Investors’ Angel and Blockchain Angels Europe Open Lifeline for Blockchain Startups
The general startup success is very low - 90% of them fail in the first 3 years. The two major reasons for failure cited by CB Insights are not establishing a real market need (42%) and running out of cash (29%). Every day, a new blockchain startup is born as more and more entrepreneurs connect the dots as to the significance of this emergent technology to affect almost every industry. Investors’ Angel was founded in 2015 specifically to help startups prepare themselves to raise investment including companies like Vaultoro (Bitcoin/gold trading platform), BioSSL (a biometric security....
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