Accelerate your venture.

Switchpoint partners with early-stage startups and financial institutions to progress their ventures and blockchain/tokenization projects.

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Services

We provide hands-on support across business development, strategy, research, fundraising, and more.

Business Development

Spearhead BD initiatives to help your project gain traction.
Facilitate introductions to a deep network of relationships across financial services and the digital asset ecosystem.

Strategy & Operations

Partner with clients to develop and execute custom strategies to incorporate blockchain technology and tokenization into their business models.

Market Research

Research major digital asset themes such as tokenization and the status of regulation and adoption of blockchain technology by institutions in finance, providing our clients with insights into market trends, emerging technologies, and potential opportunities.

Customer Development

Help founders de-risk their ventures with a methodical approach to validating a project’s core claims and value proposition.

Fundraising

Build out and develop financial projections, investor outreach strategies, and pitch narrative; connect founders to investors we trust.

Founder Coaching

We have been in the trenches for nearly 15 years and lean on our battle scars to help founders stay sane with the challenges of running an early-stage startup.

Featured Articles

Case Study: The First RWA Distressed Debt Opportunity

Nathan Howard

In this case study, we dive into how the recent Goldfinch FIDU pool default can be viewed as a distressed debt opportunity. We highlight the deal structure, NAV discrepancy, and provide analysis for the token's recovery prospects.

A Blueprint for RWA Adoption

Mike Taormina, CFA

The pathway to meaningful RWA adoption necessarily involves compromise to realize the promise of tokenization. We outline the various issues holding back adoption and lay out a common-sense approach for RWA experimentation to overcome these roadblocks and ultimately unlock a wave of participation.

Switchpoint Team

We are seasoned entrepreneurs with a unique combination of experience across traditional finance, fintech, and decentralized finance.

Mike Taormina, CFA

Prior Experience:

Co-founder & COO at Alluvial, a developer of enterprise-grade liquid staking protocol Liquid Collective.
Co-head of Institutional Business at the Index Cooperative, a DeFi asset management protocol.
Co-founder & CFO at CommonBond, a fintech student lending platform.
VP at J.P. Morgan Private Bank.
Advisor to fintech & CPG startups.

Nathan Howard

Prior Experience:

Head of Business Development at DeFi Pulse's index division, a DeFi analytics and index methodologist.
Co-head of Institutional Business at the Index Cooperative, a DeFi asset management protocol.
General Counsel at Liberty Lending, a fintech consumer lending platform.
General Counsel at CommonBond, a fintech student lending platform.

We have raised hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and equity capital, set up securitization programs, formed foundations & DAO governance standards for DeFi protocols, obtained multiple token listings, secured institutional custody & market makers, and professionalized many early-stage organizations & projects.

Contact

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Switchpoint Strategies, LLC

info@switchpointstrategies.com