Being first and foremost a tech company, Smartlands is out to build a global tech ecosystem. For years, we’ve been in touch with serial entrepreneurs, tech investors, legal specialists, academics, management consultants and technologists who bring innovative new services to the global marketplace. So it should come as no surprise that the next tokenisation project on Smartlands is going to be the Disruptive Fund that invests in mid-stage technology startups.
The fund plans to acquire minority stakes (up to 20%) in companies involved in the target industries, who are on a particular stage of development, and are showing proovable growth potential. With respect to the after-IPO average disruptor’s return of 35% (CAGR) or 350% in total over five years, conservatively, the Fund aims is to achieve 25-30% rate of return on the fund level.
The investee company must be at a stage where it has a commercially viable product, established a client database, and performed first sales. The company’s product or service must address a real need through a uniquely disruptive technology or innovation. Investments will be made to help the company grow faster or launch their product/service globally.
Investing in start-up and scale-up companies is highly risky. Please familiarise yourselves with the associated risks here.
The investment strategy for the Disruptive Fund
Fintech
Investors’ appetite for fintech is clear: global fintech funding rose to $111.8B* in 2018, up 120 per cent from $50.8B in 2017, according to KPMG International. This tendency led to rapid expansion in new working styles as collaborative hubs and co-working spaces appear all over the world, new investment strategies using brand new instruments are conceived daily, crowdfunding is winning over more and more investors and asset owners. And above it all, we observe the towering might of Asset Tokenisation as the pathway for fractional ownership of properties in multiple asset classes for all citizens of the world.
