• Equity Check builds relationships only with sponsors and companies who have a well established history in their field, with an impeccable track record.
  
  • Venterra - 23 years of operation,100+ investments with zero investor losses, 83 successful round-trip transactions with an average IRR of 18.5% over a 7.1-year average hold period.
  • PlayGround - $500M in commercial real estate experience, including $400M self-storage portfolio across 4.3M square feet in 15 states with a 13-72% IRR Range on all full-cycle deals.
  • Top Hat - 17+ years experience in supply chain industry, 25+ Patents held between the team with $76.4M in the current sale pipeline and $34.5M of contracts secured in 2025

• An accredited investor, in the context of a natural person, includes anyone who:
  
  • Has earned income that exceeded $200,000 (or $300,000 together with a spouse) in each of the prior two years, and reasonably expects the same for the current calendar year, OR
  • Has a net worth over $1 million, either alone or together with a spouse or spousal equivalent (excluding the value of the person’s primary residence), OR
  • Holds good standing a Series 7, 65 or 82 license

On the income test, the person must satisfy the thresholds for the prior two years consistently either alone or with a spouse, and cannot, for example, satisfy one year based on individual income and the next two years based on joint income with a spouse. The only exception is if a person is married within this period. The person may satisfy the threshold based on joint income for the years during which the person was married and based on individual income for the other years.

In addition, entities such as banks, partnerships, corporations, nonprofits and trusts may be accredited investors. Of the entities that would be considered accredited investors and depending on your circumstances, the following may be relevant to you:

• Any trust with total assets more than $5 million, not formed to specifically purchase the subject securities, and whose purchase is directed by a sophisticated person, OR
• Certain entity with total investments more than $5 million, not formed to specifically purchase the subject securities, OR
• Any entity in which all the equity owners are accredited investors.

You can invest as an Individual, Jointly, through an LLC (Limited Liability Company), Corporation, Partnership, Retirement Plan/401K, or a Trust.

If you have an existing IRA, or a 401K from a previous employer, it is likely that you will be able to self-direct all or a portion of it into our investment vehicles. Check with your current custodian to see if they will allow you to self-direct your retirement account. If the answer is yes, please contact our investor relations team.

You will receive a K-1 form. We take great pains to ensure we finalize our K-1s by April 15 of each year as part of the foundation of the Accountability element of our ethos. Despite being dependent upon outside reporting, our partners are selected for their robust and reliable reporting practices. 

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A Form K-1 is a tax form used by partnerships to provide investors with detailed information on their share of a partnership’s taxable income.

You can invest with us if you live in another country. Depending on how you structure your investment, different documents may be required. We maintain good relationships with tax advisory firms that help international investors structure their U.S. investments for compliance and tax optimization.

Individual sponsors have different terms for their investments, all of which can be found in the official documentation, which is sent to you upon application and completion of the KYC (Know Your Customer) process.

Our target returns vary by investment. The historical average annualized IRR across our operating partners is over 20%. Our targeted returns are just that, targets. Investment involves risk and our actual returns may be higher or lower, however, we work only with sponsors and operators who have a demonstrated history of having never lost a single investor dollar.

This depends on the investment and business plan. They may be monthly, quarterly, or paid out in a lump sum at the project completion. 

Investment always involves some level of risk, though we take great pains to thoroughly vet our sponsors and operators, so we exclusively work with partners who align with our “investors first” ethos. That means they have demonstrated materially mitigated risk in all investments, and have track records that boast a history of having lost zero investor dollars over their many years of operation. To see more about each of our partners, visit our partners page at https://www.equitycheck.com/playground

Serious investors receive the Private Placement Memorandum (PPM), operating agreement, subscription docs, and pro forma showing the business plan, distribution waterfall, and risk disclosures.