CURIO THE NEXT FUTURE CARS INVEST

Dela Aulia
6 min readSep 11, 2019

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CurioInvest is an online investment platform that enables investors of all income levels to invest in high-value asset.

CurioInvest is well positioned for the following reasons: CurioInvest is not starting from scratch. CurioInvest’s sister company Mercuria Helvetica AG has developed lasting relationships with many top-tier automotive companies including Pagani, Ferrari and Mercedes-Benz. Thus, CurioInvest has access to a pipeline of over 500 rare, collectable vehicles, ensuring exclusive investment opportunities from day one. CurioInvest has developed a tried-and-tested operational model to manage the entire life cycle of an automotive investment. CurioInvest has established contacts with car maintenance companies, insurance companies and tax-free physical storage providers. CurioInvest has established legal entities in Switzerland and Lichtenstein. Switzerland offers a stable regulatory environment and investor-friendly laws, while the base in Lichtenstein allows CurioInvest to legally sell security tokens throughout the European Economic Area, which comprises all 28 member states of the EU and the three EEA EFTA states Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein. Switzerland has become a global hub of blockchain innovation, ensuring that CurioInvest will have direct access to the right technical talent to scale the business. The CurioInvest team and its partners consist of experts with a proven track record in the automotive, IT, financial and investment industries.

Business Model

CurioInvest Invest aims to use modern technologies such as crowdfunding and asset tokenization to bring many new small- and mid-level investors to the market. This is achieved in a 5-step process for each vehicle: Business Model CurioInvest Invest identifies a rare classic or modern collectable car that is priced competitively and likely to increase in value over time. (CurioInvest Invest is a spin-off of Mercuria Helvetica AG, which has a proven track record of trading supercars profitably for 4 years. CurioInvest’s founders and advisory board have combined industry experience of over 50 years.) To finance the car, CurioInvest Invest launches a crowdfunding campaign. Investors and car enthusiasts can now invest in the vehicle. The funds are stored in an escrow (smart contract). If the crowdfunding campaign is successful, CurioInvest Invest will acquire the vehicle and place it in storage with its maintenance partner, Mechatronik Fahrzeug- Und Motorentechnik GmbH. If the crowdfunding campaign cannot be completed within three months, investors will be refunded everything except third-party payment processing fees. Once the vehicle is purchased, CurioInvest Invest issues security tokens representing the value of the car. These tokens are then distributed to the investors, proportional to the size of their investment. The security token confers the right on the tokenholder to share in the profit if the value of the vehicle increases. The token is distributed to a wallet which is automatically generated when the user signs up on the CurioInvest Invest platform. The token can be traded peer to peer. The token also has an associated ISIN (International Securities Identification Number) and thus, it can potentially be traded on forthcoming digital exchanges like a conventional security. If the conditions for disposal are met, the vehicle is resold (see: Section 3.1, below). All tokenholders receive a share of the proceeds of the sale proportional to their token holdings minus costs (storage, maintenance and insurance, for example) and the CurioInvest performance fee of 20% (which will be waived for the Ferrari F12tdf).Tokenholders who have acquired the token OTC or on a secondary market are obliged to sign up on the CurioInvest Invest platform and become a verified user in order to cash out. A KYC check is required for all investments.

CurioInvest enables everyone to invest in and profit from collectable cars. By using a crowdfunded, community-based investment model, CurioInvest will open up the collectable car market to millions of new investors.

Invest in minutes

Using your email address, create a free CurioInvest account to access current fine automobile offerings. Simply choose a fine automobile and decide how much to invest. You can build a portfolio to suit your own criteria and easily diversify across different brands. 0% fee to invest. (Depending upon your payment method additional fees may be added) (bottom view fine collectable automobiles)

Build your garage

Complete your Investors Profile and build your own collection of fine cars. 80% of profits will be paid back at you when car sells later at an auction, after covering storage, maintenance and insurance costs. (bottom “view fine automobiles)

Track investments

Keep an overview on how your investments are performing. All our cars are traded across diverse digital exchanges daily. Your dashboard allows you to review how much your token investment has traded in volume along with any capital gains or losses.

Sell your token investments

Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future performance. Selling is simple. List your tokens for sale to other investors at any time on diverse digital exchanges. Or else wait for the fine automobile’s 5 yearly exit circle where investors have the opportunity to exit at a market value.

We do all the hard work

Investing in fine automobiles was a headache. Not anymore. A team of experts research and source rare, investment-grade collectable cars. We only select competitively priced cars which have the potential to increase in value over time. All the key information about the vehicles is available on the CurioInvest platform (including the vehicle’s ownership history, the current market prices for comparable vehicles, and relevant media such as videos and photos).

- Finding fine automobiles

- Negotiating the deal

- Paperwork

- Maintenance and Repairs

- Revaluations

- Selling

TEAM :

Fernando
Verboonen

Zurich, SwitzerlandCEO

Fernando is a founding partner at CurioInvest where he leads the efforts of platform due diligence, platform selection, vehicle selection, and risk management.

Before CurioInvest Capital, Fernando was serving as the CEO at Mercuria Helvetica, a Fintech investment firm in exotic cars based in Switzerland where he pioneered adoption of new revenue models.

Prior to Mercuria Helvetica, Fernando research investment strategies. Fernando holds an M.Sc from ETH Zürich with training at Oxford. He is also an ESKAS Fellow, an excellence distinction award.

Fernando
Verboonen

Zurich, SwitzerlandCEO

Fernando is a founding partner at CurioInvest where he leads the efforts of platform due diligence, platform selection, vehicle selection, and risk management.

Before CurioInvest Capital, Fernando was serving as the CEO at Mercuria Helvetica, a Fintech investment firm in exotic cars based in Switzerland where he pioneered adoption of new revenue models.

Prior to Mercuria Helvetica, Fernando research investment strategies. Fernando holds an M.Sc from ETH Zürich with training at Oxford. He is also an ESKAS Fellow, an excellence distinction award.

Fernando
Verboonen

Zurich, SwitzerlandCEO

Fernando is a founding partner at CurioInvest where he leads the efforts of platform due diligence, platform selection, vehicle selection, and risk management.

Before CurioInvest Capital, Fernando was serving as the CEO at Mercuria Helvetica, a Fintech investment firm in exotic cars based in Switzerland where he pioneered adoption of new revenue models.

Prior to Mercuria Helvetica, Fernando research investment strategies. Fernando holds an M.Sc from ETH Zürich with training at Oxford. He is also an ESKAS Fellow, an excellence distinction award.

Valerie
Halter

Zurich, SwitzerlandCOO

Intl’ Biz Developer with +8 years experience in the financial industry supporting Vontobel and Mercuria Helvetica, with a firm focus on highly exclusive cars.

Valerie is a car enthusiast, with gasoline in her veins. After working in the banking sector, she decided to pursue her passion for cars and shifted her focus towards the Fintech sector.

More Information :

Website : https://curioinvest.com

Whitepaper : https://curioinvest.com/templates/assets/docs/CurioWhitePaper.pdf

Facebook : web.facebook.com/Curioinvest/

Twitter : https://twitter.com/curio_invest

Telegram : https://t.me/curiocarQA

Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/curioinvest/

Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/user/curioinvest/

Ann Thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5175820

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