Blockchain startup

Blockchain(2017)
50 Companies
Made by Sota Watanabe
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Table of Contents
Preface.
50 Companies.
Additional Companies.

Generally speaking, the society is based on capitalism, democracy,
trust, and fiction. These systems and ideas are based on the view which
humans are born inherently good. Unfortunately, humans are not so rational
and altruistic.
ブロックチェーンの衝撃（2016), Sapiens: brief history of humankind (2015)
Why Blockchain？
“Blockchain Change the World.”
The Problem.
Make a society which is based on trustless system and the view which
humans are born inherently evil by using blockchain. This is not because my
giving up believing humans, but because making the society ,“Everyone can
pursue one’s potential.”
Solution.
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Big Picture
〜1995 2000s ?????
2008 Research paper of Satoshi Nakamoto1995 Internet
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Expectation
“The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the
cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain, the technology behind digital
currencies like Bitcoin.”
Harvard Business Review Don Tapscot
“The progress of mankind is marked by the rise of new technologies and thehuman ingenuity they
unlock. In distributed ledger technology, we may be witnessing one of those potential explosions of
creative potential that catalyse exceptional levels of innovation. The technology could prove to have
the capacity to deliver a new kind of trust to a wide range of services. As we have seen open data
revolutionise the citizen’s relationship with the state, so may the visibility in these technologies reform
our financial markets, supply chains, consumer and business-to-business services, and publicly-held
registers.”
A report by the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser
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ブロックチェーンとは？(Japanese) ブロックチェーンの特徴
①改ざんが極めて困難である。
②実質ゼロ・ダウンタイムなシステム。
③安価に構築可能。
①に関してはなぜ改ざんが困難かというと2つの特徴がある。
１つ目は「分散的」な管理システムだから。
このようなシステムを一般的にP2Pという。（Peer to Peer)
従来、お金の取引は銀行などの第３者機関が仲介することに
よって信頼性を担保してきたが、ブロックチェーンでは全ての
履歴を皆で共有することによって信頼性を担保している。
これによって第３者機関が必要なくなると一般的に言われている。
２つ目は「各取引履歴は順番にブロックに収納されていて各ブロッ
クが直前のブロックとつながっているために改ざんが困難」
図を参照のこと。例えば、データが保管されている１つの
ブロックのデータを改ざんすると、チェーンで繋がっている前、
後ろのデータとの整合性が取れなくなるので改ざんをしたら
瞬時に見つかる。
革新性
いつだって経済活動の基盤は取引だった。
歴史的にいままで取引相手の信頼性の担保の為に
非常に多くのコストがかかってきた。
信頼性担保の仕組みの例
・格付け、会計監査・公証人・登記・中央銀行
しかし、ブロックチェーンを利用することで参加者同士が
相互に協力・監視するシステムが成り立つので
社会システムを維持する為に多大なコストを払って
構築してきた中央集権的な第3者機関が不要になる。 7

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System by Satoshi Nakamoto
Source: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
Just 9 Pages paper changed the world.
In this research paper, Satoshi created the concept of Peer-to-Peer model and PoW.
By using blockchain, we can make transactions without 3rd parties.
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Python Analysis of Satoshi’s paper
27 transaction
24 block
20 transactions
17 nodes
17 attacker
16 chain
15 blocks
14 network
14 honest
14 Hash
13 Block
11 proof-of-work
10 probability
9 timestamp
9 system
9 Owner
9 CPU
8 trusted
8 only
8 next
7 proof
7 majority
7 coins
7 chain,
7 Prev
7 Nonce
7 Merkle
6 working
6 work6
6 value
6 time
6 sender
6 number
6 node
6 make
6 long
6 double
6 block,
6 Nodes
6 Key
6.trust
# Word # Word
47 times transaction(s)
30 times block(,)
28times honest + trust(ed)
23 times chain(,)
23 times node(,)
This paper is about “trust” and “transaction”.
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プログラミング言語Pythonを用い論文を分析しました。分析の結果、論文中に「trust」と「transaction」が多用されているという結果を得ました。

Blockchain companies from CB INSIGHTS
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Source : https://www.coindesk.com/uc-berkeley-partners-blockchain-startup-health-data-research/
Company: BITMARK Taiwan
Class : Data Management
01 : Identity
Blockchain : BitcoinCore??? Seed：$1.7M
General : Bitmark is a blockchain startup that makes
it easier for creators to claim ownership of their
digital property by making it easy for people to mark
their one-of-a-kind digital files with their own unique identity.
Feature :
• legal innovation will be needed.
(Viktor Mayer-Schönberger of the University of Oxford)
• Cooperate with UC Berkeley.
• Public health and medical information research
projects was funded.
• keep track of who has accessed data
Impact: Secure data sharing.
Monetize: Providing secure data sharing service.
"The School of Public Health at UC Berkeley is excited to partner with
Bitmark Inc on this research fellowship. It is a great opportunity for our young
researchers to gain valuable hands-on experience at the intersection of public
health and technology.” -UC Berkeley
Mission
Bitmark envisions a new internet built on individual freedom and
empowerment where everyone owns a piece of the digital economy.
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Source : https://thenextweb.com/media/2016/01/25/future-media-monetization-cryptocurrencies-micropayments/#.tnw_LQJzm0Jw
Company: SatoshiPay Germany
Class : Small payment
02 : Payment
Blockchain : BitcoinCore Seed：$390K
General : SatoshiPay is a nano-paywell platform for
Online media.
Feature :
• The main idea behind the platform is to let users pay very small
amounts — a few cents, in most cases — for the content they consume.
It’s possible to set up charging per-paragraph, per-image or per-page,
whatever the publisher deems the best.
• offering ad blocker detection with a possibility to ask readers who
refuse to view ads to make a small donation that would help the website
survive.
Impact: Small online payment.
Monetize: making money by taking a fee of about 10 percent from each transaction
“Cryptocurrencies make things possible that were not possible before
in payment technology. They also remove a lot of friction, which sounds
contrary to what most people think of Bitcoin.” Meinhard Benn
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Source : https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/01/mediachain-enivisions-a-blockchain-based-tool-for-identifying-artists-work-across-the-internet/
Company: Mediachain Brooklyn
Class : Identifying artist’s work Founder: Denis Nazarov
03 : Identity
Blockchain : Bitcoincore Seed：???
General : Mediachain is a blockchain data solution
for connecting applications to media and information.
Today, publishers depend on centralized platforms for
their identity, audience and monetization.
Mediachain connects auther and reader directly.
Feature :
• Peer-to-peer database for sharing information
across applications and organizations.
• 2 million images or metadata records.
• Cooperate with Spotify.
Impact: Creator friendly
Monetize: ???
“What if all the information out there on the internet was shared … using
Mediachain anywhere the media is you can identify the author and the story
behind the image,” says Jesse Walden, one of the other co-founders of the company.
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Source : http://fortune.com/2015/08/18/filament-blockchain-iot/
Company: FILAMENT
Class : IoT Founder: Eric Jennings
04 : IoT
Blockchain : Ethereum??? Seed：$5M
General : Filament build rugged sensor packages
($25), and they are connecting each other.
They can share each information automatically.
Feature :
Hardware
• Gathering data from farms, mines, oil platforms and other remote
or highly secure places.
• Devices can be nodes which connect existing machinery and industrial
infrastructure to the network, or directly to each other.
Software
• Secure network
Impact: Cost cut, decentralization, and autonomy
Monetize: Sell Hardware and Software
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Source : https://www.chronicled.com/
Company: CHRONICLED
Class : C2C
05 : IoT
Blockchain : Seed: $4825K Market: $12B US
General : CHRONICLED provides C2C sneaker market
by using IoT and blockchain. It delivers trusted IoT and
supply chain solutions to enterprise clients. Chronicled
secures IoT device identities, data, and event logs and
automates IoT-dependent business logic through smart
contracts.
Feature :
• Using Smart Contract
• Provide chips and manage them by blockchain.
• Selected 3 blockchain startup by Plug and play.
Impact: distinguishing a genuine from a fake.
Monetize: Providing market place
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Blockchain×Strage,Security
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Source : https://chainalysis.com
: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/chainalysis#/entity
Company: Chainalysis New York 2014〜
Class : Bitcoin API Founder: Jonathan Levin Employee: 〜10
06 : Security
Seed: $1.6M 1 round from 5 investors.
General : Chainalysis is building the layer of
compliance for the future of value exchange.
Chainalysis is the leading provider of Anti-Money
Laundering software for digital currencies.
Feature :
• Customers: government and bunks.
• $10 billion worth of transactions was checked.
• Interactive investigation tool.
• Visualized, good UI
Impact: detect fraud and prevent money laundering
Monetize: Providing APIs
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Source : https://www.coindesk.com/bloq-acqui-hires-blockchain-analytics-firm-skry/
Company: Skry Palo Alto 2014〜
Class : Big data, analysis Employee: 〜10
07 : Analysis
Bitcoin Seed： $1.1M
General : Blockchain analytics and intelligence firm.
It provides an end-to-end platform that enables
enterprises to derive real-time business intelligence
and risk assessment from Blockchains and decentralized
applications.
Feature :
• Anti fraud
• Cyber security
• Provide to financial institutions, law enforcement, and
Bitcoin companies to detect suspicious activity.
• Has been acquired by Bloq.
Impact: Data science × blockchain transactions.
Monetize: consulting
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Source : https://storj.io/
Company: Storj Georgia 2014〜
Class : decentralized storage service Founder: John Quinn Employee: 10〜50
08 : Storage
Blockchain : Ethereum Capital(seed)：$34.8M($4.8M)
5 rounds from 8 investors
General : Storj leverages cryptocurrency, blockchains,
and the power of the crowd to create the world's largest,
cheapest, and safest cloud. Each year, 2/3s of all new
hard drives are put directly into PCs. These drives are
rarely used to capacity. By scavenging these wasted
resources, Storj can provide unlimited cloud storage
at a fraction of the cost of a traditional data-center.
Feature :
• ICO $30M July 11 2017
• Cheap and secure
Impact: decentralize cloud.
Monetize: charge
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Blockchain×P2P marketplace
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Source : https://atlas.money/
Company: Atlas New York 2014〜
Class : Mobile banking Founder: James Schuler Employee: 11-50
09 : mobile banking
Seed： $2.2M 3 rounds from 9 investors.
General :Atlas connects communities around the
world through mobile banking. It provides financial
access to people all over the world by hooking into
existing social systems, allowing for access to security,
loans, and other financial products. The blockchain
shows proof of origin for the money and all transactions,
ensuring users know exactly where their money is and
the latest transactions on their account
Feature :
• Aim at emerging market.
• mobile peer-to-peer application.
• access to savings and credit through a decentralised solution.
Impact: Mobile, financial inclusion, transparency
Monetize: transaction fee.
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Source : http://gigazine.net/news/20160114-open-bazaar/
Company: OpenBazaar Washington
Class : P2P Market Founder: Brian Hoffman Employee:1〜10
10 : EC
Blockchain : Bitcoincore Seed：$1M Capital: $4.2M
3 rounds from 5 investor
General : OpenBazaar is a decentralized cryptocurrency
marketplace that enables its users to trade online.
By running a program on the computer, you can
connect directly to other users in the OpenBazaar network
and trade with them. This network isn't controlled by a
company, it's a decentralized network that isn't run by any
organization at all. Then, there are no mandatory fees to
pay, and that your trade is censorship-resistant.
Feature :
• Open source
• Peer to peer trade
• Cheap fee.
Impact: totally free market
Monetize: chaerge, donation(now)
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Blockchain×Marchant Service
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Source : http://www.posabit.com/
Company: POSaBIT Seattle
Class : payment Founder: Ryan Hamlin Employee: 11-50
11 : Payment
Bitcoin Seed：$1.5M 1 round for 1 investor
General : POSaBIT is a financial technology company
that creates an easy way for consumers to acquire
digital currency at the point of sale. They can then
use the virtual currency to make purchases at that
store through the POSaBIT system, or make purchases
anywhere that accepts digital currency, such as bitcoin
or litecoin, as a form of payment.
Feature :
• Security system / reporting
• Micro-merchants
• No need to DL 3rd party App
Impact: creates an easy way for consumers to acquire digital currency
Monetize: ???
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Source : https://www.bitwage.com/
Company: BITWAGE San Francisco 2013〜
Class : Jobs and wages Founder: John Lindsay Employee: 1-10
12 : Payment
Bitcoin Software Seed： $750K 2 rounds from 7 investors
General : Jobs and Wages for Remote Workers
and Dev Shops. It creates solutions for remote workers
looking for work and to optimally receive their wages.
It offers unique jobs, flexible distributions, reduced
payroll costs and increased fulfillment speeds.
Feature :
• Plug and play invested.
• iOS and Android are available.
• Blockchain guarantee Insured wage.
• 14K workers, 24M wages.
Impact: receive salary from abroad safely
Monetize: charge
"the best way for professionals to receive salaries from abroad”
By infomoney
"paying team members scattered around the globe has actually been easy”
By BBC
"a way to avoid the delayed payments, currency exchange delays, and
processing errors that are plaguing international contractors.”
PC Magazine
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Source : https://www.bitgo.com/solutions#blockchains
Company: bitGo Polo Alto 2013〜
Class : Founder:Will O’Brien Employee: 11-50
13 : Security
Series A：$12M 2 round from 13 investors
General : BitGo empowers businesses to integrate
digital currencies into their existing financial systems
securely and at scale without ever taking custody of
the asset. The company offers an enterprise-grade,
multi-sig, multi-user Bitcoin wallet, as well as API access
to its underlying security platform. BitGo was founded
by Mike Belshe, Ben Davenport, and Will O’Brien, veterans
in online security, digital currency, and financial technology.
Feature :
• Processes over $1B transaction per month
• Provides private blockchain, API, and wallet
Impact: Secure B2B blockchain
Monetize: consulting, API
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Source : https://www.simplex.com/
Company: Simplex Tel Aviv 2014〜
Class : Founder: Netanel Kabala Employee: 11-50
14 : Security
Seed : $1M Series A: $7M 2 rounds from 6 investors.
General : Simplex is a cybersecurity company focused
on identity verification and credit card fraud mitigation.
It supports bitcoin exchanges, broker websites, and wallet
applications with a platform for selling bitcoins online via
credit card transactions. It simplifies conventional bitcoin
purchases, allowing better access to the buying and selling
of bitcoins. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Feature :
• Based on Israel
• No fraud
• No hassle interfacing with clearing banks
• AI (machine learning)
Impact: Fraud detection
Monetize: system 29

Source : https://www.bitpesa.co/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitpesa#/entity
Company: BitPesa Nairovi 2013〜
Class : FX Founder: Elizabeth Rossiello Employee: 11-50
15 : FX
Seed: $1.7M Series A: $7M 5 rounds from 11 investors
General : BitPesa is an online payment platform that
leverages Blockchain settlement to significantly lower
the cost and increase the speed of business payments to,
from and within sub-Saharan Africa. BitPesa's clients
range from African businesses and multinational companies
paying suppliers as far as China and Dubai to international
remittance companies using our API services for white-label
payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money
operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal,
and the DRC.
Feature :
• Based on Africa
• 85+ countries, 6000 users, 17,000transactions
Impact: Safe FX and B2B payment
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Blockchain×Enterprise services
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Source : https://gem.co/
Company: Gem CA 2013〜
Class : application platform Founder: Micah Wimkelspecht Employee: 11-50
16 : Application Platform
Seed: $3.3M Series A：$7.6M $12.5M 5 rounds from 23 investor
General : Gem’s blockchain application platform
transforms how companies connect to solve industry
wide problems. By connecting companies to shared
infrastructure, industries can eliminate data silos and
orchestrate cross-industry workflows. Gem’s platform
applies blockchain technology to identity, data, logic
and network management across multiple industries
including finance and healthcare. The result is GemOS,
an operating system for global computers.
Feature :
• Connecting companies.
• Providing OS of platform.
• Health care, and supply chain.
Impact: One identity and one timeline.
Monetize: providing platform
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Source : https://www.factom.com/about
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/factom#/entity
Company: Factom Austin 2015〜
Class : decentralized information Founder: Peter kirby Employee: 48
17 : Data
Series A：$8M Seed: $1.5M 4 rounds from 7 investors.
General : Factom stores the world's data on a decentralized
system. Using blockchain technology for solution in the
Mortgage Industry, IoT device integrity, digital assets and
database integrity. Using the immutability of blockchain
technology Factom provides 3rd party compliance,
audit and due diligence certainty.
Feature :
• 125M records
• 10M entries
• 104K anchors
• Cooperate with Bill Gates fundation
Impact: Secure data management
Monetize: provide p2p system
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Source : https://imagine-orb.com/company/
Company: orb Tokyo 2014〜
Class : Local payment Founder: Masa Nakatsu Employee: 11-50
18 : Payment
Seed: $2.8M 2 rounds from 5 investors
General : Orb is a software foundation focused on providing
business solutions to solve the issues of its current economic
system. It is involved in the development of a decentralized
cloud computing system for its users. The company’s core
objectives vary from decentralizing its economic system to
promoting digital currency, along with a settlements system
that depends on a natural depreciation model and producing
a coexistence-based new growth index. Through its decentralized
technology, Orb enables various economic regions to run their
systems without the support of a central governance model.
Feature :
• Original technology “Orb DLT”
• Platform software
Impact: Focus on local economy
Monetize: providing system(“orb DLT”)
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Source : https://www.blockcypher.com/
Company: Blockcypher Redwoodcity 2014〜
Class : Amazon web service Founder: Catheryne Nicholeson Employee: 11-50
19 : Infrastructure
Seed：$3.4M 2 rounds from 20 investors
General : BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized platform
powering blockchain applications reliably and at-scale.
BlockCypher's web services are blockchain agnostic and
greatly reduce the complexity of building applications
that run on multiple blockchains. Easily build, run and
future proof blockchain applications on BlockCypher's
Infrastructure.
Feature :
• Talented partners.
• Invested by 500 startups.
• Multiple services.
Impact: providing the infrastructure of blocjchain
Monetize: providing platforms
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Source : https://www.colu.com/
Company: colu. Israel 2014〜
Class : local payment Founder: Mark Smargon Employee: 11-50
20 : Payment
Seed: $2.5M Series A：$9.6M 2 rounds from 4 investors
General : By giving people the ability to exchange digital cash
directly with one another Colu is creating a new way of thinking
about money that encourages sustainable and equitable economic
growth while supporting local businesses. Colu believes that real
change begins at the local level. Through the use of local currencies,
more people shop local, eat local, buy local, and live local, strengthening
the local economy, and keeping the control of money in everyone's hands.
With a strong and inclusive local economy people feel more connected to
one another, increasing social responsibility and social capital.
Feature :
• Pay with your smartphone.
• Increase social capital.
• Secure payment.
Impact: enhance social connection.
Monetize: transaction fee
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Blockchain×Marchant Service
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Source : https://www.brave.com/
Company: Brave San Francisco 2015〜
Class : SaaS Founder: Brendan Eich Employee: ???
21 : SaaS
Ethereum Seed: $7M ICO：$35M
General : Brave Software focuses on increasing
browsing speed and safety for users, while growing
ad revenue share for content creators. Brave aims to
transform the online ad ecosystem with micropayments
and a new revenue-sharing solution to give users
and publishers a better deal, where fast, safe browsing
is the path to a brighter future for the open web.
Feature :
• Faster 2×〜8×, safer, ad-free
• Save money as $23 a month
• Block ad and tracker
• Secure
• Micropayment ad
Impact: brows fast and secure
Monetize: providing software
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Source : https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reveal-3#/entity
Company: Reveal San Francisco 2014〜
Class : Social Network Founder: Josh Beal Employee: 1-10
22 : SNS
Seed：$1.5M 1 round from 5 investors
General : Reveal is a social network where friends can ask
users questions, either anonymously or as themselves, and
users can answer them with a photo or video revealing their
opinions.Reveal Coin (RVL) is the currency of attention on
Reveal issued by the Stellar network or by inviting friends to
join Reveal. Users can earn Reveal Coin by posting content that
gets likes from other users. Once a week the app adds up all
the likes and sends out Reveal Coin as an appreciation for their
contributions.
Feature :
• Available for Android and iOS
• Social network using blockchain
Impact: SNS×Blockchain
Monetize: ???
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Source : https://blockstack.org/
Company: Blockstack New York 2013〜
Class : decentralize Application Founder: Ryan Shea Employee:???
23 : Security
Seed: $1.5M Series A：$4M 3 rounds from 14 investors
General : Blockstack is a new decentralized internet
and developer platform for secure and server-less
Applications. It focuses on decentralized applications
and allowing users to be in control of their data,
identities, and software.
Feature :
• 73,816 users
• 7153 community dev
• users get digital keys that let them own their identity.
• Blockstack's storage system allows users to bring their
own storage.
• Blockstack's storage system allows users to bring their own storage
Impact: New decentralized internet.
Monetize: Application
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Blockchain×Capital Finantial Services
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Source : https://ripple.com/
Company: ripple San Francisco 2012〜
Class : payment Founder: Chris Larsen Employee: 101〜250
23 : International Payment
Seed: $3.5M Angel: $3M Series A：$32M Series B: $55
General : Ripple offers a global real-time payment system that
enables banks and financial institutions around the world to
directly transact with each other without the need for a central
correspondent. The company also offers FX Market Making,
a solution enabling enterprises to gain access to cross-currency
liquidity through a distributed network that allows foreign exchange
to be externally sourced from a competitive FX marketplace or
an internal FX trading desk. This minimizes FX exposure thereby
lowering the volatility and counter-party risk of trades. Ripple
Insights features industry updates, insider perspectives,
and in-depth market analysis. Founded in 2012.
Feature :
• International transaction, FX
• instant, certain, low-cost international payments.
Impact: send money globally, using blockchain technology.
Monetize: charge
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Source :https://markets.funderbeam.com/
Company: Funderbeam Estonia,UK
Class : Investment without 3rd party CEO: kaidi Ruusalepp
24 : Investment
Blockchain : ???
General :Funderbeam is a stock-exchange for startups.
A growth company’ funding doesn’t have to adhere to
the usual structure of seed round investment, series A,
series B, etc. – instead it can just fund however much
it wants whenever it wants.
Feature :
• Platform for everyone.
• Open up for anyone to take part in investing
in startups, not for just VCs and angels.
• Fee
• For investors its just 1% of any profit you make.
• Making lots of data and analysis tools available to investors.
Impact: The democratize the investment process.
Monetize: 1% of any profit you make.
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Source : http://peernova.com/
Company: PEERNOVA San Jose 2014〜
Class : Data Founder: Naveed Sherwani Employee: 11-50
25 : Data
Seed: ??? Series A：$13M Series B: $4M Capital: $31M
General : PeerNova is a Silicon Valley-based technology
company founded by veteran entrepreneurs with deep
expertise in distributed systems, networking solutions,
compiler technology, and financial services. The team
consists of members with past experience at Intel,
Qualcomm, Visa, IBM, and HSBC. PeerNova combines the
best of Blockchain with Big Data and Cloud to uniquely
enable financial institutions to securely and verifiably
manage their data and address their reconciliation,
audit, and compliance challenges.
Feature :
• Secure data in financial industry
Impact: the new standard for storing, securing, and validating data.
Monetize: http://peernova.com/solutions/
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Source : https://symbiont.io/technology/
Company: symbiont New York 2015〜
Class : Founder: Mark Smith Employee: 11-50
26 : Security
Capital： $7M 5 rounds from 8 investors
General : Symbiont’s proprietary Smart Security®
technology allows complex financial instruments
to be modeled in an easy to understand programming
language and fully digitized onto a distributed ledger.
By using Smart Security® , user can share data, save cost,
eliminate tampeling, reduce risk, increase transparency
grow and adapt.
Feature :
Adapted to
• Syndicated and corporate loans
• Private equity and crowdfunding
• Corporate debt
• Asset digitization
Impact: ???
Monetize: smart security
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Source : https://ledgerx.com/
Company: LedgerX New York 2013〜
Class : Founder: Paul L Chou Employee: 11-50
27 : Exchange platform
Seed: $1.5M Series A：?? Series: $11M
General : LedgerX, LLC develops an institutional
derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies.
It has applied for registration with the U.S. Commodity
Futures Trading Commission to operate a swap
execution facility and derivatives clearing organization.
Feature :
• The LedgerX management team comprises Goldman Sachs,
MIT and CFTC alumni, who bring financial expertise, technical
talent and regulatory experience to the firm.
Impact: institutional derivatives exchange platform for digital currencies.
Monetize: charge
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Source : https://blockstream.com/
Company: Blockstream San Francisco 2014〜
Class : Founder: Adam Back Employee: 11-50
28 : Slidechain
Seed: $21M↑ Series A：$55M Capital: $126M
$126M 4 rounds from 22 investors
General : Blockstream is the leading provider of blockchain
technologies, on the forefront of work in cryptography and
distributed systems. From fraud to counterfeiting, from security
to confidentiality, from accountability to transparency, the mission
is to solve problems that undermine trust in today's financial
Systems. Blockstream provides a range of software and hardware
solutions and expert professional services to companies deploying
new blockchain-based networks.
Feature : innovation in
• crypto currencies
• open assets
• smart contracts
Impact: slidechains
Monetize: open source platform
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Source : https://axoni.com/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/icap-completes-blockchain-technology-test-1549595
Company: Axoni New York 2013〜
Class :financial Founder: Jeff Schvey Employee: 11-50
29 : Security
Series A：$20M 1 round from 10 investors
General : Axoni serves the world’s largest financial
institutions and capital markets service providers with
full stack blockchain solutions. It is a New York-based capital
markets technology firm that specializes in distributed ledger
infrastructure. The company was founded in 2013 by a team
of distributed ledger technology entrepreneurs and
cryptography specialists. Axoni’s product offerings include
distributed ledger technology deployments, bespoke smart
contract development and analytics tools.
Feature :
• Distributed ledger technology
• Smart contract
• Analytics tool
• investors
Impact: distributed-ledger technology for financial firms
Monetize: consulting financial firms
48

Source : https://sldx.com/
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/setl#/entity
Company: SETL London 2015〜
Class : settlements and payments Founder: Peter Randall Employee: 1-10
30 : payment
Series A：$39M 2 rounds from 1 investor.
General : SETL is an inititive to deploy a multi-asset,
multi-currency institutional payment and settlements
infrastructure based on blockchain technology. The SETL
system will enable market participants to move cash and
assets directly between each other, facilitating the immediate
and final settlement of market transactions. The SETL system
maintains a permissioned distributed ledger of ownership and
transaction records, simplifying the process of matching,
settlement, custody, registration and transaction reporting.
Feature :
• Identification
• Payment and DVP
• High capacity
• Secure messaging
Monetize: SETL OpenCSD
49

Source : https://chain.com/technology/
Company: Chain San Francisco 2014〜
Class : for developer Founder: Devon GundryEmployee: 11-50
31 : Finantial
Seed: $4.2M Series B：$9.5M SeriesC: $30M 3 rounds from 22 investors
General : Chain is a blockchain technology company that partners with
financial firms to build and deploy blockchain networks which
transform markets. Its solutions enable institutions to design, deploy,
and operate blockchain networks that can power any type of asset in
any market. The company offers Chain Open Standard, an open-
source blockchain protocol for high-scale financial applications. It
includes Chain Core, an enterprise-grade production node; and Chain
Sandbox, a prototyping environment. Chain maintains strategic
partnerships with financial services firms such as NASDAQ, Visa, Citi,
Capital One, and Fiserv.
Feature :
• Partners (NASDAQ, Visa, Citi, etc)
• Build for financial services
• Architected for enterprise
• Designed for developer
Impact: Fast, secure financial services
Monetize: Chain Core (Software)
50

Source : http://www.cryex.com/
Company: CRYEX Stockholms 2013〜
Class : Founder: Employee: 11-50
32 : Security
IPO $10M 2 rounds from 2 investors
General : CRYEX - THE GATEWAY BETWEEN FINANCIAL
MARKETS & THE BLOCKCHAIN ECONOMY An experienced
financial industry team with a strong track record across Banking,
Investment banking, FX markets, Asset Management, Exchange
trading, Technology, Regulatory, Risk and Security is hard at
work changing the face of cryptocurrencies and building a
financial services company. The CRYEX platform is an order
driven, centrally cleared, blockchain compatible FX market
place targeting all market participants with a highly differentiated
and scalable business model.
Feature :
• P2P FX market
• Dramatically reduce the cost of trading
• equal access to FX market for all
Impact: P2P platform of FX
Monetize: trading system
51

Source : https://neufund.org/
Company: NEUFUND Berlin 2016〜
Class : Investment Founder: Zoe Adamovics Employee: ???
33 : Investment
Seed : $2.13M 1 rounds from 2 investors
General : Neufund will use the funding to build an open platform
for investors to acquire startup equity in the form of tradable crypto
tokens. The blockchain-based platform that Neufund is building
creates a new type of ownership that is neither money nor stock,
but crypto tokens which represent equity and at the same time
are as liquid as a currency. Such tokens have an intrinsic value to
the network, but at the same time they also represent value of the
business operating in the real – off-chain – world. The blockchain is
based on Ethereum. Using the legal and technical infrastructure,
startups and established companies alike can legally issue a new type
of asset we call tokenized equity. We achieve this by formally linking
traditional contracts with Ethereum smart contracts through mutual
reference and code correspondence.
Feature :
• community-owned fundraising platform.
• Ethereum Smart contract.
Impact: Investment without 3rd party
Monetize: ???
52

Exchange and crypto-currency trading
53

Source : https://www.coinbase.com/
Company: Coinbase San Francisco
Class : Wallet
34 : Wallet
Application and Web service
General : Popular bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin
wallet making it easy to securely buy, use, store,
and accept bitcoin, ethereum, and litecoin.
iOS and Android.
Feature :
• Send and request bitcoin, ether, and litecoin
• Track bitcoin, ether, and litecoin price anywhere with bitcoin price charts,
bitcoin price ticker, and price alerts
• Check balance, transaction history and transaction details for
all your accounts in a glance
• Send bitcoin, ether, and litecoin via email, QR code
• Realtime and historical bitcoin, ether, and litecoin price charts
Customer: 10M Available Store: 38K Country: 38
Point: Sophisticated UI and UX
55

Source : https://www.kraken.com/en-us
Company: Kraken San Francisco
Class : Exchange Founded:2011
35 : Wallet
Application and Web service
General : One of the largest Bitcoin exchange
in euro volume and liquidity and also trading Canadian
dollars, US dollars, British pounds and Japanese yen.
USD:194K, EUR:306K, GBP:3K, CAD:2K, JPY: 1.8K
Feature :
• Security (Tokyo government's court-appointed trustee, and Germany's BaFin
regulated Fidor Bank.)
• Kraken acquires the charting and trading platform Cryptowatch (2017)
and lunched new trade platform.
• Kraken acquires the award-winning wallet funding service Glidera.(2016)
• Strong Security and legal.
• Liquidity, reliability, security, margin trading, advanced order type, proof of reserves audits.
• iOS
Monetize: Transaction fee and consulting.
Customer: ??? Country: 5 BTC Trade/month: 510K
Point: Security and legal
56

Source : https://www.bitstamp.net/
: https://www.coindesk.com/bitstamp-wins-best-virtual-currency-startup-award-europas/
Company: BITSTAMP EU
Class : Wallet Found: 2011 Seed:$10M
36 : Wallet
Application and Web Service CEO: Kejc Kodric
General : BITSTAMP is the fast licenced Bitcoin exchange.
Users in all EU countries can exchange euros for Bitcoin
and vice versa. They are able to do so on a fully licensed
Bitcoin exchange. iOS and Android are available.
Customer: ?? Country: 28 BTC Trade/month: 380K
Point: was named the Best Virtual Startup at 2014 Europe.
Feature :
• the first nationally licensed Bitcoin exchange in the world.
• 2nd(USD), 3rd(EUR) Bitcoin Exchange Market.
• installed the highest levels of security.
• Trade Instantly - all major credit cards are supported.
57

Company: bitFlyer Japan 2014〜
Class : No1 wallet and exchange in Japan Founder: Yuzo Kato Employee: 11-50
37 : Wallet
General : bitFlyer is a Bitcoin exchange and marketplace that enables
its customers to buy, sell, and spend bitcoins. The site offers an
Application Programming Interface which allows the clients to
access and control their accounts, using custom written software.
In addition, it offers businesses e-commerce payment services that
can transfer Bitcoin in order to provide users with secure trading
by all possible measures of security as a comprehensive platform
of Bitcoin. Crowdfunding site fundFlyer is used to publicize and generate
awareness for their favorite projects and initiatives, all while raising funds
in Bitcoin. bitFlyer was established in January 2014 and is headquartered
in Tokyo, Japan.
Impact: No1 japanese exchange
Feature :
• Miyabi (blockchain made by bitflyer)
• Japanese No1 bitcoin exchange
58
Series A: $1.6M Series B:$5.5M Series C: $27M Capital: $36M
Source: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitflyer#/entity

Blockchain×Wallet&Money Services
59

Source : https://bitpay.com/
Company: bitpay
Class : bitcoin payment Founder: Stephen Pair Employee: 51-100
38 : Payment
Seed: $2.5M Series A：$30M 3 rounds from 17 investors
General :BitPay is the global leader in bitcoin payment
processing with offices throughout North America, Europe,
and South America. It provides mainly 3 services.
1. Receive settlement for bitcoin payments
directly to your bank account in your own currency,
with zero price volatility or risk.
2. Manage your bitcoin finances in one app with the secure,
open source wallet by BitPay. Available for all major mobile
and desktop platforms.
3. The BitPay Card lets you load dollars using any bitcoin
wallet, with 0% fees.
Get instant withdrawals from Visa® compatible ATMs and
spend with any Visa® merchant.
Feature :
• Was invested by Sir Richard Branson.
• https://bitpay.com/features
Impact: Bitcoin×Card
Monetize: Charge
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Source : https://netki.com/about/
Company: NETKI Canoga Park 2014〜
Class : financial software Founder: Justin Newton Employee: 1-10
39 : Financial Software
Seed: $3,.5M 1 rounds form 9 investors.
General : Netki delivers software and services that
enable financial technology and service companies to
meet regulatory and legal compliance requirement on
both private and public blockchains. Netki’s digital ID
and Wallet Name make blockchains safe for a board
range of business and personal use cases, while meeting
national and international legal standards.
The service provides automated onboarding and
validation of new customers and easy sharing of digital
Identities.
Feature :
• The software can be embedded into finance, healthcare, business apps
Impact: ???
Monetize: software and consulting
61

Source : https://www.abra.com/
Company: ABRA
Class : digital wallet Founder: Pete kelly Employee: ??
40 : Transfer
Series A：$14M Series B: ?? 4 rounds from 15 investors
General: Abra is the world’s first digital cash, peer-to-peer
money transfer network. Abra uses bitcoin and blockchain
technology to enable users to transact in over 50 currencies,
including bitcoin. Abra Tellers represent a global, shared
network of consumers helping each other easily deposit and
withdraw cash from the Abra app anywhere in the world.
Founded in 2014 by Bill Barhydt, serial entrepreneur and
global mobile-banking veteran, their team is based in Silicon
Valley and committed to forever changing how the world
moves money.
Feature :
• Planet of the App
• Mobile to mobile
• No transfer fee
Impact: Buy, send, and hold simple, global and flexible.
Monetize: charge
62

Source : https://uphold.com/
Company: uphold San Francisco 2014〜
Class : cloud Founder: John McDonnell Employee: 51-100
41 : Cloud
Seed: $9.85M 1 round from 2 investors.
General : Previously known as Bitreserve, Uphold enables anyone,
anywhere to move, convert, hold and transact in any form of money
or commodity instantly and securely. With our numerous patented
and proprietary technologies including; Reserveledger™ and Reservechain™,
our members, regulators and the wider public can verify - in real-time - our
balances, transaction volumes and flows, solvency, assets and obligations
and overall financial health. Uphold members funds are held in legally
segregated accounts. The members can rest assured that value held in Uphold
is 100% safe and secure and can be withdrawn, at any time, regardless of
what is happening in the global economy.
Feature :
• Regardless of what is happening in the global economy.
• Money Secure in the Cloud, Hold, move, convert and transact
any form of money or commodity. Instantly and securely.
Impact: money secure in the cloud
Monetize: ???
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Source : https://www.sendwyre.com/about
Company: wyre San Francisco 2013〜
Class : FX, payment Founder: Ioannis Giannaros Employee: ???
42 : FX
Series A: $5.8M 3 rounds from 7 investors
General : Wyre created an FX engine room that
intelligently and securely routes money abroad using
hundreds of liquidity providers and settlement methods.
Wyre is replacing banking technologies that have been
stagnant for 30+ years. Providing an enterprise-level API
which allows companies to instantly send funds worldwide,
without taking on any price volatility, and for a fraction
of the cost. We’ve partnered with Fortune 500 companies
and are currently moving millions of dollars on a daily basis.
Feature :
• Fast payment (delivered in 6 hours)
• Secure ( tracking)
• Charge a 0.75% transaction fee
Impact: replacing banking technologies.
Monetize: charge 0.75% transaction
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Source : https://xapo.com/
Company: xapo 2012
Class : bitcoin wallet Founder: Wances Casares Employee: 11-50
43 : Wallet
Series A：$40M 2 rounds from 17 investors
General : At Xapo, they believe that bitcoin’s ultimate success
will be based on trust – whether individuals trust the digital
currency’s stability and whether they trust the industry’s security.
That’s why we’ve assembled a team of financial services and
security experts to build an entirely new bitcoin storage experience.
By offering two distinct products – an easy access wallet and a
locked-down vault – they’re marrying the convenience bitcoin
users want for everyday needs with the security they require for
confident bitcoin saving. It’s the most secure, the reliable, and
the most convenient. That’s something we can all trust in.
Feature :
• Xapo Debit card
• Strong security and easy access wallet.
Impact: integrate bitcoin into everyday life
Monetize: providing 2 services above
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Source : https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ledger-2#/entity
Company: Ledger Paris 2015〜
Class : security for cryptocurrency Founder: Eric Larcheveque Employee: 11-50
44 : Security
Seed：€1.3M SeriesA: $7M 2 rounds from 15 investors
General : Launched in 2015, Ledger has designed an acclaimed line of
hardware security devices quickly placing the company as a global leader
on the market with 100,000 units sold in more than 130 countries. For
enterprises and corporations, Ledger introduced the Vault: a fully managed
SaaS solution addressing the need to safeguard very large amount of multiple
cryptocurrencies while mitigating both IT and physical assault threats.
The company is also active on the industrial IoT market, leveraging its
Hardware Oracle technology to interface sensors and machines to smart
contracts or blockchain based assets. Ledger is headquartered in Paris,
has a production facility in Vierzon (France) and offices in San Francisco.
The company has raised 8.5M$ so far, and has a team 40 collaborators.
Feature :
• 300,000 units sold
• More than 165 countries
• IoT×blockchain
Impact: devices related to blockchain
Monetize: hardware and solutions for enterprices
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Source : https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitpagos#/entity
Company: ripio San Francisco 2013〜
Class : digital payment Founder: Luciana Gruszeczka Employee: 11-50
45 : Payment
Seed: $4M Series A：$2.5M 6 rounds from 19 investors
General : Ripio, formerly known as Bitpagos, is a financial
payments company that provides electronic payment
solutions for businesses in Latin America. It offers a range
of financial services for the emerging markets using the
blockchain technology to make a more accessible financial
system. The company helps merchants process international
transactions with credit cards or bitcoins for a fraction of the
cost as well as consumers buy bitcoins instantly with cash.
It deals with clients in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Ecuador.
Feature :
• Latin America emerging markets
Impact: Send, sell , pay, buy bitcoin
Monetize: ???
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Source : https://xapo.com/
：https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/circle-2#/entity
Company: CIRCLE Boston 2013〜
Class : online payment Founder: Jeremy Allaire Employee: 51-100
46 : Payment
Series A：$9M, Series B: $17M Series C: $50M Series D: $60M
$136 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, IDG China,
Breyer Capital, Accel and General Catalyst.
General : Circle is a consumer finance company focused on
transforming the world economy with secure, simple, and less
costly technology for storing and using money.Circle is building
products aimed at enabling greater ease-of-use in online and
in-person payments, with enhanced security and privacy,
and the convenience of free, instant, global digital money transfers.
This app is free, easy to use, instant (skip the ATM), and
social (based on conversations)
Feature :
• Send money easily, no fee, and no boarder.
• Social communication × Payment
Impact: can send money like a text.
Monetize: charge
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“Circle is a consumer finance company focused on transforming the
world economy with secure, simple, and less costly technology for storing
and using money.Circle is building products aimed at enabling greater ease-of-use
in online and in-person payments,with enhanced security and privacy, and the
convenience of free, instant, global digital money transfers.”

Source : https://www.coinjar.com/
Company: COINJAR Melbourne 2013〜
Class : Spend, send, trade Founder: Asher Tan Employee: 11-50
47 : Payment
Seed: $1.5M 3 rounds from 6 investors
General : CoinJar is a powerful tool for managing money. User
can spend, send and trade easily using bitcoins, pounds and dollars.
-Spend anywhere
Pay anyone in the world in under 6 seconds, for $0.
Pay anyone with CoinJar Touch over the bitcoin network, anywhere
in the world.
-Send to anyone
Send money to 196 countries, in 6 minutes, for $0.
Use CoinJar to remit money anywhere instantly via bitcoin address or
CoinJar username.
-Trade with bitcoin
Buy and sell in seconds, with a flat 1% fee
Feature :
• 70,000 users in the world
• $100M exchange tranzactions
• 285 ,000 BTC sent
Impact: Next personal finance account
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Source :https://augur.net/
: https://www.wired.com/2017/03/forget-bitcoin-blockchain-reveal-whats-true-today-tomorrow/
Company: Augur San Francisco
Class : Prediction
48 : Prediction “wisdom of the crowd”
Blockchain : Ethereum Coin : Rep Amount：11M
General : Augur is a distributed protocol for prediction
Market. Users participate in an open-source platform
and predict future real events. If they are correct, they
will get reward( Rep ), or they will lose Rep.
Feature :
• Smart Contract by using Ethereum.
• Everyone can make gambling.
• Everyone participates in.
• Automatic bookmaker.
• Distributed fact stream
Impact: This model might be applied to insurance.
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Source : http://nayuta.co/wp-content/uploads/pressrelease20151228.pdf
Company: Nayuta Fukuoka(Japan)
Class : IoT/IoM
49 : IoT
Blockchain : Open Asset Protocol Seed:140M
General : Nayuta provides electronic socket which is
based on IoT×Blockchain. User who want to charge
his/her device registers the amount of electricity on the
smartphone. Then, user will be able to charge the device.
Feature :
• Social infrastructure.
• Micro payment.
Impact: ELECTRICITY STEALING PREVENTION DEVICE
Monetize: Hard ware and system.
73

Source : http://lo3energy.com/
Company: LO3ENERGY
Class : Energy Founder: Lawrence Orsini Employee: 1-10
50 : Energy
Seed: Series A：
General : LO3 Energy, Inc. (“LO3 Energy”) is an energy
technology company that helps utility and energy
retail customers clients create, deploy and monetize
differentiated and compelling energy products and
customer services in increasingly open and
competitive electricity markets.
Feature :
• Blockchain×energy
• Project energy and Microgrid
Impact: Energy × Blockchain
Monetize: ???
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TransActive Grid Project
TransActive Grid is based on an open source, cryptographically secure
decentralized application platform. Its business logic layer delivers real-time
metering of local energy generation and usage as well as other related data.
This open energy platform is transparent, auditable, non-repudiable, peer-to-
peer, and cryptographically secure. Friction in the market is reduced by
allowing different classes of users to transact openly on the platform. The first
demonstration project is a neighborhood installation in
Brooklyn, New York.

Source : https://www.everledger.io/
Company: Everledger London 2015〜
Class : Certification Founder: Leanne kemp Employee:11-50
51 : Digital Certification
Seed: $118K
General : built a global, digital ledger that tracks and
protects valuable assets throughout their lifetime journey.
It collects an asset’s defining characteristics, history,
and ownership to create a permanent record on the
blockchain. This digital incarnation, or thumbprint, is
used by various stakeholders across a supply chain
pipeline to form provenance and verify authenticity.
Feature :
• $45 billion lost annually to insurance fraud
• 65% of all fraudulent claims go undetected
• $2 billion annual cost of jewellery fraud to insurers
Impact: the reduction of risk and fraud for banks, insurers
and open marketplaces.
Monetize: platform
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