Question 1

What is WealthSpring's Mission?

Accepted Answer

WealthSpring strives to develop sustainable value by influencing and integrating extraordinary ideas, innovations, and transactions  by pursuing  ventures best suited to  producing profitable outcomes while diligently working towards improving the human experience.

Question 2

What does WealthSpring's logo represent?

Accepted Answer

The WealthSpring logo was commissioned to include three symbolic elements into its design:

(1) Its hexagon shape is found in nature’s most enduring structures, representing WealthSpring’s commitment to developing ventures designed to achieve greater levels of strength, integrity, and performance.

(2) The logo’s color represents rubies because when skillfully cut by master craftsmen, they are among the world’s most precious gems. This represents WealthSpring’s commitment to managing its endeavors as "craftsmen" focused on honing and employing strategies  and best practices to ensure greater levels of valuation.

(3) Finally, the logo’s gem-like, "faceted and stylized W" represents WealthSpring’s desire to skillfully manage the many facets of each venture so they can produce successful, profitable outcomes.

Question 3

How is the mission of WealthSpring Advisors, LLC (WSA) expressed through its strategy?

Accepted Answer

WSA’s mission strategy is expressed through a broad entrepreneurial vision contained within a multi-sector plan designed to uncover and develop existing, emerging, and sustainable opportunities for investors by wisely and actively managing its capital.  As a vital part of its win-win philosophy, the Manager is committed to seeking transactions that deliver long-term value, consistent returns, and increased quality of life for all whom WSA participates with.

Question 4

What is the expected time horizon for subscribers in WSGVF?

Accepted Answer

The Fund typically seeks long-term capital appreciation with projected exits within three to five years. Although it is WSA‘s intention to work diligently to achieve this timetable, dependence upon market conditions and financial results attained by ventures operating within the portfolio may potentially dictate longer durations or extended timetables for exit.

Question 5

What is WSA’s investment philosophy?

Accepted Answer

The WS Global Venture Fund’s philosophy is driven by the tenets of flexibility, diversification, and proprietary internal analytics to effectively uncover potential future value and manage ventures within its portfolio towards evolving, more profitable long-term innovations. Although not a requirement for its investments, WSA’s prospecting philosophy places a high value on ventures that develop, protect, and hold intellectual property in the form of issued patents, patents-pending, copyrights, and trademarks. WSA views these assets as potential catalysts for expanding future revenues through licensing and other opportunities.

Question 6

What are the underlying objectives of the WS Global Ventures Fund (WSGVF)?

Accepted Answer

The Fund’s primary investment objective is to make direct, indirect, and secondary investments where applicable. WSA and WSGVF are committed to balancing today’s unique market paradigms and actively managing its portfolio assets towards the accelerated realities posed by burgeoning, future economic opportunities.

Question 7

What types of transactions will the Fund engage in?

Accepted Answer

The Fund seeks to achieve profitable results by making capital growth and equity investments and/or provide debt financing to prospects deemed suitable by the Manager.  Investments typically consist of equity purchases, providing structured credit facilities, and/or negotiating convertible debt with the companies it targets.

Question 8

What are the areas of concentration for WSGVF?

Accepted Answer

Due to Management’s many long-standing relationships across numerous industry sectors, WSGVF’s efforts seek to include, but not be limited to:  Real Estate; Consumer Goods; Media and Entertainment; Food and Agricultural Technologies; as well as leading-edge technologies consisting of Sustainable Energy, Fintech; and Biotech.  A focus on carefully chosen targets, coupled with tightly managed operational controls have been developed to position the Fund to pursue planned initiatives actively and quickly.

Question 9

What parties are best suited to participate and benefit with WSA?

Accepted Answer

Numerous parties may benefit by participating with WSA. These include, but are not limited to, companies, funds, endowments, foundations, single family offices (SFOs and MFOs), accredited investors and other select qualified individuals.

Question 10

What criteria must be met to qualify and participate as an investor in the WS Global Ventures Funds?

Accepted Answer

Investors will be required to make certain representations and warranties with respect to each purchaser’s status as an “Accredited Investor” and “Qualified Client” as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

-   Accredited Investors are generally individuals with a net worth of more than $1,000,000 USD (excluding the value of their      
               primary residence) or who meet certain income thresholds -- an individual with income in-excess-of $200,000 USD in each of 
               the two most recent years or joint income with that person’s spouse in excess of $300,000 USD in each of those years and who 
               has a reasonable expectation of reaching the same income level in the current year. Business entities, trusts, and family offices 
               that typically choose to participate usually have assets exceeding $5,000,000 USD.

-   Qualified Clients are generally any natural person who, or company that, has at least $1,100,000 USD under the investment 
               management of the Manager (immediately after participating in the investment) or that the Manager reasonably believes 
              (a) has a net worth (together, in the case of a natural person with assets jointly held with a spouse) of more than $2,200,000, or 
              (b) is a Qualified Purchaser as defined in section 2(a)(51)(A) of the Investment Company Act; or, (c) is a “knowledgeable 
              employee” of the advisor.

Question 11

Why choose the WS Global Ventures Fund?

Accepted Answer

WSA management has more than 100+ years of collective experience participating in building and operating start-up ventures in operational and Senior Management roles.
WSA has assembled a world-class team consisting of domestically and internationally recognized representation, auditing, and plan administration to work alongside its capital fund structure.
WSA relies on proprietary internal analytics and industry specialists to uncover current and future value propositions.
WSA seeks to deploy capital into a diverse spectrum of carefully qualified market sectors while striving to potentially mitigate inherent risks.
WSA appeals to investors that understand a need for balancing today’s investment choices while also pointing their portfolio direction towards future opportunities poised to emerge.
WSA’s portfolio is represented by diversified opportunities, positioning investors to efficiently access profitable returns through a variety of emerging and evolving markets and technologies.
WSA seeks to outperform today’s known market conditions and provide investors a means to access opportunities that may possess misunderstood or hidden value.
WSA seeks to focus its strategy on consistency, growth, and opportunities that may positively impact the human experience along with the markets being served.

Question 12

What are the terms and conditions of the WS Global Ventures Funds?

Accepted Answer

Minimum Subscription:            	$100,000 USD
Maximum Investment:             	None
Investment Horizon:                	Planned intervals of three to five years
Fees:                                        	           Traditional 2/20 Fee Structure
Investor Profile:                        	Accredit Investors and Other Qualified Participants

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