We met the friends from A Start Labs at Singularity University´s Exponential Finance 2017. They congratulated us for being the only Brazilian team at the expo and said they would be open to cooperate. Back then, we had no idea how important they would be to us.
A few weeks passed and, incentivized by our early investor Tim Draper, we decided to pursuit the strategy of creating our Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and I approached A Star Labs with a proposal:
"Hey, let´s build a partnership to revolutionize the access to credit in the world. "
They promptly said YES.
They are also adepts of Singularity University´s philosophy that says "The biggest problems in the world are the biggest business opportunities". So much so that their motto is "Moonshot makers". Because of that, I think they were intriged by our mission of using the blockchain to make Credit cheaper and universally accessible.
This is a picture of when we went to their office for the first time, before writing the white paper:
Their support has been amazing. Particularly the help of Gabriel Aleixo, who has a profound knowledge of the blockchain technology.
Please see this awesome video of him in the FutureCom 2017 conference. It is in portuguese.
The folks at A Start Labs told us that , in the mid term, they plan to help other startups to create their ICOs and become a "Moonshot factory for ICOs". Pretty cool, right?