Our Mission
Access shouldn't require an institution
The best private investments have always traveled through networks: the developer calls the family office, the fund manager calls the endowment, and individual investors read about it later. Your Investment Group exists to change who gets the call.
We combine three things that rarely live together: carefully reviewed private opportunities, complete and honest information about each one, and a genuine member community. The result is a platform where a first-time private investor and a seasoned allocator see the same materials — all of them.
Why We Built The Circle
Investing is better with company
A marketplace treats investing as a transaction. A network treats it as a practice. The Circle — our private member community — is where members preview deals, ask sponsors hard questions in the open, learn from the education library, and meet the people behind the projects at member events. Shared diligence makes every member smarter than any of us alone.
Our Investment Categories
Real estate, restaurants and hospitality, private businesses, private credit, startups and growth ventures, community development, special opportunities, and investment funds — eight categories chosen so members can build genuinely diversified private portfolios in one place.
Our Review Process
Every opportunity passes a structured pipeline before publication: sponsor submission, initial review, due diligence on the team and the numbers, requested changes where the package falls short, then approval and scheduling. The pipeline itself is visible inside the platform's administrative tools.
Our Technology
A modern platform built for clarity: a marketplace with complete offering pages, a portfolio dashboard that tracks every distribution and document, sponsor tools for updates and reporting, and administrative workflows for review and compliance — all designed so real banking, e-signature, and verification providers can plug in.
Our Values
How we make decisions
Transparency first
Complete terms, honest projections, and risks in plain language. If a deal can't be explained clearly, it doesn't belong on the platform.
Aligned structures
We favor member-favored waterfalls, sponsor co-investment, and preferred returns that put members ahead of sponsors.
Review before access
Sponsors earn their place through a structured pipeline — submission, diligence, changes, approval — before members ever see the deal.
Community over volume
A smaller network of engaged members beats an anonymous crowd. Events, Q&As, and shared diligence make everyone sharper.
Leadership
The team behind the platform
Sample leadership profiles shown for demonstration purposes.
Jonathan Alvarez
Founder & Chief Executive
Two decades across private real estate and operating businesses; built Your Investment Group to give serious individual investors the access institutions take for granted.
Whitney Cole
Chief Investment Officer
Former allocator at a family office overseeing $600M+ across private strategies; leads the opportunity review process and the sponsor pipeline.
Marcus Delaney
Head of Member Experience
Built client platforms at two wealth-management firms; responsible for the dashboard, reporting, and every touchpoint members see.
Sarah Kim
General Counsel
Securities attorney focused on private offerings; oversees disclosures, offering documents, and the compliance workflow.