Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital
أشويني أنبوراجان: كيف يمكن للعملة المشفّرة خلق رؤوس أموال للشركات الناشئة
Ashwini Anburajan using blockchain to democratize access to capital. Full bio
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for my startup,
a few million dollars.
بضعة ملايين من الدولارات.
it's going to sell for 50 to 70 million.
are going to be really excited.
million dollars into a company
of individuals to turn to for investment,
لكي أجعلهم يستثمرون،
in a technology company.
لتمويل شركة تكنولوجية.
ذلك المموّل على الاستثمار.
in a golden era of entrepreneurship.
الذهبي لريادة الأعمال.
بهذه الوفرة من قبل،
to build companies than ever before.
designed to fund that innovation,
لتمويل ذلك الابتكار،
in the past 20 to 30 years.
الـ20 إلى الـ30 الماضية.
to pour large sums of money
لصبّ مبالغ مالية ضخمة
that can sell for over a billion dollars.
أن تتجاوز قيمتها المليار دولار.
across many companies
على شركات متعددة
but for less, like my own.
لكن قيمتها أقل، مثل شركتي.
of ideas that get funded,
that funding to grow.
تلك الأموال من أجل النمو.
of billion-dollar companies,
قيمتها مليار دولار،
capital, it's working.
فهو يفي بالغرض.
to build companies of all sizes,
لإنشاء شركات باختلاف أحجامها،
لدعم تلك الأفكار.
entrepreneurs and investors
على رأس المال متاحًا للجميع.
I went out to San Francisco,
with 30 other companies.
بمشاركة 30 شركة أخرى.
how to raise venture capital.
طرق زيادة رأس المال المُجازف.
about ICOs, or Initial Coin Offerings.
أي "العروض المبدئية للعملة."
more money for young startups
الأموال للشركات الناشئة
the value of all of our companies
يضم قيمة كل شركاتنا مجتمعةً،
the obvious question,
عليّ طرح السؤال البديهي:
companies to raise money
الشركات الناشئة لجمع الأموال
that the company provides.
to shares in a company,
ICOs expanded the investor pool,
وسّعت مجموعة المستثمرين،
ذات رأس مال مُجازف
excited to invest.
likelihood to get funded.
still seemed a little crazy.
تبدو جنونية.
with each other for investment,
فيما بينها على الاستثمارات،
to get a check.
للحصول على شيك مصرفي.
in front of an investor
من وقتي الثمين أمام أحد المستثمرين
but all the companies in the batch,
بل عن كل الشركات في المجموعة،
rather than compete.
of their equity into a communal pool
في حوض مشترك
into tradable cryptocurrency
we launched the very first ICO
أطلقنا "آي سي أو" للمرة الأولى
of nearly 30 companies
اقرؤوا هذا وابكوا."
the middleman fees of venture capital.
من رأس المال المُجازف.
and reinvest it,
a virtuous cycle of capital
دورة إيجابية لرأس المال.
entrepreneurs to succeed.
is access to opportunity.
يعني الحصول على فرصة.
access to capital will do.
that my own search for funding
30 companies get investment.
للحصول على استثمارات.
to invent new ways to access capital
طرق جديدة للحصول على رأس المال
the traditional route.
what gets built, who builds it
in the next billion-dollar startup.
الناشئة التالية بقيمة مليار دولار.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ashwini Anburajan - Entrepreneur, writerAshwini Anburajan using blockchain to democratize access to capital.
Why you should listen
Ashwini Anburajan is a serial entrepreneur and writer living in New York. She's successfully bootstrapped ad tech startups -- Social Data Collective and OpenUp -- that have worked with major media companies and Fortune 500 brands. She's done original research into consumer behavior, featured multiple times on CNBC. Prior to that she worked for BuzzFeed, NBC News and consulted for large media companies. Anburajan helped lead the tokenization effort for 22X Fund and received an "Innovation in Venture Fundraising Award" from Microsoft for her work. She currently focuses on how blockchain can democratize access to capital and expand opportunity globally.
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