Hamilton Lane’s $2.1 Billion Fund Opens To Individual Investors On Polygon Through Securitize

Key Points:

• Individual investors can now access Hamilton Lane’s $2.1 billion closed fund on Polygon through Securitize.
• This is an important step in further democratizing the private market
• The feeder fund will be available to qualified buyers with investable assets of at least $5 million, of which about two million are in the United States.

According to Polygon’s official blog, global asset management firm Hamilton Lane’s $2.1 billion fund is using Securitize’s tokenized platform digital securities platform on this network open to individual investors.

Hamilton Lane, a leading global investment firm with $823.9 billion of assets under management and supervision, is making a portion of its Equity Opportunities Fund V accessible to individual investors via a new Securitize feeder fund. The tokenized fund offers a way for individuals to access high-performing private equity asset class, with minimum investments reduced from an average of $5 million to just $20,000.

Securitize is the leading platform for expanding access to some of the highest performing, real-world, private market assets previously inaccessible to most investors, including equity capital. private equity, venture capital, fine arts, and mature startups, consistent with US regulation.

Highly regarded for its scalability, Polygon is quickly becoming the blockchain of choice for large organizations with existing institutional partnerships. The Polygon blockchain is carbon neutral with the goal of leading Web3 to become carbon negative.

This ecosystem is home to tens of thousands of decentralized applications, including some of the most prominent DeFi players such as Aave, Quickswap, OpenSea, and Uniswap V3. Major companies like Adobe, Stripe, and Robinhood have also turned to the Polygon network as their entry point to Web3.

“The tokenization of private funds is a massive leap forward for investors and fund managers – an overall pool of investors enticed by greater opportunity and disintermediation – but also for the greater that practical applications of blockchain will make a marked difference in democratizing financial opportunity, (…). Polygon makes these asset classes accessible, secure, and scalable, and frankly the Polygon network is being built to become the home of global financial markets.”

Colin Butler, Global Head of Institutional Capital at Polygon Labs said.

Tokenization is opening up opportunities to a new class of investors by digitizing assets as tokens on the blockchain. Historically, high-performing assets have remained illiquid and enjoyed mainly by major institutions, sovereign wealth funds, and university endowments.

Tokenization, and subsequent fractional ownership of assets, give buyers access to more investment options and benefit the seller by expanding the client base.

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