Invest Local - Oxygenate is building awareness around the need for local businesses and passionate patrons to partner in ways that have been missing since the disappearance of local stock exchanges.The Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act (H.R. 2930) has been approved but there is still more red tape before communities can unleash the potential waiting to revolutionize our neighborhoods. Oxygenate is different from CrowdDonation organizations like Kiva and Kickstarter. Individuals blindly fuel their small parts of institutional investment firms that speculate and couldn't explain high-frequency trading to their best friend. Let's utilize what Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett have espoused for years, "Invest in what you know." Small and medium-sized businesses, "generate roughly 45 percent of the country's business revenues, but account for less than 5 percent of total capital markets activity, according to Morgan Stanley." Cortese, A. (2011). Locavesting. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. If you are a small/medium-size business owner looking for improved capital access or an individual who believes neighbors aggregating small investments can uplift a community, please follow us. Change is coming to the financial markets and our local communities. We will be able to touch our investments and feel like we are building value locally.