Crypto-startup Aktionariat serves growing interest in blockchain-based shares

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01.10.2021
Aktionariat founder Murat Ögat (left) and Luzius Meisser
On February 1st, the day the new Swiss laws for the creation of blockchain-based securities came into force, the company Aktionariat tokenized its shares and started selling them on its website. Meanwhile, the company has surpassed an investment volume of CHF 1.5 Million, continuously raising funds through an investor relations page built using its own technology.

Usually, fundraising is a one-time event following a rigid schedule. And once an investment is made, the money is typically stuck for many years with no possibility of getting out again. Further, companies are afraid of managing too many shareholders as shareholder relations traditionally do not scale very well. For employees, employee participation programs are often opaque with highly uncertain pay-offs. All of that can be improved when allowing shareholders to convert their shares into blockchain-based tokens and freely trade them if they wish to, creating a transparent market.

Founded in 2020, Aktionariat has developed a set of tools that allow companies from any industry to kickstart a small market for their shares. Leveraging the Ethereum blockchain, Aktionariat helps its clients tokenize their shares and build an Investor Relations page to include a Brokerbot widget to continuously raise funds and repurchase shares if desired. Having a Brokerbot reduces price uncertainty and increases liquidity, making a company’s shares rise in value. Additionally, the startup offers a mobile wallet app to track and manage investments and a corporate dashboard for administrators with an automatically updated shareholder register and tools to configure their shares market. 

With their approach, Aktionariat became the first company to offer a new form of trading shares after the distributed ledger technology (DLT) law, which enabled the introduction of ledger-based securities represented on the blockchain technology, came into effect on February 1st, 2021.

Using their solution, Aktionariat has attracted 80 stakeholders who invested one and a half million Swiss francs to finance its growth. Another example is the men’s underwear company TBô, which recently raised half a million from its community over the course of a weekend. The largest company so far whose shares can be bought directly from its website is Boss Info AG, a Swiss IT services company with 32 million in revenues and a market capitalization of 76 million. 

Murat Ögat, Co-founder and CTO of Aktionariat, comments: “We see a growing interest in crypto shares as more and more companies recognize their potential not only for fundraising but also for making shareholder relations more scalable and enabling stakeholder capitalism. We believe that everyone should be able to participate in the success of the companies they believe in.” 


(RAN)

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