According to the World Bank, a quarter of the world's population is excluded from the traditional financial system. For these 2 billion people, the only source of working capital is the small cash loans they can borrow within their own communities, often paying more than 100% annual interest. Seventy percent of the so-called unbanked are smallholder farmers who live in poverty despite producing one-third of the world's food.
Through EthicHub's CrowdFunding platform, anyone can lend capital to farmers at a fixed interest rate of 8% return.
At the same time, our community provides collateral on behalf of farmers in the form of Ethix to guarantee farmers' loans.
EthicHub also provides farmers with access to value-added markets so they are no longer the weakest link in the supply chain.
By harnessing the power of blockchain technology and smart contracts, lenders around the world can invest in the productivity of unbanked smallholder farmers, giving them access to affordable capital with minimized risk loans, all enabled by EthicHub's Clearing System. It provides liquid collateral to the lender's capital in the form of equity in Ethix, its own token.
Financial exclusion affects all geographic regions and types of financing, but is particularly concentrated in long-term agricultural financing, for which 98% of global demand remains unmet (2019 Agricultural and Rural Finance Report, ISF Advisors, 2019).
In her book, "It's Expensive to Be Poor," award-winning columnist Barbara Ehrenreich argues that people in poverty are not in that situation because of their habits, but because they simply don't have money right now. Indeed, research on this topic has repeatedly highlighted the most persistent obstacles that small farmers in need of financial resources must overcome, ranging from excessive documentation requirements to high account fees and limited access to bank branches.
EthicHub is a new generation Crowdlending platform. Here are its main competitive advantages:
-The last mile solution, allowing to deliver money where it is needed.
-The innovation of Blended Finance 2.0, also known as CrowdCollateral. Thanks to the use of blockchain technology all operational loans transacted on EthicHub's platform are over-collateralized, which adds an extra layer of collateral to investors looking to generate an 8% fixed income.
-Operational implementation and origination process, resulting in a low default rate of less than 1%.
Money spread: the difference between the interest rate we are acquiring money (from impact investors) and the interest rate we are lending our money. Normally this figure is between 4%-5%.
Ethix: the company owns 10% of the total circulating supply of Ethxi, which means that the increase in the value of Ethix tokens is a source of revenue for the company.
Coffee Marketplace- We also sell Coffee by the ton, without middlemen, directly to large coffee roasters.
Platform fees- 4% of each loan goes directly to the purchase of Ethix and is deposited into the clearing system, which increases the price of Ethix due to the scarcity of the token.
More financial information on past performance and future estimates can be found in this Drive.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11q9MIZTmCHSr-I9X_4qx05ha8AAWETLb/view?usp=sharing
Team members
Jori
CEO-Co Founder
EthicHub was born from Jori's experience as a manager of a coffee farm in Mexico (owned by his family) and as CEO of a distribution company with over 880 employees, directing operations, human resources, and mergers and acquisitions.
Committed to the Sustainable Development Goals, and focused on proving that Impact Investing is not only necessary but also a better long-term investment.
Gabriela
CSO-Co Founder
Involved in Blockchain since 2017, she promotes its enormous potential as a catalyst for the SDGs thanks to her experience in EthicHub as a pioneer in ReFi, generating triple impact by connecting complementary economic regions to achieve real financial inclusion. Frequent speaker and panelist at both crypto and impact forums (ETH Denver, FLII, DevCon Bogotá, El Confidencial).
Íñigo
Director de Comunicación
A member of Blockchain España and the Iberoamerican Blockchain Alliance, he is co-author of the best-seller "Blockchain, the industrial revolution of the internet" (2017). He is currently responsible for communication at EthicHub, a blockchain-native startup, internationally awarded and recognized for its proposal for financial inclusion and social impact.
Jordi
Tech-Product
Diego
Tech-Co Founder
I started as a researcher in computing with DNA and bacteria, and then co-founded Conectalab, the largest technological cooperative in Spain.
In 2012, I also attempted to create a collective loan platform with Bitcoin, long before the term DeFi existed.
Since 2017, I have been a co-founder and CTO of EthicHub.
Joan de Ramón Brunet
Head of Growth
After founding a private investment vehicle in crypto, I joined the EthicHub team. A unique project that allows connecting the finances of the future with impact investing.
Together, we lead financial innovation.
Andrea López de Vicuña de Jorge
Head of Community
On this learning path, I embarked on a mission to make business management processes more efficient thanks to this new technology. Currently, I combine this project with EthicHub. As Head of Community, my mission is to connect the impact investor network with 1.2bn people excluded from the banking system and, of course, using blockchain as a means.
Más información sobre todo el equipo de EthicHub clicando aquí
En este video, a partir 1 hora y 31 minutos, puedes ver la presentación de EthicHub en las jornadas organizadas por Madrid Foro Empresarial "Tokenización de Activos".
Joan de Ramón, Head of Growth, presenta el modelo de EthicHub, así cómo su innovación y disrupción.
El programa al mando de Rocío Álvarez - Ossorio socia y CMO de Token City junto a Joan De Ramón Brunet, Head of Growth de EthicHub, dónde se habla del disruptivo modelo de negocio de la galardonada Fintech Española.
En el programa se profundiza sobre la inversión en renta fija y el impacto social se genera invirtiendo a través de EthicHub.
Desde que lanzamos nuestro primer proyecto, en junio de 2018, un total de 700 familias de pequeños agricultores, agrupados en 25 comunidades, localizadas en 5 países distintos, han podido disfrutar de la financiación barata y accesible proporcionada por más de 1.500 ethichubbers en todo el mundo.
La Asociación Internacional de Entidades Confiables en Blockchain -INATBA nos ha premiado como el “Most Exciting Project” de Finanzas Regenerativas del año en curso
¡Enhorabuena ethichubbers! ¡Nuestra labor ha vuelto a ser reconocida y premiada!
Sin embargo veo que los costes operacionales crecerán mucho, en gran parte debido a que la mayoría de salarios prácticamente se duplicarán en 2024. Sería genial tener más info de los salarios en 2023 (sólo encuentro 2022 y 2024) y saber si es existe también una compensación basada en equity/opciones o según rendimiento de la empresa. Siendo España la base de la empresa, esos sueldos para una empresa sin beneficios y con la posibilidad de distribuir equity me parecen bastante elevados. De hecho, toda la ronda de 131 tickets iría destinada solamente al incremento salarial, y no realmente a nuevas incorporaciones o demás operaciones. Gracias por la transparencia.
En el caso de EthicHub, nostros generamos un impacto financiero, social y medio ambiental.
Financiero porque permitimos que agricultores desbancarizados puedan pedir dinero a un interés barato.
Esto genera un impacto social, permitiendo que esos agricultores salgan del circulo de la pobreza, mejorando su calidad de vida.
Por último, estos mismos agricultores se encuentran en las áreas más verdes del planeta. Gracias a financiarlos, ellos cuidan esos espacios y los explotan de una manera sostenible y regenerativa.
Durante mucho tiempo, muchas personas, incluida la comunidad de EthicHub, han querido invertir en nosotros, pero no podían.
Ahora es vuestra oportunidad,
¡Solo hay 131 participaciones, así que asegúrate de no quedarte sin la tuya!
Únicamente prestamos capital operativo y nunca para emprendimiento
Des un punto de vista de seguridad, el uso de la tecnología blockchain nos permiten tener el sistema de compensación. Esto, junto con el café, componen nuestro sistema de doble garantía.
Hasta la fecha hemos tenido un ratio de impago inferior al 1% y todos nuestros inversores han recuperado su inversión inicial más la rentabilidad generada.
En primer lugar, los bajos costes operativos de esta tecnología nos permiten enviar dinero de España a LATAM con comisiones inferiores al 1%.
Por otro lado, el uso de la tecnologái blockchain nos permite dar transparencia total a los inversores que prestan dinero.
Por último, pero no menos importante, el sistema de compensación o colateral colectivo, la gran innovación de EthicHub, funciona a partir de nuestro token nativo, el Ethix.
La escalabilidad del modelo juega un papel clave en el modelo de negocio.
Después de años de trabajo, hemos conseguido esa escalabilidad a partir de alianzas, cómo la noticias que podéis ver entre Heifer International y EthicHub. De esta manera logramos llegar agricultores con necesidad de financiación y de confianza.
Por el lado de la inversión, estamos en conversaciones con inversores institucionales para garantizas la entrada constante de capital.
Investment proposal
Investment proposal summary:
Thanks to the use of blockchain technology and a multi-disciplinary team with proven experience, in the last two years we have been able to successfully raise more than €3M for unbanked farmers via operating loans.
At the same time, the creation of the collective collateral system has earned us multiple awards of international reputation.
Now, EthicHub is in a growth stage.
We are announcing the opportunity to invest from convertible equity loans with investment tickets starting from 1527€.
- Participative loan with the option to convert into share capital of Lendingdev S.L. (*)
- 1 $Ethix per euro invested
- Loan amount: 250.000€ (**)
- Pre-money valuation: 7M USD
- Minimum investment amount: 1527€.
- Total tickets: 164
*The above equity % does not take into account the additional dilution effect that would result from the execution of equity rights committed prior to this round. The resulting effective percentage taking into account such pre-commitments would be 2.5%.
**This campaign is part of a funding round of USD 2M, which is being raised on a complementary basis outside the Platform and of which USD 1.3M have already been raised.
Detailed explanation:
With the capital raised we plan to consolidate the business model, tested over the last 5 years, and continue our expansion. This is how that looks like:
- Complete automation of the operational lending platform.
- Consolidation and expansion of our community.
- Establishment of an institutional vehicle to channel capital from impact investment funds.
- Origination of new farmers, based on a scalable model of partnerships with international institutions.
You can find more detailed information about EthicHub in this Data Room.
