Valentus Capital Plans $50M Token Raise for Credit Fund: Report
A prospective U.S. private equity investments shop called Valentus Capital Management is hoping to raise its first $50 million by tokenizing itself and offering the tokens for sale.
According to Reuters, the yet-to-be-registered asset manager hopes to sell digital securities called VAL1 that gives its holders a stake in Valentus’ planned $250 million credit fund.
Valentus is pursuing the tokenization and offering with a little-known digital asset outfit called Realio, Reuters said. Realio’s CEO Derek Boirun did not immediately provide comment.
Token sales will fund Valentus’ planned investments in distressed debt and morgatge securities, the Reuters article said.
If the offering goes through late this year or early next, it will be the first time a U.S. private equity fund has successfully tokenized itself for U.S. investors, Valentus investments chief Behzad Taufiq told Reuters.
Valentus did not immendiatly return CoinDesk requests for comment.