Investing in startups is a pipe dream for most. Simply put, the capital needed to inject any funds worthwhile to the startup founders is generally on the high side. Any project worth its weight in gold is quickly funded by large venture capitalist organizations before their concept is even broadcasted to the public. EQUI has realized their unique solution to this, and that cryptocurrency and blockchain is the perfect vehicle for this vision.

Opening the gates to the venture capital market

EQUI’s vision is delivered using their newly-developed EQUI investment platform. This platform was created to showcase and feature the investment opportunities that the EQUI team has determined to be highly viable. Transactions and investments are made through EQUItokens. EQUItoken owners can transfer these tokens onto the platform, and use them to back projects. Project backers receive 75 percent of the realized net profit upon exit. Token holders and participants have access to an ever-growing selection of potential investment projects.

This token has a reward structure unique to its services, weighted to the provision of larger returns to those sharing the objectives of EQUI in support of the new breed of successful entrepreneurs.

EQUI’s proposal for token holders offer those participating the control and flexibility needed to make their own investment decisions. The team realizes three main reasons for EQUItoken purchase: Investing, Holding, and Trading.

EQUITOKEN INVESTORS (A)

Investors in the EQUI economy and blockchain are those applying their tokens to a specific project or cluster of projects. Commitment levels are highly flexible, and determined solely by how much the investor is willing to part with for a specific project. These investors get 75 percent of the net profits from projects invested in, split amongst venture capitalists based on their investment rate.

The remaining 25 percent of net profits go to the Investment team of EQUI as a performance reward ensuring that the interests of all parties remain aligned at all times, providing maximum values for all stakeholders.

Additionally, investors will automatically be participating in EQUI’s loyalty programs. This is treated similar to dividends in stock markets, or airdrops in other cryptocurrencies, with transfers of “bonus EQUItokens” each year to those who are Investors or Holders.

These EQUItokens pushed from investors to the investment are then sold for fiat currency (US dollars, British pounds, Euros, etc). Exchange rates are fixed at market rates on the investment date. When the investments are sold, the returns are made in Ethereum to the EQUI wallet of the investor.

EQUITOKEN HOLDERS (B)

Holders in the EQUI economy are those who have transferred their EQUItokens to the platform, yet have not committed their EQUItokens to the available projects. These holders will still automatically participate in the EQUI loyalty program, provided that their tokens remain on the platform for EQUI.

EQUITOKEN TRADERS (C)

Traders in the EQUI economy are those whose EQUItokens lie outside of the platform provided by EQUI. These members have no access to the opportunities for investment, or usage of the EQUI loyalty program. They benefit only from increases of the token price, as typical cryptocurrency trading progresses. EQUI traders can make their decision to move their EQUItokens back onto the EQUI platform for investment to hold onto in their EQUI wallet.

Investment Strategy and Returns Structure

EQUI AND THE EQUITOKEN ECONOMY

EQUI utilizes the already-established and solid as a rock Ethereum blockchain for the storing and processing of information, transactions, and user credentials. Transaction utilization includes such things as project stake acquisition, profit distributions, and investment deployment for returns and annual rewards.

Ethereum’s Smart Contracts, written in Solidity and compiled for use on Ethereum Virtual Machine, works to ensure reliability, transparency and security for participants in EQUItokens’ investing, holding and trading processes.

EQUItokens are standard ERC20 tokens, developed solely for usage on the EQUI platform. These tokens enable their users to participate in investment projects EQUI provides. If participants wish to hold onto their tokens, they are securely stored on the platform for future investments, or traded through exchanges publicly.

EQUI is a web based application that is accessed through any compatible web browser. Following the ICO, the platform will be fully developed using the funds raised. It will be user friendly, aesthetically pleasing and provide all relevant information for an investor to plan their investments and review their portfolio.

ICO Token Sale Terms

As every project we review on this blog, the EQUItoken will be available in the form of an initial coin offering (ICO) for those on the lookout for a solid coin and project to support. The sale of EQUItoken enables the acceleration of development of technical and other business aspects. This includes both recruitment of additional personnel and infrastructure.

A presale of the EQUItoken will take place from March 1st to March 15th 2018. For the presale of the token, a minimum investment of $100 thousand is required from each participant. These participants will receive a 25% bonus.

The EQUItoken public sale will run immediately afterwards, from Match 15th to April 12th 2018. A minimum investment of $100 is required to apply for the public sale. This is subject to the participants in compliance with standard guidelines. Participants from Match 15th to March 22nd will receive a 15% bonus, from March 22nd to March 29th will receive a 5% bonus, and participants from March 29th to the end of the public sale will not receive a bonus.

The token distribution of the existing EQUItoken will be split into several different pools:

Token distribution of the existing tokens

There will be 250 million coins in circulation total, and the price of each coin will start in value at 50 cents.

Conclusion

By opening the gates of venture capital investing for us “normal” folks, EQUI surely provides a professionally executed solution with the help of the blockchain technology. By providing users different possibilities in how they handle their investment decisions, EQUI seems to be an all-in-one solution for different types of traders, investors or long term holders. Overall EQUI is an exceptional project and I’m looking forward to the new investment opportunities they are trying to provide.