Altify: Empowering Nexubis
Damn. Let’s talk about Altify. This one hits close to home and it is a personal client for me. Back when they were still Revix in 2023, they became Nexubis’s first retainer. But they weren’t just Client Number One. They were the launchpad. Picture me at a desk with more caffeine than confidence and no team. Altify said yes anyway. Then they kept saying yes.
The rewind
October 2021. I walk into Altify as a UI and UX designer, still second-guessing myself thanks to a previous employer that “did a number on me” to put it politely. Within months, the team and my HOD are pushing me forward and Sean Sanders is dragging me into real pitch decks. Suddenly I’m not just moving pixels. I’m translating a founder’s vision into something investors can feel in their gut.
People I met there became friends. Some became clients. The early growth of Nexubis has a straight line back to those relationships and to Sean betting on me when it counted. I watched how he led. I stole liberally. That stretch still lives in my head as the golden era.
And the office? Proper vibe. Real check-ins. Division getaways that felt earned. Friday updates with shoutouts and actual prizes. Early Friday knock-off and a drink with the team. Sean closing the week with “Onwards and Upwards”. Simple line. Big imprint.
I walked in a designer. I walked out a leader. In two years, two promotions and three raises. Ridiculous. Sorry, Sean, for being the cocky designer with something to prove. Also, thank you for letting me prove it.
What Altify actually does
Altify’s north star is simple: To make investing in tokenised private market investments as easy as buying stocks.
Altify is a regulated investment platform in both Europe and South Africa that enables you to invest in the same opportunities as the ultra-wealthy.
What that looks like in your hands:
- Invest in institutional-grade tokenised assets from private credit funds to US stocks to crypto strategies to commodities and beyond. Starting with as little as $10.
- Access a clean web app and proper mobile apps. No circus.
- And soon, Altify's AI Insights tool, built into their app's UX, will analyse market news and analyst reports to provide you with insights on what’s driving asset prices.
Translation: One investment app to build wealth without the needless complexity and high investing minimums.
The founder
Sean does not know how to quit. On the days where I feel cooked, I literally think, Sean is probably taking larger hits and still moving. So move. Onwards and Upwards. That kind of stubborn optimism compounds, and you feel it across the company. At some point he told me, “If you do something, you have to do it all the way, otherwise why do it?” That line stuck. It still sits in my head whenever I’m tempted to half-do anything.
What Altify empowered us to do
Altify trusted Nexubis with work I’m proud to show my future kids (hopefully not anytime soon):
- Rebrand Revix into Altify after the merger.
- Build the brand system end to end. Logo, identity, guidelines, the works.
- Design and ship the website and platform bits.
- Produce marketing, sales, investor collateral, emails, and pitch decks that carry the story cleanly.
I’ve worked on this brand for over four years. It’s close to my heart. If I have a magnum opus so far, Altify is a contender.
Why this matters to Nexubis
Altify was the first real vote of confidence. Referrals we still get today, clients who came through that network, even how we run our internal culture now, a lot of it traces back. Access matters. Trust matters. They gave us both, plus a shove in the right direction.
Gratitude
To everyone at Altify who opened doors and gave me room to grow, thank you. You know who you are. A chunk of Nexubis’s early success lives in those connections and opportunities.
I could keep going, but that’s a whole chapter. Altify helped me turn doubt into direction and a job into a journey. From designer to founder. From one client to a company.
Onwards and Upwards ;)
