2. Werner Boehm
Managing Partner
AXXELERATE INVESTMENTS LIMITED
AXXELERATE
INVESTMENTS LIMTED
London
INNOSTART CAPITAL INC.
Montreal
Axxelerate GmbH
Vienna
Blockchain-based
Venture Capital & Business Development
First Introduction
3. 99.99% of all ICO‘s are shit.
Investors will lose their money!
Andreas Antonopolous
Author of „Internet of Money“
Cryprocurrency is a criminal liability
Minefield … Govermental Enforcement
Action (particulary criminal action)
Would be followed swiftly by a series
Of private lawsuits.
Preston Byrne
Blockchain and ICOs are the future of
Crowdfunding and the financial markets.
ICOs will revolutionalize the world of
Finance
Andreas Antonopolous
Author of „Internet of Money“.
Financial Regulation will be
Disrupted.
Many Experts
4. Jan `13 Jul `13 Jan `14 Jul `14 Jan `15 Jul `15 Jan `16 Jul `16 Jan `17 Jul `17
Bitcoin (BTC) Market Price (USD)
Average USD market price
Source: blockchain.info
2013 2015 2016 2017
Set-Up
Bitcoin
Startup
IPO (RTO)
Bitcoin Startup
Toronto
Hostile
Takeover
Battle
Set-Up
AXXELERATE
INVESTMENTS
AXXELERATE FUND
(blockchain VC)
LitigationToken
(blockchain-based
Litigation Funding
Bitcoin / Visa
Debit Card
(Feb `16)
Take-Over
With BTC
OSC
Review
Bitcoin
Ad Brokerage
(Feb `15)
Public
Crypto-Shares
ICO
Launch
scheduled
112,000 paying advertisers/publishers
12,000 registered publishers
26m payment tx p.m.
Regulatory discussions
With OSC and CSE
Time & Event Line
A Bitcoin (Blockchain) Narrative
10. Token Sale/Issue
Approach
Initial Coin Offering
(ICO)
Private Token
Placement
(PTP)
Public Token
Offering
(PTO => IPO)
Utility token on
existing network
Future Utility token (no network yet) and
security tokens (tokenized securities,
blockchains as a means of trading & recording)
No public token
trading on
exchanges
public token
trading on
exchanges*
Financial RegulationsExemptions from
Financial Regulations
e.g. Private Placements
With qualified investors
Without prospectus
Approved prospectus,
admission to public
trading etc.
Exemptions for
Fundraising
Purposes?
Ethereum etc.
Crowdfunding
Platforms?
Exemptions
e.g. alternative finance,
crowdfunding without
prospectus
(*) not yet regulated financial institutions