Cardone Ventures Selects KoreInside to Power Trillion-Dollar Small-Business Marketplace
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36-month partnership brings Brandon and Natalie Dawson’s 25-year vision for shared equity, scalable growth and Wall Street-level value creation to life.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ and NEW YORK, NY – November 12, 2026 – [KOREWIRE] — Cardone Ventures announced an exclusive marketplace partnership with KoreInside to launch a scalable private-equity marketplace for small and midsize businesses. The collaboration, 36 months in the making, combines Cardone Ventures’ business-growth platform with KoreInside’s capital-markets technology infrastructure.
The vision began with Brandon Dawson’s 25 years of research into small-business growth and ownership strategies. Dawson created the first shared-equity collaboration model, aligning owners and teams around a common mission and enabling the sale of Audigy at 77X EBITDA. He and Natalie Dawson envisioned extending that approach to millions of entrepreneurs when they partnered with Grant Cardone to build Cardone Ventures.
“Natalie and I have spent years building a platform where small-business owners can scale with equity-aligned teams and access future value they create at Wall Street-quality valuations,” said Brandon Dawson, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Cardone Ventures. “Audigy proved the power of shared equity. After 36 months working with Kore, we are planning to bring that model to market at a scale I have envisioned for 25 years.”
Grant Cardone has a record of raising more than $2 billion through crowdfunding for high-quality real estate assets. Together, Brandon and Natalie Dawson and Grant Cardone aim to open growth-capital and shared-ownership opportunities to a far broader private-business ecosystem.
“Grant Cardone has proven he can bring Wall Street-quality real estate assets to his audience. Now we will do something similar within the SMB space, building a platform that provides small-business owners a way to realize value enhancement for themselves and their teams, giving investors regulated access to ownership in SMBs that have traditionally been hard to reach at scale,” said Brandon Dawson, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Cardone Ventures.
“We have dozens of AI initiatives being developed in-house, and the businesses that access our training programs generate an estimated $1.2 billion in combined revenue per month —representing over $14 billion annually. We are already helping these entrepreneurs unlock significant value for themselves and their teams. Now, by bringing these businesses together, leveraging economies of scale, and deploying proven best practices and AI technologies across the platform, we aim to accelerate growth, improve profitability, and significantly enhance business valuations. This creates an extraordinary opportunity to build lasting value for business owners, and their teams,” said Natalie Dawson, Co-Founder and President, Cardone Ventures.
The platform targets the estimated $16 trillion small-business economy where owners have traditionally struggled to access growth capital, team-equity structures, liquidity, and constructive exits. By connecting operational scaling, equity-based alignment, investor access, and private-market transactions, SMB1T aims to build a potential trillion-dollar marketplace for future value creation.
KoreInside will provide integrated marketplace technology for digital identity, compliance, deal rooms, payments, shareholder records, transfer agency services and connections to regulated market participants, including support for the anticipated launch of tokenized securities. Its KoreID network reached one million users in September 2026.
“The SMB1T team brings the entrepreneurs and the vision; KoreInside brings the infrastructure to make this marketplace scalable,” said Oscar Jofre, Co-Founder, President and CEO of KoreInside.
About Cardone Ventures
Cardone Ventures is a business growth and consulting company co-founded by Brandon Dawson, Grant Cardone, and Natalie Dawson. The firm helps entrepreneurs and leadership teams scale their businesses through strategy, operations, sales, finance, people development, and execution. Learn more at cardoneventures.com.
KoreInside is a global capital markets infrastructure company providing blockchain technology, digital securities solutions, identity management, compliance automation, transfer agency services, and regulatory technology for private capital markets. Through its ecosystem, including KoreChain, KoreOracle, KoreID, Compliance Desk, and KoreTransfer, KoreInside enables the compliant digitization, issuance, management, and transfer of securities across global markets.
For more information, visit www.koreinside.com or www.kore.world.
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