Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.

Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast.

Almost here means these technologies are now here and starting to be used.

Or just around the corner, for Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,

3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.

Hello and welcome to Feature Tech Podcast. I'm your host, Julia Lamarr, and joining us today is James Ginkotti. He is the CEO at

Odd Up, which is a very interesting company. I'm excited to share it with all of you.

Welcome James. Thank you for having me.

Absolutely James. So why don't you give our listeners a little insight into Odd Up?

Sure. Well, look, you know, the easiest way I usually do the small and the long end.

So Odd Up, we rate startups, we rate ICOs and we rate

cryptocurrency. So that's the short response to what we do. The longer response is we

help investors with a bit of research, analyst work and analytics around everything in the startup and

crypto space.

We've been going on for about four years and originally based in Hong Kong and we've branched

up all parts of the world.

Fantastic so you really get you're really on top of things and you are seeing

this whole industry ebb and flow you have so much insight and data do you I guess what do you not follow? and maybe I'll give it a bit of history from what we've seen as a company for the past three, four years and sort of where we see things moving.

So a lot was always around the startup space.

We started, it was always startups primarily in Asia, that are of course globally.

But one of the things we noticed around August last year

was that a lot of startup investors, so we call them sort of angels

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