Housecat
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Housecat was a crypto asset-management startup founded in 2021 and led by CEO and co-founder Ville Vesterinen, with a remote team spread across Helsinki, Zug (Switzerland) and Berlin. Its platform let anyone become an asset manager — or mirror one: users linked their wallet to an experienced asset manager and that manager's trades were automatically mirrored in their wallet, with the manager earning performance and management fees without ever taking custody of user funds. It raised €3 million (about $3.4 million) in a February 2022 pre-seed round from BlueYard Capital, Inflection, Notation Capital and 3KVC, and entered beta in March 2022.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Liquidation
general meeting 5 Apr 2023 dissolved the company; name became Housecat AG in Liquidation; creditor call under OR Art. 742 (SHAB 24 Apr 2023); SHAB 23 Feb 2024: 'Die Liquidation ist beendet. Die Gesellschaft wird gelöscht.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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