Kambio Ventures & The Four Pillars Of Venture Capital Disruption

Tiago Serôdio
KambioVentures
Published in
3 min readSep 18, 2018

Kambio Ventures is an up-and-coming fully regulated Security Token Exchange, set to launch its ICO in Q3 2018.

Its primary objective is to disrupt the traditional venture capital markets and bring an immediate liquidity event to startups and SME’s. This is a billion dollar market that is urging to be tapped into.

The team behind Kambio Ventures has been operating in the legacy capital funds markets for decades. The founding partners have been responsible for multiple multi-million exits since 1995 under the Jabbar moniker, while the rest of the team brings to the table knowhow from places such as Amazon, UBS, Merrill Lynch, Yahoo, Ernst & Young, Bank Reyl, Lucid Solutions, Coutts, Orient Research Centre and Dash.

The name Kambio comes from the Latin Cambium, which stands for change or exchange. Cambio, in modern Latin-based languages, holds several meanings.

  • 1 ) Change, as in entering something new, letting go of the past
  • 2 ) Change, as in what you get back in coins after paying with a bill
  • 3 ) Exchange, as in bartering or a value market exchange
  • 4 ) Gear, as in a motor vehicle’s gearbox.

Now let’s analyse how this pertains to Kambio Ventures.

  • 1) Kambio Ventures changes venture capital and asset management from a severely outdated and cumbersome legacy system into a fluent technological future using distributed ledger technology — blockchain.
  • 2) Kambio Ventures democratises large capital investment opportunities while at the same time bringing liquidity to startups and SME’s
  • 3) Kambio Ventures will be a fully regulated exchange for tokenised asset-backed securities.
  • 4) Kambio Ventures shifts gear in the VC arena engine by dramatically increasing execution speeds and drastically shortening the typical lifecycle of a startup until it goes public.

KAMBIO VENTURES — A SEEDLING ABOUT TO SPROUT

In plant anatomy, the Cambium is the name given to the structural single layered tissue of highly active dividing cells that serves to buffer the wood (xylem) from the blast (phloem) — and it is responsible for the secondary growth. The primary growth is the actual roots and stems themselves, the secondary growth happens in height and girth.

Kambio Ventures primes itself just like the cambium layer. A rather complex infrastructure that is organised in such a way that it looks rather simple from the outside. A single layer between investor and investee, doing all the heavy lifting for both parties.

The Kambio platform will provide all the necessary tools to sow projects into the primary market and take root.

  • Document type & logic structures,
  • Book-building and subscription,
  • Settlement and registry
  • Payment management and token issuance.

Kambio provides “osmotic liquidity relief” to the secondary market when roots take off, and the projects start to grow in the Security Token Exchange marketplace.

  • Price discovery and market making
  • Order-book and time-stamping,
  • Clearing, reconciliation and settlement
  • Payment management and order matching execution.

Kambio Ventures will make this an end-to-end platform for institutional and qualified investors, making the startup investment journey simple, secure and instant.

THE FOUR PILLARS OF KAMBIO VENTURES

Kambio will be comprised of four core business units. Each unit managed independently,

Kambio Venture Capital: Due diligence of startups and propriety co-investment with Members for an end-to-end investment curation

Kambio Capital Markets: The actual exchange where the startup’s security tokens are launched and traded — SABR — Security Asset-Backed Receipts.

Kambio Treasury: Custody of accounts and liquidity management. Treasury will segregate Member’s assets while providing backstop market liquidity when necessary.

Kambio Global Community: Community outreach and Membership engagement. Will rewards active participation, knowledge sharing, pooled resources and investor empowerment.

Join Kambio on the following channels:

Telegram Chat: https://t.me/Kambiochat

Telegram News: https://t.me/Kambioventures

Twitter News: @KambioVentures

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

Medium: https://medium.com/@kambio

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kambio/

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