The Pitch Deck Securitize Used to Raise Millions From Morgan Stanley

Securitize simply raised $48 million from Morgan Stanley, Sumitomo Mitsui Belief Financial institution, and others.
The blockchain fintech permits non-public corporations to boost from particular person retail buyers.
The Miami startup supplied Insider the pitch deck it used to boost its Collection B spherical.

Buyers are flocking to the non-public markets in droves to purchase stakes in startups, actual property, cryptocurrencies, and different different belongings. As corporations keep non-public for longer, they need to share within the wealth creation that happens earlier than these corporations’ public debuts.

Securitize, based in 2017 by the tech business veterans Carlos Domingo and Jamie Finn, is bringing blockchain expertise to the non-public markets to make investing less complicated. The corporate raised $48 million in Series B funding on June 21 from buyers together with Morgan Stanley and Blockchain Capital.

Securitize helps corporations crowdfund capital from particular person and institutional buyers by issuing their shares within the type of blockchain tokens that permit for extra environment friendly settlement, document maintaining, and compliance processes. Morgan Stanley’s Tactical Worth fund, which invests in non-public corporations, made its first blockchain-technology investment when it coled the Collection B, Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo instructed Insider.

The Japanese financial institution Sumitomo Mitsui Belief Financial institution additionally invested within the spherical. The Miami startup has been working in Japan, its second-largest market after the US, since 2019, Domingo, who lived in Japan for 10 years, mentioned. 

Securitize, which is a licensed broker-dealer, is utilizing the funds to rent advertising and marketing, product, and engineering professionals, Domingo mentioned. The corporate has doubled its head rely prior to now six months in anticipation of its fundraise, hiring over 25 staff in 2021, and is seeking to fill practically 20 extra roles by the top of the 12 months. 

It employs professionals throughout the globe, together with within the US, Japan, Spain, Argentina, and Israel.

Domingo mentioned his background as a founder andangel investor concerned in enterprise capital impressed him to construct Securitize. He mentioned the corporate was conceived to deal with two main tendencies out there.

First, buyers “have misplaced the chance to make cash in public markets as a result of the wealth is created in non-public markets,” he mentioned, including: “Second, if you happen to’ve already invested in non-public capital markets, you’ve got a protracted, lengthy interval till you truly get someliquidity.”

The Securities and Alternate Fee has issued combined steerage on how digital asset exchanges ought to function, however a 2020 rule making it easier for startups to conduct security-token offerings has given Securitize a path ahead.

“Final 12 months was type of a giant breakthrough. We obtained some regulatory readability,” Domingo mentioned. “It isn’t 100% and it is not excellent, however a minimum of it is there, and I believe it’s going to permit us to take this to a distinct stage.”

Issuers on Securitize can elevate capital in two methods. The extra standard choice, Domingo mentioned, is thru Regulation A+, which permits non-public corporations to boost as much as $75 million from any particular person buyers. Others choose to boost cash by way of Regulation D, which limits corporations to elevating solely from accredited investors, or high-earning investment-savvy individuals who meet a set of necessities that permit them to take part in non-public markets.

“There’s going to be a cut-off date when there is a convergence between the folks like us, which are constructing the longer term digital platforms for personal capital markets, and the normal platforms,” Domingo mentioned. “And that is the second our change will explode.”

This is the pitch deck that Securitize used to boost its Collection B spherical of funding. The agency redacted financials and different particulars earlier than offering the deck to Insider.  

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