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Katipult Explains Why Private Capital Markets are Shifting Online

 Katipult (TSXV:FUND and FRA: K10 ) recently sat down with Peter Smyrniotis from Victory Square Technologies to discuss how it provides proprietary, cloud-based software infrastructure on a white label basis that allows customer firms to design, set up, and operate their own branded investment platform. Katipult also discussed its views of the private capital markets moving online in the coming years and the necessity for firms to transform their operations to stay relevant.

 

 

Here is the full transcript of the video:

[Peter] - Hi, this is Peter Smyrniotis, and this is a Market One Minute. We are here at 2018 Cantech conference, and I’m here with Brock Murray, the CEO of Katipult. Brock, thank you so much for coming in today.

[Brock] - Thanks for having me.

- Do you mind letting us know a bit about your company?

- Katipult is a software infrastructure company, working with alternative investment companies to migrate their operations online and set up their own investment platform.

- Interesting. Can you elaborate a little more in terms of what is your kind of broad value proposition in the market, what’s happening in the sector and why are you in position to do so well this year?

- The private capital markets are moving online. It’s an industry that has very much stayed with Excel based systems, paper-based systems, so you really have kind of an inflection point where all of these fragmented investment firms want to move online and they don’t have the technology to do so. That is when Katipult comes in and we provide that technology.

- It’s really interesting. I imagine you are rolling into 2018 very bullish and it’s an exciting year ahead, so my follow-up question would be, with 2018 already underway and a month already under our belt, what does the end of the year look for Katipult?

- In Katipult to date, we have really been focusing on building out our product, making it scalable, so 2018 is really the first year we are going to ramp up our sales team and build the sales and marketing teams. To this date everything we’ve sold has come through online search. It is an exciting time for us and it is something we are looking to do for scaling.

- That’s excellent, congratulations to you. Thank you for coming buy and I hope you enjoy the conference.

- Great, thanks very much.

About Victory Square Technologies

Victory Square Technologies Inc. is a blockchain-focused venture builder that funds and empowers entrepreneurs to implement innovative blockchain solutions. Victory Square portfolio companies are disrupting every sector, including Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Personalized Health, Gaming and Film, of the global economy. The company has a proven process for identifying game-changing entrepreneurs and providing them with the partners, mentorship and support necessary to accelerate their growth and help them scale globally.