Odaily Planet Daily News - Vivek Raman, a former bond trader at Nomura Holdings and UBS Group, is starting a new company, Etherealize, with investors including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and the Ethereum Foundation. The startup hopes to become Ethereum's sales team for Wall Street.
Although Buterin's organization confirmed the funding, the organization and Raman declined to disclose the amount of funds involved. Raman said he and a team of eight full-time employees began operating in New York this month and are promoting Ethereum to financial companies, while also developing products to make it easier for banks to use the network. (Bloomberg)