Vitruvius Ventures is pleased to announce a further round of investment in Avtura. Now around ten years old, Avtura was founded to help aircraft leave on time. They now do that via a number of product lines: Their client list is impressive:

Vitruvius Ventures is pleased to announce its participation in the recent fund-raise of Alvant Group plc. Alvant is involved in the development and manufacture of advanced materials. The unique selling point of Alvant’s Aluminium Matrix Composite (AMC) materials is that they have the stiffness and strength of steel for half…

Untangling the Gordian Knot known as a Cap Table — As active venture capital investors, we regularly participate in unpriced rounds, often through SAFEs. …

There will never be a better time to introduce Basic The summer edition of Britain’s The Critic Magazine featured a pair of very interesting articles on Universal Basic Income (one pro, one con). …

Building an On-Chain Fund Management Platform — Our team at CoinShares Ventures is excited to announce our investment in Avantgarde Finance, which aims to democratize and disintermediate investment fund administration. We’ve known the CEO, Mona el Isa, for more than four years (a lifetime in crypto!) and have closely followed her progress, initially as CEO of Melon…

Why Every Tech Company Will be a FinTech Company — At CoinShares, one area we’ve been very focused on recently is payments, the different ways that digital assets including cryptocurrencies and stablecoins could play a role in the development of a global, digital payment system, and what platforms and infrastructure will be needed to support this type of activity. …

Lessons from 25 years in the commodities market… — Before discovering cryptocurrencies in 2013, my partner Daniel Masters and I were involved in commodity trading for almost three decades. At that time, one of the features of bitcoin that appealed to us was the limited issuance, as only 21 million bitcoin will ever be issued. …