FinovateFall 2015 / Blockstack.io
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Blockstack.io is an enterprise software company offering a hosted and licensed enterprise blockchain platform for financial services and other enterprises to create applications on their own private blockchain quickly and easily. The San Francisco-based company has taken the underlying technology of Bitcoin and created an infrastructure platform to improve back office functions for and among financial institutions.
How they describe their product/innovation: The company is demonstrating how easy it is to start building an application on a private, hosted Blockstack. Within a few minutes, we are demonstrating the set up of a private blockchain and showing a demo application built on top of the private Blockstack to illustrate how easy it is to get started.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Business (B2B), through financial institutions, hosted and licensed
Contacts:
Bus. Dev., Press & Sales: Peter Shiau, CEO, COO & Co-Founder, peter@blockstack.io
Website: blockstack.io
Twitter: @blockstackio
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Founded: May 2015
Product Demoed: Blockstack.io
Product Launch: May 2015 private beta
Metrics: Currently bootstrapped, fewer than 10 employees
Presenters: Peter Shiau (CEO & Co-Founder),
Lior Saar (Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder)
- Key Executives
Miron Cuperman (CTO & Founder), Peter Shiau (CEO, COO & Co-Founder), Lior Saar (CPO & Co-Founder), Philip Harris (Markets & Co-Founder)