The continuous advancement of technology has greatly impacted every form of human life, varying from how we communicate, interact, learn, educate, think, live, travel, to how we buy and sell products. This can be attributed to the ever-increasing demand and lifestyle change of the human nature.
Also, business organizations have benefited from technological advancements. It has helped most organizations save time and operational costs, as most business processes and operations which were previously manual, are not automated. With the advent of artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and cloud computing, organizations are now able to create applications that will help design new models to operate and manage business operations. For example, Amazon, which happens to be the largest online retailer, built an automated warehousing system where robots work alongside humans to fulfil customers’ orders. Also, one of the leading African bank, UBA, recently launched an artificial intelligence personality called LEO, to allow customers make use of their social media accounts for banking activities such as account opening, send money, etc.
According to research, the robotics sector which is approximated at about $80 billion, has been predicted to witness rapid growth in the coming years. In spite of this technological disruptions, the current technology industry is in dire need of an ecosystem whereby exciting robotics and AI start-ups’ can easily connect with investors. Several factors plaguing the current ecosystem includes:
- Start-ups’ find it difficult to access funds due to the inclusion of middlemen such as the government and financial institutions, in the transaction process
- start-ups’ who have been granted funding fail to accomplish and meet up with pre-defined conditions and KPIs set before the funds were given.
- Tax deduction from funds required for start-up’s
It is therefore evident that the current industry is in need of an enabling ecosystem that will address these issues because robotics is still in motion to interlope with the general innovation process. This ecosystem can be achieved with the utilization of blockchain technology due to its immutable, transparent, secure, and decentralized nature.
With the use of blockchain technology, start-ups’ will easily access funding provided by investors at a much lower cost with no middleman input. Due to its immutable nature, investors and start-up’s will have the capacity to track, manage and utilize their resources. Also, if a particular start-up is unable to accomplish predefined KPIs, blockchain has the capacity to enable investors to collect their funds and re-channel it to more worthy start-ups’.
In the bid to revitalize the current ecosystem, Kepler aims to leverage on blockchain technology to provide an enabling global marketplace platform for investing in robotics and AI developments. Kepler is proposing a user-friendly and decentralized portal that will connect exciting robotics and AI start-ups’ with investors. The platform will be managed by investors and will allow transparency and traceability of investments.
Kepler aims to make use of data science, analytics and predictive algorithms to furnish investors with distinctive investment opportunities through tokenized values.
THE KEPLER PLATFORM
The Kepler platform has a user-friendly interface and is built on the ethereum blockchain. Upon registering on the platform, participants are grouped into four basic categories on the basis of their purpose, goals and background. This model was adopted in order to make the platform simple and seamless.
Category A- users with the ability to envisage solutions
Category B- users with the ability to ground the ideas
Category C- investors who intend to provide financial resources
Category D- users with the technical know-how or requisite skillset needed to make the idea a reality.
Below is a detailed explanation of Kepler model.
If a developer has an idea, he will have to register his details and business idea with relevant information on the Kepler platform. Upon successful registration, the information is registered on the blockchain as a proof of conception, and the developer will be given access to the universal pool of technical experts on the Kepler platform. The developer who brought the idea automatically becomes the project head and has the liberty to build the team based on necessities and expectancies.
The technical experts are saddled with the responsibility to foster the development of ideas and teams. They are professionals, experts or specialist with the requisite technical know-how. Upon registration, technicians can search for teams and projects from the universal pool to provide their services.
The Kepler network will then use predictive algorithms and analytics to offer each project well-tailored and relevant experienced advisors. The advisors will add their sauce and experience to the team by helping in making research, decisions and also evaluate the project critically. Every advisor on the Kepler platform will have reputation points on the basis of their background and successfully completed projects.
In addition to the team is 'Gold-Smiths', who will help to make sure that a business plan is mapped out for the project. The main aim of the Gold-Smith in the team is to help with the non-technical part, which is making the finished product attractive and sellable to the general public. The Goldsmiths’ are experienced individuals with marketing and finance background. Although, a team may decide not to employ the services of a Goldsmith, as it is however voluntary.
For every idea conceived, there is always a need for funding. Anyone with the financial capability willing to finance any business idea on the Kepler network after reviewing it can do so on the platform. Angels, as they will be called on the platform will have to register on the Kepler Universe platform if they intend to communicate with the team responsible for a business idea.
However, once a project has successfully secured funding and built a complete team, the full team will be invited and flown to Georgia by Kepler Network to make use of the ultra-modern Kepler Laboratory (in partnership with Tech Park Georgia) to develop their project in real time. Upon the successful completion of a project, the Kepler Legal team will obtain intellectual property rights on the project and make certain that the rights of the all stakeholders in the projects are protected. Due to the utilization of smart-contracts and blockchain, the is no human intervention in the whole transaction cycle. This ensures transparency and protects against fraud. Also, Kepler platform provides a 100% investment protection, as inventors will possess curated access to funds and can only use it based the agreement set in smart-contracts.
Key Features of the Kepler platform
- Internal exchange
- built-in wallet
- explorer to track investments
- requisite tools to enable start-ups’ connect with investors
Benefits of Kepler to start-up’s and Investors
- Track use of funds throughout the lifecycle of the investment
- Track administrative start-up costs
- Payments are processed instantly
- Ability to make certain that designated funds for a specific project get to that particular project
- Track investment policies of start-ups’ with their KEPs
- Low transaction costs.
- Verify identities of the beneficiaries and report their use of funds on the blockchain.
- Blockchain audit trails for transactions.
- Capability to write smart contracts for perfect deliverables
The partnership with GITA through accelerator programs will grant token holders the capability to invest in robotics and also enable inventors all around the world to showcase their inventions via the platform incubator.
TOKEN
The Kepler token (KEP) will be issued in the form of an ERC-20. It will function as a multi-utility token which will be used to fuel the Kepler platform. Users can use the KEP token for activities such as funding of ideas, purchase of robots, subscriptions, licenses, AI services etc.
Total Supply: 100,000,000 KEP
Token symbol: KEP
Soft cap: 10,000,000 USD
Minimum investment: $50 or 0.1ETH
Accepted currencies: ETH, BTC
Current Price: 1 KEP = 1.25 USD
TEAM
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