Building a Better World with a Transparent Investment Platform

Developing markets have tremendous potential.  Growing populations, significant urbanization, abundant natural resources, passionate entrepreneurs and increasingly educated workforces.  They also can play an important part in mitigating and combatting climate change. In too many cases, the obstacle to a thriving high-growth economy and realizing climate goals is a shortage of suitable funding.

At the same time, investors in mature economies struggle to find low-risk investments with sufficient yield to support their portfolio objectives, and investors are searching for suitable instruments to contribute to the funding of climate projects.

Cathmere is a stealth-stage Web 3.0 venture, building the bridge from high-impact developing market opportunities to sophisticated mature-market investors’ needs for higher yield at low risk, through comprehensive, auditable real-time data transparency through the CQR®Invest platform, fueled by immutable data from CQR®Chain.

Emerging Markets Opportunities

  • Health Care

    Healthcare service providers in most emerging markets need more equipment than they can finance. Pay-per-scan, renting and leasing are helping to increase access to equipment and close the (still considerable) gap relative to industrialized markets.

  • Energy

    Many emerging markets have ample wind, sunlight and open spaces to support deployment of renewable energy, at utility-scale near cities and micro-grids for industrial parks and smaller towns. Renewable energy helps the world mitigating and combatting climate change, and additional energy generation unlocks commerce, service and quality of life benefits. While investors in the industrialized world are interested in participating in the funding of these projects, there are no suitable instruments for them to invest in.

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Asset Backed Securities for Emerging Markets

In mature markets, Commercial Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) are an important pillar of institutional investors’ fixed-income portfolios, with an estimated $1.7 Trillion outstanding in 2023*.  These securities are backed with the cash flows that the issuers of the securities receive for the services (e.g. energy, or use of equipment) they provide with the equipment and installations they own. The installation and equipment also serve as collateral for the securities. The result is very low default risk for investors compared with, for instance, mortgage-backed securities, where fluctuations in real-estate asset values can have a significant impact on loan repayment rates.

Historically, Asset Backed Securities have only been created for large institutional investors, focusing on large quantities of high-value assets in mature markets, with known components that establish the trust that investors in these securities require. Many of these components are unavailable to issuers in emerging markets, and hence the ABS market is inaccessible to them.

Cathmere’s digital-first platform bridges the trust gap and makes it possible for issuers in emerging markets to offer Asset Backed Securities. the platform also opens the market to (accredited) retail investors.

* Source: Guggenheim Investments, JP Morgan, eMBS. Data as of 2.28.2023

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Leadership

The Cathmere leadership team brings decades of experience in early-stage investment, technology-led new venture creation, and business building in Africa and other emerging markets

  • Founding CEO

    In addition to serving as CEO of Cathmere, Frans is Chairman of African Asset Finance Company, Inc., and serves on a number of affiliated company boards.

    Previously Frans founded Tribute Capital, was a managing partner at Logispring, served as (interim) CEO of a number of industrial groups, and was a junior partner at Gilde Investment Funds. He has also co-founded several businesses including an equipment leasing company.

    Frans holds a BA in History, and LLM from the University of Amsterdam and a post-graduate diploma in International Relations from the University of Vienna.

  • VP Software Engineering

    Matt is a seasoned engineering leader and entrepreneur with 25 years of experience building high-performing teams and bringing new software technology and products to market in the US and globally in highly regulated industries including finance, medical and military/defense.

    Prior to joining Cathmere, Matt led the design and implementation of Blockchain Regulatory and Compliance Technologies at Paxos. His prior experience also includes senior technology leadership positions at Canonical and Northrop Grumman.

  • Founding CTO

    Brad is an experienced growth technology executive, having served in strategic, investment and operating roles.

    Most recently he built Trucking Fleet Solutions into a $25+m business for Stoneridge (NYSE: SRI), a publicly traded tier-1 automotive electronics supplier. As the founder and principal of Princeton Management Associates, Brad performed strategy, and advisory roles for many growth companies, including QualityHealth (sold to RealAge), Confidex (sold to Beontag) and Steerpath (a leading provider of smart-building technologies).

    Brad was Strategy and Technology partner at the industrial innovation investor Logispring, and a Principal in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Information Technology group.

    Brad recieved his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and his BA in Electrical Engineering from Yale University

Join the team

Cathmere is seeking experienced senior developers that are passionate about both Web 3.0 and achieving business success through positive social impact.