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- 2026-02-17
Happy Tuesday, techies.
Demo Day was so great last week!
We experienced 9 founders pitching their visions for the future and also got the skinny on how Hank used the Demo Day platform to rapidly oversubscribe Stanify’s funding round. |  |
 | Tomorrow, there will be a special in-person version of the Elevator Lab happening at Startup Cafe in Venice. This is a great opportunity to level up your elevator pitch into something that you can take advantage of 1,000+ times per year to transform your business. |
What investment is rudimentary for billionaires but ‘revolutionary’ for 70,571+ investors entering 2026?
Imagine this. You open your phone to an alert. It says, “you spent $236,000,000 more this month than you did last month.”
If you were the top bidder at Sotheby’s fall auctions, it could be reality.
Sounds crazy, right? But when the ultra-wealthy spend staggering amounts on blue-chip art, it’s not just for decoration.
The scarcity of these treasured artworks has helped drive their prices, in exceptional cases, to thin-air heights, without moving in lockstep with other asset classes.
The contemporary and post war segments have even outpaced the S&P 500 overall since 1995.*
Now, over 70,000 people have invested $1.2 billion+ across 500 iconic artworks featuring Banksy, Basquiat, Picasso, and more.
How? You don’t need Medici money to invest in multimillion dollar artworks with Masterworks.
Thousands of members have gotten annualized net returns like 14.6%, 17.6%, and 17.8% from 26 sales to date.
*Based on Masterworks data. Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd
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