📣 Announcing our next meet-up in Geneva 🇨🇠on #Blockchain #ICOs #VentureCapital

“The public focus has been on an explosion of digital “currencies” that has made “ICOs” (initial coin offerings) the modern equivalent of turn-of-the-century “IPOs.” It’s not just the well-known Bitcoin and its sibling Ethereum; there’s now a digital currency for cloud storage (FileCoin), digital advertising (adToken), marijuana (Potcoin) and even for dentists (Dental Coin). The total value of all virtual currencies has rocketed past $135 billion, up from just $20 billion at the beginning of the year.” (Fortune, Aug. 22nd 2017)
Meanwhile: “Can VCs keep pace with the ICO market?”
“According to CoinDesk, blockchain-related projects have raised more than $1.6 billion via ICOs to date, with a huge chunk of that figure, around $1.4 billion, raised in 2017. On the other hand, crypto-companies have pulled in nearly $550 million from venture capitalists so far this year across more than 120 deals, per the PitchBook Platform. That’s roughly a quarter of all the VC that has gone into bitcoins startups since the beginning of 2010 when the first bitcoin-related startups began to fundraise.
While VC activity within the blockchain space shows no signs of slowing down, capital raised via ICO since January is on pace to surpass all historical VC investment in the blockchain space by year-end.” (Pitchbook, Aug. 15th, 2017)

We, at Product Hunt Geneva, have a mission:
Supercharge the Swiss startup ecosystem. 💥🚀💥🚀🇨đź‡
Switzerland is known for pioneering the blockchain especially through the prominent association #CryptoValley based in Zug, a city where the Ethereum Foundation was set up.
Western Switzerland (Romandie, ie mainly Geneva and Lausanne areas) is home to a large set of startups implementing the Blockchain, in sectors spread out from InsurTech to Art to Healthcare to FinTech.
This is the reason for setting up our 2nd “Product Hunt Geneva” meet-up on Blockchain and ICOs.

Topic: “ #Blockchain #ICOs: A Revolution Underway, from a Startup & Venture Capital Angle. “
👉 4 guest speakers will present their views/solutions and will participate to a fireside chat with an interactive Q&A session.
Ravi Kurani, VC @ @Earlybird Venture Capital from Berlin.
Cyrus Fazel, CEO & Co-Founder @ SwissBorg from Lausanne.
Arnaud Salomon + Cyril LAPINTE, CEO + CTO & Co-Founders Smex from Geneva.
Book your (free) seats here: http://www.facebook.com/groups/producthuntgeneva
September 27 @ 7pm at Fusion.
… and as usual, BYOB (bring your own beer)!

