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Our Timeline
February 2016
Rachel put out a call to find awesome tech people interested in building something amazing in FinTech. Abhy answered, joined as co-founder and magic started to happen.
November 2016
An early MVP design for a New Zealand (NZ) focused robo-platform was awarded as a runner up in the inaugural NZ FinTech Innovation Challenge
March 2017
Ilumony, NZ’s first robo-advice platform, started helping people across NZ make smarter investment decisions with their retirement savings and investment portfolios.
September 2017
Customers started asking about cryptocurrencies, and if we could help them invest into these. Light bulb came on and we had an idea to put our robo engine and cryptos together. We created some mockups, then Abhy and the dev team got to work.
October 2017
Within 20 days, an early proof of concept cryptocurrency platform was built. We showcased the platform to an initial group of test users, all of them signed up and wanted to start investing their hard earned money into cryptocurrencies.
November 2017
After a lot of backtesting, two algorithm portfolios start trading.
December 2017
All important meeting with the New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) to confirm the compliance and regulatory framework within NZ, and that Invsta fits within this.
January 2018
The secret is out, and Invsta (by Ilumony), an online cryptocurrency platform came to life $10mil of funds under management/advice across the platforms
February 2018
Joel Smith - marketing extraordinaire - joined the team, to make things really fly Closed first seed funding round, heavily oversubscribed Kiwibank FinTech Accelerator begins, look out world here we come!
Meet the Team
Founder & CEO
Founder & CTO
Investment Administrator
Advisers
Customer Success Champion
Portfolio Manager & Trading Adviser
Risk & Governance Adviser
Compliance Officer
Our Mission
Empower smarter investing through improved access and innovation
No more complicated exchanges, wallets and fees.
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Invest as much or as little as you want - with recurring investment options coming.
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Select from our range of crypto portfolios: single currencies, diversified portfolios, and algorithm trading.
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Cryptocurrencies are an extremely volatile, high risk investment. It's likely the value of your investment will increase or decrease significantly. Never invest more than you can afford to loose.
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