Pipe It! Platforms, Funding, and the Future

Pipe is building an entirely new asset class based on recurring revenue contracts. It’s not equity and it’s not a loan. Pipe lets businesses raise money today by selling their monthly or quarterly subscription cash flows directly through its platform.

So much for the fat protocol thesis, we might say. The platforms of web3 start to look a lot like the p2p platforms of web2 and web1: the Pipes, the Airbnbs, the Ebays that win markets by capturing liquidity for rare, non-fungible items and services, their strong liquidity moat giving them strong commissions.

he notion that you essentially lend out your assets for a finite time, with the full intention of regaining those assets, offers the ability to access capital without indefinitely forfeiting your work. In a lot of ways, it’s actually like what Pipe enables now, where creators or businesses with recurring revenue can trade those future cash flows fo... See more