Building a Better World with a Transparent Investment Platform for Securitizations
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, in large part caused by insufficient pathways for re-financing debt.
At the same time, investors in mature economies struggle to find low-risk investments with sufficient yield to support their portfolio objectives. And institutional investors are searching for suitable instruments to contribute to the funding of climate projects in emerging markets.
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
Asset Backed Securities for Emerging Markets
In mature markets, non-mortgage Commercial Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) are an important pillar of institutional investors’ fixed-income portfolios, with an estimated $1.7 trillion in US listed securities 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, (non-mortgage) 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

Building with Leading-Edge
Web 3.0 Technologies
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
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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.
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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.
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Founding CTO
Brad is an experienced growth technology executive, having served in strategic, investment and operating roles. He translated the original ideas for Cathmere’s platform into an architectural framework that the team is now using to build the platform.
He currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of Methode Electronics (NYSE: MEI) and previously led the creation of the Fleet Solutions business unit of Stoneridge (NYSE: SRI). 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 indoor location and wayfinding technologies).
Brad was Strategy and Technology partner at the industrial innovation investor Logispring, and a Principal in Booz Allen Hamilton’s Information Technology group.
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.