This 7th SFTA Lausanne chapter Meetup is proud to welcome Lakediamond & Swissquote . First event since official partnership announcement. Pascal Gallo, Lakediamond CEO, will present how an industrial startup can leverage blockchain technology as innovative crowdfunding. Arnaud Masset , Swissquote, senior market strategist, will explain the reason of this partnership.



18h30 SFTA Welcome Message

18h40 Pascal Gallo , CEO LakeDiamond / Arnaud Masset Swissquote : « ICO for industrial startup »

19h10 Q&A

19h30 Networking Apéro



Swissquote, the leading online bank in Switzerland, became the first bank worldwide to offer its clients the opportunity to participate in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), a new way for companies to raise money via crowdfunding using blockchain technology. This opens new opportunities for Swissquote clients to become an active part of the story of start-up or scale-up companies and, more generally, to diversify their assets.



For the first ICO available on its platform, Swissquote has selected the Swiss start-up company, LakeDiamond.



LakeDiamond ICO to leapfrog from start-up to industrial scale production capacity LakeDiamond, an EPFL spin-off active in the production of lab-grown diamonds for high-tech industrial applications will soon launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to increase its production capacities of lab-grown diamonds for high-tech industrial applications.



An innovative blockchain crowdfunding opportunity to contribute to LakeDiamond industrial production capacity

LakeDiamond is building a diamond factory to address high-tech market opportunities. To accomplish its main goals, LakeDiamond requires additional financial resources. But distributing equity would mean losing control of the company. For this reason, LakeDiamond has chosen an ICO as an alternative to traditional equity funding. The opportunity for the participants to the ICO is to capture a part of LakeDiamond’s turnover. The mechanism of the public token sale is blockchain-based, securing all the transactions related to the token purchase, the token sale and the token use.



Lakediamond & Swissquote partnership in the Media

- CNNMoney Switzerland https://youtu.be/9t4g7jhuy8U

- Le temps : https://www.letemps.ch/economie/swissquote-va-piloter-lico-dune-startup-une-premiere

- Fintechnews : http://fintechnews.ch/ico-schweiz/swissquote-ico-wallet-lakediamond-invest/23096/



About LakeDiamond :

- Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/company/lakediamond/

- Twitter : https://twitter.com/LakeDiamond

- Website : https://www.lakediamond.ch/



About Pascal Gallo :

For Pascal Gallo, diamonds have always been near to his heart. Thanks to his grandfather – a mine prospector in Africa – very early on Pascal developed a deep passion for crystals and precious stones. After his PhD in quantum physics and crystal growth, he joined Prof. Eli Kapon’s group at EPFL to continue his research on fundamental interactions between light and matter in semiconductor nanostructures. He then served as operation planner and Chief Business Development Officer in startups that were active in photonics, before co-founding LakeDiamond.

Profil Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalgallo/



About Arnaud Masset

Arnaud Masset, Senior Market Strategist, joined Swissquote in 2015 bringing his advanced technical knowledge and extensive experience in quantitative strategies. Arnaud has a MSc in Financial Engineering and Risk Management from HEC Lausanne, Switzerland.

Profil Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnaudmasset/



About Swissquote

- Website : www.swissquote.com

- link to ICO : www.swissquote.com/ico



About Swiss Finance + Technology Association

- website : www.swissfinte.ch

- SFTA event : https://swissfinte.ch/events/#!event/2018/10/30/ico-as-innovative-crowdfunding-for-industrial-startup