CoinX Selected to Present at Georgia's Largest Investor Conference
CoinX, the first compliant online exchange for Bitcoin and other digital currencies has been selected to present at the prestigious Venture Atlanta conference, Georgia's premier event connecting technology innovation and investment capital. The annual two-day conference will be held October 22-23 at the Georgia Aquarium.
"Venture Atlanta is the premier showcase for early-stage companies in the region," said Spence McClelland, principal at Noro-Moseley Partners and Venture Atlanta board member. "Presenting companies undergo a very competitive selection process and several rounds of presentation coaching to ensure they represent the best of the Atlanta entrepreneurial community. There is a large and growing track record of past presenters going on to build significant and successful companies in a variety of industries, including information security, financial technology and healthcare IT."
CoinX joins 31 other innovative companies representing technologies from Georgia's top-performing business sectors: information security, financial technology, communication services, health IT, logistics and mobility.
"The Venture Atlanta selection process is highly competitive and we are honored to be among those chosen this year," said Megan Burton, founder and CEO of CoinX. "We are releasing a private beta of the CoinX digital currency exchange platform in early October at the Money2020 conference and look forward to sharing what will be the industry's trusted digital currency exchange at Venture Atlanta 2013."
CoinX offers the first compliant digital currency exchange in the United States for the growing digital currency market. CoinX will go live with support for Bitcoin which as of September 2013 had a market capitalization of $1.4 billion USD. The platform serves institutional investors that manage assets on behalf of their clients and institutional service providers that serve client investors. CoinX is also the first platform of its kind to offer traders Wall Street-level security. It shares the same datacenter and corresponding security protocols as the New York Stock Exchange.
About Venture Atlanta
Venture Atlanta is where Georgia's best technology innovators meet the country's top-tier investors. As the state's largest investor showcase, Venture Atlanta connects local entrepreneurs with venture capitalists, bankers, angel investors and others who can help them raise the capital they need to grow their businesses. The annual non-profit event is a collaboration of three leading Georgia business organizations: Atlanta CEO Council, Metro Atlanta Chamber and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).
For more information about Venture Atlanta, visit http://www.ventureatlanta.org/
About CoinX
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., CoinX offers the first compliant, secure, real-time, online digital currency exchange for institutional investors and institutional service providers that serve client investors. The company is committed to supporting the growing adoption of digital currency such as Bitcoin by making them safe, inexpensive and easy to trade. The CoinX platform shares the hosting facility and corresponding security protocols used by the New York Stock Exchange and holds money transmittal licenses in over half the states in the U.S. Its management team has more than 30 collective years in IT security, financial technology and e-marketplaces.
For more information about CoinX, visit http://www.CoinX.com/
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