For the last 248 years, the world's greatest experiment in democracy has been taking shape in America. Now, however, America is taking a backseat to the blockchain and crypto, the two most transparent governance structures created thus far.
Nowhere is that more apparent than in the rise of decentralized finance and access to venture-capital investment opportunities that were once the domain of deep-pocketed investors and institutions.
But today?
Anyone with a crypto wallet and as little as $1,000 can access venture capital opportunities that are now emerging across various blockchains.
One of those opportunities is BasedVC, a venture capital firm driven by its community of investors, which aims to democratize access to VC investments by way of a platform allowing investors to participate in the same early-stage investment opportunities that, in a Web2 world, were reserved for high-net-worth individuals and top-shelf crypto-investment funds.
Backed by crypto-industry heavyweights including Animoca Brands, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Binance Labs, Sequoia Capital, and others, BasedVC is connecting investors to startup projects and private deals, thereby allowing investors with smaller pocketbooks to invest right alongside the whales.
For investors, the benefits are manifold:
Exclusive access to early-stage crypto projects at the vanguard of Web3, lower entry costs per project, and deal flow that exceeds what a typical crypto launchpad sees. There are assurances that projects presented to the BasedVC community are rigorously vetted, just as traditional Wall Street VC firms would vet potential investments. Investors also have access to in-house, heavily researched reports on each opportunity, research that individuals wouldn't have the time or necessary access to project teams to produce themselves.
Additionally, BasedVC offers an all-in-one platform that allows a community of investors to pool their funds through fully transparent smart contract technology.
Founded by a team of professionals including Hubert Krawczyk, Bing Wang, Musthafa Ahmed, and Rudy De La Cruz, BasedVC strategically focuses its investment opportunities on projects at the heart of blockchain infrastructure in industries including gaming, decentralized finance (DeFi), augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and projects offering tokenization and yield from real-world assets such as real estate and others.
"We're right at the nexus of everything in blockchain that's changing the world we live in," said Rudy De La Cruz, BasedVC's head of strategy. "BasedVC is giving average, investors a way to invest in these opportunities, early, so that they can profit from the explosive, early growth, just like traditional VC firms do."
BasedVC sets itself apart from other blockchain-based VC funds by securing exclusive opportunities in this strategic industry for its community of investors. It achieves this through the team's broad network, in-house expertise, and their combined and individual reputations within the cryptosphere.
Through these strengths, BasedVC's team has gained for its community early-stage access to investment opportunities in projects such as Nyan Heroes (gaming), bluewhale (AI/analytics), Aethir (notes & gaming), LandX (real world assets), and goodlawyer (SAAS). BasedVC has also partnered with the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) to launch APES Capital, an investment portal for owners of Bored Apes and Mutant Apes NFTs.
To simplify the process of investing in early-stage crypto projects, BasedVC provides its community members a gated NFT platform where they can stake their tokens and then browse the available investment opportunities to choose the projects in which they want to invest.
Through that platform, community members can then commit their funds directly to their selected projects. BasedVC then manages the investment execution and post-investment support, including delivering the vested tokens to the community's members' wallets.
That gives BasedVC investors easy access through a simple transfer to a centralized or decentralized exchange, where they can sell their vested tokens if they wish. This means that community members can quickly trade on highly liquid secondary markets and are not reliant on an in-house marketplace.
Because BasedVC is based on the blockchain, it ensures transparency and fairness across the entire process, and provides an equal opportunity for all community members to participate in the investments where they see the greatest potential.
We are only just beginning to witness the transformative powers that decentralized technologies and blockchain innovations promise. These powers are changing everything from gaming to education, entertainment to identity. BasedVC is harnessing those powers to democratize access to venture capital investing in Web3, aiming to level the playing field and give investors a chance to embark on the same trip to the moon that whales have access to all the time due to the size of their wallets.
