Crypto Development Fund (CDF)

Project Name

Crypto Development Fund (CDF)

Country

Overview

The CDF creates an investment platform through which international investors can invest in promising, high-impact startups from developing countries. The funding is based on milestones and impact reports which have to be prepared by the startups and validated by different partners. This allows for increased transparency but also for industry reports once the platform has attracted a certain number of investors. 

SDGs
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Impact Investment

Targeted Impact

Stage

CONCEPT/IDEA: Our next stage is the performance of our proof of concept. We are already partnering with startups from Nigeria in order to find them funding in Europe. We are also already in early talks with some potential investors and hope to finalize their investment in Q1 2019. 

Registered Entity

Yes

No

Impact Areas

We are adressing the areas of financial inclusion, job creation, international partnerships and private capital mobilization for the achievement of the sustainability goals of the UN.

Quantifiable Impact?

Yes. We are aiming to use the funding which goes over our platform as one indicator for the success we have. In addition, all startups will have to prepare impact reports regularly in order to receive additional funding. This data will help us to access the impact we achieve. 

Problem - Gap

There is a significant funding gap in developing countries for startups with ticket sizes of 100k-1m USD. Through our standardized platform we can reduce transaction and investment costs e.g. for monitoring, screening and legal protection significantly. In the future, we want to use our pay-for-milestones and pay-for-reporting model in order to create industry reports for impact investors in developing countries. 

Use Case: Why use blockchain or other technologies?

International transaction: By reducing the international transaction costs, investments in developing countries will become more attractive for international investors. Smart contracts: We use smart contracts to apply our staged financing model in which funding is automatically released if startups achieve certain milestones and prepare pre-defined impact reports. As the funding is blocked in smart contracts, startups have the security of receiving the money when progressing. Tokenization: We tokenize the startups in order to make them international accessible and tradeable. This again reduces costs for investors and in addition creates liquidity in illiquid market. Hence, exist opportunities are created. As in almost all blockchain projects, the solution could be created without a blockchain, however the solution would barely be as cost efficient and transparent. This is specifically relevant reducing cost and transparency is needed in order to make investments in developing countries attractive.

Team Members

We are currently six team members of which the three co-founder work full-time on the project: Philipp Lesche: Philipp graduated from TU Munich School of Management studying Management and Technology. He has worked on different topics around the Blockchain technology and its various applications. In addition, he supported promising projects as an ICO advisor. Simon Scholz: Kai Schmidt: Mohammed Al-Salafi McIntosh Kuhlengisa: Farhan Shahid Nawaz:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipplesche/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/scholzsimon/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kai-schmidt-709672b3/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammed-al-salafi-230b1479/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maclintoshkuhlengisa/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/farhan-shahid-nawaz/

Application
Applicant's Name

Protocol

Open Source

Yes

No

Concept Definition

Support of B4H Goals

External Funding If Any

We are between our concept phase and our proof of concept. We are already working together with startups and investors to match them and process the investment. As no investment is finalized yet, we are have not completly performed our proof of concept. So far, we have not received external funding. 

Development Stage and Next Steps

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