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meta_head:
description: "Neufund is a community-owned fundraising platform. Our ICBM starts on 17th Nov. 2017!"
image_logo: "https://commit.neufund.org/assets/social_logo.png"
url: "https://commit.neufund.org"
keywords: "neufund, icbm, ico, neumark, venture capital, ethereum, startup, blockchain"
why-how:
visible: false
sections:
- title: "Enjoy risk-free commitment"
id: "how-it-works"
content: |
<p>In Neufund’s ICBM you reserve funds for your future investments on the Neufund Platform. In return we reward you with NEU tokens. NEU entitles you to economic co-ownership of the Neufund Platform.</p>
<p>You stay in full control over your committed funds and investment decisions. 100% of capital raised in the ICBM will fund innovation. We do not take any of the committed money.</p>
<p>If you decide not to invest on the Neufund Platform, 100% of your funds can be released after 18 months and anytime with a fee of only 10%.</p>
<p>Your participation in the ICBM is risk-free.</p>
imgPath: "../assets/why-how/ICBM"
- title: "Earn from NEU"
id: "why-participate"
content: |
<p>If you hold your NEU tokens you receive fee payouts and participation in equity tokens of every company that was ever funded on the Platform.</p>
<p>With each successful fundraising a fee is deducted from the investment amount and immediately distributed to all NEU holders.</p>
<p>Additionally, a fee in the form of equity tokens released by fundraising companies is added to the Platform portfolio, which is collectively owned by NEU holders.</p>
<p>Secondary trading of NEU is open when ICBM ends. No vesting is applied to trading nor to fee payouts.</p>
imgPath: "../assets/why-how/Benefits"
participating:
visible: true
title: "What is Neufund Platform"
paragrapha: |
Neufund opens the investment process of ICOs for all ventures, blockchain-based or not, as well as investors. Using our legal and technical infrastructure, investors can invest with both ETH and EUR; startups and established companies alike can issue a new type of asset we call tokenized equity – in essence, digital shares. Such crypto tokens reflect the value of the business operating in the real, off-chain world and at the same time are as liquid as a currency.
subtitle: "Key to read"
links:
- link: "Neufund Whitepaper"
target: "https://neufund.org/whitepaper"
downloadable: true
- link: "Roadmap"
target: "https://neufund.org/roadmap"
downloadable: true
- link: "Key takeaways from the Neufund Whitepaper"
target: "https://blog.neufund.org/key-takeaways-from-the-new-neufund-whitepaper-56444e408643"
invest_platform:
visible: false
title: "Investing in companies on the Neufund Platform"
paragraph: |
<p>Neufund opens and re-imagines Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) for all types of companies (blockchain and non‑blockchain companies).</p>
<p>Using the unique legal and technical infrastructure, investors can invest in private equity with ETH or EUR. Companies can legally tokenize their equity and sell it via Equity Token Offerings (ETOs) on the Neufund Platform.</p>
<p>The Neufund Platform is designed to be both secure and user friendly. It is a platform for everyone.</p>
team:
visible: false
title: "Team"
intro: "Team of entrepreneurs and experienced professionals."
block: "../blocks/person"
members:
- name: "Zoe Adamovicz"
title: "CEO & Co-Founder"
image: "../assets/ZoeAdamovicz_bw.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
facebook: "https://www.facebook.com/zoeadamovicz"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoeadamovicz/"
medium: "https://blog.neufund.org/@ZoeAdamovicz"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Zoe Adamovicz is the CEO and co-founder at Neufund. She is an experienced entrepreneur and occasional angel investor.</p>
<p>Zoe is passionate about building technology-based businesses that are impactful, positive and at
the same time profitable and powerful. Prior to Neufund, she founded Xyo, a company that
re-imagines how people discover apps, Priori Data (app store intelligence), and Concise
Software which provides software development and engineering services.</p>
<p>She is also a mentor to the Gaza Sky Geeks, where she supports technology
entrepreneurship in the challenging area of the Gaza Strip and helps introduce Blockchain.
As an expert in technology entrepreneurship and venture capital, she has been following the
blockchain space closely for several years. She decided to found Neufund when she
realized the potential of blockchain for democratizing access to funding, and changing the
VC game for good.</p>
- name: "Marcin Rudolf"
title: "CTO & Co-Founder"
image: "../assets/MarcinRudolf_bw.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcinrudolf/"
"medium": "https://blog.neufund.org/@rudolfix"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Marcin is a co-founder and CTO, and currently leads the technology development at
Neufund. He has been tracking the development of blockchain technology for the past 6 years.</p>
<p>Before joining Neufund, he led technology development at the app search engine Xyo.
In addition, he has worked as a developer and team leader on projects involving messaging
and telecommunication (Orange), cryptography and mobile devices (Jamba Music),
insurance and government (Fiat, Hewlett-Packard).</p>
- name: "Andre Eggert"
title: "Legal Architect"
image: "../assets/AndreEggert_bw.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"website": "http://lacore.de/berater/andre-eggert/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>André Eggert is a partner at LACORE. He advises companies and entrepreneurs as well as
investors. One of his core activities is the support of M&A and financing transactions. André
has special knowledge in the areas of private equity financing and quasi-equity instruments.
His focus is, moreover, on negotiating and drafting joint venture and cooperation
agreements. He possesses relevant experience resulting from his involvement in a wide
range of international transactions with parties from the Anglo-American legal system.
Additionally, he possesses specific expertise in the technology and entertainment industries.</p>
- name: "Sergiej Rewiakin"
title: "VP of Engineering"
image: "../assets/sergiej.png"
preTitle: ""
links:
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiej/"
"github": "https://github.com/SergejSoft"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Sergiej was following Neufund from the beginning and has joined with the very first opportunity to
contribute. Sergiej have founded several startups with a proven record to build and execute (CleanAgents, HelloCare, Movinga, Senden24 etc.).
He is passionate about consumer-facing platforms and pledge to turn Neufund Platform into intuitive and simple user product. </p>
- name: "Agnieszka Sarnecka"
title: "VP Ventures"
image: "../assets/AgnieszkaSarnecka.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/sarnesia"
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/vanilizer"
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnieszka-sarnecka-40458397/"
"github": "https://github.com/Vanilizer"
"medium" : "https://blog.neufund.org/@agnieszkasa"
"website": "https://www.xing.com/profile/Agnieszka_Sarnecka2"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Agnieszka has been part of Neufund since the very beginning, assuming the role of Business Operations Manager. Agnieszka studied Economics and Business in Berlin. She has 5 years of experience working for tech startups in the fields of Project, Product, and Operations Management. Thanks to her career start at major online shop providers, she has perfected her planning and organizational skills. During her work at a tech-startup proving app discovery search engine she developed her content and project management skills. After that she started her own company and worked as a technical project manager for a software development agency. Besides “blockchaining” and organizing she cooks really passionately. As of January 2018 Aga will take care of the ventures interested in conducting an ETO with Neufund.</p>
- name: "Piotr Stroinski"
title: "VP of Secondary Markets"
image: "../assets/Panor.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/piotrstroinski/"
"github": "https://github.com/pstroinski"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Piotr Stroinski is an IT engineer with 16 years of experience in the industry. His experience stems from work in big corporations spanning many sectors such as media, telecommunication, and banking. There he was responsible for IT infrastructure and application architecture, as well as implementation and support. Having bought his first bitcoins in 2012, and currently an active trader, he is deeply fascinated by blockchain technology. Once offered the opportunity to join Neufund, he could not resist moving to Berlin and becoming a part of the revolution in the startup financing model. As of January 2018 Piotr will be managing the secondary markets and partnerships at Neufund.</p>
- name: "Krzysztof Kaczor"
title: "Lead Blockchain Developer"
image: "../assets/krzysztofkaczor.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/krzKaczor"
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/krzysztofkaczor"
"github": "https://github.com/krzkaczor"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Krzysztof Kaczor is a full stack developer with 4+ years of experience. In the past, he has
held various positions ranging from mobile developer to CTO at a number of tech firms. He is
particularly interested in compiler theory, cryptocurrencies and DevOps. Krzysztof is a huge
fan of the open source philosophy, and various projects of his have gained several hundred
stars on GitHub. In his free time, he likes to listen to rap and indie music as well as ride his
longboard.</p>
- name: "Shani Koren"
title: "KYC Manager"
image: "../assets/ShaniKoren.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/shani.levi.1650"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Shani joined recently to Neufund to build and manage our KYC and verification process, she
has 6 years experience in the CFD exchange company, and has managed KYC and verification
projects in the past, she also has experience in managing customer care service. Shani was
born in Israel and lived in Cyprus for the last 6 years. Today, banks, financial institutions,
and cryptocurrency exchanges are required to abide by KYC requirements. Basically, it means
our organizations need to collect and verify personal information from customers. It’s
designed to prevent fraud, and it’s also frequently paired with Anti-Money Laundering
(AML) verification requirements.</p>
- name: "Tomek Banach"
title: "Dapp Developer"
image: "../assets/TomaszBanach_bw.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"github": "https://github.com/banciur"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Tomek is a dApp Developer at Neufund. During his Metrology and Quality Control studies he
found out that computers can do much more than run Wolfenstein Enemy Territory over LAN.
After accumulating basic IT knowledge by answering calls in a VPS hosting company he
switched to freelance web development. During that period he attended software
engineering studies to join as data scraping specialist at the company that created the world’s
first mobile app recommendation engine. For Neufund he refreshed his JavaScript skills and
dove head first into the madness of modern frontend development for the creation of classical
web and distributed apps.</p>
- name: "Moe Elsharif"
title: "Embedded Developer"
image: "../assets/MoeElsharif.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/Moe.Elsharif90"
"github": "https://github.com/Moejoe90"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Moe Elsharif graduated from Computer Engineering with a love for programming and
Mathematics. During his studies he gathered experience in the field of Robotics, Artificial
Intelligence and Nonlinear optimization. As an Embedded Systems Developer he works on
integrating embedded systems solutions with blockchain technology and assesses the
security implications these solutions cause. He has released multiple conference papers in
the field of Embedded Security and Robotics.</P>
- name: "Mostafa Balata"
title: "Fullstack Developer"
image: "../assets/mostafabalatabw.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/mostafa.balata"
"github": "https://github.com/MostafaBalata"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Mostafa Balata is a Full Stack Developer at Neufund. With more than four years of
experience he is quick to learn and very collaborative. He is an active member in the open
source community and interested in Blockchain technologies as well as the concept of
decentralized applications. Mostafa focuses on writing smart contracts and creating
interactive UI using modern Javascript frameworks.</p>
<p>He joined Neufund as an intern after meeting the founder Zoe at the tech incubator Gaza Sky Geeks in Palestine.</p>
- name: "Marta Sosinka"
title: "Administration Manager"
image: "../assets/MartaSosinska.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/SosnaMarta"
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/marta-sosi%C5%84ska-28a012a4/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Marta Sosinska joined Neufund in March 2017 as Office Manager. She specializes in organizing office
operations to ensure high effectiveness while minimizing costs. She is also responsible for
administration matters like bookkeeping, as well as assisting the CEO with daily work.<p>
<p>Marta has been active in the IT industry since 2008. Over the past 9 years Marta has held various
positions including IT Resource Support, Client Services Manager and Contract Specialist. Marta’s
education is a bachelor’s degree in Management.</p>
<p>Born and raised in Warsaw (Poland), Marta loves to travel the world in her spare time.</p>
- name: "Nikola Sporczyk"
title: "Office Manager"
image: "../assets/Nikola_Sporczyk.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
"linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikola-sporczyk-8a5574139/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Nikola joined Neufund in September 2017 as an Administrative Intern. She’s assisting the team with their everyday tasks and is responsible for all the administrative matters, as well as organizing team events and activities. After 3 years of work in a corporate world, she was hungry to see how a startup experience looks like. The fact that the technical world is close to her heart was the additional motivator to join Neufund.</p>
<p>In 2015 she attended Rails Girls Kraków event and constantly tries using simple programming to make her work environment friendlier. Nikola graduated from Wrocław University. Privately she is a cats-and-pizza lover and hardcore video game player with a passion for learning languages.</p>
advisors:
visible: false
title: "Advisors"
intro: "Advisors bridging the worlds of crypto and Venture Capital."
block: "../blocks/person"
members:
- name: "Fabian Vogelsteller"
title: <a href="https://ethereum.org/" target="_blank">Ethereum</a> and Mist <span class="position">Developer</span>
image: "../assets/fabianethereumdev.jpg"
links:
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-vogelsteller-46365042/"
github: "https://github.com/frozeman"
twitter: "https://twitter.com/feindura"
medium: "https://medium.com/@frozeman"
website: "http://frozeman.de/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Fabian Vogelsteller became interested in web technologies at the age of 14. He developed a skill set ranging from graphic design to coding PHP to Python, ActionScript, Objective C, HTML, CSS and fell in love with JavaScript. He worked as a freelance web developer for over 12 years and is the creator of the open source feindura – Flat File CMS. Fabian is a strong advocate of open-source software and has built and contributed to a lot of open-source libraries and projects and wrote a book on Meteor.js, an open source JavaScript Framework. His interest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin led him to be a part of one of the most ambitious blockchain projects to date, the Ethereum project. For almost two years he has worked as the lead Dapp developer for the Ethereum project, building the low-level JavaScript API, DApps and Ethereum’s Wallet and the Mist browser.</p>
- name: "Michael Jackson"
title: <span class="position">Partner at</span> <a href="http://www.mangrove.vc/" target="_blank">Mangrove Capital</a> <span class="position">& Board Director</span> <a href="https://www.blockchain.com/" target="_blank">Blockchain.com</a>
image: "../assets/mangrove-michael-jackson.jpg"
links:
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mjmjmj/"
website: "http://www.mangrove.vc/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Michael Jackson is a Board Director at Blockchain.com and partner at Mangrove Capital Partners.
He started his career at Monsanto and went on to manage the Supply Chain and Logistics business consulting practice at Arthur Andersen and then at Ernst & Young.
In 2006, he pioneered early-stage investment from Western VCs in Russia. His sectors of interests revolve around consumer Internet and e-commerce across Europe, scouting
for startups that involve essential shift or disruption in technology, business model or consumer behavior. Open-minded and curious by nature, he enjoys travelling and
discovering different cultures, which makes him keen on developing business connections in new and sometimes untapped geographies. He currently serves on the
boards of Lesara, KupiVIP, RedPoints, Synerscope, Enigma, and the Mangrove Foundation. Michael holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Nautical Sciences from the Antwerp Maritime
Academy and a Master in International Business and Management with high honors from the Brussels Management School. A Belgian national, he speaks French, English, Dutch and
German.</p>
- name: "Julian Zawistowski"
title: <span class="position">CEO and Founder at</span> <a href="https://golem.network/" target="_blank">Golem</a>
image: "../assets/julian-zawistowski.jpg"
preTitle: ""
links:
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/julian-zawistowski-352478/"
website: "https://golem.network/"
email: ""
bio: "Julian is an economist by trade, fascinated with blockchain technology, as well as sociology and the economics of decentralised systems. In the past, Julian served as a consultant and researcher of public policies with a background in public economics, the framing of which he finds very useful for understanding decentralised systems."
- name: "Adam Stradling"
title: <span class="position">Crypto Investor and Entrepreneur & Former Co-founder (2011/12) at</span> <a href="https://www.bitcoin.com/" target="_blank">Bitcoin.com</a>
image: "../assets/adam-stradling.jpg"
links:
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamstradling/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Adam is a financial technology entrepreneur who pioneered the development of Bitcoin and related blockchain technologies.</p>
<p>During 2011 and 2012, he cofounded and operated Bitcoin.com/Tradehill wherein they sold/traded 1 million plus bitcoins (now worth billions of USD). Since then he has been an advisor, investor and consultant for many Bitcoin and blockchain companies and systems like Ethereum, Factom, Siacoin, Bitnexo and others. Over the years his works have been chronicled in CNN, Fox News and hundreds of other media outlets.</p>
<p>Before Adam became an entrepreneur he worked in the banking and financial services industry as a consultant/researcher covering financial technology and risk management. Notably, he worked with the financial risk consulting group at Ernst and Young (EY) and also sold the investment research and technology services of Evalueserve (quant focus). He was the Co-founder and Steering Committee member of Chile’s national PRMIA chapter and has been a content contributor to GARP (Global Association of Risk Professionals).</p>
<p>Adam received his Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.</p>
- name: "Max Kordek"
title: <span class="position">President of</span> <a href="https://lisk.io/" target="_blank">Lisk Foundation</a>
image: "../assets/maxlisk.jpg"
links:
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxkordek/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Max Kordek is a co-founder of Lisk and the President of the Lisk Foundation. As a futurist and thoroughbred
entrepreneur interested in disruptive technologies, he co-founded the platform after seeing the potential of
blockchain-based applications. It caused a stir in early 2016 when it collected 14000 BTC in its crowd fund.
Max is also the Director of the Lightcurve GmbH, a rapidly expanding blockchain consultancy.
Max immersed himself in the global startup community from a young age, beginning at just 14. Over the past
several years, Max has become an active participant and industry leader in the blockchain and cryptocurrency
industry, gaining invaluable knowledge of Bitcoin and Altcoins.</p>
- name: "Christophe Maire"
title: <span class="position">Founder and CEO at</span> <a href="http://www.atlanticlabs.de/" target="_blank">Atlantic Labs</a>
image: "../assets/christophe-maire.jpg"
links:
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophe-maire-9073196"
website: "http://www.atlanticlabs.de/"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Christophe has more than 18 years of experience as a founder and CEO of technology ventures. He founded gate5
which he sold to Nokia in 2006. Christophe has since co-founded a number of companies with global reach, such as
Plazes.com (Nokia), txtr.com or recently Medigo.com, Mimi.io, and Blloon.com. As an angel investor, Christophe
was involved in Brands4Friends (eBay), StudiVZ (HB), Plista (groupM), Readmill (Dropbox), amongst others.
(Christophe was named best “European Seed investor” in both 2011 and 2012 by Techcrunch. He serves on the board
of EyeEm, Klara and Soundcloud.</p>
- name: "Paweł Bylica"
title: <a href="https://ethereum.org/" target="_blank">Ethereum</a> <span class="position">Core Developer</span>
image: "../assets/pawel-bylica.jpg"
links:
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawelbylica"
github: "https://github.com/chfast"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Experienced C++ and Python software engineer. Ethereum core developer. Also involved in Golem Network
Project as Ethereum specialist.</p>
- name: "Alexander Lange"
title: <span class="position">VC at</span> <a href="https://www.earlybird.com/" target="_blank">Earlybird</a> <span class="position">& Board Member</span> <a href="https://shapeshift.io/" target="_blank">Shapeshift</a>
image: "../assets/Alex_Lange.jpg"
links:
twitter: "https://twitter.com/alexruppertvc"
linkedin: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-lange-44aa8464/"
medium: "https://medium.com/@alexruppert"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Alex has been a passionate Venture Investor and crypto enthusiast since early 2016. In 2012 he graduated in German Law (with honors) and Economics. After a short career in law at Latham & Watkins and Schindhelm he joined Google/DailyDeal and fintech software company pepperbill GmbH in Business Development roles for three years. As a side role he advised young startups as a data protection commissioner, which led to his initial interest in Bitcoin and the crypto economy. In 2015 he became an early stage VC at Heilemann Ventures which merged with Earlybird in January 2016. Since then he has backed seven companies in multiple rounds. Alex serves on the boards of Crossengage and Shapeshift and contributes to the broader ecosystem by hosting blockchain related events, speaking at conferences and publishing regular publications.</p>
- name: "Minh Ha Duong"
title: <span class="position">Investment Manager at</span> <a href="https://www.project-a.com/en" target="_blank">Project A Ventures</a>
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twitter: "https://twitter.com/haduong_"
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<p>Ha is a technology enthusiast and an Investment Manager at Project A Ventures. Having studied Industrial Engineering and Management, he has been exploring the intersection of technological innovations and business implications for the last few years. Through roles in marketing, business development and strategy in companies like Google, Techstars and several startups, he learned what makes digital business models successful and is now applying this knowledge in the venture capital industry. At Project A, Ha covers startups in many technical areas including machine learning, blockchain and developer tools. He is known for open-sourcing his research and data on >600 European AI Startups and for being more and more fascinated by the crypto economy and its societal implications. As a believer in communities, he acts as a mentor at Techstars and occasionally supports startups in an advisory capacity.</p>
- name: "Frank Thelen"
title: <span class="position">CEO and Founder at</span> <a href="https://freigeist.com" target="_blank">Freigeist</a>
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links:
website: "https://frank.io"
email: ""
bio: |
<p>Frank Thelen is a European serial founder, technology investor and TV personality. Since 1994, he founded and managed technology and design-driven companies. In his role as the founder and CEO of the venture capitalist Freigeist Capital, he concentrates on investments in the early phase. Its products have reached over 200 million customers in over 60 countries. Frank was the seed investor in startups like Lilium Aviation, Wunderlist, myTaxi, kaufDA and Little Lunch.</p>
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- author: Arnd Aschentrup, <span class="position">CEO</span>
company: "Tandem"
link: https://www.tandem.net/
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The community we’ve built at Tandem has been the most rewarding thing, so we wanted to give back. And what is better than owning a share in the company? Thanks to Neufund we can build even stronger ties to the people that support us!
- author: Alessio Avellan Borgmeyer, <span class="position">CEO & Founder</span>
company: "Jodel"
link: https://jodel-app.com/
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Here at Jodel we love the crypto world and how it brings communities closer together. That’s what we’re all about! So when we decided to raise funds from our own community and the ICO model didn’t meet our needs, we came across Neufund.
- author: Fabian Vogelsteller, <span class="position">Developer</span>
company: "Ethereum and Mist"
link: https://github.com/ethereum/mist/releases
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I am excited that Neufund is bringing together equity and Blockchain. I expect in the future every company will be tokenized and the way the Neufund platform is build, is the right approach to ignite that.
- author: Christophe Maire, <span class="position">Founder and CEO</span>
company: "Atlantic Labs"
link: http://www.atlanticlabs.de/
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Europe needs more innovation. More talented people solving real problems. There is still a significant gap between Europe and the US when it comes to innovation capital. We're talking about five to eight times less innovation capital available. When I see Neufund, it's a platform to finance innovation. It offers a simple way with less transactions costs, for investors to engage with innovative founders. I believe that it could have a huge impact on the ecosystem, and I think Neufund gonna be huge.
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Neufund’s effort goes into contributing to the crypto community by building an ecosystem of technological and legal innovation. Everything we do is 100% open sourced.
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- name: "Market Quality"
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- link: "https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/17/neufund/"
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- link: "http://www.geektime.com/2017/01/17/berlin-cryptocurrency-hybrid-vc-neufund-raises-e2m-to-upend-startup-investing-as-we-know-it/"
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- link: "https://cointelegraph.com/news/icos-are-the-future-of-funding-says-co-founder-of-platform-that-just-raised-2-mln"
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- link: "https://www.coindesk.com/icos-eu-will-slow-giant-regulate-tokens/"
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- link: "https://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2017/08/11/ico-communities-look-past-regulations-and-attempt-to-evaluate-tokens-and-set-standards/"
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Contact us: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br/>