Blue Star Capital Plc (LON:BLU) CEO Anthony Fabrizi talks to DirectorsTalk about the increase in its holding in Blockchain Nanopayments company SatoshiPay Ltd. Tony explains why he likes the company, the possibility of a full reverse, how other investments are performing and synergies between them.
Blue Star Capital Plc is an investing company with a focus on technology and its applications within media and gaming. Investments include a 10.7 per cent. holding in SatoshiPay, a nanopayment software and blockchain company; a holding in Disruptive Tech Limited, an investing company with five investments including a 38% holding in VNU Group LLC (“VNU”) a speciality online direct retailer of premium goods paid for through an instant credit facility and a holding in Nektan PL; and an investment in Sthaler, an early stage identity and payments technology business which enables a consumer to identify themselves and pay using just their finger at retail points of sale.
SatoshiPay Ltd is headquartered in London with development led through its office in Berlin. Angel funding for SatoshiPay Ltd was supplied by Axel Springer Plug & Play and Henning Peters, seed funding was raised through publicly listed companies Coinsilium Group (ISDX:COIN) and FastForward Innovations (LON:FFWD). Development of SatoshiPay’s nanopayment product started in April 2015 and its beta version was released in February 2016. Find updated information at the company’s website https://satoshipay.io, its blog https://medium.com/@SatoshiPay and Twitter @SatoshiPay.