The Sun Exchange

The Sun Exchange

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The Sun Exchange is a marketplace where you can purchase and then lease solar cells to power businesses and communities in the sunniest locations on earth, earning decades of Bitcoin income backed by the power of the sun.

SUNEX is our rewards token. Our members earn SUNEX from making purchases and building a diverse solar cell portfolio to upgrade their accounts. Higher user levels get bonus lease rates, discounts on purchases, priority access to projects as well as other useful perks.
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General
Website: Visit
White paper: Read
Pre-sale Time: 22 Apr 2018 - 21 May 2018
ICO Time: 21 May 2018 - 31 Dec 2018
Whitelist/KYC: KYC
Country: South Africa
Token info
Ticker: SUNEX
Platform: Ethereum
Token Type: ERC223
Available for sale: 166,666,667 SUNEX (50%)
Financial
Raised $ 1,068,205
ICO Price: 1 SUNEX = 1 USD
Accepting: BTC, ETH, Fiat
Soft cap: 5,400,000 USD
Hard cap: 25,000,000 USD
IDEATION STAGE OCT 2014 - JAN 2015
Joined Microsoft Bizspark, Founder Quit Job, Raised Funds.<br /> <br /> <br /> Abraham Cambridge pitched “solar powered money” to a panel of judges and was accepted into Microsoft Bizspark’s Cape Town business incubator. Abraham soon quit his prestigious solar engineering job to build the business full time. Sun Exchange then smashed it on Indiegogo, with over 100 enthusiastic backers in 30 nations contributing 1.5x the funding target.
BUSINESS MODELLING JAN 2015 - NOV 2015
Pre-seed financing raised via Indiegogo
PROTOTYPE BUILD JAN 2015 - NOV 2015
The Stellenbosch Waldorf School solar project (project #1) becomes the world's first cryptocurrency infrastructure financing.<br /> <br /> Boost VC pre-seed investment, affiliation with SolarCoin Foundation.
MVP BUILD AUG 2016 - SEP 2017
KAL Tire (previously "Tire Corp.", project #2) completed.
PROXIMA LAUNCH SEP 2017 - MAR 2018
A Successful Business: More Solar Projects Funded.<br /> <br /> <br /> Sun Exchange account holders grew to 3000, and the pipeline of viable projects expanded, with requests coming from around the world. Sun Exchange announced two new opportunities: a rural micro-grid in Lesotho, and an elephant sanctuary in South Africa. Over 15,000 solar cells were sold to power the Knysna Elephant Park, and construction commenced<br /> <br /> <br /> C.R.O.W. (project #3 completed).<br /> <br /> Knysna Elephant Park (project #4) completed.<br /> <br /> Techstars incubation and pre-seed investment.<br /> <br /> First phase of Project Proxima, the rebuild of the company's MVP, released.
SUNEX TOKEN SALE LAUNCH APR 2018
Sun Exchange launches their token sale
Screenshots taken on 1 Apr 2018
Abraham Cambridge
CEO/Founder
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Larry Temlock
CFO/Co-Founder
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Lisa Lyhne
COO
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Morwesi Ramonyai
CCO
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Anthony Stonefield
HEAD OF VENTURE DEVELOPMENT
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Lourens Coetzer
VP OF ENGINEERING
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Richard Titus
MANAGING PARTNER OF ARK ICO ADVISORS
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Barrett Jakeman
Community Manager
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Andrew Murray
Marketing
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Advisors (10)

Lawrence Botley
BLOCKCHAIN EXPERT & SOFTWARE ARCHITECT
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Thierry Schang
SOFTWARE AND MACHINE LEARNING EXPERT
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Karl Sigman
PROFESSOR OF ENGINEERING AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
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Michael Terpin
CEO OF TRANSFORM GROUP & ADVISOR FOR ICO BOX
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David Orban
CEO OF NETWORK SOCIETY VENTURES, CHAIRMAN OF NETWORK SOCIETY LABS
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David Provenzani
BOARD MEMBER OF THE ‘ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS’
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Joby Weeks
CEO OF BITCLUB
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Gil Sperling
FOUNDER OF POPIMEDIA
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Danny Kennedy
MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CALIFORNIA CLEAN ENERGY FUND
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Gavin Marshall
FOUNDER OF SHAREBIT.IO
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