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Young Platform is now partner with the Mauriziano Hospital of Turin

Post your steps during the day, collect points and win medical services!

Are you out with your four-legged friend? Are you shopping through the streets of the city centre? Or are you a marathon runner training? Walking is a daily gesture that can help maintain our health, but we are often unaware of it.

This is why, with the Mauriziano Hospital in Turin, we are creating an app to help people with cardiovascular problems, based on the simple act of walking.

Collaborate with us on the project to help us win the “La prevenzione scorre” (“prevention runs”) contest.

Only by winning the contest will we be able to create the app!

How to help us

Post on Facebook a photo of the km/miles covered during the day (for example with a screenshot of the Health app) and remember to insert the tag of the initiative @la prevenzione scorre, the hashtag #scorre18 and the movement mode: #bike or #foot

The project

Walking is an activity that is good for cardiovascular health and it is less practiced by those who need it most. An American study on 30,000 subjects indicates the activity of walking is less practiced among those with risk factors (obesity, diabetes / dyslipidaemia, hypertension) or suffering from cardiovascular disease.

To encourage people to change their lifestyle, we have devised a strategy that is based on rewarding the steps taken during the day. The steps are calculated by a free App, “MindStep”, which updates the results in real time, shows the history of your progress, creates a ranking of the most active “walkers” and converts the amount of steps collected into points that you can spend in health bonuses.

A simple walk can, for instance, give access to a cardiological and nutritional counselling aimed at prevention, or athletic and osteopathic therapy to correct and prevent activity-limiting disorders, or a workshop in breathing techniques and autonomous training.

Thanks to the App, people can have the increased perception that even a simple daily gesture like walking translates into a real gain in health and savings for medical examinations, as well as an effective method of prevention.

We want to promote interactive, new and informed health education. In this way, the health programme becomes an extended educational tool that provides handy examples, testimonials, and reminders of virtuous behaviour through push notifications, verification of the strategic detail of one’s lifestyle and video-recordings of the breathing techniques taught during the autonomous training day. Combined with the game-like functionality of the App and sharing on social networks, this supports those who start to change their lifestyle and rewards those who are already active, encouraging them to do well and feel better.

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New Features in Young Platform Step

Step will soon have a new look and a new mission! Collect steps, join the personal challenges and stay up-to-dates with news and curiosity.

The Step Section

The main functionality of Step, the claim, is going to change.
Now the going gets tough! You’ll claim to collect steps (not Young) and to climb the rankings. Only the winners will get rewards in Young.

From soon on, you’ll be able to also win Young with personal Challenges. Choose a new goal and put yourself to the test.

But that’s not all. Increase your chances of winning with the new Weekly Ranking. Compete with a small number of users and win! 

Also, be sure to check out the Global Ranking to challenge the entire community and become the best Step walker! 

You’ll be able to view your Wallet, Ranking and Updates in one place. By clicking on the profile image you will set your username, view your ranking and your shopping history. 

The Education Section

We firmly believe that knowledge is the greatest form of freedom, the best way to improve our lives and our future. That is why we have created new content that will guide you through the world of crypto:

  • The Pills, to discover the features and curiosities of the main cryptocurrencies;
  • the Academy, which will contain in-depth articles to provide you with a strong basis on the world of crypto and blockchain;
  • a Glossary to help you decipher the most difficult articles and learn the basic crypto-lexicon;
  • the News from our partner Cointelegraph, to always stay up-to-date.

The Young Team

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Young Platform at the Barcelona Trading Conference

The Barcellona Trading Conference: for Young Platform an opportunity to learn about the latest developments of the technology and to network with internetional experts.

On the 10th and the 11th of July, the Crypto-Industry leaders will gather inside the CCIB in Barcelona for the Barcelona Trading Conference (BTC).

Key players from every branch of the industry are going to attend: innovators, opinion leaders, brokers, exchanges, digital tech companies, but also banks and institutions. The event aims, in fact, to allow the adoption of crypto-assets by the institutions, and the attendance of the main representatives of the Catalan government (one of the top sponsors) is a guarantee of this. The crypto world doesn’t intend to remain a niche-sector, instead, it is opening up and interacting with the “old world”, and someone out there seems to be listening.

Among the numerous international participants, you’re going to find also Young Platform, represented on site by Diego D’Aquilio, CMO at Young Platform, who will have the chance to network with other experts and professionals in the field, to attend workshops about the latest developments of the technology and discussions on the hottest topics.

The conference promotes the exchange of visions between people coming from a vast range of career backgrounds and cultures, consequently stimulating the progress and expansion of the industry.

The goal is to find new ways for crypto-assets to interlock with the economical and financial systems in force, in a way that may benefit both parties, multiplying the chances and resources at all levels of business, from SMEs to state policies.

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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 Advantages of Investing in Young Platform

All the reasons to join Young Platform’s community of investors

To finance a company through an equity fundraising means to invest money in exchange for shares of their capital, thus becoming a full-fledged shareholder. If a company you invested in achieves success, the shares you bought could increase in value, compared to the purchase cost.

7 reasons to invest in Young Platform:

  1. The investor receives a number of company “shares” from Young Agency Srl at the moment of investment.
  2. If in the future Young Agency Srl were to be acquired by a third firm (Exit), enter the stock market (IPO) or if the company’s net worth were to increase, the investor would obtain profit from the investment.
  3. The equity crowdfunding campaign is on Seedrs, one of the most important investment platforms in the United Kingdom. This guarantees the investor a high protection level, in fact, this platform is very attentive in selecting the companies and has a very strict Due diligence procedure.
  4. Seedrs, the crowdfunding platform we are operating on, provides the chance to exchange Young Agency Srl stocks on the secondary Market (find out more by clicking here).
  5. The pre-money valuation of the Young Platform project is of € 8.5 million.
  6. Starting from €250 of investment, for every invested Euro you’ll receive 1 Young token. If, for instance, you invested €500 Euro, besides becoming a shareholder of Agency, at the end of the campaign you’ll be accredited 500 Young tokens.
  7. Diversify your portfolio. Another upside to investing in equity crowdfunding is the possibility for the investor to more easily diversify his/her portfolio, by betting on companies that operate in different sectors, such as that of the sharing economy, agritech, 3D printing or the FinTech-crypto industry, like Young.

Other advantages

  • We find ourselves in a period of unprecedented technological development, within all sectors, R&D investments multiplied, exponentially increasing the chance for successful start-ups to exit. Moreover, the start-ups adopting a lean approach can create product prototypes and models without having to use up big equities.
  • We are investing within the real economy, not in unpredictable stock market titles, but in companies consisting of few people and with great growth potential. Furthermore, this allows us to provide other start-ups with our experience, in terms of culture, management and as entrepreneurs. This translates also to a great social benefit, especially for future generations, that are going to have more job opportunities and benefit from today’s investments.   
  • Start-ups create new business models, consequently revolutionising old ones. The sharing economy opened everyone’s eyes to the possibility of creating new jobs and new sources of income, tackling the issue of unemployment head-on. Service providers such as Airbnb, Uber and BlaBlacar generate real benefits for everyone, this is why they should be understood, incentivised and regulated, in order to generate economic income for those who provide and a new service for those who use it.
  • The Crowd Economy seems to draw near with an even stronger push. It’s an economy based on people, that engages the crowd in choosing the features of a product/service, in funding it through investments or loans. Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing are the first embodiments of this new school of thought. In 2014 alone Crowdfunding recorded over $16,8 billion with a 167%* growth.
  • Co-investment is useful for everyone, even for a professional investor, venture capital, holdings and investment funds, besides banks and investment firms that, by sharing the investment through equity crowdfunding, share the risks associated with it too. It can raise the investor’s status as a leading investor, thus creating a benefit also in terms of future co-investments. Professional investors all around the world are diversifying their portfolio, by allocating part of it to the investment in start-ups, with a view to obtaining better returns that are going to balance out the smaller ones from traditional investments.

Here, you can invest in our campaign: www.seedrs.com/youngplatform

If you have any more questions write directly to [email protected]

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Investing in Young Platform FAQs

All the answers you are looking for to start investing in Young Platform.

What am I buying when investing?

When you invest, you are purchasing a share of Young Agency Srl. The investors participating in the equity crowdfunding campaign of a company become shareholders of that very company. As a shareholder, you’ll be entitled to dividends from future revenue streams and a return on investment in case of sale of the shares, after a period – according to the current law – of 3 years, during which the innovative start-ups can’t distribute dividends. 

How much can I invest?

The minimum an investor can allocate is 50 Euro. On the other hand, there is no maximum limit for a single investment: for any amount invested, the operation is carried out completely online, from the commitment to the project, to the bank transfer or credit card deposit.

What happens to my investment if the campaign goes in Overfunding, meaning that it raises more than what was set as a target?

In case of overfunding (exceeding the funding objective), the offeror company could extend the capital increase and set a new target amount.

Otherwise, it could decide to close the crowdfunding, once it achieved the set goal, and not to accept other investors.

What happens if the start-up doesn’t raise the target amount?

For every campaign, there is a minimum goal, which is set lower than the overall campaign goal. If the fundraising goes over the minimum amount, the raised funds are collected by the start-up.

What extra expenses are there besides the investment?

There won’t be any extra expense, except for any commission that may be required by your bank.

When will I be able to invest?

The crowdfunding is already live on Seedrs

How can I profit from this investment?

If in the future Young Agency Srl were to be acquired by a third firm (Exit), enter the stock market (IPO) or if the company’s net worth were to increase, the investor would obtain profit from the investment. Thanks to the attentive selection made by the team Young in choosing its partners, we’re able to guarantee the investors the opportunity to resell and purchase their shares even during this first phase (see the next answer).

The Secondary Market on Seedrs

Seedrs, the crowdfunding platform we are operating on, provides the chance to exchange the shares of Young Agency Srl on the Secondary Market.

The Secondary Market tackles a sore spot for crowdfunding platforms. Investing in early-stage companies and start-ups is an
illiquid and high-risk form of investment, since most of the profits, if there’s any, require a long time.

This is why Seedrs created the Secondary Market, where registered users can buy and sell shares on which they invested.

Only people who already invested in the Young project can acquire additional shares thanks to the Secondary Market service. Essentially, the sale and purchase of the shares of Young Agency srl is open to every investor on Seedrs. Every investor on the platform can buy shares from other investors or sell them to get an economic return right away.

The market is open once a month, starting from the first Tuesday, for a week. Not every kind of share can be sold on the secondary market, and the possibility to sell or buy is determined by the requests from other investors.

What is Young Platform’s net worth?

Its pre-money valuation is of € 8.5 million.

Young Agency srl has already closed two capital increases, by approving two valuations: the first one of €500,000 in February 2018 and another of €2,5 million in November 2018.

What are the risks of investing in an Equity Crowdfunding campaign?

To invest in a start-up is a high-risk investment. It’s a given fact that betting on something that is new, on an idea and the project to realise it, on an entity that has no history, betting on results that are yet to be presented and on promised dividends can lead, worst-case scenario, to loss of capital, due to the failure of the enterprise or to a growth trend that was too weak to achieve the set goal. This is why we advise to take precaution and make sure to have the means to economically bear the eventual loss of the entire capital invested.

The entity of the risk should make the client aware of the necessity to take specific precautions so that the capital directly invested in the startup may NOT represent a significant portion of his/her assets and that it may NOT be destined to a short- or medium-term investment goal.

PLEASE NOTE: investing in Young Agency does not entail any legal liabilities.

Can I resell my shares?

Yes, the shares of the Young Agency Srl start-ups can be sold on the Secondary Market available on Seedrs.

What is the current regulation in the United Kingdom on cryptocurrencies and exchange platforms?

Currently, there is no specific regulation on cryptocurrencies in the UK, here’s how it works for the time being.

To receive more information or answers to any doubt, write to [email protected]

Or just go to our campaign page on Seedrs
www.seedrs.com/youngplatform

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What is Crowdfunding?

Choose to invest in crowdfunding and join the Young Platform’s community of investors.

Equity crowdfunding is an investment method available to everyone.
It allows the financing of innovative start-ups through an online platform, by depositing any amount of money (starting from 10 €) in exchange for a number of shares of the chosen venture.

Choosing to invest in equity crowdfunding means betting on innovative businesses, on an idea or project you believe in and contributing to its realisation. In exchange for the invested money, the firm gives up part of its capital, which means becoming one of its shareholders.

If the business you invested in achieves success, the shares you bought will generate a profit proportionally to your investment. Otherwise, you can choose to resell your shares to a third party.

Why invest in crowdfunding?

No project achieves success without a strong team behind it. This is why a community of investors is the greatest asset for any start-up. To believe in an idea together is the first step towards its fulfillment. Thanks to its own community, Young Platform managed to close two financing rounds and it is able to continue with its project.

Why become a shareholder?

Those who joined the community early-on made it possible for us to achieve all the small and great successes, which helped Young Platform go from being a project by six students of Turin’s Politecnico, to a company with a London office at Level 39.

Now is the right time to join Young Platform in quality of shareholders. This is the best phase of its history, the moment in which everything becomes reality and Young Platform is going to be finally launched on the market.

Community

We are a 100% community-driven start-up: we created a community based on trust, our business model is confirmed by thousands of users, and we pay attention to the feedback we receive on a daily basis.

Scalability

Our business model is replicable within other markets, as proven by the opening of three offices in three European countries within only 12 months of operation. Young Platform is quickly growing and soon it will establish its presence on the market thanks to the investment platform “Seedrs”.

Business Opportunity

Young has created a revolutionary product that is adaptable to any company: Step. After only 4 months it reached 50,000 downloads.

How can I invest?

Young Platform is already live on Seedrs with its first equity crowdfunding campaign www.seedrs.com/youngplatform

If you have any more questions, write directly to [email protected]m

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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