
Brazilian esports organisation Los Grandes has partnered with funding platform DIVI•hub to launch a form of ‘public providing’ of shares for its fan companion programme.
The preliminary plan is to boost round $1m BRL (~£152,700) from traders, who will likely be awarded 15% of the programme’s income for 3 years after its launch.
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Shares will likely be traded by way of DIVI•hub, an organization registered on the Brazilian Securities and Alternate Fee (CVM, from the acronym in Portuguese), which is the regulatory physique for the native market. It’s, due to this fact, authorised to challenge shares by way of the digital participatory funding platform.
DIVI•hub works with shares named ‘DIVIs’. These interested by investing in Los Grandes’s fan companion programme will have the ability to purchase at the least 50 DIVIs for the value of $500 BRL (~£76.35). Plans for larger investments, which grant larger advantages, are priced at 100 DIVIs for $5,000 BRL (~£763.50) and 1,000 DIVIs for $10,000 BRL (~£1527.35).
With over 9m followers on social media, Los Grandes’s income projection with the fan companion programme is $1.6m (~£245,390), producing an anticipated return of 20.77% per 12 months. Predictions had been made contemplating 0.41% of Los Grandes’ fan base would have interaction with the programme.
Esports Insider spoke with DIVI•hub’s CEO Ricardo Wendel concerning the challenge: “The thesis of receiving income from the engagement of such an enormous group, with over 9m followers, is a really distinctive alternative out there.
“We discovered it very fascinating to herald the facility of engagement of this esports organisation and provide the chance even to traders that may burst the bubble. Any form of investor, even these not essentially engaged with esports however prepared to enter this market, now can accomplish that.”

Los Grandes’s co-owner Rodrigo Terron additionally informed Esports Insider: “Once we first met DIVI•hub, there was a really fascinating connection between our targets, particularly after we speak about partaking and making our group [a part of the organisation]. This fundraising will permit us to take an previous dream from the paper: a sturdy partner-supporter program, along with sharing good points with our group.”
By counting on shares, Los Grandes chooses a extra typical path compared to different esports organisations which have chosen blockchain platforms to launch fan tokens. For the funding to succeed, it is going to be crucial to boost at the least two-thirds of the anticipated $1m BRL inside 180 days. If the quantity will not be achieved, traders will obtain the cash again.