Silta is the DeFi bridge to a sustainable future.

Silta provides on-chain collateral which enables ESG-conscious infrastructure developers to access liquidity in DeFi. This is how Silta introduces a new class of products to the DeFi space. With steady interest rates, investments in real-world infrastructure can bring balance to crypto traders’ portfolios and shield against crypto winters.

What Silta does

Carries out a due diligence process on collateral loan applications

Presents information about pre-qualified applications to the DAO and the lenders

Gauges the projects’ viability through the Silta scoring system

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

Empowers the Silta DAO to decide which projects are eligible for on-chain collateral

Facilitates a collateral loan agreement between the DAO and the borrower

Connects borrowers to third party DeFi loan pools

Provides staking pools where participants gain additional rewards on their investments

Silta is a technology solution which connects infrastructure developers with DeFi lending. Silta is not a fund or an investment vehicle, and it will not invest people’s money on their behalf.

What Silta offers

For the borrower

Borrow on-chain collateral in SILTA
Access a new line of credit across multiple DeFi protocols
Standardised collateral loan agreement
Faster and simpler due diligence process

For the Silta DAO

Decide which infrastructure projects gain access to DeFi liquidity
Give ESG-conscious projects an opportunity to get funded
Help take crypto mainstream with real-world projects
Bring a new class of asset-backed investment opportunities to crypto investors
Make a positive difference in the world

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Roadmap

Milestone 1Roebling

Token sale
Test and launch the governance platform
Launch Silta website
Product education
Community engagement, marketing and PR
Form partnerships with key stakeholders

Milestone 2Telford

Launch Silta dApp
Manually assess the Silta score for a loan application
Collateralize first loan with Silta tokens
Launch a loan pool on a third-party DeFi protocol
Build the borrower pipeline
Form partnerships with key stakeholders

Milestone 3Brunel

Automate the assessment of the Silta score
Test the rating process in a live project
Expand the platform with additional loan pools
Implement staking opportunities
Continue building the borrower pipeline
Continue adding relevant partnerships

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Contact us

contact@silta.finance

Co-founders

Ben Sheppard

Co-founder

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 5 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

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

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

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

Risto Karjalainen

Co-founder

Michael Malka

Co-founder

James Cook

Co-founder and Non-Executive Director

Stanley Boots

Co-founder

Ben Sheppard

Co-founder

Risto Karjalainen

Co-founder

Michael Malka

Co-founder

James Cook

Co-founder and Non-Executive Director

Stanley Boots

Co-founder

Team

Arthur Machado

Head of Growth

Arthur (Artie) has been involved in the Avalanche community since January 2021. He is the only known recipient of the Community Champion NFT awarded by Emin Gün Sirer, the founder of Avalanche, as well as the only recognised Avalanche Ambassador in Australia. Artie is also the co-founder of aalpha, a communal hub for Avalanche. He has assisted several partnerships within Avalanche and assisted several start-up projects find their feet within the ecosystem.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thom Nguyen

Legal Counsel

Thom is a qualified lawyer based in Vietnam with 15 years of experience in Public Private Partnership, TMT (Telecommunications - Media - Technology), Corporate, Investment, and M&A. Thom has represented multinational corporations, lenders, as well as governmental authorities in diverse industries including energy, infrastructure, trading, IT, engineering, transportation and telecommunications.

Arthur Machado

Head of Growth

Laura Tuppurainen

Head of Marketing

Carlos Pancrazi

Community Outreach

Rosario Meyer Arana

Front End Developer

Adrià Vizdomine

Designer

Linh Dang

Legal Advisor

Thom Nguyen

Legal Counsel

Arthur Machado

Head of Growth

Laura Tuppurainen

Head of Marketing

Carlos Pancrazi

Community Outreach

Rosario Meyer Arana

Front End Developer

Adrià Vizdomine

Designer

Linh Dang

Legal Advisor

Thom Nguyen

Legal Counsel

Strategic advisors

Beryl Chavez Li

Strategic Advisor

Beryl is the co-founder of Yield Guild Games. Her previous experiences include founding asset token platform CapchainX; being Entrepreneur in Residence at Coins.ph, a crypto exchange and payments startup acquired by GoJEk; backtesting FX trading algorithms at BlackRock London; product owning an investment platform at Unionbank PH, where she is currently Advisor; and authoring the Philippine Roadmap for Digital Startups. Beryl's career started in early-stage Venture Capital in Shanghai in 2012, and she holds a Master of Finance degree from Cambridge University.

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.

Robin Nordblad

Strategic Advisor

Robin is a corporate lawyer who is focused on capital markets transactions and securities regulatory matters. He is the head of capital markets at Avance Attorneys in Finland and has spent a significant part of his 20-year career in the corporate and capital markets practice of a top-tier U.S. law firm in London and New York and in a global investment bank. He also has significant experience in legal matters relating to investment funds. Robin has a particular interest in developing a legal framework for decentralized finance.

Jack Lipstone

Strategic Advisor

Jack is a co-founder and core contributor of Rari Capital and Tribe DAO and a venture partner of Chapter One, a Web3 native venture capital firm. Previously, Jack has consulted for Netflix, United Way Foundation, and Instacart with Bain & Company in addition to completing a finance internship at an asset management firm in New York City. He co-founded a mobile cryptocurrency trading app called Ambo with his two best friends and sold it to MyCrypto within a year. He went from CMO of Ambo to Director of Business Development at MyCrypto.

Eddy Travia

Strategic Advisor

Eddy is a pioneer investor in blockchain technology companies and the co-founder and CEO of Coinsilium Group, a publicly listed blockchain and open finance venture builder. In 2013, after 9 years as a private equity fund manager in Greater China, Eddy co-founded the world’s first global incubator of blockchain startups. In 2014, he was named among the ‘Top 3 Most Influential Investors’ at the Blockchain Awards along with Roger Ver and Marc Andreessen. In 2015, Coinsilium Group became the first blockchain company to IPO. Eddy has led investments in more than 25 blockchain companies globally and advised more than 25 token offerings.

Beryl Chavez Li

Strategic Advisor

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Strategic Advisor

Jan Van Schoonhoven

Strategic Advisor

Peter Lembrechts

Strategic Advisor

Robin Nordblad

Strategic Advisor

Jack Lipstone

Strategic Advisor

Eddy Travia

Strategic Advisor

Beryl Chavez Li

Strategic Advisor

Jay Kurahashi-Sofue

Strategic Advisor

Jan Van Schoonhoven

Strategic Advisor

Peter Lembrechts

Strategic Advisor

Robin Nordblad

Strategic Advisor

Jack Lipstone

Strategic Advisor

Eddy Travia

Strategic Advisor

Silta is the DeFi bridge to a sustainable future.

What Silta does

What Silta offers

For the borrower

For the Silta DAO

Roadmap

Milestone 1Roebling

Milestone 2Telford

Milestone 3Brunel

News & Blog

EVA partners with Silta Finance in aims to take highways to the skies with the help of DeFi

Silta Finance & MadSkullz Community Partnership

Valfry and Silta Finance sign a partnership to channel DeFi towards a collective green energy…

Contact us

Co-founders

Ben Sheppard

Team

Arthur Machado

Strategic advisors

Beryl Chavez Li

Partners

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