What does Republic do?

Republic is a private-investing platform that lets non-accredited investors put money into startups under Regulation Crowdfunding (Title III). It launched in July 2016 with four startups, after Reg CF went live in May 2016 [Crowdfund Insider — 2016-07-26; existence-graph]. The legal entity is OpenDeal Inc., a Delaware corporation incorporated 04-12-2016 [SEC CFPORTAL/A — 2016-06-14].

Republic began as a spin-off from AngelList, co-founded by Kendrick Nguyen, Paul Menchov, and Ken Green [Wikipedia: Republic (fintech)]. Nguyen is described in SEC filings as CEO, director, and largest stockholder of OpenDeal Inc. [SEC Form 1-A (Fig Publishing) — 2020-06-08]. The platform later expanded into tokenization, including the Republic Note and pre-IPO Mirror Tokens.

The public record in this corpus does not include a single founder-authored returns or track-record document, despite a decade of investor demand for one [white-space].