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Mike Ivancie

Mike is the Head of Marketing for UpMarket. Mike believes in increasing access to both financial education and innovative financial products. Mike is an avid investor and has an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Can OpenAI keep its lead in the artificial intelligence arms race?

Can OpenAI keep its lead in the artificial intelligence arms race?

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT. Two months after its launch, ChatGPT reached 100 million users. To illustrate just how impressive that is, it took TikTok nine months and Instagram over two years to reach the same user milestone. Time to reach 100 million users OpenAI vs. TikTok vs.

Mike Ivancie Mar 17, 2023

OpenAI: A Guide for Investors' Common Questions

OpenAI: A Guide for Investors' Common Questions

Following the launch and mass adoption of ChatGPT, OpenAI is on pace to become a household name. In response, companies have inked strategic partnerships with OpenAI, made large investments, and former OpenAI team members are now raising huge sums of money from venture capital firms looking to cash in on

Mike Ivancie Mar 8, 2023

Is China's Manufacturing Exodus Overblown? What Investors Need to Know

private-markets

Education

6 min read

Is China's Manufacturing Exodus Overblown? What Investors Need to Know

In this article, we explore the current state of China's manufacturing industry, where it's going, and what investors need to know about the potential impact on their portfolios.

Mike Ivancie Feb 28, 2023

The Semiconductor Wars: And the future of Chinese technology development

Education

private-markets

5 min read

The Semiconductor Wars: And the future of Chinese technology development

In 2011 famed VC firm Marc Andreessen wrote an op-ed for the WSJ titled, “Why Software is Eating the World.” Since then software has been a tremendous source of innovation and wealth creation worldwide. We have seen software’s dominance create monoliths like Google and Tencent and enable countless unicorns

Mike Ivancie Feb 13, 2023

News

private-markets

8 min read

2023 Big Bank Forecasts Summarized

Are you wondering what the world’s largest and most well-known banks are projecting for markets in 2023? Great, we’ve summarized their outlooks below. Executive SummaryFollowing a banner year in 2021 for investments, 2022 proved to be much more challenging. For the first time in decades, Wall Street strategists,

Mike Ivancie Jan 10, 2023

Is Elon Musk right: Are Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes the reason Tesla’s stock is down?

Education

5 min read

Is Elon Musk right: Are Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes the reason Tesla’s stock is down?

Over the last few weeks, Tesla stock has declined sharply. This has put Tesla on pace for its worst month, quarter, and year in history. Some prominent shareholders recently criticized Musk and made demands for changes to salvage the share price publicly on Twitter. Elon Musk tweeted in response to

Mike Ivancie Dec 29, 2022

6 min read

What Investors Can Learn from Blackstone Halting Redemptions in its $69 Billion Dollar Private REIT

BREIT halting redemptions serves as a good case study for any investor looking to learn how to navigate the alternative investment market. There are some important lessons we can all take away from these recent headlines.

Mike Ivancie Dec 16, 2022

2 min read

Crypto Mania to Mayhem: Was almost everyone swimming naked?

FTX, the famed crypto exchange that bought Superbowl ads, stadium naming rights, and had all-star endorsements, filed for bankruptcy on November 22nd

Mike Ivancie Dec 9, 2022

UpMarket

5 min read

Falling in Love with Natural Gas Again

As countries adjust to a new model of energy scarcity and pricing pressures, we are likely to continue to see volatility across all energy markets.

Mike Ivancie Sep 9, 2022

UpMarket

Webinar

1 min read

Global Events Access Fund 【中文讲座】

This live webinar was hosted by UpMarket on Tuesday, August 30, 2022. The event was conducted in Mandarin Chinese. The data and views are provided by Divergent Asset Management. Nothing discussed in either a verbal context or from the presentation should be considered as an endorsement or an agreement from

Mike Ivancie Sep 2, 2022

UpMarket

Webinar

1 min read

Life Settlement Access Fund 【中文讲座】

This live webinar was hosted by UpMarket on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. The event was conducted in Mandarin Chinese. The data and views are provided by CG Analysts. Nothing discussed in either a verbal context or from the presentation should be considered as an endorsement or an agreement from Upmarket

Mike Ivancie Sep 2, 2022

Is Private Equity Eating the World (and your portfolio)?

Education

10 min read

Is Private Equity Eating the World (and your portfolio)?

Do you remember when Facebook went public? It was a huge deal. Facebook became the largest technology IPO in history at the time after raising $16 billion. But these days, there's a new trend in the tech world: companies are staying private longer. In the past twenty years, the number

Mike Ivancie Aug 15, 2022

Education

UpMarket

3 min read

Invest in Private Markets and Alternatives using Self-Directed IRAs and UpMarket

At UpMarket we want to unlock private markets for individuals so they are empowered to build diverse portfolios that best meet their objectives. This means unlocking new asset classes like hedge funds and private equity along with simplifying the traditionally opaque private-market investment process using technology. Asset classes available on

Mike Ivancie Jul 8, 2022

Investor Basics: Am I an Accredited Investor?

Education

5 min read

Investor Basics: Am I an Accredited Investor?

With an estimated 10.6% of U.S. households qualifying as accredited investors in 2020, it's no wonder more and more people are interested in learning whether they are an accredited investor and what benefits, if any, come with that designation. A primary benefit of accredited investor status is that

Mike Ivancie Jul 8, 2022

About UpMarket

UpMarket's mission is to unlock the private markets for individual investors.

We provide access to a range of asset classes and investment strategies that span private equity, hedge funds, crypto, real estate, and other alternative assets.

The problem

Historically, accessing private market investments had these challenges:

A large barrier to entry due to high investment minimums
Time-intensive because sourcing deals is a lot of work even if you’ve got a great network, and
Costly because of investment-related diligence costs, paperwork, and legal fees

The solution

UpMarket works to address these barriers for individual investors by:

Offering lower investment minimums
Sourcing and conducting diligence on opportunities for investors, empowering them to pick and choose from pre-screened opportunities
Making the investment process entirely digital, straightforward, and easy to manage from a single portal

View open opportunities

Individuals like you have invested over $120 Million with UpMarket.