Thursday, March 8, 2018

Equi Capital(EQUI)-Blockchain Platform for a New Era of Venture Capital


Have you known a decentralized system for a new era in venture capital market? This is about it. EQUI is an equity investment platform bringing professional investors and individuals together to help fund innovative crypto and tech enterprises in an early stage. The world of venture capital belonged the rich and big investors for a long time, EQUI Capital wants to change that by providing an investment platform that enables venture capital investments for everybody. Using a web based application that is accessed through any compatible web browser and their own ERC20 token to enable users to participate in EQUI investment projects. EQUI will furthermore utilise the established Ethereum blockchain to process and store credentials, information and transactions, including the acquisition of project stakes, distribution of profits, deployment of investment returns and investor rewards. The use of smart contracts, written in Solidity and compiled for Ethereum Virtual Machine, ensures security, reliability and transparency for all EQUI participants. Following the ICO, the platform will be fully developed using the funds raised. It will be user friendly, aesthetically pleasing and provide all relevant information for an investor to plan their investments and review their portfolio.
EQUI aims to promote and represent diverse entrepreneurs and investments from across the world who need a gateway to funding and exposure. The platform will promote a mixture of business sectors with a leaning towards technology, whether that be e-commerce, fintech, data, SaaS or biotechnology. EQUI will work with businesses of all sizes with differing aims and objectives. Providing a combination of traditional and alternative equity investment will enable our EQUI token community to diversify their portfolios with a blend of projects. The core investment model will be to take equity or loan positions in innovative businesses that can demonstrate vision and scalability. A scalable and sustainable business model with global potential will provide the scope for growth and returns. Each investment opportunity will go through an extensive validation process before it is placed on the EQUI platform for investment selection by EQUI token holders. The extent of EQUI’s input continues post-investment, adopting an active asset management role to successfully steer the portfolio towards exit. There are three different ways to participate in the EQUI plattform. First of all you can trade the token as every other token (Trader). As an Investor you can commit your tokens to opportunities on the EQUI platform. Investors will receive a 70% (pro-rata) payout of the profits generated from projects they invest in. Investors are furthermore able to participate in the EQUI credits loyalty scheme. Investors allocation of EQUI credits will equal 5% of your total invested number of EQUI tokens. By simply holding your EQUI token without committing to projects you will receive 5% (pro-rata) of profits generated from projects (Holders). This is similar to staking. 75% of all profits are returned to investors and holders, with the remaining 25% going to the EQUI Investment Team as a performance reward.
Team & Advisors
EQUI was founded by Doug Barrowman, described as the lead founder of the project. He has been investing in projects for 30 years, including many early-stage and seed investments. He is owner of a firm called Aston Ventures. That firm has a team of investment professionals capable of accurately picking the best companies for high growth. Furthermore he has also built the Knox Group of companies since 2008, and he continues to lead that group as Founder and Chairman. The co-founded of Equi is Baroness Michell Mone of Mayfair, OBE. She is is a Scottish entrepreneur, global speaker, designer, innovator and parliamentarian. On 27 August 2015, Downing Street announced her elevation to the peerage, and she was introduced in the House of Lords on 15 October by fellow Conservative peers Lord Freud and Baroness Morris of Bolton. She was appointed to conduct a two part government review for the PM David Cameron on business start-ups in deprived areas. She’s an award-winning entrepreneur who also serves as the appointed “Start-Up Business Tsar” to the UK government. Next to the two founders EQUI has a five-headed project team, four members of the investment team and 6 advisors. The four members of the investment team are from the close environment of the founder Doug Barrowman while two of them work fpr Aston Ventures as well, the other two members also work for Knox Group. The project team can be divided in different topics. They have one head of development, customer services and marketing as well as one project manager and a trustee also from Knox Group. Their head of development is Andrei Karpushonak. He is a software engineer with extensive experience at international corporations such as Motorola, BetVictor and Coral. He is a specialist in software architecture and design and builds robust and scalable solutions for a variety of concepts with a particular focus on blockchain related technology. The Advisors can be divided in crypto and entrepreneurial advisors, that have different backgrounds and experiences. The following bullets will offer an overview and all.
Advisory Team
Mark Pearson
Is an award winning digital entrepreneur having achieved multiple successful exits over the last decade.
Duncan MacInnes
Has been an early stage backer of some of the greatest technology success stories including Facebook and Deliveroo.
Morten Tonneson
Is CEO of advertising and marketing technology giant Ve Global.
Advisory Team — Crypto
Jonas Karlberg
Co-founder of the Nordic Blockchain Association and the founder of AmaZix.
Duncan Cameron
Is the founder of the CasinoCoin foundation.
John Caldwell
Is currently a partner at Narus Advisors, a boutique gaming consultancy advising on new technologies and regulatory the matters relating to the gaming industry.
Overall, the EQUI describes itself as a team of established and proven individuals who have experienced success in their field of expertise and will evaluate all investment opportunities to offer a carefully selected portfolio for our investors to consider. The long time experience of lead founder Dough Barrowman and the political influence of co-founder Baroness Michell Mone of Mayfair are an impressive positive factor for EQUI capital and will help the project to succeed.
TheToken
The EQUI pre-sale begins on March 1, 2018 and ends on March 8. A minimum investment of $100,000 to participate in the pre-sale is required. The price per token is $0.375 including a 25% bonus for all pre-sale participants.
Now Its ICO Time
The ICO begins on March 8 and ends on March 31. You’ll need a minimum investment of $100 to participate in the main ICO. There will be different stages of bonus. People who participate between the 8th till the 15th of March will get a 15% bonus and therefore have to pay $0.425 per EQUI token. If you invest between the 15th and the 22th of March the bonus will only be 5% and the token price $0.475 per token. After the 22th of March till the end of the ICO there is no bonus. The price per token without any bonus is $0.50. You can contribute using Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), or Ripple (XRP). There is a total supply of 250 million EQUI token. 65% are being sold during the pre-sale and ICO. 12% are distributed to EQUI founders (6 month lock-in period), 15% for the EQUI team (distributed quarterly, over a two year period, with a six month lock-in), 6% to the advisory board (distributed quarterly, over a two year period, with a 6 month lock-in), and 2% to bounties. Should any of the tokens allocated for public sale remain unsold at the end of the ICO, 50% will be distributed to the ICO participants on a pro-rata basis. The remaining 50% will be distributed back to EQUI and will be used to support future investment project. It follows that a maximum of 162.5 million token will be sold in the pre and public sale at a maximum price of $0.50 per token which equates to a max cap of 81.25 million USD.
The Verdict
A platform that connects the world of venture capital markets and blockchain technology including crypto markets is strongly needed. From the technical point of view it seems to be a easy task and nothing that requires high development skills. But from a economical point of view it is a lot more complicated task. A lot of connections and experience are needed to realize a project like that. The lead founder Dough Barrowman brings in all the connections and experience that are needed and all. The number of 17 involved people seems to be a good size for such a project and makes a serious impression compared to other overloaded projects. The background of the founders and team member builds further trust in the professionality of the project. Next to the crypto advisors and developers there is a sound knowledge from the business side. The members are coming up with a lot of experience in the main area of EQUI the venture capital market and have already founded still existing companies in that field. The fact that there is only one developer in the team fills me with a kind of discomfort. But the fact that the main parts of the project including the platform itself will be realized after the ICO took place gives them the opportunity to hire some more afterwards. From an economical point of view it could be useful to avoid spending money on developers that are not needed in the current stage of project but it holds the risk that good developers will not be available when they are needed
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