As the financial industry shifts toward blockchain, Web3 technologies, and decentralized finance, investment banks specializing in pre-IPO capital raises face both challenges and opportunities. Traditional models of raising capital are being disrupted by platforms like Ohanae, which leverages Web3 technology to streamline capital markets, eliminate intermediaries, and enhance transparency.
We invite investment banks to join the Ohanae Alliance, a strategic partnership that offers your firm a forward-looking approach to capital raising and market participation. By partnering with Ohanae, you’ll gain access to innovative funding models, liquidity opportunities, and new avenues for long-term growth in a transformed securities market.
Why Partner with Ohanae?
The Ohanae Platform offers direct, secure, and transparent transactions, eliminating traditional intermediaries like broker-dealers and custodians. This results in faster, more efficient capital raising and instant settlement, addressing long-standing inefficiencies in the over-the-counter (OTC) markets. As part of the Ohanae Alliance, your firm will adapt to this innovative financial landscape, taking advantage of our cutting-edge platform while opening new opportunities for growth through both institutional and retail investors.
The Ohanae Alliance Value Proposition for Investment Banks
As a firm specializing in pre-IPO capital raising, your role in securing funding for high-growth companies is essential. By joining the Ohanae Alliance, you gain access to a wealth of new tools and opportunities, including:
- Reinventing Your Capital-Raising Model
The pre-IPO capital-raising process often involves complex, time-consuming operations with numerous intermediaries. By partnering with Ohanae, you can streamline this process, eliminating inefficiencies and counterparty risks. Ohanae's technology-driven solutions ensure faster, more secure transactions, making your firm a leader in innovative capital-raising practices. - Leveraging Dual Capital-Raising Channels
Ohanae empowers investment banks to raise funds from strategic and institutional investors, while our platform acts as the digital transfer agent, handling equity crowdfunding from retail investors. This dual-channel approach maximizes fundraising potential and engages diverse investor segments, offering a comprehensive and efficient fundraising solution. - Success Fees in Cash and Equity
Investment banking partners in the Ohanae Alliance have the option to receive their success fees in both cash and equity. This hybrid model not only lowers the immediate cash burden on issuers but also offers investment banks long-term capital gain potential through equity stakes in high-growth companies. As these companies move from mini-IPOs on Ohanae to traditional IPOs on major exchanges like Nasdaq or NYSE, the equity portion becomes a valuable asset. - Becoming a Liquidity Provider on the Ohanae ATS
By accepting a portion of fees in equity, investment banking partners can also choose to become liquidity providers (LPs) in the Ohanae ATS based on Automated Market Maker (AMM) technology. This not only increases liquidity in the market but also provides investment banks with additional revenue opportunities from the fees generated by AMM transactions. The equity they hold becomes an active asset, offering both immediate liquidity and long-term appreciation. - Immediate Liquidity through the Ohanae ATS
After the funding round closes, issuers' securities can be traded directly on the Ohanae ATS, providing instant settlement and direct ownership for investors. The ATS eliminates delays and inefficiencies associated with traditional trading processes, and your firm can offer clients a seamless transition from capital raising to secondary market trading in a secure, transparent environment. - Innovative Fundraising with Reg A+ (Also Known as Mini IPOs)
Ohanae specializes in Reg A+ offerings, also known as mini IPOs, providing investment banks with opportunities to assist companies that may not yet be ready for a traditional IPO. These offerings enable smaller, high-growth companies to raise public funding in a cost-effective and compliant manner, creating new revenue streams for your firm while expanding your client base. - Enhancing Credibility and Market Reach
As an Ohanae Alliance partner, your firm can serve a broader range of issuers, including tech startups, Web3 ventures, and other high-growth sectors. By leveraging Ohanae’s blockchain-based platform, you can ensure that your clients benefit from enhanced transparency and security, boosting their credibility with both institutional and retail investors. This global reach provides access to a wider pool of capital and opportunities for growth. - Co-Leading the Future of Capital Markets
By becoming a strategic shareholder in Ohanae, your firm can actively shape the platform’s future, influencing its direction, product development, and market expansion. This partnership places your firm at the forefront of capital market innovation, securing your leadership in a financial world increasingly driven by digital transformation.
Why Now?
The financial industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation, and investment banking firms must adapt to stay ahead. Ohanae provides the ideal platform to help your firm redefine its value proposition by integrating blockchain technology and automated liquidity management into your existing capital-raising services.
Joining the Ohanae Alliance will enable your firm to remain competitive while expanding into new markets and investor segments. This partnership allows you to offer clients the best of both worlds—traditional capital raising combined with modern technology that enhances transparency, security, and efficiency.
Next Steps: Become an Ohanae Alliance Partner
The Ohanae Alliance presents a unique opportunity for investment banks to capitalize on the future of capital markets. By partnering with Ohanae as both a strategic shareholder and a liquidity provider, your firm can leverage cutting-edge technologies and tap into a growing market of issuers and investors seeking a more efficient approach to capital raising.
Here's how your firm can get involved:
- Become a Strategic Investor
As part of the Ohanae Alliance, your firm can invest in Ohanae, securing its place in the evolving securities market. This investment allows you to shape the future of the platform while benefiting from its rapid growth and market expansion. - Lead the Strategic Investor Round
Utilize your firm’s expertise and relationships to lead the strategic investor round, targeting institutional and accredited investors. Ohanae’s platform will handle equity crowdfunding from retail investors, creating a comprehensive fundraising ecosystem. - Transform Your Clients' Capital-Raising Journey
Offer your clients an innovative, transparent, and secure way to raise capital with the Ohanae Platform. From institutional and retail fundraising to immediate liquidity on the Ohanae ATS, you can provide clients with a seamless, efficient experience.
Conclusion: The Future of Capital Raising Starts with the Ohanae Alliance
The Ohanae Alliance is a transformative opportunity for investment banks to lead the future of capital markets. By partnering with Ohanae, your firm can offer clients a more efficient, secure, and transparent way to raise capital while benefiting from long-term equity growth, liquidity opportunities, and innovative market participation.
The future of finance is here, and together, we can reshape the capital-raising landscape. Join the Ohanae Alliance today and position your firm as a leader in the next generation of securities markets.
For more information on how your investment bank can become an Ohanae Alliance partner, contact us at [Greg Hauw, founder & CEO, greg@ohanae.com].
Disclaimer
Ohanae Securities LLC is a subsidiary of Ohanae, Inc. and member of FINRA/SIPC. Additional information about Ohanae Securities LLC can be found on BrokerCheck. Ohanae Securities LLC is in discussions with FINRA about exploring the expansion of business lines for the broker/dealer. Any statements regarding abilities of Ohanae Securities LLC are subject to FINRA approval and there are no guarantees FINRA will approve the broker/dealer's expansion.
Ohanae Securities is seeking approval to be a special purpose broker-dealer that is performing the full set of broker-dealer functions with respect to digital asset securities – including maintaining custody of these assets – in a manner that addresses the unique attributes of digital asset securities and minimizes risk to investors and other market participants. If approved, Ohanae Securities will limit its business to digital asset securities to isolate risk and having policies and procedures to, among other things, assess a given digital asset security's distributed ledger technology and protect the private keys necessary to transfer the digital asset security.