FAQ

Venture Capital is a high-risk form of “alternative” investment, but one that can deliver exceptional returns and performance. It entails investing early in business ventures, i.e. in the birth and growth stages of start-ups and scale-ups. From a social point of view, investing directly in start-ups helps to advance innovation in a country, helps to develop ideas and drive virtuous initiatives forward.

There are no specific requirements, anyone can participate in financing innovation. Thanks to Angel Investors, Venture Capitalists, and Venture Funds (professional entities), and the emergence of crowdfunding portals, access to investment in startups has become more accessible, while not limiting the risks.

To facilitate the matching of supply and demand of capital for innovation, solving the major problem of illiquidity and mitigating the risks associated with investing, issues that have not yet been resolved.

No, because it is entirely based on the concept of decentralization and liquidity of investments.

The main tool of SEED Venture will be an user interface called Seedefi, the web and mobile site where all the actors of the system (Startups, Investors, Stakers and Traders) will meet and interact with each other, creating win-win relationships.

All assets representing the investments that will be exchanged will reside on the blockchain (currently Ethereum’s) and not on our centralized servers.

An investor who traditionally invests in a startup buys shares of the company, whereas using Seed Venture he will receive tokens of the same: if he doesn’t want to wait 6-7 years, which is the average time for the startup to be valued by the market (and do the “exit”), he can exchange his tokens whenever he wants on decentralized exchanges composed of liquidity pools (e.g. Uniswap) guided by pure market logic.

Yes, completely. The smart contracts of the blockchain platform do not give any privilege to the creators of the platform over anyone else. Like anyone else might do, our development team offers web-based services to make the user experience pleasant and smooth, like Etherscan does for Ethereum or Blockchain.info does for Bitcoin. In essence, a web-based user interface that facilitates the use of the decentralized platform.

Create your Elevator Pitch, possibly integrating your business plan, find a Lead Investor who believes in your business project and is willing to be your first investor.

No, but we recommend preparing everything you need to start your campaign so that as soon as the user interface is released, you will be among the first to appear in the Dashboard and increase the chances of success of your fundraising.

Create your Startup Pool Pitch, possibly integrating your business plan, and find a Lead Investor who believes in your business project and is willing to be your first investor.

Browsing the Seedefi web interface you will choose the Startup that most convinces you in its entrepreneurial project, you will connect your wallet and send, via operations done directly on the blockchain, the cryptocurrency chosen by the Startup (stablecoin mostly) for the amount you have decided to invest. KYC requirements will be previously checked by the Startup.

Yes. Any Startup can apply to Seedefi Interface to start its capital raising and, if the same will be approved by an decentralized group of Evaluators connected to the interface, any person after verification of identity and eligibility can participate in the financing of the startup as an investor; at the end of the collection period, the Startup will receive on its wallet the amount invested and all investors will receive tokens (on Ethereum or other blockchains) that can be repurchased by the Lead investor years later in case of Exit, or monetized immediately on Uniswap or similar protocols, thus on the market.

Every Startup that intends to raise capital using SEED Venture via web user interface, will be required to identify its investor in order to authorize him to invest, in accordance with the rules that each jurisdiction (of the country where the Startup is based) will adopt. The method of identification (KYC) and qualification for investment will be expressly declared by the Startup itself on the user interface.

The SEED token was created because it is central to the tokenomics of the entire ecosystem. In short, it is used as a payment token in the Lead Investor’s first investment and as a Staking token to access the platform’s fee/earnings redemption.

No, in the case of SEED tokens (except for the Lead Investor for his first investment). Instead, it is necessary to hold a minimum amount of tokens from the blockchain used (currently Ether) in order to pay miners’ fees.

Not necessarily, as long as you accept certain compromises in terms of user experience, or consider yourself to be a person with suitable cryptocurrency management skills and know-how to interact with fully decentralized systems.

It’s a group of people, about 15 at the moment, who firmly believe in the idea of connecting Startups and Investors through a decentralized, and gradual, approach to unlock the startup investment market exponentially.

Every question represents a possible contribution to the growth and development of the platform. So don’t hesitate to write to the team.