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Alternative Investing Report - December 29, 2025
Happy Monday. We’re taking a look back at the top events we held this year, precious metals keep pumping, Nvidia is acquiring Groq, and a $5 million Pokemon card is up for auction. Let’s dive in!
🎫 Learn: About the burgeoning humanoid robotics sector in our next pre-IPO briefing. January 8 at 11 AM ET.
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📺 YEAR IN EVENTS
We held more than 20 virtual events this year, featuring experts from across the alternative investing spectrum discussing a wide variety of topics relevant to investors.
Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood and EquityZen CEO Atish Davda discussed the pre-IPO market.
Argo’s Peter Grosskopf and Milk Road’s Kyle Reidhead talked about Gold and Bitcoin, two competing stores of value.
Vincent’s Adam Katz and Eric Cantor dug into how investors should break down a real estate deal.
Grayscale’s Zach Pandl and Fundstrat’s Sean Farrell dove into Crypto Beyond Bitcoin.
And a host of experts examined building passive income, creating diversified portfolios, and investing into the energy sector.
We continued our pre-IPO briefing series where Vincent founder Slava Rubin and Sacra’s Jan-Erik Asplund have looked at some of the hottest names and sectors in pre-IPO investing. Some highlights include SpaceX, Anthropic, Anduril, Stripe, and CoreWeave.
They also explored The AI Landscape, Elon’s Empire, and Prediction Markets, among others.
Next up, on January 8, is our look into the Robotics sector. Join us!
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1/8 at 11 AM ET.
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📰 NOTABLE NEWS
💰 All-time highs for metals: Over the weekend, gold, silver, and platinum all hit all-time highs before falling back slightly, with silver still up 10% on the week, more than 100% in the past three months and nearly 160% on the year.
🤖 Nvidia buying Groq: The world’s biggest company is spending $20 billion on AI chip startup Groq’s assets, in a deal framed as a non-exclusive licensing agreement which will leave Groq as an independent company. Groq was last valued at $6.9 billion only three months ago.
🐉 $5 million Pokemon card: A rare Pikachu Illustrator card purchased by influencer Logan Paul for $5.3 million is going to be auctioned next year and Paul expects it to sell for between $7 million and $12 million.
🏡 Zillow forecast: The real estate company is now forecasting a 1.7% rise in home values in 2026, with existing home sales growing only 0.8%, single-family rents to climb by 1.6%, and multi-family rents to fall by 1%.
🚀 Proptech funding: Global venture investment into real estate property tech startups is up slightly in 2025, though deal count is the lowest on record, and total deal value is still well below the 2019-2022 peak as the formerly hot sector has struggled to garner interest in recent years.
🏢 Biggest office conversion ever: Developers are planning to convert the vacant 24-story office tower 111 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan into more than 1,500 apartments, which would break the record for the largest conversion.
📆 LOOKING FORWARD
Monday: Pending home sales report released.
Tuesday: S&P Case-Shiller home price index and FHFA house price index released.
Wednesday: New Year’s Eve, markets remain open.
Thursday: New Year’s Day, markets are closed.
Friday: Markets reopen.
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