Consensys Ventures, the venture capital arm of the project development company that operates on the Ethereum platform, announced at the Ethereal conference in New York last Saturday that it has released a new round of investments for six block-based projects on the smart contracts platform. In addition, the company also announced the launch of its company acceleration platform called Tachyon.
"IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE INVEST IN COMPANIES THAT INCORPORATE THE SPIRIT OF DECENTRALIZATION AT THE SAME TIME THAT IMPULSION THE ETHEREUM ECOSYSTEM," SAID KAVITA GUPTA, FOUNDER OF CONSENSYS AND CHIEF OF THE INVESTMENT DIVISION FOCUSED IN STARTUPS THAT WILL BUILD THE VISION OF WEB 3.0, PREFERRED BY JOE LUBIN, ANOTHER FOUNDER OF CONSENSYS.
Consensys' business acceleration program has the mission of connecting traditional Web 2.0 companies, that is, the Internet that we know of today and that surrounds us daily with the complex and technical ecosystem of Ethereum.
The program consists of eight weeks of activities with about 10 projects that will build a minimally viable product design (MVP) to get funding and keep up with their own legs.
The program will bring traditional unicorn counselors of 21st century technology such as Google / Uber / Facebook / Salesforce, etc. and will combine their expertise with the talent and know-how of Ethereum at ConsenSys. The program will have practical education, orientation, open hours and will feature demonstration days in the US and Europe.
Here is a brief summary of the six projects that Consensys Ventures will support:
Virtuous
Founded by the team behind TrueEx - the leading electronic interest rate swap platform - Virtuoso is building a crypto derivative that will support ether future contracts, creating a more robust ether trading market for institutional investors.
Ink
Ink is a decentralized reputation protocol that seeks to bring a transferable reputation to the P2P markets founded by Gee Chuang. It is already operational on the Listia platform and plans to expand to other P2P markets where lack of reputation is a major centralization factor.
Vault
Vault is a secure discovery platform and dApp portfolio for your mobile device, founded by former Facebook employee John Egan and his team. The team launched Google Apps Vault after looking at portfolio options and felt frustrated from the point of view of usability, especially when exploring options for mobile devices. Vault is focused on creating two key features in the short term: 1) the best and most user-friendly mobile wallet and 2) a dApp browser.
Rocket Pool
Rocket Pool is a next-generation Stake pool's Ethereum Proof for Casper, which is currently based in Alpha and headquartered in Australia. Started by David Rugendyke, Rocket Pool allows individuals and businesses to bet less than 0.1 ether and avoid long withdrawal periods and gain exposure to the change from Ethereum to proof of stake algorithms.
CryptoMKT
CryptoMKT is a Latin American based Ethereum company and leader in Chile and Argentina, and is expanding to be a leader in other South American markets. Founded by Rafael Meruane and Martin Jofre, the team upgraded and negotiated more than $ 30 million ETH last year.
Given
DADA is a social network of digital art where people interact with digital drawings founded by Beatriz Ramos. Currently, DADA offers a collection of 100 limited-edition digital drawings (all made within the DADA platform through the drawing tools provided) that are available for purchase with ether through the MetaMask portfolio. Each digital art available for purchase is tokenized, with each token representing the property on a copy of the drawing. DADA's goal is to enable artists to have complete control over their work and earn a universal basic income from their work.
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