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Young Platform Opens up 3rd Office at Level 39 in London


Young Platform looks at the international community: in London in one of the most important FinTech networks.

Young Platform opens up its third office in London at the launch of the equity crowdfunding on Seedrs, the English fundraising platform specialised in startups.

Since the 17th of June, investors have had access to the Public phase of the Young Platform fundraising campaign, which achieved the target of €500,000 in only 36 hours. The campaign is now overfunding with over 450 investors.

As a conclusion to this round, and with a view to internationalisation and market expansion, Young Platform has chosen Level 39.

Located in the middle of one of the world’s most important financial districts and the iconic One Canada Square, Level 39 is Europe’s largest FinTech incubator, which is home to many companies such as Revolut.

“Level 39 is an opportunity for Young to build a solid network of FinTech partners within the international market,” explains Diego D’Aquilio, CMO of Young Platform, “this will make the company’s growth faster and more effective.”

We are deeply convinced that the world of cryptocurrencies represents a form of financial freedom and everyone should be able to access it. With this goal in mind, our Operations Team is constantly working on international expansion, also by hiring international professionals to complete and consolidate the team.

Owned wholly by the Canary Wharf Group, Level 39 launched in March 2013. Since then, Level 39 has grown from a simple idea into a three-floor, 80,000 square foot community space occupying the 39th, 24th and 42nd floors of One Canada Square.

Today Level 39 is a community of 1,250 people, which are part of 220 companies from 48 nations, leaders in Cybersecurity,  FinTech and Retail Tech, a community that is shaping the future of finance and technology. In 2017 the members of Level39 have raised £100 million in investment.

“We are trying to make the world of cryptocurrency accessible to everyone” concludes Diego D’Aquilio CMO of Young Platform, “and we’re proud to be part of an ecosystem like Level 39, a place that reflects our values and goals.

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Campaign Target Reached (NOW OVERFUNDING) and Weekly Winners (Week 24)

The campaign target has been reached in less than 48 hours but the crowdfunding is still open!

Young Platform is proud to have reached its investment target (500,000 Euro) in less than 48h!

Over 285 investors trusted and believed in us, allowing us to raise over 500,000 Euro in less than 2 days!

An unbelievable outcome, and it’s all because of you!

Thanks to these funds, we’ll be able to speed up the development of our exchange.

This is not all: given the huge amount of requests, we decided to keep our fundraising open (this means we are in the OVERFUNDING phase)


In addition, to give thanks to everyone who believed in us, we intend to gift each investor with an extra 10% of YOUNG tokens, if we were to reach the next target, set to €750,000.

What does this mean exactly?

If, for instance, you invested €1,000, besides holding 100 shares of Young Platform, you already received 1000 Young tokens (YNG): if the campaign were to reach the new target of 750,000 Euro, you’ll be credited with an extra 10% of the investment (which is 100 Young).

So, at the end of the campaign, you’ll end up with 100 shares and a total of 1100 Young tokens! (still, if the campaign were to reach the total target of 750,000 Euro).

Once again, thank you to everyone in our Young Community, we are happy and proud to have a team like you to support and advise us on this journey.

How can I invest in Young Platform?

To invest in our equity crowdfunding campaign

To receive more info, write to [email protected]

Here are the winners of our weekly contest (Week 24) and their prizes in Young:

  1. Celestino Marini (20.00 YNG)
  2. Fabio Demicheli (13.33 YNG)
  3. Miguel Arteaga (8.89 YNG)
  4. Fabrizio Oliva (5.93 YNG)
  5. Donatella Maugeri (3.95 YNG)
  6. Sara Testa (2.00 YNG)
  7. Vince 1 (2.00 YNG)
  8. Nicola Ramella (2.00 YNG)
  9. Raul Pigliapoco (2.00 YNG)
  10. Rocco Morea (2.00 YNG)

Every Sunday at midnight the ranking will be reset, but the YOUNG (YNG) you collected during the week are always going to stay in your Wallet.

Thank you for your participation in our contest!

Keep on walking to earn YOUNG and move up the ranks!

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The Marketplace is now available!

The Young Platform Step’s Marketplace is now available. You can spend Young Platform’s token (the YNGs) in deals, coupons or gift cards

The Marketplace is now available!

After a few weeks of hard work and delays due to Apple’s missing approval, we are happy to announce that Step’s Marketplace is now finally available!

Young Platform Step is an app intended to draw as many people as possible to cryptocurrencies, through an Educational Journey and by providing the users with the opportunity to earn Young (our own token) simply by walking.

Soon after the app’s launch on the market, many users started to ask about this functionality: since Young Platform is a strongly community-driven startup, we decided to satisfy your requests and give you the chance to start spending the YNGs you collected.

We would like to point out that the “core” of the Young Platform project has always been the Exchange, on which you’ll be able to buy and sell the top cryptocurrencies with converted YNGs.

How it works

The Marketplace includes 3 categories of products:

1. Deals

Given that our users are interested in fitness and technology, we decided to include exclusive flash deals from our partners. To access them, you won’t have to spend a single YNG! They are totally free and you’ll just have to click on “Go to website” to view the deal.

2.Coupons

The coupons provided by our partners include a code that you can use to apply a discount on a given product/service. The terms of use vary from coupon to coupon and can be viewed in the description.

3. Gift Cards

The sale of the Gift Cards will be carried out in two ways:

  • Raffle: a limited number of coupons will be put up for grabs at a minimal cost. Once they are sold out, we will draw the winning coupons LIVE on our Instagram page. The people who bought winning coupons will be contacted via email to finalise the purchase in YNG.

Example:

  1. You buy a coupon for an “Amazon Gift Card 10€” on the Marketplace at the price of 2YNG
  2. The ticket number is 3
  3. During the LIVE raffle on Instagram, the number 3 is drawn.
  4. Step’s support contacts you via email to finalise the purchase of the Gift Card.
  5. You accept, 42 YNG are deducted from your wallet (the value of the Gift Card) and you receive the Gift Card

(During the live streaming on Instagram, an extra amount of winning coupons will be drawn, in order to guarantee to a winning user who may not reply within 24h, to get the next ticket in line).

  • Drop: a limited number of Gift Cards purchasable with Young will be released. Their release will happen at a certain hour of a given day. Some of these dates will be announced in the weekly updates, which you can find in the “Education” section > “Updates” in the app. As for the rest, we won’t tell you the date in advance, instead, you’ll get a notification when they are released. We suggest that you activate the notifications and keep up with the updates that are going to be posted in the “Education” section.

The price of the Gift Cards, unlike other players on the market, will be equal to the conversion 1:1 Young/Euro.

Example: an Amazon Gift Card of 10€ will cost 42 YNG.

In the HISTORY section of the Marketplace, you will find all your past purchases. If you have any further questions, please read our FAQs section or contact us directly at [email protected]

If you haven’t already, we recommend that you update the Step app both on Android and iOS in order to start using the YNG you collected in our Marketplace.

Team Young