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Skynet Fund Deck

Client

Skynet Investment Management is a fund management company working alongside the market maker Skynet Trading. It sets up regulated investment funds through which blockchain protocols support their own ecosystems, and cites the Skynet EGLD Capital fund as its case study.

What we did

We designed its fund deck for Aleph Zero: twelve slides that propose an ecosystem fund for the network and walk from the manager and its earlier fund to the directors, the fund's terms, its strategy and the management company.

Fund deck 12 slides
01 / 12 Cover Investment Fund focused on growing the Aleph Zero Ecosystem. Date: May 2022

Investment fund deck in a notched navy frame

The pitch deck design gives every slide the same frame: a dark navy panel with tabs cut into its top and bottom edges and stepped notches down the sides, set inside a white border. On the cover, thin teal diagonals cross two corners, the Skynet Trading circuit-trace logo sits above a centred headline, and the date line is set in monospace at the foot. Inside, three small white squares mark the lower left corner, as in the Skynet Trading company deck.

The first half of the argument is about who would run the fund. The manager's introduction sits beside a photo of Earth from orbit. The earlier EGLD fund appears as a case study next to its own logo, the circuit mark inside a ring with node dots. Three director slides then share one layout: a square portrait on the left, the name and biography set in monospace on the right.

02 / 12 About the fund manager About Skynet Investment Management. Skynet Investment Management is a management company incorporated in British Virgin Islands; it is a licensed fund manager as per May 2022. The investment management company is setup to provide the full scope of services required for an investment fund. We allow Layer 0, 1 and 2 protocols to easily setup an investment fund to actively support the development of the ecosystem. With our solution together with our partners we can setup a fund within a 2–3-month period, whereby the full scope of administrator, prospectus, valuation policy, legal counsel, accoun
03 / 12 EGLD fund case study Case study “Skynet EGLD Capital Fund”. In April 2022 the Skynet EGLD Capital Fund was launched with an investor subscription amount of USD 40 million. Investors in the fund comprised of Elrond Foundation, Elrond core team members, external VCs and long-term supporters of the Elrond ecosystem. The fund allowed for subscriptions in USDC, USDT and in Elrond’s native token EGLD. This in-kind EGLD contribution required a bespoke solution where cooperation between Binance Institutional and NAV Consulting (administrator of the fund) was required. The Fund is an open-ended fund with a quarterly NAV,
04 / 12 First director profile Director. Pancho Vanhees. Pancho has a computer science background and deep experience in algorithmic and discretionary trading in equity, derivatives, forex and crypto markets. In 2019, he co-founded Skynet Trading. Skynet Trading is a boutique firm that is focused on trading strategies for the digital assets market. The company provides institutional-grade liquidity solutions and advisory services to token issuers and cryptocurrency exchanges. He founded the registered SAVA Bitcoin Volatility Fund, which can take long and/or short positions that aims to profit from Bitcoin price movements
05 / 12 Second director profile Director. Jordy Fiene. Jordy studied Technology Management at the University of Groningen. During his study, he became an early crypto adapter that started researching and investing in the crypto asset space in 2014. Throughout the years Jordy has participated in over 150 crypto seed investments, private sales, IEOs and ICOs. He worked with prominent companies, investors and advisors in the industry and has built a tremendous network and knowledge about crypto liquidity. He also worked as crypto analyst of a blockchain development company that cooperated with multiple Dutch banks and the Cha
06 / 12 Third director profile Director. Dirk Dijksma. Dirk is an experienced professional in finance who brings more than a decade of consulting and banking experience with a passion for new paradigms in financial technology. His areas of expertise include finance, financial analytics, valuation modelling, contract negotiation, stakeholder management, legal coordination, corporate governance, compliance and ethics. His career in corporate finance began at Deloitte, where he lead projects in company valuation, cash flow modelling and post M&A. He then moved to the Deutsche Bank, where he worked as Vice President in Struct

Aleph Zero fund terms set as monospace tables

Service providers come next, as an even grid of logo tiles over a faint star field, and then the deck turns to the offer. The Aleph Zero Ecosystem Fund slide places a translucent text panel against the network's A mark, lit from behind by green light. It is the brightest slide in the deck and marks the point where the proposal starts.

The proposed fund setup and the management company are drawn as plain two-column tables in monospace, label on the left and value on the right, divided by hairline rules, so terms such as fund type, voting rights, fees and hurdle rate read like a term sheet. The strategy slide lists four approaches, from ecosystem investments and staking to algorithmic trading and side pockets. The closing slide sets a flat teal A beside the Skynet logo and repeats the cover line.

07 / 12 Service providers Skynet EGLD Capital is focused on growing the Elrond ecosystem. Skynet EGLD Capital is a licensed fund incorporated in BVI in December 2021. The fund is started by three partners that have been working and investing in the digital assets space alongside each other for over 5 years. All three partners have been earlystage investors and supporters of EGLD since 2019. The fund’s portfolio managers are also partners Skynet Trading Limited, a leading boutique firm offering institutional-grade liquidity solutions and advisory services to crypto projects. The fund will leverage the resources, connect
Skynet Fund Deck, slide 8
08 / 12 Aleph Zero Ecosystem Fund Aleph Zero Ecosystem Fund. Skynet Investment Management allows Aleph Zero to create a regulated ecosystem fund within the next 2-3 months. Leveraging on the seed investment opportunities upcoming within the next months. A fund size of USD 40 million is anticipated. With USD 20 million in-kind contribution from the Aleph Zero treasury. Investors can subscribe to the Aleph Zero Ecosystem Fund to receive a pro-rata allocation in the upcoming seed round of Common. By connecting private round allocation for Common (and other infrastructure projects) with the investment in the Aleph Zero Ecosystem
09 / 12 Proposed fund setup Potential Aleph Zero Ecosystem Fund Setup. Fund Name Domicile Targeted Launch Date Targeted Initial Offering Period License Type Fund Type Investor Voting Rights Investment Manager Fee Investment Manager High-Water Mark Hurdle Rate Investment Strategy. Aleph Zero Ecosystem Fund British Virgin Islands August 1, 2022 July 2022 BVI Approved Fund Open-ended No (voting rights held by Skynet Investment Management Ltd.) 40% of management and performance fees. Skynet Investment Management Ltd. Yes No hurdle rate Multi-Strategy
10 / 12 Investment strategy Investment Strategy Description. Investments related to the AZERO network and broader ecosystem The Fund shall make strategic investment in projects directly or indirectly related to the AZERO ecosystem, such as, but without limitation to, investing in listed or non-listed crypto assets and listed or non-listed shares connected to the AZERO Network or broader ecosystem. Staking, farming and liquidity-provision strategies The Fund may stake (delegate) tokens to improve the stability of the AZERO network while earning a passive return on AZERO holdings. In addition, the Fund may deploy differen
11 / 12 Management company MANCO. Name Domicile License Type Directors MLRO Authorised / Issued Share Capital Accounting Currency. Skynet Investment Management British Virgin Islands Approved Manager under the Investment Business Approved Managers) Regulations, 2012 of the BVI Pancho Vanhees, Jordy Fiene and Dirk Dijksma Jan Schembri Minimum default. USD
12 / 12 Closing slide Investment Fund focused on growing the Aleph Zero ecosystem.

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