The key innovation of evergreen funds for individual investors isn't just liquidity, but the upfront, fully-funded structure. This removes the operational complexity of managing capital calls and distributions—a major historical barrier for even wealthy individuals who found the process too complicated.

Senator Warren argues that just as food safety laws allow consumers to trust products without personal testing, financial regulations should protect investors from hidden scams. This "cop on the beat" creates the confidence necessary for true democratization of investing, rather than stifling markets.

Venture-backed private companies represent a massive, $5 trillion market cap, exceeding half the value of the 'Magnificent Seven' public tech stocks. This scale signifies that private markets are now a mature, institutional asset class, not a small corner of finance.

By raising the cap for simplified venture funds from $10M to $50M and increasing the investor limit to 500, the INVEST Act lowers the barrier for industry experts to form their own micro-funds. This could spawn a new class of specialized VCs, such as syndicates of laid-off tech executives investing in their niche.

New technologies perceived as job-destroying, like AI, face significant public and regulatory risk. A powerful defense is to make the general public owners of the technology. When people have a financial stake in a technology's success, they are far more likely to defend it than fight against it.

AI-powered VC introduction platforms are not just connectors; they are stringent gatekeepers reflecting the high bar of the current market. By assigning a "grade" and only facilitating introductions for high-scoring decks, these systems programmatically enforce VC standards at scale.

The new "Invest America Act" (aka "Trump Accounts") is a policy designed to counter the appeal of socialism. It provides every child with a government-funded investment account at birth. The core idea is to address wealth inequality by ensuring universal access to asset compounding from the start, rather than through later-stage redistribution.

The emergence of venture capital as a major asset class was unlocked by the new ability to mathematically measure and price risk. Similarly, the current impact investing movement is being driven by our newfound technological capacity (via big data and computing) to quantify a company's social and environmental effects.