or automatic distribution of income. These bricks are no longer options, because they guarantee the scalability of a model and the adaptability to market change rates, especially those related to WEB3.

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