Lykke Creates Investment and Advisory Spinoff BVV

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Swiss fintech group Lykke on Friday launched a spin-off company, Blockchain Valley Ventures (BVV), which will operate as a venture capital investor and accelerator in addition to providing advisory services for blockchain enabled businesses and exchange listing.

Based in Zug, Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’, BVV said its partners include Heinrich Zetlmayer, former Vice President and Country Leader of IBM Global Business Services in Switzerland and Oliver Bussmann, former UBS and SAP Group CIO.

According to a statement, the company will make capital investments through its own funds and vehicles, such as the “Blockchain Investment Opportunities Note”, in cooperation with Swiss asset management company Vicenda, a boutique firm with a focus on private debt investing. Other services will focus on business, financial, initial coin offering (ICO), and marketing support until projects have reached critical size and can operate independently. Additionally BVV will assist in token technology design and creation, and implementation of Lykke’s Open Source Technology.

According to the company’s statement, BVV’s hybrid funding model combines traditional venture capital with ICO’s. This will optimize the capital-raising of BVV portfolio companies but also accelerate growth and business development, offering significant benefits to conventional investment, the company said.

BVV, supported by Lykke, will give portfolio companies assistance and advice in launching and scaling blockchain-enabled businesses. By collaborating with partner companies, BVV said it will be an integral part of their respective business models, resulting in an ecosystem of promising blockchain-based projects, which maximizes each partner’s success potential.

“As ICOs have become the new normal, it is no longer necessary to wait until you have accumulated significant revenue to make your dreams into reality,” said Richard Olsen, Founder and CEO of Lykke Corporation, in the statement. “However, many would-be token-issuers need guidance which is neutral, independent, and unbiased. BVV provides this quality support, offering the necessary advice and assistance so that inspired businesses may fully recognize their potential.”

“Blockchain technology has already shown itself to be a highly disruptive force across all manners of the industry – from supply chain management to e-commerce, and fintech,” stated Heinrich Zetlmayer, BVV General Partner. “Our long-term vision is to develop BVV into a leading management holding in the crypto space, offering assistance to projects we believe have real potential to have lasting effects on industries primed for disruption.”