RepublicReviews of republic.co

They offer invest opportunity in some great startups from time to time. Have a very professional setup, service. Their support has been helpful whenever investors have certain queries.

Can I give this company zero stars? Their acquisition of Nextseed has been a disaster. Their customer support and investor relations is completely useless. I made five investments of $5k each for a total of $25k. Four of those investments are out of business. I understand the risk but what I don't understand is poor investor relations. I have been trying to get tax forms for two of the entities for the past year and Nextseed / Republic won't admit that the businesses are bankrupt. They are in my hometown so it's not hard to see! I've invested in several other crowdsource platforms with great investor relations support. If you want to have money taken from you by a company that then provides no support, information or help then go ahead and invest. I hope this review scares anyone away from doing business with them.

No active support or customer service. Once you invest through them absolutely zero follow up on companies. Its ok if the companies we invest in fail, we understand the risk. But having zero support post-close is not acceptable. Recommend you invest through other means.

Impossible to sell on secondary market. If only they made it clear when signing up and initially investing that they can trap your money on this platform for as long as they like. I've been trying to put my shares for sale on secondary market now for over one year and for the duration of this time the company has been inelligible for sale with no reasons given. Meaning I can't put them up for sale or know whenever it may be the case that I can again. Don't invest on here unless you want to completeley lose all control.

I have invested significant amount of money via this platform (formerly Seedrs). And lost all of it. Without any clear communication from the platform and no reflection what so ever. I deleted my account and would highly recommend anyone to stay away as far as possible from this platform. Even till the end when it was clear my return on the investment would be down to zero it shows that i would be making a significant win.

Helped with an important issue and fixed issue very quickly

Stay away from this platform unless you want to lose all of your money. I just lost my whole investment because of dodgy practices by one of their businesses Bux and Republic (who rebranded from Seeders). They have been withholding information the whole time, blocking investors from selling their shares and then ensuring that a small group of investors make a tone of money for the sake of earlier investors in the business. Republic let that happen and I see as equally guilty as the dodgy management of Bux. They should be all in prison!!

Very bad communication. Invested in a company three years ago. Not one update on the company after investing. Reached out several times, direct to the company and to republic. They closed my last two tickets without a response.