Nomura Holdings announced today (22) that Laser Venture Capital, Laser Venture Capital, is the first business of Laser Digital Holdings AG established by Nomura Holdings and sets up the headquarters to Switzerland. In the future CEFI, Web3, and blockchain infrastructure.
According to official news, Steve Ashley, the director of Nomura Securities Transaction and investment banking business, will step down and will be the chairman of Laser Digital Holdings AG in the future. Jez Mohideen, who is currently responsible for the encryption business, will become the CEO.
Kentaro Okuda, CEO of Nomura Holdings, said: “Standing at the forefront of encrypted asset innovation has always been the top priority of Nomura. This is how we still set up subsidiaries and focus on encryption related investment while working hard to achieve diversification. “In addition, Switzerland’s headquarters was selected as the entity because it is currently considered to have the soundest encrypted asset supervision.
At the same time, Nomura Holdings will also launch new services and product lines in the next few months, including three fields as the core: secondary market transactions, venture capital and investor products.
As the first core, Laser Venture Capital will invest in encrypted related companies, focusing on DEFI, CEFI, Web3, and blockchain infrastructure.
Bear market encryption investment opportunities
After the FOMC meeting announced the interest rate hike at 75 base points last night, the encrypted assets were severely frustrated again. Bitcoin fell by 8%nearly $ 18,000 and Ethereum fell to $ 1,220. Young institutions are investing in the encryption market in the bear market.
Earlier, Binance appointed He Yi, the co -founder of August, the head of the venture capital and incubation agency Binance Labs. When she was interviewed and reported by the “Forks”, she expressed its investment in the bear market and should be actively investing. According to Binance Labs data, since the establishment of the department in 2018, it has obtained a 21 -fold return and incubated many successful projects in the industry, such as Polygon, FTX, Certik, NYM, Dune Analytics, etc. He Yi also mentioned that in the future, investment will focus on the three types of “projects to build infrastructure”, “innovation, application of large user groups” and “blockchain -related service providers”.
Post time: Sep-30-2022