Dossier
The Spaventa Group
Coverage of The Spaventa Group in the Nexus archive.
- AI gets its own “boiler room” scandal
The SEC filed a complaint alleging that The Spaventa Group, led by Andrew Spaventa, operated a pre-IPO "boiler room" selling shares of companies like SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity. The regulator alleges the firm raked in over $74 million from investors between 2020 and 2025, claiming that investors paid significantly high markups on their positions.