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Funderbeam, an Estonian company funded by Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn that offers data-intelligence on startups for angel investors, has announced it will launch a blockchain based trading platform for startup-investment. The company aims to create more liquidity in the startup marketplace. Funderbeam CEO CEO Kaidi Ruusalepp, writes more on their blog:
"Youll be able to easily create a syndicate as a lead or join one as a backer. National borders wont matter. Digital verification and regulatory compliance will be baked into our product. Thats a huge leap forward from how early-stage investing currently works."
Every syndicate is paired with a micro-fund that owns actual stakes in startups. So when syndicate members want to trade all or parts of their holdings, theyll trade digital stakes in that micro-fund. These rights are represented by digital tokens (coloured coins) on the bitcoin blockchain.
This creates something thats been sorely missing from startup investments: an aftermarket. You wont be locked into your investment, waiting for a possible exit five years down the line. Want to sell 5% or 100% of your stake? As long as theres a buyer, you can do it at any time.
Whether a syndicate on Funderbeam invests in one startup or many, well use the blockchain to verify each transaction and then enforce it. The same happens when an investor sells their digital stakes/rights. Every investment, every ownership change will have a secure, distributed audit trail.
In building a blockchain-enabled syndication and trading platform, Funderbeam helps build this future. Well cut out bureaucracy and needless intermediaries while delivering speed, transparency, and liquidity to early-stage investing. We hope you agree thats a future worth building. And who knows, maybe its a small step towards changing the structure of capital markets.
Keep an eye on our progress as we work to bring startup investments from the stone age to the bitcoin century. The worlds startup marketplace is getting closer.
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