Our goal at Direct Ventures is to offer a social interactive business platform that allows users to connect and discover new business and investment opportunities in a real-time environment, no matter where they are in the world. Despite the exponential increase of cross-border investment over the last two decades, many markets in developing and emerging economies still remain undercapitalized. This is largely due to issues regarding geographic proximity, lack of visibility, and cost-prohibitive due diligence requirements. With this in mind, Direct Ventures will disrupt the status quo by offering the first social interactive business platform. Through a marriage of both fintech and regtech features, we will provide a unique business ecosystem that offers a streamlined, one-stop-shop solution for accomplishing an assortment of business and transactional needs. In doing so, the Direct Ventures model will remove previous impediments, therefore freeing up capital as well as encouraging a new era of global p2p transactions.