Exclusive Interview with Alexander Valtingojer, CEO and Co-Founder, Coinpanion

Coinpanion transforms the crypto tasks to make a revolution within the cryptocurrency market

Cryptocurrency is flourishing within the world monetary market owing to the sensible functionalities of blockchain expertise. A number of corporations have recognized the potential market with the usage of hundreds of cryptocurrencies to make it extra clear and dependable. Firms like Coinpanion and others are remodeling the monetary sector by making sensible portfolios. 

Right here is an unique interview with Alexander Valtingojer, CEO and Co-Founder, Coinpanion, who elaborates the thought of the corporate to make sure distinctive crypto tasks are current within the extremely risky cryptocurrency market with out adequate data of how cryptocurrencies work and course of. 

 

1. Kindly transient us in regards to the firm, its specialization and the companies that your organization provides. 

Coinpanion is a Vienna-based dynamic fintech that was based in 2019 to offer sensible portfolios for all sorts of traders with the specialization in making the crypto world extra accessible and clear. Modern applied sciences are reshaping the world all the way in which from decentralized banking methods to digital artwork. With Coinpanion, one can be a part of this revolution by investing on the earth of tomorrow. There are already hundreds of cryptocurrencies and extra are added each month. The selection is big and making the fitting resolution might be overwhelming. At Coinpanion, a workforce of trade specialists rigorously selects cash to be part of a portfolio. So one doesn’t need to make personal resolution and might depend on specialists who make sure that solely distinctive crypto tasks that may stand the take a look at of time are chosen!

 

2. With what mission and goals, the corporate was arrange? In brief, inform us about your journey because the inception of the corporate? 

Each thought begins with an issue and on this case two younger South-Tyrolians at a home occasion. In 2018, Alexander Valtingojer (CEO) met Matthias Zandanel (CTO) and so they had been speaking about how sophisticated it was to put money into cryptocurrencies in comparison with investing within the inventory market. Little did they know what their chat would result in. 

Pushed by the imaginative and prescient to make the crypto market accessible for everybody, at first, the 2 got here up with an idea of a platform the place profitable cryptocurrency merchants might be copied. Quickly, Aaron Penn (Lead Developer), Matthias’ outdated partner-in-crime, joined the workforce. Simply because the platform was selecting up momentum in 2019, the three realized that they not believed within the idea. All the things was depending on the merchants, who acted intransparent and customers had been blindly following the merchants with the very best current income.

By the top of 2019, they determined to shut the copy trading platform and search for a greater method to make the crypto market accessible for everybody. Armed with all of the know-how accrued over the previous years, the workforce launched the primary model of Coinpanion and in addition managed to shut its first funding spherical in August 2020. The beta was inflicting fairly a buzz within the Austrian start-up scene and Coinpanion began gaining traction. 

In spring 2021, the workforce realized that the issue of accessibility was not solely an issue on the earth of cryptocurrencies but in addition for a lot of different types of investments. At this level, the workforce’s imaginative and prescient turned a lot broader, aiming to make investing on the earth of other investments as simple as they’d already finished with cryptocurrencies. By August 2021, the workforce had grown to seven and acquired €1.8 million seed funding from traders like Florian Gschwandtner (Founding father of Runtastic), Patrick Pöschl (Founding father of Scalable Capital) and one in all Europe’s most lively enterprise funds, Excessive-Tech Gründerfonds.

Simply in 2021, Coinpanion has grown from simply the founding workforce of 4 to over 30 individuals, with over 15 completely different nationalities.

 

3. Transient us in regards to the proactive Founder/CEO of the corporate and his/her contributions in the direction of the corporate and the trade.

I began with crypto in 2014/2015 after I was in highschool. Again then, I used to be shopping for and promoting video games on Steam by Valve Company on completely different boards— a standard medium of fee was Bitcoin and PayPal. For me, Bitcoin was simply “cool web cash” that I used to purchase different video games or (by changing it to fiat) different real-life items (like a motorbike). Little did I understand how it might affect my future life. I’ve been concerned within the crypto scene since 2015 and was invited as an professional on cryptocurrencies on TV, radio and quite a few newspapers. Earlier than beginning Coinpanion, I labored on a number of blockchain tasks. Now I spend most of my day studying about crypto, DeFi, NFTs, or the way forward for the web— #Web3.

 

4. What’s your largest USP that differentiates the corporate from opponents?

The most important USP is the providing of diversified portfolios (principal) of ETFs on the normal market), everybody can already begin with 50€. One doesn’t want any data about buying and selling or crypto markets since Coinpanion is doing that for them.

 

5. Point out a few of the awards, achievements, recognitions and shoppers’ suggestions that you simply really feel are notable and useful for the corporate. 

The corporate raised greater than 1.8 million Euro in funding from a improbable bunch of traders whereas build up the workforce from 4 to over 30 individuals. Regularly, the workforce is rising double-digit MOM throughout all KPIs whereas shifting from a garage-like workplace to a phenomenal new place near town middle of Vienna. The administration iterated Coinpanion from a scrappy web site with one single portfolio to a full-fledged platform with a number of portfolio choices, card funds, financial savings plans, cell apps, automated tax studies (blockpit), and so on., particularly CO2 neural portfolios.

 

6. How do you see the corporate and the trade sooner or later forward? What are your progress plans for the following 12 months?

The corporate has a plan to launch Coinpanion in a number of nations with extra category-specific funding merchandise equivalent to gaming, DAO, DeFi, and so on.), like DeFi occurred in the course of January. There shall be an growth of the providing to DeFi and NFT primarily based merchandise (doing to Digital Belongings what ETFs did to shares) whereas elevating a  monster Collection A to turn out to be the constancy of digital property. Two-single (ETH, Bitcoin) and extra new DeFi portfolios shall be launched by doing a 12h hackathon.

There has by no means been a greater time to be in crypto. It’s at the moment experiencing the delivery of the brand new web— an web the place individuals produce, personal, and change worth in a digital means. Proper now the world is experiencing how NFTs are trending. It’s a very attention-grabbing transfer because it proves that the habits of the brand new era and the way they cope with possession is altering. Think about an viewers of over two billion individuals who can see which NFT one owns, creates, and interacts with. It’s only a matter of time till one will see NFTs on all main platforms. 

It’s attention-grabbing to see how decupled NFTs and typical cryptocurrencies are. In the previous few weeks, crypto traders noticed main drops over the entire cryptocurrency market, whereas there was a major worth enhance over the overall NFT market. It looks like inside the entire crypto area, industries have gotten sufficiently big to be totally impartial. For instance, Nike purchased RTFKT studios and is doubling down on NFTs and the Metaverse. Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard for almost US$70 billion, turning into one of many largest gaming corporations on the earth and bolstering its declare to management within the metaverse.

The present crypto market feels lots like summer time 2021. NFTs on social media might be a major mainstream push. The opinion is to not overthink short-term market actions. Markets are loopy, particularly in instances like these with a worldwide pandemic and in depth cash printing. Simply lean again, arrange a financial savings plan (dollar-cost common), and wait. Innovation is occurring, adoption is occurring. Crypto and Metaverse are occurring. Folks proper now are simply first movers. 

The NFT market chief, OpenSea, simply raised US$300M in its newest Collection C at a US$13.3B valuation. This makes OpenSea formally a Decacorn (Unicorn = 1B valuation, Decacorn 10B valuation). There may be positively lots occurring within the house of the NFT market as crypto big Coinbase introduced its personal market to go reside this yr. Different main gamers like Binance and Crypto.com additionally launched their very own market just a few months again. With a possible multi-trillion greenback market forward, there may be a variety of house to develop Web3.