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NLO enters into a US$5 Million Investment Framework with Indian Ocean
NLO has entered into an investment framework agreement with Indian Ocean Securities, an Australian financial services firm, for up to US$5 million in funds allocations over the next 12 months.
The framework covers allocations across a range of NLO strategies, including Alpha, NLO's new actively managed strategy opening to users soon.
The agreement reflects growing institutional interest in NLO's investment offerings and provides a framework for potential deployment of capital across both existing and upcoming strategies during the term of the arrangement.
This framework represents another step in expanding access to NLO's investment products while supporting the launch of new strategy offerings.
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A layer of university research behaves like dark matter: visible in the gap between strength and output, absent from every return. Fewer than half of patentable inventions are ever disclosed. You cannot manage a pipeline you cannot see. https://t.co/rAD6UNdcf8
Here’s an analysis for discussion from the CEO of our joint venture partner @ThePIPEcompany FAO @vitadao!
Standardised validation before treasury deployment: would a structured stage-gate assessment strengthen VDP decisions?
“ Hi all, Robert Steele here. Full disclosure up front: I'm the founder of The PIPE Company (Lab to IPO) in the UK, we run our own DAO (PIPE gDAO) alongside a regulated-market track, so this is both a genuine question and a service we offer. Treat it accordingly.
First, congratulations. Crossbridge Bio's acquisition by Eli Lilly is the proof point this whole space has been waiting for, and the community that funded it deserves enormous credit.
Here's the question I'd like the community's view on. VitaDAO's dealflow now attracts serious external attention, and the recurring critique from institutional co-investors (the ones this sector says it wants) is not the science or the funding mechanism, it's the absence of standardised, auditable diligence behind funding votes. Community and expert review are real signals, but they aren't comparable across proposals or acceptable to a compliance function.
For the past several years we've built and used QED, a stage-gate validation methodology for university research: 562 evidence checkpoints across 12 streams (technology readiness on the NASA-origin TRL standard, market, regulatory pathway, IP integrity, team, and others), producing a comparable evidence file, a Gap Risk Index, and a go/hold/no-go recommendation per project. It was designed for exactly the asset class VitaDAO funds: early, pre-company, university-origin research.
What I'd propose, if there's appetite: a paid pilot where we run a small batch of incoming proposals (say 3 to 5) through the QED process before they reach a governance vote, with the full evidence files published to the community. The DAO gets a comparable diligence layer and a stronger story for institutional co-investment; we get to prove the methodology on live dealflow. Commercials are flexible, retainer, per-assessment, or partly token-swap along the lines of prior DAO-to-DAO arrangements.
Questions I'd genuinely like answers to before any formal proposal:
1. Do longevity-fund members feel diligence depth is currently a gap, or is expert review sufficient?
2. Would published, standardised evidence files change how you vote?
3. Has the DAO had institutional co-investors ask for exactly this?
Happy to share a sample (redacted) QED evidence file in the thread, and to take criticism on the methodology itself. That's what it's for. ”
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We have an exciting announcement from our RWA tokenisation partner @ThePIPEcompany on behalf of @TheFCA!
“PIPE has been accepted into the FCA's Innovation Pathways programme, which provides feedback and steer on regulatory matters. This support will help PIPE address the regulatory considerations that arise as it develops the infrastructure needed to facilitate the commercialisation, trading, and exchange of university research and intellectual property.”
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Dear Valued Community Members,
Apologies for the long delay in updating on the gDAO side of things.
Here is a brief on what we're up to and where we are going.
Now that we are in a crypto bear market, the project is shifting focus to our product the PGF Launchpad for revenue generation.
We launched the PGF back in April 2024 with a B2C focus, since then we decided to shift to B2B (business to business) and B2G (business to government).
PIPE is in talks with the British Business Bank for them to potentially deploy capital into the PGF while we will be focusing on generating leads for the B2B side like impact/ESG funds for example.
Revenue from the PGF will allow us to fund token operations for $GDAO including our public sale on the 6 crypto launchpads we are approved on, CEX listings like Bitmart who we are also approved on as well liquidity for the up and coming $SGDAO release pool. We anticipate a 6 to 12 month timeline for this to happen depending on capital raised and revenue generated.
We have been in talks with market makers and liquidity loan providers who could also supply us with release pool liquidity for our DEX and CEX listings.
Our product first approach means the project and your investments are not dependent on the crypto market.
We will provide a more detailed update once I have finished my internal execution plan for the next 12 months.
We appreciate your continued patience and support.
Regards
The PIPE gDAO Team