Kraken’s Closes $13 Million Funding Round Boosting Company Valuation to $4 Billion

2019-6-25 16:01

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Kraken’s Closes $13 Million Funding Round Boosting Company Valuation to $4 Billion

Kraken, which is a regulated spot and futures crypto exchange, recently closed it’s funding round on an investment platform Bnk To The Future with a little more than $13,5 million raised. This turned out to be the most successful funding round on Bnk To The Future with more than 2,200 participants joining.

Simon Dixon, the co-founder of Bnk To The Future told that Kraken sought the capital as a way to push its valuation past the $4 billion mark and fund new acquisitions.

For this funding round, Bnk To The Future created a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) for Kraken to receive equity indirectly from the plus 2,200 investors. That is known as an illiquid investment.

“The SPV then pools all the individual funders and acts as a single capital investor. This technique allows Kraken to bypass the SEC requirement that force it to register as a public company under the 1934 Securities and Exchange Act,” writes CoinDesk.

This makes the investors not shareholders of Kraken and will realize a return only in three cases: if Kraken starts an IPO; Gets sold to an organization; or if the exchange does a Management Buy-Out.

Originally, Kraken asked for $10,2 million in the first funding round. After four days, they saw that the market has a deep interest and extended it to a goal of $15,45 million. Even though it is reported that the funding round ended with $13,5 million raised, Simon Dixon said that they are still waiting for around 250 bank wires to go through. He expects somewhat around $14 million to be raised.

Massive Investments, Massive Perks

Simon Dixon revealed that the average investment was around $100,000, which is 10 times more than all the previous 120 funding rounds on Bnk To The Future. 60 percent of investors chose to stake fiat while the rest 40 percent chose to stake crypto. Usually, as Dixon described, they see a 70:30 ratio between fiat and crypto. He believes that this is because the crypto bull market which makes the prices rise. Another major factor on why so many investors chose to fund Kraken is because of the perks that Kraken offered.

However, one Bnk To The Future client decided to “write down the numbers” and came up with a rather interesting statement:

“Your $1k investment bought you about 48 future shares (from 201.612.210 in total). If Kraken is really worth $4bn in the end you own 0,00002380808% of this pie. And that’s about the sum that you invested. But as you are in the “preferred share class” you get your investment back even if Kraken sells only for $112 million. Only if Kraken sells for more than 4bn we will make money.”

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