Vinovest

Vinovest is a StartEngine-owned wine and whiskey investing platform whose structural risks stopped being hypothetical in 2025-2026. The two-product structure remains — retail managed portfolios holding identified bottles and casks, plus an accredited-only Reg D whiskey fund — but the diligence picture is now dominated by an observable record: customer-reported suspension of physical shipments since March 2025, liquidation requests running months past the platform's stated 2-4 week timeline, a Better Business Bureau file of 44 complaints in three years with half unanswered, and the sale of the company to StartEngine for $14 million — roughly 14% of its reported $97 million AUM and modest relative to the venture capital it had reportedly raised. AltStreet's scan found no lawsuit or regulatory action against any Vinovest entity; the record is operational, not legal. AltStreet's review scores what is verifiable — the EDGAR-documented conflicts, the parent's consolidated filings, and the servicing record — and asks investors to weigh that record before trusting dashboard valuations or exit timelines.