Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin), a leading seed stage capital provider, announced the availability of its blockchain-enabled onboarding and tokenization platform that streamlines and manages investor interests in the Global Opportunity Philadelphia Fund (GO Philly Fund). Ben Franklin is leveraging Securitize as the fund’s compliance platform for issuing and managing digital securities on the Ethereum blockchain. The platform is also managing KYC/AML and accredited investor compliance.

The new blockchain-enabled platform allows limited partnership interests in the GO Philly Fund to be represented as digital “GO Philly Tokens” that are fully compliant with the ERC-20 standard worldwide. The tokens, now available at GOPhillyFund.com, will be issued electronically by the fund at an offering price of $0.50 per GO Philly Token. Subscriptions for the tokens can be purchased through the platform by individual investors with U.S. dollars, Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH). Prospective investors must apply to subscribe for a minimum amount of $250,000 or equivalent amount in BTC or ETH.

“The GO Philly Fund intends to utilize rapidly emerging standard technologies to streamline and manage investor interests in the fund,” explained Scott Nissenbaum, Ben Franklin’s Chief Investment Officer. “Through the use of blockchain technology, we are now facilitating and streamlining individual investor participation from around the globe while allowing for cryptocurrency to be accepted.”

The availability of the onboarding and tokenization platform comes on the heels of the recently launched GO Philly Fund, a regional venture fund that allows private investors to invest in a broad variety of early-stage technology-focused companies located in the Greater Philadelphia region. The GO Philly Fund has raised more than $15 million and seeks to provide up to $50 million of capital  alongside Ben Franklin’s investments.

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The fund was formed in conjunction with EPAM (NYSE:EPAM), a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company headquartered in the Philadelphia area with more than $1.8 billion in revenue.  Subscription for the GO Philly Fund is open to domestic and international accredited investors who seek to capitalize on the region’s growth.

Interests in the GO Philly Fund are being offered only through the fund’s private placement memorandum, limited partnership agreement and subscription package. A copy of the private placement memorandum containing more detailed information about Ben Franklin and the GO Philly Fund is available by request. For accredited investors and seed and early-stage companies interested in learning more, please visit: gophillyfund.com.

SOURCE Ben Franklin