While last year R3 had implied that the company had a larger goal of raising $200 mln in funding, R3 told Fortune that the figure came from a now-cancelled plan to sell a stake in a research subsidiary.
The unnamed former R3 employees told Fortune that the consortium's internal financial targets are "10X short" of their revenue, with the figure described as "Laughably off."
At the end of May, Forex settlement provider CLS invested $5 mln in R3 as part of a reported third round of R3 fundraising.
R3's founding members had included banking giants JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, but Goldman Sachs left the consortium in 2016.
An unnamed Goldman Sachs source told Fortune that the bank left due to the unexpectedly large size of the consortium.
R3 recently partnered with enterprise startup Bloxian Technology, which is notable in that it is a step away from the business model of partnering with banks.
R3's turn to enterprise blockchain sales means that they are now competing with organizations like the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, whose members include JP Morgan and Microsoft, as well as Hyperledger, according to Fortune.
R3 also filed a lawsuit against Ripple last year, claiming that the latter had violated an agreement for R3 to purchase 5 bln XRP tokens for $0.0085 before the end of 2019.
Ripple denies an obligation to pay, citing R3's alleged failure to follow through on parts of the agreement.
The case will be held in New York City, with the value of 5 bln XRP now equal to around $3.3 bln - which could represent a much-need cash infusion, Fortune reports.
Fortune: R3 Blockchain Consortium Is 'Running out of Money', Director Denies Rumors
Published on Jun 8, 2018
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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