Lithium Ventures is a venture capital platform that supports Web3 early-stage projects and early-stage investors. Lithium V2 is expected to go live on April 15, 2022.
Blockchain projects with innovative ideas and investors seeking to fund innovative decentralized solutions are, without a doubt, a match made in ‘crypto’ heaven. The current challenge is that the low standards when it comes to funding early-stage crypto projects have led to huge losses among investors, not only retail but also those who bought in early.
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Background
Lithium Ventures, which was established in March 2021, connects Web3 projects and investors and aims to bring better standards for crypto project funding.
The platform is managed by a team with expertise in marketing strategy, blockchain technology, product launching, trading, and cybersecurity and is armed with in-depth experiences in early-stage crypto investing.
What is Lithium Ventures?
Lithium Ventures is a venture capital platform that supports Web3 early-stage projects and early-stage investors by displaying transparency and investor assurance, as well education for both sides.
The platform offers three major services called ‘Incubator,’ ‘Launchpad,’ and ‘Funds,’ which are all designed to boost projects’ and investors’ success and profitability through ethical standards.
In other venture capital transactions, funds are centrally-controlled, localized, and unevenly distributed, making early-stage investing exclusive to large institutions and high-net-worth investors or whales. But thanks to Lithium Ventures, retail investors can now invest in early-stage Web3 projects, giving them wide leverage even with their limited funds.
The platform also aims to be a safe haven and protect investors from scams, shady founders, rug pulls, and fraudulent IDOs that consistently prey on new victims every day.
Pre-Screened Projects and Teams
Retail investors shouldn’t be spooked by the sudden availability of early-stage project investing opportunities.
Every project available inside Lithium was already pre-screened and has gone through a stringent verification processes, including a complete KYC of the team and background checks.
The showcased projects’ real-world applications and potential value will also be tested and approved by the platform, ensuring that investors are offered the best projects with the highest potential and lowest risk possible.
Guaranteed IDO Allocations for Participants
Lithium Ventures implements a guaranteed allocation of its native token for all IDO participants regardless of their investment amount or tier. And with its oversubscription model, the platform ensures that in case an IDO has been overinvested, every investor is guaranteed a fair percentage of tokens they allocated.
EBSC Token (Early Blockchain Seed Capital)
EBSC is Lithium Ventures’ native token equipped with utilities such as fund fee reduction, VIP access on launchpads, an entry on IDOs, passive income through airdrops, and many more, which will be discussed later.
The token has a deflationary feature, which means that it is continuously reduced through burning, making each token more valuable and giving holders higher profitability.
EBSC charges an 8% transaction fee, in which 3.5% gets burned, another 3.5% goes to holders, and the remaining 1% to the developers’ wallet.
It also provides holders with the right to vote on critical project decisions such as budget allocations and investment decisions, which further strengthens the decentralized structure of the platform.
3 Major Services of Lithium Ventures
Incubator
The Lithium Incubator is a service that injects $10,000 to $100,000 in general, depending on the selected projects’ needs.
Through these initial capitals, Web3 projects can finally make progress on the most critical aspects of their venture, including platform development and marketing.
Lithium will be hands-on in refining these projects, and once everything is ironed-out, these products/services will be transferred to the Launchpad for their much-awaited launch day.
The team will continue to support the selected projects after launch day to maintain their momentum and contribute to their continuous improvement.
Also, through Lithium’s incubation, projects and teams can benefit from a trusted code and tokenomics audit, platform-powered token launch, marketing pipelines, and high-quality educational content for investors.
Reminders for the Team
Interested teams can apply for incubation by clicking on this link, and they are reminded that Lithium will only accommodate projects that provide solutions to real Web3 problems.
In other words, meme coins and any projects with vague or unclear solutions/utilities will not be entertained by the assessment team. Also, even before the confirmation, applicants must prepare a working product so they can be ready for a demonstration once they are selected.
If it’s not possible, they must at least prepare a demonstration that can clearly express the value of their proposed solutions.
Another important reminder for applicants is that Lithium is ready to fund multiple projects with the same idea.
In other words, teams with innovative ideas wouldn’t be provided with exclusivity when it comes to funding, but Lithium will help everyone carve a niche to find them a specific market to serve.
And finally, the platform takes a stake in every project it incubates to maintain the sustainability of the entire Lithium ecosystem.
Launchpad
The Lithium Launchpad is a one-stop-shop of high-potential Web3 projects where investors can conveniently choose which blockchain service/product to invest in.
Since all projects inside the Launchpad have gone through the Incubator, investors can rest assured that every project has been checked rigorously and has passed quality standards.
Investors can also expect exclusive access to IDO projects at IDO prices and assurance of a 100% security and code audit on all projects.
Multichain
The Launchpad will initially launch on BSC, Cardano, and Polygon, making it a cross-chain environment that will be beneficial for both projects and investors.
Some of the projects that have been completed inside the Launchpad include Wizardia, Betswirl, Teneo Finance, DeFi Yield, Legion Network, and Mechachain.
Funds
Lithium Funds uses 40% of its Assets Under Management or AUM to invest in token assets launched by projects on different blockchains.
But the Fund isn’t intended for just any projects but for the ones with the highest potential to deliver high-value blockchain applications and real-life use cases.
It was formed to go against the traditional fund model riddled with unwanted aspects such as high fees, high-entry barriers, and unclear structures.
Equal Chance for All Investors
The Fund aims to accommodate institutional and retail investors to give both sides equal opportunity on early-stage projects.
To achieve this, it eliminates up-front fees or recurring fees for investors with 600,000 EBSC in their assets.
On top of that, performance fees are only implemented on investors only after their entire invested funds are returned. After this process, the fund advisor must return 80% of any additional returns to the investors and is eligible to claim the remaining 20%.
Fund advisors will also facilitate either an interface or a portal that can help investors monitor their fund’s daily Net Asset Value or NAV.
The interface or portal will be available every day and will be updated every 24 hours to ensure that the latest information is transferred as soon as possible.
There is no cap amount to what investors can invest, but they are required to put a minimum of $2000 in the Fund.
Conclusion
Lithium Ventures is doing a great service for the entire blockchain industry by creating a platform that separates unscrupulous Web3 projects from the innovative ones with real-world use cases. With the platform’s multi-processes to pick the best projects, it prevents bad apples from attracting funding and helps investors select products or services with the highest potential to deliver clear results.
