Silta is the bridge connecting decentralized finance with infrastructure investments.

We want to build a world with sufficient renewable power, clean water and infrastructure. Silta helps make such a world possible. It is a technology solution which connects decentralized finance (DeFi) with infrastructure funding, giving lenders access to a new asset class with competitive interest rates.

What Silta does

Presents information about the available infrastructure projects

Gauges the projects’ viability through an automated scoring system

Assesses each project on environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria

Creates loan pools which are open for contributions from potential lenders

Allows Silta governance token holders to vote whether a project is eligible for funding

Ensures that the appropriate legal documentation and agreements are in place

Releases the funds to the project company which develops the physical asset

Gives the investors a secure blockchain-based mechanism to claim the interest and the principal

Provides staking pools where participants gain additional rewards on their investments

Silta is a technology solution which brings together lenders and project companies. Silta is not a fund or an investment vehicle, and it will not invest people’s money on their behalf.

Proposed benefits

For borrower

Competitive fixed and variable interest rates
Automated assessment of financial risk
Standardised application and loan approval process
Prefinancing agreements available

For investor

New portfolio of medium to long term fixed and variable interest financial products
Financial products with less sensitivity to crypto market downturns
Investments in projects with demonstrated low default rates*
Opportunity to directly invest into projects for social and environmental good

*Moody's observed a 10-year cumulative default rate of 5.6% for project finance bank loans between 1983 to 2017.

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Roadmap

Milestone 1Roebling

Token sale
Develop, test and launch governance platform
Launch V1 Silta web-portal
Product education
Community engagement, marketing & PR
Form partnerships with key stakeholders

News & Blog

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Introducing the Silta Partnership Ambassador program

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Contact us

contact@silta.finance

Co-founders

Ben Sheppard

Co-founder and CEO

Ben has founded companies in blockchain technology, PPP infrastructure law and civil engineering industries. With 12 years of experience in infrastructure development, he has led and structured major public-private finance transactions in excess of USD $9bn in multiple sectors and countries. He has also been a transaction advisor to governments, private companies and the World Bank. Ben has spent the last 4 years in the blockchain industry, first as part of the Streamr project and most recently as the MD of TX – Tomorrow Explored, a Web 3.0 consulting company.

Risto Karjalainen

Co-founder and CFO

Risto is a finance professional with a Ph.D. from the Wharton School. He’s a quant with a long international career in systematic trading and institutional asset management, including analyst and fund manager roles at JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and well-known hedge funds in London. Risto is one of the co-founders as well as the COO of Streamr Network AG. His interests include real-time computing, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, behavioural finance, the blockchain, and fintech in general.

Michael Malka

Co-founder and CTO

Michael has been part of the software industry for over 20 years in various roles, from developer, to specialist, to CEO, most recently as Strategic advisor to the Streamr project and CTO of TX – Tomorrow Explored, a Web 3.0 software consulting and development company. Relevant projects include building financial creditworthiness products to help unbanked individuals gain access to DeFi microfinance. Michael has co-founded three companies and his current interests include blockchain and artificial intelligence.

James Cook

Co-founder and Non-Executive Director

James brings 19 years of experience of PPP and project finance transactions, having worked as a developer, investor, financial and technical advisor on over 30 infrastructure transactions globally, with a combined capital value in excess of USD $20bn. He has resided and worked in the UAE for the past 11 years. James is the Head of Tribe Advisory, and has previously held roles at Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) and at Ernst & Young.

Stanley Boots

Co-founder and Project Finance/PPP lawyer

Stanley is a co-founder of Frontier Law & Advisory, an advisory firm in the project finance and infrastructure sectors. He has 22 years legal experience in project finance, renewable energy and infrastructure development mainly in Southeast Asia. Stanley was previously an infrastructure lawyer with DL Piper and Hogan Lovells, and he is a well-known voice in Vietnam's PPP development. More recently Stanley was engaged by the Asian Development Bank to write the first ever PPP law for Vietnam.

Ben Sheppard

Co-founder and CEO

Risto Karjalainen

Co-founder and CFO

Michael Malka

Co-founder and CTO

James Cook

Co-founder and Non-Executive Director

Stanley Boots

Co-founder and Project Finance/PPP lawyer

Ben Sheppard

Co-founder and CEO

Risto Karjalainen

Co-founder and CFO

Michael Malka

Co-founder and CTO

James Cook

Co-founder and Non-Executive Director

Stanley Boots

Co-founder and Project Finance/PPP lawyer

Team

Laura Tuppurainen

Head of Marketing

Laura is a creative marketer with extensive experience of B2B marketing and digital services. Laura holds an MSc in Marketing from Aalto University and professional experience spanning from the international marketing of a global corporation to working with a portfolio of client projects in a digital agency. Most recently Laura has been working in the blockchain space, leading the marketing of TX – Tomorrow Explored, a Web 3.0 consulting company.

Carlos Pancrazi

Community Outreach

Carlos brings to the team more than 13 years of background in managing operations and programs for global leading technology brands such as Google, HP, and Lenovo. Since jumping into the world of Blockchain, DeFi, DAOs and Web 3.0 he has been working for Web 3.0 consultancy TX – Tomorrow Explored. Carlos will be a voice for the Silta solution in the DeFi community.

Linh Dang

Legal Advisor

Linh Dang is a Vietnamese lawyer. Besides playing a role in the legal team of Silta, Linh Dang also works as a Paralegal at Frontier Law & Advisory, an international law firm specialising in project financing, PPPs and infrastructure. Prior to Frontier Law & Advisory, she used to practice law in a top-tier law firm in Vietnam where she handled high value and multinational transactions, gaining invaluable experience in business and investment law.

Adrià Vizdomine

Designer

Adrià is a multidisciplinary designer based in Barcelona with 10 years of experience and a focus on creating clean but functional design experiences. Adrià’s work combines the design craft process with interactive best practices to build smart solutions for real products. He is experienced in creating user-centered websites and apps from scratch whilst having in mind the business requirements of each project.

Rosario Meyer Arana

Front End Developer

Rosario is a Barcelona-based Front End developer with a background in graphic design. She works alongside Silta designers to implement a seamless user experience on the Silta solution. Rosario has worked with multiple startups in different fields to develop products and services in a digital environment, and finds passion in seeing the hours of work and dreams materialise into digital services that solve real-world problems.

Laura Tuppurainen

Head of Marketing

Carlos Pancrazi

Community Outreach

Linh Dang

Legal Advisor

Adrià Vizdomine

Designer

Rosario Meyer Arana

Front End Developer

Laura Tuppurainen

Head of Marketing

Carlos Pancrazi

Community Outreach

Linh Dang

Legal Advisor

Adrià Vizdomine

Designer

Rosario Meyer Arana

Front End Developer

Strategic advisors

Irina Karagyaur

Strategic Advisor

Irina brings over 10 years of international business development expertise from her roles as Head of Metaverse Growth at Unique Network, Polkadot Head Ambassador for Western Europe, Regional Co-Chair London to FIBREE (Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise) and a Chairperson for Global Council for The Promotion of International Trade, SDGs Global Impact Startups GCPIT UK. She has co-founded Design B2C in London, UK, a crypto fintech boutique advisory which focuses on DeFi, Web 3.0 services, NFT’s, and real estate tokenization.

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Strategic Advisor

Jay is a well-known voice in the crypto marketing space as the VP of Marketing at Ava Labs, a blockchain organisation building Avalanche. He has led the marketing efforts at Fluidity and AirSwap and was a strategist at Ogilvy, where he co-founded its first blockchain marketing group. Jay is the co-founder of BlockMarketers, a virtual and in-person community for marketing executives in the blockchain industry.

Jan Van Schoonhoven

Strategic Advisor

Jan has worked over 15 years in the Public and Private Partnership (PPP), dealing with roads, water and social sector, starting as Director PPP Unit of the Netherlands. He has worked extensively with institutions such as the European Investment Bank (EIB), multilateral organisations (United Nations) and the World Bank. Jan holds considerable experience in management and administration of over 20 PPP projects with a budget of 5 billion euros within the EU and emerging markets. Currently he is a principal advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London.

Peter Lembrechts

Strategic Advisor

Peter is Head of Concessions & Assets, Strategy & Transformation for BESIX in the Middle East. Since 2014, he has been building an effective business structure and team to become a flagship for BESIX’ diversification strategy. With extensive experience of the development, negotiation and implementation of PPP projects, his career in the Middle East has been marked by a focus on business models that consider waste as a valuable resource, rather than a problem. He has previously held finance positions in a real estate developer and in a large Belgian bank.

Irina Karagyaur

Strategic Advisor

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Strategic Advisor

Jan Van Schoonhoven

Strategic Advisor

Peter Lembrechts

Strategic Advisor

Irina Karagyaur

Strategic Advisor

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Strategic Advisor

Jan Van Schoonhoven

Strategic Advisor

Peter Lembrechts

Strategic Advisor

Silta is the bridge connecting decentralized finance with infrastructure investments.

What Silta does

Proposed benefits

For borrower

For investor

Roadmap

Milestone 1Roebling

News & Blog

How Silta intends to unlock the $250 billion DeFi market through a collateral bridge into…

News: Silta Finance announces a partnership with WEnergy Global to bring DeFi lending to…

Introducing the Silta Partnership Ambassador program

Contact us

Co-founders

Ben Sheppard

Team

Laura Tuppurainen

Strategic advisors

Irina Karagyaur

Partners

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