4. Shumpei Maki
Hello, Iʼm a college student at Keio
University in Japan and San Francisco
State University.
Major: Marketing at Keio University
International Business at SFSU
Ex-VALUENEX Intern
https://www.facebook.com/shunpei.maki
linkedin.com/in/shumpeimaki
Facebook
Linkedin
6. Why Blockchain?
How will Blockchain change the world?
“So why should you care? We believe the truth can set us free and
distributed trust will profoundly affect people in all walks of life. Maybe
youʼre a consumer who wants to know where that hamburger meat really
came from. Perhaps youʼre an immigrant whoʼs sick of paying big fees to send
money home to loved ones. Maybe youʼre an aid worker who needs to identify
land titles of landowners so you can rebuild their homes after an earthquake.
Or a citizen fed up with the lack of transparency and accountability of political
leaders. Or a user of social media who values your privacy and thinks all the
data you generate might be worth something̶to you. Even as we write,
innovators are building blockchain-based applications that serve these ends.
And they are just the beginning.”
Blockchain Revolution(2016) by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott
7. "There are important counter-trends to
this ‒ like encryption and
cryptocurrency ‒ that take power from
centralized systems and put it back into
people's hands. But they come with the
risk of being harder to control. I'm
interested to go deeper and study the
positive and negative aspects of these
technologies, and how best to use them
in our services."
Mark Zuckerberg,
co-founder of Facebook
“Iʼm not interested
in Bitcoin, but
Blockchain is real”
Jamie Dimon,
CEO of JPMorgan
Chase
8. Establishing system any
participants cooperate and observe
each other by using Blockchain.
It will get rid of centralized 3rd
party
such as accounting audit, mega
bank etc we take much cost to
ensure reliability.
What is Blockchain?
Realizing value record transaction like Bitcoin without 3rd party
Managing transaction history and
ensuring reliability by 3rd
party
Managing transaction history and
ensuring reliability by everyone Irreversibility
→Itʼs impossible to tamper transaction.
① Itʼs impossible to tamper any
transaction.
② Zero-downtime system
(working anytime)
③ Constructable at low cost
Features of Blockchain
・Distributed system based on P2P(Peer to Peer)
Conventionally, reliability of money transaction is ensured by
intermediating of 3rd
party such as bank, but Blockchain ensure
reliability by sharing any transaction history with everyone.
・Irreversibility
Each transaction is put into block, and each block is connected
with just before block like chain. Thatʼs why even if you try to
tamper transaction, itʼs impossible because it canʻt take
consistency between back and force blocks.
Why impossible to tamper? Revolution
13. 01. Consulting
Company: ConsenSys (Brooklyn, New York)
Class: consulting Founder: E.G. Galano, Joseph Lubin
Employee: 101-250 Seed: $1M
General: Consensus Systems provides block solutions based on
Ethereum blockchains for enterprises. They conduct configuration,
introduction and adaptation of solutions such as infrastructure,
interface, wallet ID adapted by Ethereum blockchain, development
of distributed applications. At the same time, They do consulting
for blockchain enterprises and cloud platforms that can be rapidly
started
Feature:
• Progressing Ethereum-base developing such as predictive
market platform ”Gnosis,” music streaming service “Ujo music”
• Supporting 33 startups as they build on Ethereum platform
• Dedicating to Ethereum blockchacin technology
Impact: Spreading Ethereum-base apps and service
Monetize: Distributed apps, consulting
Source: https://new.consensys.net
14. 02. Platform
Company: BTL (Vancouver, Canada)
Class: Platform Founder: Guy Halford-Thompson
Employee: 11-50 Capital: $86M CAD
General: BTL provides a platform for enterprise technology. The
business model of BTL is to safely rationalize the existing IT
infrastructure client companies own and to drastically reduce
risk and cost by “Interbit” the platform based on smart contract
of Ethereum. BTL is focusing on finance and energy sector
through Interbit.
Feature:
• Creating an enterprise-grade private blockchain development
platform called Interbit.
• Using Interbit, testing Interbit possibilities in finance and
energy sector(cooperating with VISA, Wien Energie etc)
Impact: New type blockchain platform ”Interbit”
Monetize: Supplying Interbit
Source: http://btl.co
Interbit is a next generation private permissioned multi
blockchain platform that utilises chain connectivity which
allows it to address two key problems faced by blockchain
technology today, namely scalability and privacy.
15. 03. Consulting
Company: The Vanbex Group(Vancouver, Canada)
Class: Consulting Founder: Lisa Cheng
Employee: 1-10 Seed: $365,474
General: Vanbex is consulting company to connect blockchain
to business, and a member of EEA (Enterprise Ethereum
Alliance). Services Vanbex offers include business strategy,
technology integration, ICO, Investment, product development.
Especially, Etherparty is one of the most successful contents of
Vanbex. Etherparty is a smart contract creation tool for any
people without professional skill.
Feature:
• Working on development Etherparty
• The βtest of Etherparty is already conducted
• ICO $365.5K
• Creating apps too
Impact: Making a smart contract easy through Etherparty
Monetize: Consulting
Source: http://www.vanbex.com
17. 04. Bitcoin
Company: Bitpay (Atlanta, Georgia)
Class: bitcoin Founder: Stephen Pair Employee: 51-100
Seed: $2.5M
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 directory 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
Source: https://bitpay.com
18. 05. Transfer
Company: ABRA (Mountain View, California)
Class: Digital wallet Founder: Pete Kelly Employee: ??
Series A: $14M
General: Abra is the worldʼs first digital cash, P2P 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
Source: https://www.abra.com
19. 06. FX
Company: BitPesa (Nairovi)
Class: FX Founder: Elizabeth Rossiello Employee: 11-50
Seed: $1.8M
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. BitPesaʼs clients
range from African business 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, 17,000 transactions
Impact: Safe FX and B2B payment
Monetize: ??
Source: https://www.bitpesa.co
21. 07. Digital ID
Company: uPort (Brooklyn, New York)
Class: Digital ID Founder: Rouven Heck Employee: 2-10
Seed: ??
General: uPort is the leading blockchain identity platform. They
are building a self-sovereign identity platform that provides users
with a central place to to establish a complete digital identity and
authenticate themselves wherever uPort is accepted. They are
built on the Ethereum blockchain and are currently being
incubated at ConsenSys.
Feature:
• Developing open source software to deal with not only end-
user but also company, developer.
• Account recovery system in losing backup file.
• Trying enforcing account recovery system and making it
possible for a person to have multiple type ID in the future.
Impact: Global ID without any power of specific company
and country.
Mission: increasing the number of uPort users
Source: https://www.uport.me
22. 08. Digital ID
Company: ShoCard (Palo Alto, California)
Class: Digital ID Founder: Armin Ebrahimi
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $1.5M
General: ShoCard provides Personal authentication and mutual
trust platform utilizing public blockchain.
1. Users scan necessary personal information for identity
verification byusing ShoCard's application.
2. Storing and managing Data on blockchain created by using
hash function and digital signature from scaned information.
Today, the platform is being used by major airlines, government
agencies, credit companies, banks and other financial
institutions, and is planned to be introduced to
telecommunications, medical care and car companies in the
future.
Feature:
• Preventing from getting the personal data on blockchain
stolen by taking advantage of the nature of hash function.
• By utilizing public block chains, the platform realizes high
security, and make construction and operation costs low.
Impact: High level security and reducing operational cost
Monetize: apps?
Source: https://shocard.com
23. 09. Digital ID
Company: Civic (Palo Alto, California)
Class: Digital ID Founder:Vinny Lingham Employee:11-50
Seed: $2.8M
General: Civic is a blockchain-based technology company
seeking to provide low-cost, universal identity theft protection on
a global scale. Then, civic is employing blockchain-base
platform ”SIP(Secure Identity Platform)” which allows to make
new account sign-up and login much easier than before. This is
based on identity information saved on blockchain. And also, they
use biometrics for personal identification.
Ex) When going on a trip, if you register your personal
information in advance and get certified with Civic, you can skip
those steps simply by presenting a smartphone.
Feature:
• Using “SIP” Platform that can easily authenticate by
encrypting and writing personal information on the block
chain.
• Saving time and cost for Personal authentication through SIP.
• they think trust is important key for this service.
• preparing four services, monitoring, alert, fraud support,
insurance, to protect users before, during, and after an
incident of identity theft.
Impact: making self-identification low-cost and more
secure through SIP platform
Source: https://www.civic.com
25. 10. Governance
Company: OTONOMOS
Class: Governance Founder: Han Verstraete
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $150K €15K
General: Otonomos is offering on a new operating system for
the limited company: a company with digital shares, held in a
cryptographic wallet, transferable peer-to-peer, programmable
like software, and powered by the decentralized blockchain. And
they are the worldʼs first legally compliant Corporate Governance
platform powered by Smart Contracts.
Feature:
• Providing services establishing a company and automatically
controlling the rights of shares on Ethereum blockchain.
• It is possible to find co-founders and new investors.
• Allowing to become shareholders of companies that they do
not know and can easily establish or acquire a company.
Impact: pioneering the version 2.0 of a traditional Company
Monetize: providing system
Source: https://otonomos.com
26. 11. Governance
Company: BITNATION (Earth)
Class: Covernance Founder: ?? Employee: 2-10
Seed: ??
General: Bitnation is an ambitious project to make it possible to
create a virtual nation across decentralized borders using block
chains. Bitnation has published emergency IDs for refugees, birth
certificates and marriage certificate experimentally by using
blockchain. And in 2015 it establishes a notarization service in
collaboration with Estonia's e-Residency program, 2016 We
released an Ethereum blockchain-base system. In 2017, ID
issuance project for refugees was evaluated and received the
UNESCO Netexplo Award.
Feature:
• Using system called “Pangea” which is platform for the
distributed nation.
• On the interface for mobile to be released soon, users can tie
P2P contract on a chat basis.
Impact: Worldʼs First Virtual Nation ‒ A blockchain Jurisdiction.
Monetize: Providing platform
Source: https://bitnation.co
27. 12. Governance
Company: BoardRoom (Canada)
Class: Governance Founder: ??Employee: ??
Seed: ??
General: Boardroom is a Governance Framework and dApp
made for Individuals and Companies to manage their Smart
Contract Systems on the Public and Permissioned Ethereum
Blockchains.
・Collaborative Management of jointly-owned digital assets
・Organizational Decision-Making and Incentive Structures
・Industry Consortia Project Management
・Administration of Shared Digital Infrastructure
Feature:
• Decentralized Consensus
Table proposals that are computational contracts via democratic
assembly.
• Middleware Extensibility
Extend your boardroom's function to any service on the Ethereum
ecosystem with BoardRoom middleware.
• Provably Secure Governance
Ethereum's smart contract EVM to eliminate voter fraud, and
make proposal implementation successful
Impact: Integrating organization into blockchain
Monetize: Providing platform
Source: http://boardroom.to/index.html#About
29. 13.Wallet
Company: coinbase (San Francisco)
Class: Wallet Employee: 101-250 Seed: 600K
Application and Web service
General: Coin base is the exchange company's
management company. Coinbase handles four type
cryptcurrency; bitcoin, Ethereum, Lightcoin and bitcoin
cash. Available currencies are US dollars, British pounds
and Euros. Transaction fee is 1% and higher a little bit
comparing with other major exchanges.
Feature:
• Send bitcoin, ether, litecoin, bitcoin cash via email, QR code.
• IOS and Android
• Unicorn company
• Check transaction history and transaction details for all your
accounts in a glance.
Impact: Sophisticated UI and UX
Monetize: Transaction fee
Source: www.coinbase.com
30. 14.Wallet
Company: KARAKEN (San Francisco)
Class: Exchange Founder: Jesse Powell Employee: 11-50
Seed: $1.5M
General: One of the largest Bitcoin exchange in euro
volume and liquidity and also trading Canadian dollars,
US dollars, British pounds and Japanese yen.
Feature:
• Good security (Tokyo governmentʼs court trust, and
Germanyʼs BaFin regulated Fldor Bank.)
• Strong security and legal.
• IOS
• There are five levels of certification levels, and as the level
goes up, the degree of freedom of trading increases.
• Acquiring the charting and trading platform Cryptowatch and
started focusing on new trade platform.
Impact: Strong security and legal
Monetize: transaction fee and consulting
Source: www.kraken.com
31. 15. Wallet
Company: bitflyer (Japan 2014~)
Class: biggest wallet & exchange in Japan
Founder: Yuzo Kato Employee: 11-50 Capital: $36M
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.
Feature:
• High capital and high reliability of receiving a lot of investment from
large companies
• As of February 2018 currencies that can be traded are seven
• With bit Wire SHOP you can pay in real currency in virtual currency
Impact: No1 Japanese exchange
Monetize: Transaction fee
Source:https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bitflyer#section-overview
33. 16. Audit&Tax
Company: PeerNova (San Jose, California)
Class: Audit Founder: Naveed Sherwani Employee:11-50
Seed:?? Series A: $13.6M Series B: $4M Capital: $30.6M
General: PeerNova combines the strengths of block chains and
big data technology, enabling financial institutions to manage
safe and verifiable data to work tough tasks of coordination,
auditing and compliance. The Silicon Valley-based PeerNova
team is having distributed systems, block chain technology,
networking solutions, compiler technology, big data, financial
services.
Feature:
• Using big data platform ”Cuneiform” to track investing
assets and transaction bigger and faster than before
• Secure dare in financial industry
Impact: reinforcing immutability, verification possibility
and safety.
Monetize: http://peernova.com/solutions/
Source: http://peernova.com
34. 17. Audit&Tax
Company: Libra (New York)
Class: Audit Founder: Jake Benson Employee: 11-50
Seed: ?? Series A: $7.8M
General: Libra is a US-based, NY, NY, headquartered
Blockchain/Crypto-focused software company. Libraʼs solutions
automate and optimize accounting, audit, and tax processes such
as reporting, reconciliation, controls, and compliance. Libra does
not build blockchains, rather their products extract, enhance,
monitor, and deliver financial information to enterprise systems
and decision-makers.
Feature:
• Libraʼs platform provides institutional-grade blockchain and
cryptocurrency ecosystem connectivity, standardization, and
delivery of data in a scalable, secure, and fully auditable
solution.
Impact: automate the real-time gathering of critical information
for compliance
Monetize: apps
Source: http://www.libra.tech
35. 18. Legal
Company: Clause (New York)
Class: Legal Founder: , Peter Hunn Employee: 11-50
Seed: $790K
General: Clause is a revolutionary new platform that enables
commercial contracts to “come alive” and autonomously manage
themselves. Their proprietary, patent-pending infrastructure
seamlessly integrates legally enforceable contracts with real-
time data from the IoT, web services, and business and
accounting systems. Clause leaves behind the world of static,
paper-based contracts and unleashes the massive potential of
dynamic contracts. Clause brings an unprecedented level of
speed, integration, and automation to the business world by
blockchain technology.
Feature:
• Clause enables commercial contracts to utilize real-time data
from APIs and the IoT and autonomously manage themselves.
Impact: Transforming legal contraction into an integrated
data-driven business world.
Monetize: giving license of technology as open source ??
(Iʼm not sure)
Source: http://clause.io
37. 19. Music
Company: Revelator (Jerusalem, Israel)
Class: Music Founder: Bruno Guez Employee: 11-50
Seed: $1.9M
General: This company is a system that helps musicians simply
monetize their songs and works using blockchain technology. By
utilizing distributed blockchains, They understand that content
providers and social media use content, and charge according to
the process on Smart Contract. Revelator is a service that proves
that itʼs easy to develop customized blockchain services by using
Israel's startup ecosystem.
Feature:
• Cooperating with colu which is Israel startup to provide
platform enable to make regional currency.
• Save much cost for individual journalist and creator to
manage their contents.
Impact: removal of big organizationʼs unfair exploitation
Monetize: part of transaction fee
Source: http://revelator.com
38. 20. Music
Company: ujo Music (Brooklyn, New York)
Class: Music Product Holder: Consensys Employee: 2-10
Seed: ??
General: Musicians and creators have to rely on intermediaries
such as labels when selling their music, and they are easily
controlled by intermediaries, also forced to use the established
existing system. It is ujo MUSIC platform that was developed
under the need to sell their music efficiently and maximize
profits. By constructing a platform on the Ethereum blockchain,
you can automate royalty payment and copyright management
when artists sell their own music. This makes it possible to
ensure high transparency, fairness and profitability between
artists and customers without intervening intermediaries.
Feature:
• Making contract shorter and more comfortable through
ethereum small contract.
• Allowing artists to sell their music and make money(Ether)
directly.
Impact: Exclusion of intermediaries like labels.
Monetize: Part of transaction fee
Source: https://ujomusic.com
39. 21. Open source contents
Company: DECENT(Geneve Switzerland )
Class: Open source Founder: Matej Employee: 11-50
Seed: ??
General: DECENT is a distributed open source content
distribution platform using blockchain technology, and
its own token (DCT) used within the service also has the
same name. By using DECENT, distributors can deliver
digital contents such as music, video, and e-book
directly to users without intermediaries.
Feature:
• Removal of the third party as intermediaries.
• There are no limits on the types and contents of files that can
be uploaded on DECENT
• Anonymity is high.
• even those who are limited in freedom of expression due to
reasons such as religion and social system can freely upload
content and view
Impact: Distributing contents to users directly
Monetize: Part of transaction fee
Source: https://decent.ch
41. 22. Security
Company: Simplex (Ramat Gan, Israel)
Class: Security Founder: Netanel Kabala Employee: 51-100
Seed: $1M Series A: $7M
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
Source:
42. 23. Data analysis
Company: Skry (Palo Alto, California)
Class: Big data Founder: Fabio Federici Employee: 1-10
Seed: $1.1M
General: Blockchain analytics and intelligence firm
based out of Silicon Valley. The company 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 transaction
Monetize: consulting
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/tag/skry/
43. 24. Security
Company: Chainalysis (New York)
Class: Bitcoin API Founder: Jonathan Levin
Employee: 1-10 Seed: $1.6M
General: Chainalysis is a research company that analyzes
blockchains and provides an API to make transaction history of
encryption currency naked. The main customers are governments
and financial institutions. It aims to accelerate cooperation with
cryptographic currency business by acquiring AML and KYC
compliance.
Feature:
• Customer: government and bunks.
• $10 billion worth of transaction was checked.
• Interactive investigation tool
• Visualized, good UI
Impact: Detect fraud and payment money laundering
Monetize: Providing APIs
Source: https://www.chainalysis.com
45. 25. Social media
Company: Synereo ( Tel Aviv, Israel)
Class: Social media Founder: Dor Konforty Employee: 1-10
Seed: $120K
General: Synereo is a decentralized social networking /
content delivery platform that generates value for all
participants. They have a fire-tested distributed tech
stack as well as interface with the Blockchain.
Feature:
• a system that helps musicians simply monetize their songs
and works using blockchain technology.
• By utilizing distributed blockchains, They understand that
content providers and social media use content, and charge
according to the process on Smart Contract.
• Smart Contract
• Save much cost for individual journalist and creator to
manage their contents.
Impact: removal of big organizationʼs unfair exploitation
Monetize: part of transaction fee
Source: https://www.synereo.com
46. 26. SNS
Company: AKASHA
Class: SNS Founder: Mihai Alisie Employee: 2-10
Seed: ??
General: Akasha is developing a distributed management type
SNS that does not have a central administrator, using a
blockchain based on The Ethereum, and pursue “freedom of
expression.” That means Realizing a place of speech and
expression secured freedom of expression and free access to
information without receiving fabrication or censorship.
Feature:
• SNS service to share contents as well as existing blog.
• Reducing the risk of fabrication by cyber attacks and hacking.
• Content is not controlled by censorship from a third party.
• Itʼs possible for users to sell contents from low price. (using
ETH)
• Suited for micropayment.
• Being able to add value to posted contents through ETH
instead of the like botton.
Impact: Realization of real freedom of expression
Monetize: Advertise & Apps
Source: https://akasha.world
47. 27. SNS
Company: Steemit
Class: Founder: Employee:
Seed:
General: Steemit is a blog service based on the platform
Steem which is blockchain base social media platform. Steemit is
characteristic in that by posting articles and evaluating articles
users can get tokens as rewards by blockchain technology.
Because tokens can be traded on external exchanges, you can
exchange them with various cryptocurrencies such as BTC and
ETH. Thatʼs how Steemit becomes a model that shows a new
"monetizing article" method that does not rely on advertising fee.
Rewards for users is paid by issuing new cryptocurrency, and the
amount of issuing cryptocurrency is managed not to cause hyper
inflation.
Feature:
• Three type of cryptocurrency used in steemit: steem, steem
power and steem dollars
• Not relying on advertisement income and focusing on
usability.
• Setting special rules to prevent from Spam action.
Impact: Giving money for value of content
Monetize: page viewing & issuing new cryptocurrency
Source: http://www.steemitnetwork.org/#service
49. 28. Wallet
Company: zapo (Palo Alto, California)
Class: bitcoin wallet Founder: Wences Casares
Employee: 11-50 Series A: $40M 2 rounds from 17 investors
General: At Xapo, they believe that bitcoinʼs ultimate success will be
based on trust ‒ whether individuals trust the digital currencyʼs
stability and whether they trust the industryʼs security. Thatʼs why
weʼve 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 ‒
theyʼre marrying the convenience bitcoin users want for everyday
needs with the security they require for confident bitcoin saving. Itʼs
the most secure, the reliable, and the most convenient. Thatʼs
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
Source: https://xapo.com
50. 29. Wallet
Company: colu. ( Tel Aviv, Israel)
Class: local wallet Founder: Mark Smargon
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $2.5M Series A: $9.6MSeries B: $14.5M
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. Thatʼs why
Colu develops a platform that can issue and transmit tokens on
the Bitcoin block chain.
Feature:
• Pay with ease (smartphone).
• Increase social capital.
• Secure Payment
Impact: Reinforcing social connection from local
Monetize: Transaction fee
Source: https://www.colu.com
51. 30. Wallet
Company: Ledger (Paris, France) (San Francisco, California)
Class: Security for cryptocurrency Founder: Eric Larchevêque
Employee: 51-100 Series A: $7M Series B: $75M( Jan, 2018)
General: It is a company that provides a security solution for
encryption and block chain applications. Ledger, which began
offering in 2015, sold hardware security devices, and 1,000,000
units are sold in more than 165 countries, becoming a global
leader. 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.
Feature:
• 1,000,000 units sold
• More than 165 countries
• Iot × Blockchain
Impact: Hardware devices related to blockchain
Monetize: Hardware and solutions for enterprises.
Source: https://www.ledger.fr
53. 31. Data Provenance
Company: Factom (Austin, Texas)
Class: decentralized information Founder: Peter Kirby
Employee: 48 Series A: $8M Seed: $1.5M
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
• Decentralizing, managing, tracking, and auditing any
documents and records dispersedly, including "Loan Record",
"Securities", "Insurance", "Medical".
• Security cost down
Impact: Secure data management
Monetize: Provide P2P system
Source: https://www.factom.com
54. 32. Digital Certification
Company: Everledger (London, UK)
Class: Certification Founder: Leanne Kemp
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $118K Series A: $1M
General: Everledger builds a global, digital ledger that tracks
and protects valuable assets throughout their lifetime journey.
We collect an assetʼs 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 jewelley fraud to insurers
• Digitalization certificate of appraisal
• scan diamond bodies, allocate unique IDs to each diamond,
store all of them in blockchain and manage them.
Impact: Reduction of risk and fraud for banks, insurers,
and open marketplaces.
Monetize: Platform
Source: https://www.everledger.io
55. 33. Data Provenance
Company: Guardtime (Estonia)
Class: Tracking Founder: Mike Gault Employee: 101-250
Seed: ??
General: Guardtime is the world's largest blockchain platform
company by revenue, headcount and actual customer
deployments. A team of over 150 cryptographers, developers and
security architects, with decades of experience defending
networks from nation-state attack. Guardtime uses its own KSI
block chain to grasp the flow of information, and realize data
tracking and high security in real time.
Feature:
• Making available only in limited organizations such as
government and medical institutions.
• Big cooperation with governance of Estonia.
• KSI(Keyless Signature Infrastructure) blockchian.
Impact: Making nationwide use of blockchain in Estonia.
Monetize: Project
Source: guardtime.com
57. 34. IoT
Company: FILAMENT (Reno, Nevada)
Class: IoT Founder: Allison Clift-Jennings Employee: 11-50
Seed: $1.7M
General: Filament builds blockchain hardware and software
solutions for enterprise and industrial IoT, and enables
companies to securely connect devices and machines.
They 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 directory each other.
Software
• Secure network
Impact: Cost cut, decentralization, and autonomy
Monetize: Sell Hardware and Software
Source: https://filament.com
58. 35. Supply Chain
Company: Blockfreight (San Francisco, California)
Class: Supply chain Founder: Julian Smith Employee: 1-10
Seed: $5M
General: Blockfreight is a blockchain of global freight.
Blockfreight offers solution to solve demurrage and eliminate
fees, which can arise during the shipping process. Blockfreight is
a technology partner to the logistics industry. Their network
allows all shipping related parties near real-time access and
tracking their container data.
Feature:
• A shipping and logistics blockchain supporting 360,000,000
containers on network by 2020.
• A Smart Contract based on the Ethereum blockchain safely
and permanently defines bill of lading, payment terms etc for
completed freight transport.
• Minimizing costs and promoting routing technology and
supplier development
Impact: Open (MIT) Licensed, Borderless, Permission-less,
Network for the Free-Trade of Physical Goods.
Monetize: System
Source: blockfreight.com
59. 36. Supply Chain
Company: Skuchain (Mountain View, California)
Class: Supply chain Founder: Srinivasan Sriram
Employee: 11-50 Seed: ??
General: Trade transactions are very complicated, involving
complex elements such as many buyers, sellers, logistics
companies, customs duties. Because of transactions between
different countries, troubles are likely to occur, and transactions
tend to take time. Management of payments is also a burden of
companies. Skuchain aims to eliminate paper-based interaction
and reduce costs by providing reliable digital solutions using
blockchain. By lowering the cost, it is expected that even small
companies will be able to introduce them.
Feature:
• Removal of numerous frictions in international transaction.
• an unprecedented level of control across the supply chain.
Impact: Providing transparency, security and efficiency
for the supply chain
Monetize: System
Source: http://www.skuchain.com
61. 37. Prediction Markets
Company: Gnosis (Alexisandria, Virginia)
Class: Prediction Market Founder: Stefan George
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $12.5M
General: Gnosis is a distributed predictive market platform
developed on the Ethereum blockchain. The best example is
betting such as predicting outcome of elections and sports game.
By utilizing blockchain in the decentralized prediction market, it
is possible to automatically execute odds, results, and dividends
without organizer like bookmakers. It is insurance and future
trading that applications are expected.
Feature:
• Two types token: GNO, WIZ
• Dutch auction: raised 1.3 billion yen in just 10 minutes from
start of the ICO
• Reporting by experts selected from users enables to confirm
fact much earlier. (private chain?)
Impact: Anyone can participate in prediction market easily
Monetize: Transaction fee
Source: https://gnosis.pm
62. 38. Prediction Markets
Company: Augur (San Francisco, California)
Class: Prediction Market Founder: Joey Krug
Employee: 2-10 Seed: ??
General: Augur is a distributed protocol for prediction
markets. 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 Ehtereum.
• Everyone can make gambling
• Everyone participate in.
• Automatic bookmaker
• Distributed fact stream.
• Auger is completely decentralized. (public chain)
Gnosis(private chain)
Impact: This model could be applied to insurance.
Monetize: Transaction fee
Source: http://www.augur.net
63. 39. Prediction Markets
Company: Hivemind
Class: Prediction Market Founder: ?? Employee: ??
Seed: ??
General: Hivemind is a Peer-to-Peer Oracle Protocol
which absorbs accurate data into a blockchain so that
Bitcoin-users can speculate in Prediction Markets. These
markets have the potential to revolutionize the
emergence and diffusion of knowledge in society.
Feature:
• Free: To use Hivemindʼs advanced features, you need to own
Bitcoin.
• Authentic: Hivemind, unlike all other 2.0 projects, proceeds as
though its creators actually believe in it.
• Good reputation: Hivemind was designed by a Yale
Statistician with degrees in the blockchain-relevant fields of
econ, psychology, and mathematics.
Impact: Construction of a service anyone can open a
predictive market and participate
Monetize: Transaction fee
Source: http://bitcoinhivemind.com
65. 40. Public Chain Infrastructure
Company: Blockstack (New York)
Class: Decentralize application Founder: Ryan Shea
Employee: ?? Seed: $1.5M Series A: $4M
General: Blockstack is a new decentralized internet and developer
platform for secure and server-less applications. Blockstack 's
ecosystem brings benefits to both users and application makers.
Users can control their own data via private API while developers can
launch applications without hosting user data and worrying about
related storage costs or data privacy. You can save all the data on a
laptop you own rather than somewhere "central" somewhere, and
you can also have copies in one or more cloud services you choose.
Feature:
• 74,000+ domains registered
• Over 7,000 members in the developer community
• Users get digital keys that let them own their identity.
• Blockstackʼs storage system allows users to bring their own
storage.
Impact: New decentralized internet
Monetize: Application
Source: https://blockstack.org
66. 41. Public Chain Infrastructure
Company: Zcash Company (Lakewood Colorado)
Class: Encryption currency Founder: Zooko Wilcox
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $1M
General: Zcash offers total payment confidentiality, while still
maintaining a decentralized network using a public blockchain.
Unlike Bitcoin, Zcash transactions automatically hide the sender,
recipient, and value of all transactions on the blockchain. Only
those with the correct view key can see the contents. Users have
complete control and can opt-in to provide others with their view
key at their discretion.
Feature:
• Focusing on protection of individual privacy.
• Guaranteeing anonymity and safety without disclosing
personal information through Zero-Knowledge Proof
• It supports both anonymous and public addresses, and users
can transfer Zcash by choosing private or public.
Impact: Strong anonymity
Monetize: Transaction fee
Source: https://z.cash
67. 42. Public Chain Infrastructure
Company: Ethereum Foundation (switzerland)
Class: Platform Founder: Vitalik Buterin Employee: 51-200
Seed: ??
General: Ethereum is an open source, public blockchain-
based distributed computing platform and operating
system featuring smart contract functionality. the history
of smart contract is recorded in the block chain on P2P
network. Users ensure their legitimacy by mining for the
purpose of rewarding cryptocurrency called "Ether."
Feature:
• Distributed Application Forming Platform
• Smart Contract
• PoW
• Unique programming language "Solidity”
• Market capitalization is $47 billion.
Impact: Smart Contract
Monetize: Platform
Source: https://www.ethereum.org
69. 43. E-Commerce
Company: Purse (San Francisco, California)
Class: Bitcoin Founder: Andrew Lee Employee: 11-50
Seed: $1.3M
General: Purse is a service that connects people who
want to use bitcoin and those who want bitcoin for
purchasing items of Amazon that can not be purchased
with bitcoin. Purse generates this incentive in the form
of 15% discounts on Amazon. Buyers can purchase
bitcoins with a credit card as easily as checking out on
Amazon, thus solving the last mile problem.
Feature:
• Connecting bitcoin users and existing e-commerce
service
• Discounts on Amazon in purchasing with Bitcoin
• Not only buying but also selling items, earning bitcoin.
Impact: Generating consumer incentive to spend Bitcoin.
Monetize: Part of E-commerce
Source: https://purse.io/shop
70. 44. SaaS
Company: Brave (San Francisco, California)
Class: SaaS Founder: Brendan Eich Employee: 11-50
Seed: $4.5M
General: Brave is a web browser that blocks
advertisements and trackers. As a result, websites work
faster and traffic decreases significantly. So you save
your time and money. In addition, you cannot catch any
malware in the ad clicking on it accidentally.
Feature:
• Faster 2×〜 8.7×, safer, ad-free
• Save money as $23 a month
• Block ad and tracker
• Secure
• Micropayment ad
Impact: Brows fast and secure
Monetize: Providing software
Source: www.brave.com/
72. 45. International Payment
Company: Ripple (San Francisco, California)
Class: Payment Founder: Chris Larsen Employee: 101-250
Seed: $3.7M Series A: $32M Series B: $55M
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. Currently, the company is working with over 75
banks all over the world. These banks are implementing and
testing the technology in their internal payment systems. In
December 2017, Ripple announced that Japanese and South
Korean banks had started testing Blockchain to make international
payments between the banks cheaper.
Feature:
• International transaction, FX
• Instant, certain, low-cost international payments.
Impact: Send money globally, using blockchain technology.
Monetize: Charge
Source: https://ripple.com
73. 46. Finantial
Company: Chain(San Francisco, California)
Class: Developer Founder: Devon Gundry Employee: 11-50
Seed: $4.2M Series B: $9.5M Series C: $30M
General: Chain is a blockchain technology company that
partners with big 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 large-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 sevices
Monetize: Chain Core(software)
Source: https://chain.com
74. 47. Financial
Company: Axoni (New York)
Class: Security Founder: Jeff Schvey Employee: 51-100
Series A: $20M
General: Axoni serves the worldʼs 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. Axoniʼs 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
Source: https://axoni.com
76. 48. Enterprise Infrastructure
Company: Storj (Atlanta, Georgia)
Class: Decentralized storage service Founder: John Quinn
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $4.8M
General: Storj (pronounced storage) is an open source
decentralized cloud storage platform where anyone can sell their
extra hard drive space for STORJ tokens. Unlike The traditional
cloud service was a centralized mechanism that centrally stores
data on a server operated by a specific company such as Dropbox
for Dropbox and Microsoft for One Drive, Storjʼs business model
is applying the strength of blockchain like strong security, low
management, low cost, zero downtime (server never down) to the
conventional cloud service.
Feature:
• ICO $30M July 11 2017
• Cheap, secure, and fast than conventional service
Impact: Decentralized cloud service
Monetize: Charge
Source: https://storj.io
77. 49. Enterprise Infrastructure
Company: Gem (Venice, California)
Class: application platform Founder: Micah Winkelspecht
Employee: 11-50 Seed: $3.4M Series A: $7.6M
General: Gemʼs 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.
Gemʼs 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
Source: https://gem.co
78. 50. Enterprise Infrastructure
Company: bloq (Chicago, Illinois)
Class: Software Founder: Jeff Garzik, Matthew Roszak
Employee: 11-50 Seed: ??
General: Bloq delivers blockchain technology solutions
for global enterprises based on their core values of open
source, decentralization and reliability. bloqʼs software
platform allows companies to build, manage and scale
robust blockchain-enabled ecosystems, backed by
enterprise-grade service and support.
Feature:
• Focusing on solving business issues around security,
provenance, authentication and reconciliation.
• Open source
• Enterprise class
Impact: open source×decentralized×trust
Monetize: Consulting
Source: https://bloq.com/index.html
