Bridging the Gap between Traditional Markets & Crypto Market.
What do some of the biggest names in the tech industry--including Airbnb, Dropbox, and stripe--have in common? They have their roots in the startup incubator called Y Combinator.
In fact, Y Combinator has supported a well-known cryptocurrency exchange, Coinbase, and some up-and-coming non-tech startups like Soylent. But Y Combinator is far from being the only incubator in the world.
Startup incubators play an important role in incubating new and disruptive ideas. Given that tech entrepreneurs often vision to restructure entire industries, incubators provide the necessary guidance that helps bright-eyed visionaries in approaching their monumental goals.
The developments in the blockchain space are characteristically disruptive as they have a strong focus on decentralization and increased integration of deep tech. Thus, startups in this industry can greatly benefit from an incubator dedicated to their niche, and Iconiq Lab is stepping up to consume the opportunity.
Supporting Blockchain Startups
Iconiq Lab, an operation of Iconiq Holding, is going to dedicate efforts that will allow powerful concepts that leverage the power of the blockchain to become a reality.
An incubator's primary role is to carry ideas into products. This is different from what accelerator's do, which is to being added growth. As the blockchain space is dotted with whitepaper ICOs, it's evident that this market is in a dire need of incubators. Iconiq will function similar to established incubators.
Iconiq Lab is going to provide powerful ideas with the opportunity to access the necessary seed capital. This will allow the project's team to put the development initial development process into motion. Along the process, Iconiq will provide the guidance needed to develop a product that can operate properly.
Through Iconiq's network, the upcoming project will be to access critical industry support and possibly even make early partnerships. All these support mechanisms will provide the pillars for a successful startup.
While typical incubators support seed stage startups with the goal of pruning the founders to individuals who can give exemplary pitches to VCs, Iconiq's goal is to carry the projects it incubates into the ICO. The goal of Iconiq is to allow the masses to be able to invest in the best projects rather than leaving the opportunities only to major VCs. This is going to be an incubator that prepares the best ideas to run a successful ICO campaign.
A New Leg
Iconiq’s goal of incubating is on a good track and they are supporting many upcoming Crypto projects as it is. But the company’s goals are bigger.
While Iconiq Lab is going to focus on upcoming projects and VC opportunities, Iconiq Funds, Iconiq Holding's soon-to-launch platform, will function as the provider of professional-grade investment securities in the cryptocurrency market.
Iconiq Funds is going to facilitate the establishment of funds that issue exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded notes (ETNs). Such securities for the cryptocurrency market are going to make it easier to invest in professionally managed (yet tradeable) investment vehicles.
Iconiq Funds is going to be a pioneer in cryptocurrency asset management as a service (AMaaS). This type of investment vehicle is typically only available in traditional capital markets. Through such a development, along with the efforts of Iconiq Lab, Iconiq’s team are bridging the gap between traditional security markets and the cryptocurrency market.
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One thing I do like about ICO's is that it gives regular people an opportunity to invest in the world of DLT. With so many ICO's in the game, it is difficult to decide where to turn. There are so many projects that seem to revolve around funding but once the ICO's are finished and they hit the exchanges the value of the tokens quickly plummet. Having incubators out there such as ICONIQ could give investors a piece of mind, knowing the projects they are exploring have been vetted.
You make a very strong point, and it's something that I will be discussing in a future post.
There certainly are a lot of ICOs floating about and it can be challenging to discern the legitimacy of most. Moreover, investment in even the top coins can be challenging; so an ETF to easily diversify should be a welcomed development.
Iconiq can help in the current market as attract more people to crypto space. Both investors and creators. Such incubators are vital and can protect many ICO's which are nowadays just losing trust from investors as soon as the tokens plummet. They can help grow the crypto space. Thus increasing market cap of all coins. Very good project. Well knitted and written.
The impact would go beyond the project's own Fund and VC.
Naturally, the ETFs being offered will impact other coins and will implicitly bring added liquidity to their markets.
Hope this project comes sooner.
I look forward to ETFs too.
For the time being, Iconiq Lab is functional and going strong; the Funds will be up-and-running soon.
Iconiq Lab plays very important role i think what they do is very useful
The Iconiq Lab will be helping a number of projects launch their ICO soon. The Funds branch will focus more on established digital assets.