Hamilton Lane, a global private markets investment firm, has announced a strategic investment in Republic, an on-chain global investment platform.
The investment builds on the existing partnership between Hamilton Lane and Republic, and underscores Hamilton Lane's long-term strategy to modernize and expand access to private markets. Together, the firms are enabling broader participation in the private markets asset class, which has historically been limited to institutions and high-net-worth investors.
Hamilton Lane's investment will allow Republic to broaden its efforts in leveraging tokenization and on-chain infrastructure to further expand and modernize access, enhance efficiency and transparency and foster long-term retail investor engagement across its platform. The strategic investment will also support continued innovation around product design, distribution, tokenization and investor education.
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