Raymond Edwards's Contact Details

Raymond Edwards's Company Details

Dream Exchange

, , US • 20 - 49 Employees
Financial Services

Dream Exchange is currently creating two new and innovative stock exchanges. The first Minority-owned national market system exchange and the first venture stock exchange will be created with the aim of increasing participation and access to public capital markets.Our national market system exchange will provide a simple, compliant, turn-key solution to increase participation from more diverse communities in finance and capital markets. We believe in adding humanity to finance. People from all corners of society deserve an equal opportunity to fund their dreams and build mature, public companies.Our venture exchange will connect early, mid, and late-stage companies with key investment at critical stages of their lifecycle. We believe that to raise communities, we must first raise the capital that allows the businesses in those communities to expand, hire, flourish and prosper.In 2015, Joe Cecala, Founder and CEO of Dream Exchange, began to research the capital marketplace and found that the small IPO market had been in decline since the late 1990's. The development of high-frequency electronic trading made small IPOs less profitable for large investment banks and stock exchanges and the result was a steep decline in the number of IPOs in the $50 million and under range. Cecala understood that this problem affected people from every sector of our society because, 92% of all jobs created within a company are created after the company goes public.Cecala's solution was to create legislation to alter the market structure and to invent a new type of stock exchange designed for small-to-medium-sized businesses. In late 2019, Cecala partnered with Dwain Kyles, Managing Member of DX Capital Partners to allow for Dream Exchange's scope to expand and not only help small businesses, but also to address the lack of Minority representation in finance by becoming the first Minority-owned exchange.For more information about us, click here- https://www.liinks.co/dreamex