Investing Close to Home Amidst Economic Uncertainty

Where the financial return of investing in one's Main Street might actually beat the returns of Wall Street, today's investors are reconsidering strategies and deployment. Higher inflation and interest rates today have made for new challenges and opportunities, and small business investment is emerging as a stronger asset class to consider. Join Dave Silverstein of Ned, a FinTech platform that's changing the way investors assess risk when evaluating investment opportunities. He'll be walking through ways local investors can reconsider deploying dollars close to home for a solid return.

This will be a smaller intimate discussion for only RAIN members and is a great chance to bring all your questions and have an open and honest conversation about your investment concerns. It will be hosted in person at our offices at FORGE at Roy Place, 44 N Stone Ave in partnership with Community Investment Corporation. Light lunch, snacks and coffee will be included. 

If you'd like to attend and are not yet a RAIN member, visit www.rainarizona.com to learn more and apply. 

About Dave Silverstein

With 15 years of multi-disciplinary experience across technology, media, and marketing sectors, Dave Silverstein currently serves as the CEO of Ned, a financial technology platform that powers end-to-end revenue-based financing (RBF), a flexible capital product that’s easier on businesses, and which streamlines paperwork and compliance.

Ned enables any organization to spin up their capital offering in minutes, with out-of-box integrations and easy-to-use qualification technology. Where credit difficulties disqualify a business owner, Ned's revenue-based approach to underwriting and repayment provides a path forward that's fast and fair.

Prior to Ned, Dave worked as Chief of Staff to Michael Kassan, Chairman and CEO of Medialink, a leading global transformation consulting firm in the marketing and technology space. In his role, Dave specialized in business transformation advisory for global businesses of all sizes, working directly with C-Suite operators on a range of growth-oriented and economic topics.

Before joining MediaLink, Dave worked as GM and SVP of Defy Media’s SMOSH brands, the largest-owned and operated multi-platform digital comedy publisher with more than 50MM earned subscribers. In that role, Dave oversaw all aspects of the organization’s global strategic planning, business and content operations, and brand strategy.

Before his operating career in digital media, Dave was based in Washington, D.C. where he served for several years as Press Secretary to former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid where he focused on small business, economic and labor issues.