Northern Trust has processed the first live capital call using distributed ledger technology for Emerald Cleantech Fund III, adding a significant new capability to its blockchain solution for private equity fund administration. The fully automated capital call administration functionality was deployed for Emerald Cleantech Fund III, a venture capital fund
Crypto Valley Venture Capital (CV VC), a new company founded by Zug-based Lakeside Partners and a group of private investors, is to invest in all stages of crypto and blockchain development, from incubation to late stage. The CV Labs incubator will offer seed money and a three-month incubation program to
Investx has appointed Richard Chambers to its board as Chief Operating Officer. Chambers brings a wealth of experience from HSBC Leveraged Finance and Royal Bank of Scotland Corporate Transactions, and over 14 years has secured over GBP500 million in bank funding for private equity-backed small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). SMEs
PIR Equities, an employee owned private equity firm focused on opportunistic value-based investing, has committed to invest USD50 million in blockchain technology companies over the next 12 months. Established in 2008 by Joseph Aaron Horowitz and Oded ‘OD’ Kobo, the firm manages a varied portfolio including interests in property, securities, technology and ownership in operating
Pre-funding of the Robinhood Equity Token (RHET) is now live on the Swarm platform, the blockchain for private equity. Accredited investors can now reserve their stake in a fund created for the purpose of holding equity in Robinhood. The first security token of its kind, once the minimum funding goal
By John D’Agostino (pictured), Global Leader, Investor Engagement at DMS Governance, & Paras Malde, Director at DMS Governance. Crypto 101 Distributed ledger (DL) technology is the foundation on which crypto-currencies (or crypto-assets, depending on where one falls in the debate) lie. Bitcoin, the most well-known use case for DL, is
Q&A with Manuel Anguita (pictured), co-founder of top-performing blockchain- and crypto-focused hedge fund Silver 8… How did Silver 8 come to invest in crypto assets in 2015? Much of the credit must go to my business partner and Silver 8’s other co-founder, Jose Suarez, who is responsible for the vision.
Blockchain for private equity firm Swarm has partnered with decentralised autonomous organisation MakerDAO to integrate the Dai token into the Swarm platform. Swarm writes that this will give Swarm’s community of accredited investors a greater capability to lock in crypto prices, using the world’s first decentralised stablecoin on the
Alternative fund manager Abacus Capital’s Hogi Hyun is stepping into the crypto world to bring investors a blockchain and tokenised investment grade diamond investment opportunity. Abacus was established in Singapore in 1996 and has some USD1 billion in assets in special situations and private equity investments in commodities, natural resources
Swarm, the blockchain for private equity, announced that the recently tokenised Andra Fund will be made available to its investors. The firm writes that through the Andra Fund, Swarm investors will be able to utilise any of four cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Swarm, or the Dai stablecoin) to invest in one
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