Investor Stories - April

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Investor Stories

Meet the people investing for the human future. 

We love getting to know our investors and are delighted to be able to share their individual stories with the wider CIRCA5000 community.

Our first investor story comes from Tejasva Malhotra, read more about his investment journey and motivations below. 

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What made you start investing with CIRCA5000?

I wanted to know more about investing about two and a half years ago, but I also wanted to be ethical, I didn't want to invest in something that was not doing good for the world.

I was doing some research on certain apps and I found CIRCA5000, and you could start with as little as £5, so I rolled with it. At the time the company was just born, it had only been a few months I think.

Then I got to know the team more, I started believing in what you guys were doing and then I really liked it. I started helping out with the feedback sessions like we are doing now and felt like this is a really nice community aspect to it as well which is amazing - I continued to support it. 

What do you like about CIRCA5000?

The reason why I stuck with CIRCA5000 is because it felt real and it felt urgent. Both sides were supporting each other. You guys were supporting us and we were supporting you, from a purpose perspective that's amazing. 

What are your goals for your investments?

In 10 or 20 years…. if you don't want me to hold back then I would say to generate large wealth, so I can build my own businesses which align with my values, and at the same time help build and support ethical companies by investing in them.

Again, I want to use a lot of that money to build my own businesses, but at the same time invest in these ethical companies; that are actually trying to do good for the world instead of trying to make money - I want to acquire the means to do that if that makes sense. 

Roughly how much do you invest with CIRCA5000?

For now, with my current salary, I try to invest a fraction of my salary that I'm comfortable with, but the key focus is on consistency. When my salary goes up, the amount I invest regularly goes up by the same percentage.

Taking into account the volatility of the market right now, the ups and downs, you don't want it to be once a month, ideally you want it to be once a day so it balances out.

The fact that CIRCA5000 doesn't charge fees on each transaction means that I can invest every week. Whereas on other platforms if they charge us even a small percentage of that, that means I'm losing every time I invest.

We'd love to hear from more CIRCA5000 investors, so please reach out to us via customer support in-app or email hi@circa5000.com if you want to have a chat about your own investment journey.

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