 Hello Japan. Hello Tokyo. Hello slush. I'm so honored to be here It's my first time in Japan and all the suddenly I happen to be in the audience where everybody knows about Thunderbeam My name is Kairi Rosalep. I'm the founder and CEO of Thunderbeam and I am from Estonia the Organizers of the events asked me to tell the story about the founder So I thought I'm gonna tell a story about the young girl who grew up in very different worlds Then we are right now and I use the Estonian proverb For the headline of the story no stone is raised without raising or in Estonian Ykski kiwi ei tose ilma testmatta I was born in 1976 in a very very different world in a country or The state which was called Soviet Union Estonia was not on the map We had the borders around us and the borders set the limits on our thoughts on our travels and on our visions we were all part of youth organizations of Party called Communistic party the party sets our vision the party sets our ultimate goal Which is to serve the party which is to serve this one weird country? I was 15 when Estonia gained independence and Estonia is one of very very rare countries Where we gained independence without losing any life Instead of fighting we were singing So we are on the map and we've been on the map and and we have been very successful country on the map At the age of 20 when I was studying law The government's office asked me to join the IT department So I became the first IT lawyer in Estonia and My first task was to take part of building or writing the stone and digital signatures act and this photo is the commission of Estonian digital signatures acts as a matter of fact we stand on the Stairs of Finnish Parliament So we went to Finland to learn from the best and actually in some meanings Estonia has had a very nice Kind of coincidence that in Soviet Union One of the few computing centers was located in Estonia So when we gained independence we had brains, but we had no technology So our neighbors provided us the technology and that's how Estonia built up the most Innovative and most advanced e-society and the government in the world. I then joined the Central Securities Depository, which is part together with the stock exchange and 2006 I became the CEO of Nasdaq stock exchange in Estonia first and The same goes with with the being the IT lawyer is that I didn't know the IT image And when I became the head of the stock exchange, I didn't know about the stock exchange Because it wasn't my interest, but you had to learn you have to take the challenge and and grew with the challenge and and Both 96 and 2006 have been very interesting Years in my life, but also very tough years in my life It's when you know that you have to build something and you have to run something where you actually Don't know exactly what it is and in stock exchange I learned one very important lesson is that the biggest asset of the leader and Of the manager is the team and The leader cannot be the smartest person in the room But the team has to be very smart and very strong to support the leader to run the company Only together you can achieve the goals This is my family and That's another asset in in my story. So Coming from Soviet Union, this means that actually it doesn't matter where you come from Running a stock exchange or taking a big challenge is Is not about what you've been doing, but it's about what you go after and being a mom It it's not a disability You can do and you can run an international business and having this wonderful gang Waiting for you at home and supporting you at home So these are my assets and This is the the biggest challenge professional challenge of my life and it's called Thunderbeam Thunderbeam is a startup stock exchange It's a global startup stock exchange that we built on the blockchain technology Those who know about stock markets These are the participants in intermediaries between the investor who has the money and companies who needs the money and Every single stock market is very local and it has the trading hours It has the opening hours and closing hours nowadays when the technology is there and What we've showed to the world is this is going to be the future and this is the power of the blockchain So there is a technology who will now provide the trust instead of institutions and instead of people So it's going to be very interesting transformation of of the way We exchange assets the way we exchange securities lands cars Whatever we can exchange and and Thunderbeam stock exchange is open for 24-7 it's global It's not regional and you can access the market you can go and invest into global startups and You if you're a startup founder can get access to the global capital So this is the brief dream and this is the vision of the Thunderbeam to become the liquidity of of the post IPO world But one of them is is not just about stock exchanges is like what we like to say It's what if Bloomberg nesting an angel list had a baby We have the data which gives you the understanding what's happening in the startup markets And we have more than 150,000 startups in the database And only very few people working with the data again the power of the technology Then we have the funding where companies can raise the funds and Investors invest and then the trading. It's a very unique combination globally and Yes, we do it from Estonia from a very small little country in the north and parts of Europe because they New world is global and the new country what we start living in is the planet of earth And we have to take the challenge and that's again the The benefit of coming from a small country you have to think big Thunderbeam is is now operating in Europe We launched in Baltics were launched in Southeast Europe were launched in UK and We're about to come to Asia-Pacific The investors in the platform are already from 82 countries 82 countries were been up and running more than a half a year and investors from 82 countries find the platform and and the service interesting enough and and startups Applying more than from more than 30 countries This is the photo many of you know This is the article about Thunderbeam in the wire Japan and this was the first moments when me coming from a small country trying to Really reach to the global audience felt that yeah, I'm the global star Because I was in New York then when I had the interview with the wire Japan and the photo shooting was in New York So you can imagine you're from Estonia you traveled to New York Give an interview to the wire Japan and the photo shooting is in New York so this specific photo is taken at the Madame to source Museum and and after the article we found very many Japanese investors coming to the platform Then all the suddenly we found the tweet Saying that hey Thunderbeam is the next global influencer And then we started to Understand who is behind the T tweet or what is happening and then we found that your market here is Looking for something What Thunderbeam has to provide? this Is the best team on earth as we say that the beginning and and what I've learned from the stock exchange is You're nothing without the team So the assets To change the world to go and conquer it to fight to launch to run the business You need a very very good team Please meet Thunderbeam and and Thunderbeam has had a very nice visit from the president of Estonia in the middle President Kersti Kalljolajic who is very start-up supportive and she came to support us because she also believes that It doesn't matter where you come from. It doesn't matter who you are What is your background? What matters is your vision what matters is your courage to go after the vision and That's what the raising the star Stones is about if if you have a vision just go after it Thunderbeam has been very fortunate to pick the best stars in the team and in the team also This means that it's not just about the employees, but it's about the partners It's about the strategic partners, and it's also about the investors whom we have on board So we had the privilege to select the best ones And now is the moment where I'd like to announce something in front of the audience here in slush Tokyo because we have a new member in Thunderbeam family a new very Open-minded and very innovative and a Partner with a good heart to join the Thunderbeam team So I would like to welcome on stage ties a son and Welcome Missalto I Love welcome to fund a big family Ladies gentlemen, I like to I'm thrilled to announce that We miss so has invested to the fund of me to Accelerate their growth so that age and Pacific investors and startups can Investing to the great startups to make the world better. Thank you As I say it's to go After the world and to go after the markets It's difficult to do it alone so next big markets for Thunderbeam is Asia Pacific and for going the Asia Pacific opening businesses in the Asia Pacific and Helping us to build the new generation of Funding growth companies funding ideas trading Missalto is going to be our partner Yes Let me introduce myself briefly. I'm the ties of song the founder of the missalto And also that I'm the one of the core member of the slush Tokyo movement It's the three years ago four years ago I joined through the slush in Helsinki as one of the speaker and I was so shocked and so Inspired that this kind of movement driven by the young people and also they are making a change They are changing the world better So I decided to bring introduced slush movement to Japan so as you can see feel the That this atmosphere is a kind of that fulfilled the world's a miracle Feeling that all the events is driven by the students volunteers and but Fortunately that the great guys like you guys get together and create this kind of amazing event so I found that The Kylie and her team is making a revolutionary great new platform for the startups and investors individuals to Support the great startups to you know make an innovation to the world. So as you know in these days startups are a little bit struggling about fundraising There's if They can they could meet the great supporters or the investors Then they can get get the fund it but on the other hand if they couldn't find great investors then their Challenge big challenge sometimes fails but thanks to the funder beam if The startups information will be totally translated transparent in the open and then I'm sure that the more more Supporters will support the many startups compared to today, so I we believe that as we should definitely support the funder beams big challenge as a startup so our mission is supporting the startup and entrepreneurs so We will accelerate the as Asian Pacific market And to For for the startups to get funded. It's a kind of the democratization of the fundraising process. So Stay tuned. We will make a big movement within a couple of months. So The the please wait for the next step. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 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