Securitize Capital Welcomes David Hogan to Lead Sales and Distribution
Jan 13, 2022
Securitize Capital, the digital asset management platform offering tokenized, institutional grade funds, today announced that David Hogan has joined the firm as Managing Director, Head of Sales and Distribution.
First Tokenized S&P Index Funds Launched on Securitize Markets
Dec 15, 2021
Securitize announced today the launch of two new tokenized funds tracking two of the most innovative indices from S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s leading index provider.
Former SEC Trading and Markets Director Brett Redfearn Joins Securitize Leadership Team
Oct 20, 2021
Securitize, Inc., the regulated platform for issuing and trading digital asset securities, announced today that Brett Redfearn has joined the company’s leadership team as Senior Strategic Advisor to Chief Executive Officer Carlos Domingo, and will also serve as Chairman of the company’s Advisory Board.
Securitize Names Head of Securitize Capital
Oct 14, 2021
Securitize, Inc, which has created a fully-digital, regulated, end-to-end platform and marketplace for investing in and trading shares of private companies, today announced that Wilfred Daye has been named Head of Securitize Capital. Reporting to Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo and with over 20 years’ experience in capital markets and bringing liquidity to digital assets, Daye leads the firm’s investment and asset management offerings under the banner of its wholly owned subsidiary, Securitize Capital.
Securitize Markets Unlocks Broader Access to Alternative Investments, Including Secondary Market Trading
Sep 28, 2021
Securitize, Inc. has announced the launch of a fundamentally better way for investors to access the private capital markets. Largely inaccessible behind highly-fragmented websites and antiquated paper processes, alternative assets in the private markets have remained stubbornly illiquid and closed off to most investors. Open today, Securitize Markets provides investors access to invest in and trade a broad range of alternative assets, including private company equity, real estate and funds, within a single regulated digital marketplace.
Arca Labs and Securitize Partner on Tokenized Financial Products, Beginning with Arca U.S. Treasury Fund
Sep 23, 2021
Arca Labs, the innovation division of digital asset management firm Arca, and Securitize, which enables investors to access the private markets, including private businesses, real estate, and funds today announced a partnership to bring more regulated, tokenized financial products to investors, beginning with the Arca U.S. Treasury Fund.
Securitize Opens Access to Two Cryptocurrency Yield Funds
Jul 26, 2021
Securitize, Inc. announced today the opening of its Bitcoin and USD Coin yield funds, providing investors with exposure to cryptocurrencies, which are loaned to create yield.
Securitize Raises $48 Million in Series B
Jun 21, 2021
Securitize, Inc. announced today that its Series B fundraising round was oversubscribed, with $48 million raised from new and existing investors. The convergence of venture capital and asset management signals a consensus on the future adoption of digital asset securities and this technology continuing to grow. The raise also comes before the anticipated launch of Securitize Markets, a marketplace designed for the trading of digital asset securities, providing a path to liquidity for the private capital markets.
Securitize Announces Launch of Securitize Capital with Two Cryptocurrency Yield Funds
May 26, 2021
Securitize, Inc announced today the launch of Securitize Capital, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary, that will serve as an alternative investment manager of digital asset funds to provide investors exposure to cryptocurrencies and decentralized finance (DeFi) in the form of digital asset securities.
Securitize Powers Exodus’ Regulation A Offering
May 6, 2021
Securitize, LLC, the leader in empowering private businesses to raise capital in ways that leverage digital assets, today announced that it is enabling Exodus to offer a digital representation of shares of its Class A common stock to its Class A stockholders. Leveraging Securitize’s technology platform, Exodus, a company that allows its users to secure, manage and exchange crypto assets in a single wallet, has concluded an approximately $75 million offering of its Class A common stock.
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Launched Japan’s First FIEA Compliant Asset-backed Security Token on the Securitize Platform
Mar 29, 2021
Securitize Japan K.K., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Securitize, Inc., the industry-leading liquidity and compliance platform for digital asset securities (security tokens) with over 150 issuers and 200,000 investors, today announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (“SMTB”) has completed Japan’s first asset-backed security token pilot issuance on the Securitize’s platform.
Securitize Bolsters Team to Foster Growth, Expansion
Mar 29, 2021
Securitize, the industry-leading liquidity and compliance platform for digital asset securities (security tokens), today announced the addition and promotion of key executives as the firm braces for its next growth phase, based on increasing client demand and significant new offerings that the firm plans to roll-out.
Securitize and Pacific Stock Transfer Announce Strategic Collaboration to Modernize Transfer Agent Software Market
Mar 8, 2021
Pacific Stock Transfer ("PST"), a full service transfer agency serving public and private companies across the US and Canada, and Securitize, the industry-leading primary issuance and compliance platform for digital securities (security tokens) and SEC-registered transfer agent, today announced a broad collaboration which enables PST issuers and their shareholders to immediately take advantage of a suite of proprietary, next generation digital technologies from Securitize.
SBI Digital Asset Holdings and Securitize Announce Plans to Integrate Securitize’s Digital Securities Issuance and Management Platform with SBI’s Digital Wallet Solution
Dec 17, 2020
Securitize Japan K.K. (“Securitize”), a digital securities (security token) issuance and lifecycle management platform, and SBI Digital Asset Holdings (“SBI DAH”), a digital asset arm of the SBI group, today announced a partnership to integrate Securitize's digital securities issuance and management platform with SBI's investor wallet and custody solution, sbiwallet, providing an unmatched one-stop application for the Japanese market.
NTT DATA and Securitize Japan Partner to Offer Optimized Security Token Solutions for Local Market Participants
Dec 11, 2020
Securitize Japan (Securitize Inc), a leading primary issuance and compliance platform for digital securities (security tokens) today announced that it has partnered with NTT DATA Corporation (NTT DATA), also an innovator in their respective field, to build out a securities token (ST) solution for the Japanese market.
Securitize Becomes First Security Token Platform to Integrate with Avalanche Blockchain Platform
Dec 9, 2020
Securitize, the industry-leading primary issuance and compliance platform for digital securities (security tokens) and SEC-registered transfer agent, today announced its integration with Avalanche, the highly-scalable, open-source platform for launching applications and enterprise blockchain deployments in one, interoperable ecosystem.
LIFULL Launches Liquid Full-Scale Crowdfunding Platform for Joint Real Estate Ventures in Japan using Securitize Technology
Aug 21, 2020
LIFULL Co., Ltd., operator of the Japanese real estate listing website “LIFULL HOME’S”, and Securitize, the leading global SaaS solution for enabling digital securities (security tokens), have announced the launch of their new digital securities powered crowdfunding platform for Japanese real estate ventures -- the result of a successful collaboration that began in early 2020.
Securitize Announces Partnership with Algorand to Support Securitize’s DS Protocol
Sep 10, 2019
Securitize, a platform delivering trusted global solutions for compliant digital securities, has partnered with Algorand to support Securitize’s DS Protocol on the recently launched Algorand blockchain. Securitize’s platform-agnostic DS Protocol will now support Algorand, giving issuers using Securitize an additional high-performance platform option for issuing, trading, and performing corporate actions using digital securities.
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Securitize is the leader in digital asset securities. We provide access for investors to invest in private market digital asset securities (security tokens), and provide companies with a fully-digital, end-to-end suite of compliant solutions leveraging the advantage of next generation blockchain technology to make raising capital easier and less costly.
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History
November 2017: Securitize founded by Carlos Domingo and Jamie Finn to leverage blockchain in bringing liquidity and automation to limited partnerships, an asset class previously considered to be illiquid. Once they realized no regulatory compliant technology existed to do this, they decided to build it themselves.
August 2019: Securitize becomes first SEC-registered transfer agency in blockchain space
September 2019: Securitize completes $12 million Series A investment round
December 2019: Established beachhead in Japan through the acquisition of blockchain consultancy BUIDL
February 2020: Securitize completes $16+ million strategic investment
November 2020: Securitize acquires a broker dealer license and automated trading system registration through the acquisition of Distributed Technology Markets
March 2021: Securitize enables Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank to issue Japan’s first credit-rated, asset-backed security token fund
May 2021: Securitize powers first $75 million Reg A+ fundraise to offer effer security tokens representing Class A common stock
May 2021: Securitize Capital launched with inaugural cryptocurrency yield funds
June 2021: Securitize completes $48 million Series B investment round
July 2021: Securitize makes Securitize Markets, its alternative trading system, available to existing investors
Firsts
1st dedicated fully digital securities issuance platform to market. Revenue generating since Q1’18
1st and only company to deliver a regulatory-compliant alternative trading system, including live trading of security tokens
1st company to successfully integrate with qualified custodian and IRA to support security tokens
1st company to register with the US SEC as a digital, decentralized transfer agent
1st vertically integrated transfer agent and BD/ATS through Velocity Markets acquisition
1st credit-rated, asset-backed security token fund in Japan
1st fully-tokenized venture capital fund (with SPiCE VC and Blockchain Capital)
1st security token issued as debt by an NBA player, Spencer Dinwiddle of the Brooklyn Nets
Founders
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosdomingo/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlosdomingo
Carlos Domingo is co-founder and CEO of Securitize. Carlos has 25+ years of experience in innovation and digital transformation, including having also founded SPiCE VC, the first truly liquid, inclusive and transparent tokenized VC on the blockchain. Previously, Carlos was CEO of Research & Development for Telefonica (one of the largest telecom companies in the world), as well as CEO of New Business and Innovation for Telefonica Digital. Carlos holds a PhD in computer science, speaks English, Spanish and Japanese, and is based in Miami.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesfinn/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/finnstr
Jamie Finn is co-founder and President of Securitize. Prior to founding Securitize, Jamie led product innovation and business development for firms ranging from AT&T to Telefonica, O2 and Ericsson, Kontera, A.Ki, Thumbplay, Zingy, and others. Jamie holds a Bachelor’s degree from Babson College. He speaks both English and Spanish and is based in Francisco.
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About Securitize
Securitize is a digital asset securities firm with a mission to provide investors with access to invest in and trade alternative investments, and for companies to raise capital, manage shareholders, and offer shareholders liquidity. Securitize has pioneered a fully digital, regulatory compliant, end-to-end platform for issuing, managing and trading digital asset securities, with over 200 businesses and 400,000+ investors already connected, and nearly $500 million in current-value digital asset securities issued on the Securitize platform. Securitize is comprised of Securitize, Inc. and its subsidiaries Securitize, LLC (an SEC-registered transfer agent), Securitize Capital, LLC, and Securitize Markets, LLC (an SEC-registered broker-dealer, member of FINRA and SIPC, and operator of the company’s alternative trading system, Securitize Markets). Learn more at http://www.securitize.io.
