Adam Torres and Josh Bois discuss Global Capital Network.
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Global Capital Network is hosting an investor conference in Newport Beach. In this episode, Adam Torres and Josh Bois, CEO of Global Capital Network, explore the conference and the Global Deal Flow investment platform that 2030 Ventures launched for Global Capital Network.
About Global Capital Network
Global Capital Network provides access to great startups for investors to get early access to and also help entrepreneurs tighten up their pitches, presentations and docs. Fundable brands move into their investor introductions and investor relations programs.
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Hey, I’d like to welcome you to another episode of Mission Matters. My name is Adam Torres, and if you’d like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters.com and click on BR Guest to apply. All right, so today my guest is Josh Vo and he’s CEO of Global Capital Network and also lead investors in 2030 ventures.
Josh, welcome to the show. Thank you. How you doing? I’m having all kinds of fun. I’ve been covering your conference now for the last couple of weeks and getting to know some of the speakers and some of the content that’ll be out there. So global capital network. We’re going to get into that today.
And we’re also, I’m also interested to learn more about this 2030 ventures platform, but before we do all that, we’ll start this episode, the way that we start them all with what we like to call our mission matters minute. So, Josh, we at Mission Matters, we amplify stories for business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives.
That’s our mission. Josh, what mission matters to you? Impacting the world. I want to change the lives of billions of people through science, technology, energy and great services and products. So, I’m doing that by not only running, like, an entrepreneurship ecosystem of companies that help fund companies, build out technology and take them to market around the world, but through an investment platform I’ve set up that can really connect people around the clock without the reliance on human bandwidth so that deals can get funded around the world, you know, for the betterment of the humanity while we’re while we’re sleeping.
great. I love bringing mission based individuals onto the show. So, so great to have you on and I guess just just to get us started here. So Global Capital Network, the upcoming conference for the listeners that haven’t been following this, this news story for a bit yet, like, like fill us in, like tell us, tell us about what to expect in the upcoming conference.
So we’ll have about 500 attendees from around the world including over 150 investors ranging from major venture capital firms to celebrity founders, like the founder of Phil’s coffee, for example to, you know, leaders in entertainment, such as we have the Kanye West attorney, for example, and I have a panel I’m moderating with her.
And with the Arabian prints from N. W. A, for example, ranges from celebrities and entertainers to major players in different spaces. 1st, hours of the event are actually dedicated to medical investments. The another, the next 6, 7 hours are all industries. So technology, a, I, real estate. energy clean vehicles.
So we really kind of go across the board to give investors of all sizes and types from angels to family offices things to invest in. I like to feature above and beyond everything impact deals that can help change the world, but we still help out our companies as well. So We’ll be live streaming to over 160 people from the main stage, but there will be a pretty wide audience, you know, definitely from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Chicago, New York, you name it Toronto.
But, yeah, that’s as far as the conference next week. Great companies, some are doing 40Million a year. Some are pre revenue looking for checks to help accelerate their dream, but they already have patents and they’re ready to go. And so and what a beautiful location you pick for this. So Newport, the Renaissance Newport beach hotel.
I mean, give me more. I mean, could you have pictured could you have picked something more picturesque? Come on, man. Well, you know, we, we typically try to pick the best location. So I’ve done these these global calendar comes to the Beverly hills for seasons. For example, I ran out the whole top Balboa Bay club before.
So yachts are passing by. The Marriott renaissance raised 1, 000, 000 plus for a company. They’re overlooking the golf course in the ocean in the back. So we typically try to pick this gorgeous venues you know, Pelican Hill we’ve done in a private 2 story villa over the golf course and ocean. So I try to just give people memorable experience.
And, you know, a great venue to create commerce you know, spur innovation, funding, you know, interconnectivity between, you know, different players around the world. And really just, you know, also be a venue that can inspire but really get the, you know, larger and larger influential figures from around the world from the leading, you know, billionaires you know, really on board.
So we can, you know, share, share what’s going on. And new technologies and maybe help pivot their thinking and help direct their funds for things that I think are a triple net, you know, like a win, win where you can sustainably do good and make money where it’s not just a nonprofit where it’s a black hole of money, but where, you know, every dollar.
You know, there’s, there’s 2 can be earned and the company can sustain where, you know, you might be selling clean, you know, clean desalinated water profitably so you can provide it to, you know, millions of people in different cities around the world or a cleaner form of energy. And we have just a leading NASA scientist coming that’s already invited 1800 people to this event.
That has these 300Million dollar plants that, you know, help convert trash into not only clean water at the molecular level, but also a really high 10 cell strength concrete. So, just it really ranges. From the type of companies we have, it’s really exciting, you know, from medical devices that can save your life to cleaner energy.
It’s just, it’s my passion is, you know, helping these companies. And we’ve actually recently launched a platform called global dealflow. com with web and mobile apps for companies to list their deals and investors to find them. So that, you know, literally like I was saying, while, while we’re sleeping, you know, someone that wants to invest a hundred million A Europe deal or North America deal can filter and find that deal to invest in.
How’d you get the idea for the global deal flow platform originally? Like how’d that come about? you know, I, actually kind of democratizing the area and trying to disrupt because there’s so many platforms where, you know, it’s only crowdfunding deals. They’re only real estate deals.
They’re only deals of a certain country. So I wanted to build one, you know, database where people could message back and forth. It wasn’t just a boring database. So I actually have a, it’s kind of like an investor social network of sorts where everyone can have their own profile. You can accept requests and some connection requests.
Other people like LinkedIn. But at the same time, you can view interesting investments. You can create lists of your favorite deals and favorite them and track them, but we don’t take a commission. So there’s no, there’s no fee to list and there’s no fee taken. If someone wants to reach out to you and invest.
So I’m really trying to democratize the space where there’s no reason not to list your company. Out there, you know, whereas other companies want their 10 percent title. They charge you 50 grand to lift and they’re only a couple hundred companies. I want hundreds of thousands of companies on this platform, hundreds of thousands of investors and you know, there’s other means of monetization and supporting people like a service provider component that can help.
Sustained the connection between investors and founders, just like LinkedIn. If, if you, you can create a profile for free and you can, you know, if someone investor finds you, they’re not taking a cut, but they have premium offerings to, should you want to, but you don’t have to. And that’s kind of the way I wanted to go to really democratize access to funding in a fun, unique way that also prioritizes impact.
When did you get kind of on this mission or on this path of democratizing, like access to investing and really connecting people? Cause when I see what you’ve built and I even see your, your, the recently lost platform, like, were you always a natural connector or like, did that develop over time?
Yeah. I mean, yeah, I get that from you. I don’t know how, why I get that from you, but I’m like, man, like, go ahead. Yeah, I started my 1st dot com over 20 years ago. I actually just had my 20th anniversary, even though I’m 35. so, yeah, 15 already had multiple dot com portfolios and I had teams building software for me and I’d sales teams going out there and getting people on board.
But even back to, like. I don’t know, 2017 or 2004, actually. So even by, you know, early college, I had a company called chains for change. You’re trying to connect chains of people together to change the world that I had a little good networks, you know, so this is global capital network. And I had Intel flying me and my partner around.
Talk about talk about a lot of questions. Awesome. I knew you were a connector, but I didn’t know that much. Come on. Yeah. So, yeah, it kind of just you I’ve always been, you know, building companies enterprises and helping people. I think it just took a while for it to really. Shape in a productive manner, you know, where I think I could really make change.
I finally hit that stride, you know, 8 years ago, and I created global capital network. And then in the last several years, I’ve launched the platform, especially most recently when I’ve really, you know, kind of taking it out of the stealth mode and really made it live and started onboarding deals. But, yes, I’m just really passionate about it.
I think I can. You know, create my own version of the World Economic Forum. I can have very public, large conferences and I can have more reserved, select, you know, private events with the top tier people that come through our funnel to really push policy and deals and innovation, I think, in a mutual win win way where it’s not just, you know, again, like a charity thing, but like, look, let’s invest a billion in this.
It will make you 3. But we’ll also help 80, 000, 000 people and that’s it could be 1 deal. You know, we can have 80 of those deals going on that. We’re prioritizing and pushing to people. I just thought that the industry is a lot very fractured and kind of an old man’s game or is the same tired people that weren’t really investing.
And the majority of deals other than the biggest VCs there’s room for more cross collaboration and deal discovery and not just crowdfunding deals or, you know, buying stock in public companies, but especially these private companies that can really More agile than a big corporation and make moves and develop something and get it to market and they need access to funding and not just through, you know, a handful of angel investors that they might not be able to connect with.
And lot of companies raising money don’t have funds, so they don’t have funds to pay for fees and things. So I tried to find a blend of physical conferences to bring people from around the world, but also creating that sticky platform online. So people could connect beyond me, because my team. You know, around the world and our bandwidth is tight.
You know, there’s so many investors coming to us each year and thousands of companies. So I try, I’m trying to give back. Yeah. And another thing, speaking of giving back like that theme, and even now that I’m hearing about some of your earlier, you know, entrepreneurial ventures, like, like supporting impact is kind of always been there.
Like, where do you think you get that from? since I was a kid I was actually a Eagle Scout as well. I don’t think that’s what started it, but I’ve just always kind of been a leader. And I just see people not really stepping up. I think there’s a lot of really smart innovators. They’re, they’re creating the great ideas of, you know, how to break down chemicals to do this or that, or how to get to space cheaper.
Or how to make better AI to discover drugs. So if I can just be that, that middle platform to use my marketing powers and technology, I think I can really make a difference here. I think someone has to. I think a lot of people are also like well, I was trying to go with that thought is that a lot of people are siloed into one, one innovation.
And I’m, I believe that we need, we need a hundred of these things all successful, you know, for better water or better AI for our day to day life. AI to help cook for us. So food gets lower, you know, it’s lower cost, right? All sorts of these things all simultaneously really need help and a lot of great ideas die without funding or the right exposure size, I really feel like I need to take charge.
I feel like I’m filling in a hole that I saw around the world. I think with my unique ability, I can bring in global world leaders, you know, build out global capital network franchises, different cities. So, it’s not really just Newport Beach, even though that’s my headquarters, you know, we’re constantly looking for partners and different partners, you know, are launching GCN focused and flavored events in different key regions around the world.
And we’re trying to grow that from Europe and especially things like Africa. I think are way under invested and it needs more infrastructure. It needs, I mean, there’s reasons for it, but I think that things like that need to change in order for, You have to raise the whole global population together, you know, to better water, better food, better access to information, to Internet, to technology products.
takes, you know, one company alone isn’t going to bring up, you know, foreign territories and improve their quality of life. It’s going to take a lot. Oh, and I get this from you and I think it’s one, I didn’t really realize like the potential until, and I’ll admit this.
I mean, we’ve been in business now eight years and I’ve done over 6, 000 interviews and specifically during the, specifically during the pandemic. When I saw, like, a lot of businesses pivoting and doing other things, like, where they were, like, they were solving, like, problems that, like, needed to be solved, like, right that moment, like, whether it was getting masks or PBA, whatever, whatever the problem was, and I saw the shift, I guess, for, for me, like, looking back in history, I’m kind of a little bit of a history buff when I think about, like, You know, factories being retooled for like war and things like that.
Whether we agree with war or not, that’s not the point. But the point is at that point in time, a lot of people have shifted their focus and for the collective good at the same time to get a mission or something accomplished. And that being said during the pandemic, I saw it and then I kind of got a new perspective, even with what we do, like our company, it’s like, I have that same thought that you do, where like you see one innovator and you’re like, there should be thousands of things like this.
But many times these ideas either die on the vine, or they don’t like get out to the right people or people don’t even have the potential to, to to get that idea to more, because maybe they’re an inventor, maybe they’re. Their, their skillset isn’t raising capital or it isn’t pitching their idea.
Maybe it’s in the actual creation of the product, which, you know, the more people that hear it, like the, aim is that you, they get the other pieces to that puzzle, whether it’s a business partner, an investing partner and an investor otherwise to make that, you know, idea have life that ultimately. Like as an improvement for all of us, especially in things like healthcare, other things.
That’s the one I normally like to pick out kind of as a, as an example, because, Hey, it’s something that we’re all going to need at some point. I’ve been healthy my whole life and I’ve never really needed it. But in terms of, as I get older, like I’m going to, my body’s going to do what everybody else’s body does over time.
Right. I’m going to need some, some medical. I want, I want as many medical advancements as possible, Josh. Yeah, exactly my thought. Right. So, I mean, we, we have companies, you know, coming to the event that. you know, monitor your glucose level. So if you’re low and you could pass out that it lets, you know, if we have technology at our events, you know, people presenting that have that monitor your eyes to tell you if you have an issue before you’d even know, but there’s people developing.
I’ve had presenters where they have DNA sequencing. That runs through A. I. So instead of 6 years to develop a drug, they can run it through their neural nets and find new drugs in 3 months and quickly go to market. So they can solve this problem solve this problem all simultaneously and help cure or alleviate things.
Again. There’s a lot of research and time that goes into these and thought. I think we’re getting better, but I want to solve all those issues at the same time. And I’m actually. You know, I’m only going to rely on other people so much, you know, I’m building this platform. I have this network. I’m a feature deals I want, but I don’t want to be left helpless where I know certain companies that I actually angel invest in the companies myself as well.
But just don’t want to be helpless where I have to hope other investors will go into deals. I believe in. So I’m actually going to be working on setting up an impact fund. Round one, just like, You know, maybe 5 to 10M dollars and then obviously much bigger down the road bringing in heavy partners and attorneys and accountants to help with due diligence of picking the right deals and and structuring it properly.
That’s not my, my background of expertise. I’m a business guy and marketing technology. I’ll bring in the right people for the law and the accounting side. To really, you know, button it up, but I want to be able to place angel checks at a minimum with follow on rounds into tons of companies. So I want to 50 companies and then maybe invest into 20 or 30 of them a year.
Maybe that’s 50, 000 to 100, 000 provide some advisory, some oversight, help accelerate them, look over their marketing and make sure they’re. That find a place that we can optimize it so they can reach 200, 000 people instead of 20, 000 people. Look, you know, make sure they’re going with the right vendors for technology or save the money on cloud.
You build out their MVPs technology for a quarter million instead of a million. They would have spent somewhere else. Make sure they have the right attorneys that are maybe save costs by using. Certain attorneys over multiple of our deals so that these companies are someone an attorney that has shares in the fund.
So they, they have a mutual incentivized interest in seeing the success of these brands. So, kind of like our own V. C. slash private equity firm extension of what I’ve kind of been building with 2030 ventures, but with more capital and focus just on impact. You focus on U. S. companies and especially international where there’s just huge strides needed and also let less regulation where we can go into a certain, we can build a plant for some sort of technology or manufacturing of something that’s impactful and helpful somewhere else for maybe 10 times less than America.
Right? And, and, and maybe you just serve that market. So it’s more tax friendly. It’s, it’s. More cost effective with labor is providing jobs. It’s helping people in other local communities, but yeah, my goal isn’t, you know, let me help support 100 people, you know, eating in a foreign country. My, my idea is how do I build robots that will help?
Lower the cost of food so we can feed hundreds of thousands cheaper, right? So we can, you know, automatically, you know, harvest grain and large of fields and then automatically you have a delivery agent that brings it to the city center and an automatic system that helps distribute it, you know, based on people paying and all these different systems.
And there’s going to be humans in between. It’s not about really taking jobs from people, but it’s about Reducing the cost of things. So things are more affordable. You know, I think I think it’s just super critical, you know, whether it’s ghost, I think ghost kitchens, for example, another need where if you have an automated kitchen serving a metropolitan of 30000 people, and it can go 24 hours a day making burgers and pastas and eggs.
Five humans, but 50 robots can serve 30, 000 people to imagine that the cost per meal goes from 15 to 3 for the same exact meal for the most part, right? things like that. Get me excited where I’m like, wow, how do we just save people make people like the quality of life better and save people money so that money can be reinvested into innovation and science and health and enjoying life.
So we’re not in this rat race. Like, you know, life doesn’t have to be rough if we can. And there’s a lot of people using robotics to try to improve the size. I just want to find these great innovators, just like you’re doing and and showcase them in a way where they can hopefully get funding and strategic partners, the right attorneys, the right marketers, the right technology behind.
I think I just said that. But basically, it’s a. Just trying to find awesome companies, either fund them through my own fund down the road at a minimum, prioritize them so that they’re getting funding from bad asses and the heaviest investors around the world is growing. Yeah, I love it. I love having a visionary on this show Josh, and that is exactly what you are, a man with big ideas and aspirations.
And what I like also is that you’re also a man of action. Cause you’re doing it. Got conferences going, you got it fun. You got like, you’re, you’re working hard and I recognize your effort. And I’m sure a lot of people that come out to the conferences and also support your efforts do as well. But that being said, Josh, if somebody is listening to this or watching this and they want to follow up, they want to learn more about Global Capital Network, follow your journey.
Of course the, the, the conferences want people to attend that as well. Like, like, how do people do that? How do they, how do they connect? Definitely, yeah, you can connect to our conference series at global capital network dot com. It’s our international investor network and investor conference series.
If you want to look at innovative and impact deals and create a free account and be able to connect with people global deal flow dot com. Feel free to connect. Me personally, I’m on all the platforms too. Josh Bo Bois. That’s JOSH. Last name’s BOIS, like Bravo, Oscar, India, Sam, you know, spelled out phonetically because I know it’s French.
It’s a little tough to pronounce. Mm-Hmm, and then, and write for many people. I’m relatively available, but you know, my bandwidth is pretty tight, so I really have to limit it to, you know, badass and innovators and investors. But I try to still mentor people where I can and at least connect them to resources or have my team connect them.
But if you have an awesome idea, I mean, ideally, not just an idea, ideally, if you’re already started down the path, maybe you have your first million, you know, in revenue and you really have some production, I’d love to help take you to 10 million. You know, whether it’s through funding or better use of technology or marketing or teams.
You know, I just really want to accelerate a train that’s already moving. You know, that’s proven and just add gas to the fire. That’s I’d love to help people. Awesome. Well, Josh thank you for coming on the show today and to the audience. As always, thank you for tuning in. Hope you got a lot out of this.
I know I did. If you haven’t hit that subscribe button yet, now is your chance. Hit that subscribe button. We have many more mission based individuals coming up on the line. Josh, I’m attending the conference, man. Hey, looking forward to meeting you in person. So appreciate it. Awesome. Cheers. Looking forward to see it.
Thanks guys.
