However I wouldn't be at all surprised if the smallprint somewhere in a long chain of paperwork means that you will never get any financial return in your "investment". There are a few platforms and crowdfunding platforms that let retail investors put small amounts of money into startups and I have never heard of a single case, even from an anonymous netizen, of anyone getting money back from such a structure.
But I did not withdraw it and just reinvested to other startups, so in that sense I've never received money from them.
That doesn’t necessarily translate to trusting them with money though.
But what's to prevent a rogue syndicate from taking money without actually investing it forward...
Not sure if I'm doing this wrong: http://pastebin.com/H18JijjM