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RIT(Rothschild-backed) co-leads funding for crypto platform Aspen Digital

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RIT will lead the $8.8 million fundraising round for Hong Kong-based Aspen Digital, along with Liberty City Ventures, an early venture investor in the blockchain industry, Aspen said in a statement on Wednesday.

LONDON: RIT Capital Partners, the investment trust founded by Jacob Rothschild, is co-leading a funding round for crypto investment platform Aspen Digital intended to finance the creation of an online platform that would give wealthy investors a single portal to manage crypto investments.

RIT will lead the $8.8 million fundraising round for Hong Kong-based Aspen Digital, along with Liberty City Ventures, an early venture investor in the blockchain industry, Aspen said in a statement on Wednesday.

This will fund the launch of the platform and its expansion to London, Yang He, co-founder and chief executive of Aspen Digital, told Reuters.

Other investors include Chatchaval Jiaravanon and Chaval Jiaravanon – members of Thailand’s richest family and owners of Fortune magazine.

Aspen will target family offices and asset managers in Europe, Asia and the Middle East who want to have a single portal from which they can build a diversified crypto portfolio. It expects to go ve later this year.

 ..”To have the oldest wealth management family in the world putting trust in us as a platform solution for the new world of crypto investment is a great validation,” said Yang.

Investor enthusiasm for crypto has increased sharply over the past year, with one study showing seven out of 10 institutional investors expect to invest in or buy digital assets in the future.

London-listed RIT has invested in other crypto-related companies recently, such as U.S. crypto exchange Kraken. Jacob Rothschild remains the largest RIT shareholder with a 12.39% stake.

source of news:economictimes

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