Pandora Finance raises $2.4M in seed funding round

Pandora Finance is a decentralized platform for NFT-backed real-world assets.

Pandora’s $2.4 million seed raise, completed in May, had participation from at least 15 organizations and several other angel investors. The participants included Genesis Block, AU21 Capital, Spark Digital, and Protocol Ventures.

While speaking to Cointelegraph, CEO Pushkar Vohra outlined the vision of the company, how Pandora Finance aims to create a bridge between the illiquid world of real-world assets and blockchain.

Pushkar believes the gap between these two domains represents one of the biggest adoption challenges for decentralized technologies. 

“We are uniquely positioned to solve the biggest problem,” he said, “There are around $300 trillion of real-world assets which are illiquid. Pandora’s vision is to bridge those off-chain assets to the on-chain ecosystem with an effective business model.” 

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The business model of the firm revolves around the tokenization of illiquid assets, which would allow them to be traded and owned in a secure and decentralized manner. This process is accomplished through a middleware solution based around nonfungible tokens (NFTs).

Rather than competing with other NFT marketplaces for liquidity, Pandora’s vision is to help those marketplaces grow by providing more liquidity.

Pushkar emphasized his firm’s piNFT tool as a way to bring liquidity to real-world assets, something he considers to be essential for open finance to flourish:

“We at Pandora are working on fueling open finance adoption more and more with our latest innovation,” He continued, “There are many assets that our traditional financial institutions do not recognize. There is centralization around decisions when it comes to classifying the assets and trading them. Pandora will help end-users to expand the horizon of recognizing real-world assets and inducing liquidity in them via piNFT.”