Submitted
2020 Elevate Prize

Quanta

Team Leader
Bartosz "Azatar" Solowiej
About You and Your Work
Your bio:

Bartosz Solowiej was born in Poland during the communist revolution.  His family came to the US as refugees in 1984. As a Polish-born naturalized US Citizen, he's come to deeply appreciate the value of diverse perspectives.  As an adult, he traveled to Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Nepal, and India with his five children in order to cultivate this wisdom firsthand. His closest friends and colleagues will attest to the extent that he strives for the betterment of humankind in all he pursues.  His heartfelt commitment to humanity is clearly evident throughout his entrepreneurship in finance reform within Quanta Ventures; his novel research within The World Bank; his service on the local Professional Alpine Ski Patrol, and his painting and sculpture within the fine art community.  By cultivating integrity, compassion, and emotional intelligence despite adversity, he is determined to bring opportunity for others to do the same, the world over.

Project name:
Quanta
One-line project summary:
Ground-breaking, independent, micro-funds that provide universal basic Income to individuals, municipal systems, non-profits, and NGOs.
Present your project.

Quanta offers high-yield private micro-funds that produce dependable dividends to customers through a SaaS model.  Quanta's AI investment solution gives organizations and individuals access to a basic income model capable of compounding at over 700% annual returns on investment.  

Quanta provides small capital micro-funds for mission critical non-profit organizations and endeavors financial perpetuity for its customers. Quanta's goal is to support regenerative financing for individuals, municipalities, non-profits, and non-governmental organizations whose mission is tied to the stability and protection of critical human systems: those whose purpose is not explicitly for profit.  

Imagine a school, village, humanitarian project, and social service program with its own private fund capable of supplementing operating revenue, enabling growth, and expanding its reach in communities throughout the world, especially in developing countries where banking and financing instability continues to stifle opportunity for the less fortunate. 

Quanta provides private universal basic income in earnest.

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What specific problem are you solving?

Quanta is solving the problem of access to a high-yield automated trade execution platform capable of accurate predictive analysis at global scale.  Furthermore, Quanta is solving the problem of presentation and productization of a blackbox infrastructure required to ensure the success of our customers.  

Quanta's solution stands apart from similar order management systems on the market today.  It doesn't put the onus on the customer to understand complex market dynamics and strategies.  Instead, customers with minimal investment capital and limited experience will leverage Quanta using a mobile application interface, which abstracts complexity behind an intuitive interface. 

Quanta's current problem is scaling our execution and order management platform to account for our customer wait-list.  Soon after, Quanta will expand the platform into international markets and offer traditional securities while continuing to work toward the development of public equity funds for municipal use. In the long run, public equity funds will supplement funding for health care, municipal programs, and provide communities with opportunities to supplement regional funding through the use of public regenerative capital investments (public equity funds).  

People will have access to universal basic income through regional programs designed for perpetuating the most essential systems for human health and safety.

What is your project?

Quanta monitors and leverages cryptocurrency exchange accounts using a sophisticated fund management AI infrastructure.  Quanta tracks accounts using automated strategic investment algorithms that earned over 100% returns in the most recent six months among pilot-program customers.  To protect customers, Quanta enforces a human-in-the-loop process for all strategic trade execution.  

Quanta has in-house legal and trading oversight from partners.  Our processes are governed by regimented oversight and bound to regulatory standards. Despite these protections, all investments suffer occasional loss.  For this reason, Quanta insures itself against liability for excessive losses. 

Quanta believes in customer education and stands for self-empowerment.  Quanta gives customers access to the Quanta Institute: an online academy that offers curated courses on alt-currency markets, investments, and strategies.  Quanta focuses on empowerment through education and product experience design to maximize the benefits of micro-funding and extend opportunities to as many as possible.  

Quanta earns operating revenue based on performance; customers share a percentage of revenue with Quanta from their realized gains, invoiced monthly.

Who does your project serve, and in what ways is the project impacting their lives?

Quanta is serving communities in three phases. Each subsequently builds upon the previous customer layer.  Currently, Quanta is serving a small set of mostly friends, family, and professionals, who have a variety of investment experience. Most have a strong desire to earn dividends that supplement retirement income from personal wealth and all want to mitigate losses due to current economic restrictions.  

Quanta will onboard customers in batches to build a performance track record prior to phase two: small nonprofits and NGOs.  Quanta engages with all customers 1-on-1.  Interviews determine risk and target revenue goals.  

Quanta tracks results in immutable account transaction ledgers.  Customers have a performance record that documents their gains.  Quanta markets primarily through word of mouth. Quanta discloses general performance metrics to new customers and leverages viral market effects to attract and nurture new relationships.  

As Quanta matures, it will offer a more formal legal process, offering customers with better protections, shelters, and compliance atop individual investment accounts. This is similar to protections provided in trust funds. Ultimately, in phase three, Quanta will offer a mobile application for account management across markets and exchanges.  Quanta will offer a packaged API product to select financial institutions.

Which dimension of The Elevate Prize does your project most closely address?
  • Elevating opportunities for all people, especially those who are traditionally left behind
Explain how your project relates to The Elevate Prize and your selected dimension.

Quanta is breaking ground by offering access to high growth investment tools that are traditionally out of reach for private individuals, small businesses, municipalities, small non-profits, and nascent NGOs.

Quanta believes that it will support emerging markets for services that are critical to the health of societies around the world.  Quanta impacts society much like the Grameen Banking system.

Quanta seeks to establish public equity funds that leverage capital for the benefit of a specific individuals and not-for-profit enterprises. These capital funds are managed by a software service product that automates trades using a sophisticated proprietary strategic infrastructure.

How did you come up with your project?

Four years ago, after years of entrepreneurship, investing, and trading, the founders' personal frustration with the rising costs of health and community services became overwhelming.  They observed friends and family members struggling to find accessible resources due to financial limitations.  

Independently, their lifelong skills in programming, business, and individual investment led to extensive experimentation with technical analysis algorithms in cryptocurrency markets.  Eventually their mutual interests led the founders to meet one another.  Together, they began accurately predicting market movements with novel quantitative strategies.  

They invested in the markets.  They realized staggering percentage gains.  They researched solutions to automate our processes.  They spoke with prospective customers and beneficiaries.  The pieces fit.  The founders decided to formalize their efforts by forming Quanta Ventures in 2019.  

What began as a small pilot client base quickly escalated into a wait-list of clients all awaiting the automation and formal release of our software product. Now, Quanta is feverishly developing infrastructure and positioning itself to support expansion by reaching out to investors (and MIT).

Why are you passionate about your project?

People deserve better.  Quanta is channeling abundance to opportunities that lead to a better and more equitable world for mankind in harmony with Nature and the Earth.  Community resources deserve a shot at protection through perpetual funding.  Quanta puts money to work to help people live better lives.  Quanta challenges the notion that actuarial models impose on society through insurance premiums and pay-to-play schemes that capitalize on risk aversion.  

Quanta intentionally eschews corporate investments and private equity in favor of performance-based returns for the benefit of our communities.  Quanta combats rising cost-of-living and protect the integrity of health, environmental, social, and human services with our mission.  Quanta's long-term target customers are nonprofits critical to human welfare. Quanta imagines how humanity will benefit from a clean water fund, a regional health fund, a reforestation fund, a mental health fund, community agriculture fund, and so on.  

Quanta dares to be different, challenges the financial status quo, and takes bold steps to leverage for-profit capital markets and securities to benefit small communities of change-making luminaries worldwide. Quanta is a bridge between income inequalities.

Why are you well-positioned to deliver this project?

Quanta's founding members are lifelong professional entrepreneurs.  They've built multi-million dollar products backed by top-tier investors.  They've endured extremely difficult circumstances and overcome failures with persistence and tenacity. They've traveled the world extensively to teach their children to understand humanity.  They are capable and creative individuals with a lifetime of experience. Thay are disciplined, thoughtful, compassionate, and emotionally intelligent. 

Professionally, the founding team members are skilled in computation, infrastructure, business development, and customer relationship management. They understand the meaning of "endeavor" and apply ourselves to problem solving and product development with a sense of life-long devotion and purpose.  They realize that we have the tools, the strategies, and the collective will to develop a successful product together that has the power to augment the course of human history in a market ripe for execution. 

Quanta's principals are also technical leaders in major corporations: the director of design was formerly lead designer at Uber and now works at Apple; the director of business development is a lifelong sales executive and PhD-level academic; the director of strategy is an algorithms expert at Lockheed-Martin. 

Quanta's supporting advisers are professionals with years of financial experience. Quanta has an advisory partnership with a multi-million dollar private investment fund. Together, Quanta is well-equipped to deliver on its promise to customers, reach novel emerging communities, and make a lasting impact on the world.

Provide an example of your ability to overcome adversity.

Just as David stared down Goliath, Quanta is faced with the peril of disrupting consumer and small business funding, donning a slingshot that takes critical shots at the financial establishment by funneling capital to underrepresented individuals, groups, and organizations in any economy. As a small and unknown company, Quanta is facing imposing regulatory bodies head-on. 

Regulatory governance threatens Quanta by enforcing taxation, investing restrictions, and audit. Quanta is keenly focusing on this potentially ruinous outcome. Quanta has operated "under the radar" for years to ensure that its core IP has the legs to support its ambitions. Quanta has a spectacular corporate counsel. It's also maintaining an immutable block ledger of transactions. Quanta's ledgers provide reputable auditing and reporting tools that may eventually meet municipal IFMIS requirements. 

Quanta's CTO also conducts technical research and consults as a technical expert for developing world governments using Big Data IFMIS AI solutions at The World Bank. 

Overall, Quanta manages regulatory, engineering, strategy and business development setbacks by distilling the issues and working carefully through problems. 

Financially, Quanta is currently compensating for limited funding by offering consulting services to businesses and publishing research on AI.

Describe a past experience that demonstrates your leadership ability.

Quanta chooses the "right" thing over the quick fix--integrity and truth over smoke and mirrors.  It's not easy being honest.  The founders speak openly, honestly, and strive to hold everyone at Quanta to account. Consequently, they attract collaborators sharing an inherently holocratic model of leadership.  Members of Quanta's ranks support each other with the tasks at hand using their individual strengths to achieve the improbable and overcome adversity together.

Quanta leadership "takes the high road" in situations writhe with overwhelming adversity. They're not only technologists and entrepreneurs, but also parents. They know failure and success.  They've persevered through the relentless challenges in life, love, and family.  Rather than pretend they are perfectly enlightened and impervious to hardship, they embrace their humanity together.  They actively support their communities with hard-earned wisdom.  They lead support groups for men, serve as outdoor emergency care technicians for the National Ski Patrol, and lead by example.  Their families, and customers, count on them to do the right thing.  

Internally, the founders strive to apply hard-earned lessons to ensure Quanta's success.  They created the business structure with premier legal representation and engineered the product from the ground up, leaving no stone unturned.

How long have you been working on your project?
5
Where are you headquartered?
Las Vegas, NV, USA
What type of organization is your project?
  • For-profit, including B-Corp or similar models
More About Your Work
Your Business Model & Funding
The Prize
Solution Team:
Bartosz "Azatar" Solowiej
Bartosz "Azatar" Solowiej
Co-Founder
Marshall Smith
Marshall Smith
CEO
manuel Fritzenwallner
manuel Fritzenwallner