BlockOn Partners 2017
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Partners Profiles:
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ACCESS
With ACCESS, we look to find a balance: the innovation and use of blockchain technologies with the protection of users and commercial entities engaging with the industry.
To this end, ACCESS aims to foster an open and clear dialogue between Singapore cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses and larger society, including regulators. In doing so, we also aim to provide a united public voice and platform for the Singapore cryptocurrency and blockchain community, allowing all of us to better engage with private as well as governmental entities.
Asia Cloud Computing Association
While several global industry consortia, including the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA), are actively involved in making cloud computing a reality by addressing the needs for common platforms, the ACCA is the only one doing so with a focus on the opportunities and issues in Asia Pacific (APAC).
APAC's unique issues challenge the adoption of cloud computing. Markets are highly fragmented.
Blockchain Foundry
Blockchain Foundry started in 2013. As we developed Syscoin, our understanding of blockchain technology's potential exploded, leading to many new features within Syscoin itself. Syscoin continues to be Blockchain Foundry's flagship project, we have plans for other projects using other blockchain protocols such as Lisk and Ethereum in the near future.
Bluzelle
Vancouver-based Bluzelle, which builds blockchain and Ripple-based software solutions, will officially open its Singapore office at the hub on February 1, 2016 and will offer a series of blockchain workshops for financial institutions jointly with The Singapore FinTech Consortium beginning in February 2016.
MaRS
MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs. MaRS supports promising young ventures that are tackling key societal challenges in the health, cleantech and information and communications technology sectors.
In the last three years, MaRS ventures have raised $1.3 billion in capital and earned $640 million in revenue. In addition to helping startups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries and driving ideas to impact
Marvelstone
Marvelstone is a private investment group that develops and invests in growing businesses. With finance as our core strength, we also have diversified investments in technology, real estate, hospitality, trading and media. The group believes in the growth of Asia and seeks to focus on emerging markets in the region. It has regional presence in Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea. When it comes to understanding local markets, Marvelstone works with local business partners in developing new businesses on the ground as this is where each party can leverage on their own expertise and skills to build a successful venture together.
Nest Ventures
We believe our path to achieving positive impact is to fuel the entrepreneurial spirit: empowering startups on their mission to solve big challenges in a profitable and scalable way. We have built three platforms to support startups at each stage of their journey.
Nest has strategically built a network spanning both developed and frontier markets in order to maximise opportunities for startups to scale and connect with the global ecosystem. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Nest now has representation in Singapore, Bangkok, Nairobi, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles.
Swiss Finance + Technology Association
Swiss Finance and Technology Association is an independent member-based association that aims to serve as the hub for FinTech in Switzerland. Their mission is to foster the development of FinTech in Switzerland.
Their members are individuals related to the Swiss FinTech ecosystem. The association is volunteer-led and engages with corporate, regulatory and relevant FinTech partners to pursue their aims.
2017 Media Partners Profiles:
Acuity Market Intelligence
Acuity Market Intelligence is the definitive source for biometrics market intelligence with a proven record of accurately anticipating biometric and identity market trends. Acuity consistently delivers original, thought provoking, and reliable industry insight.
Acuity offers strategic consulting services and a wealth of market data and analysis via www.acuity-mi.com, the "Biometrics UnPlugged" LinkedIn group, and twitter @cmaxmost
Blockchain News
Blockchain News is the first online publication that is dedicated to blockchain technology and theory (not just bitcoin). The blockchain could become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after mainframes, PCs, the Internet, and mobile/social networking. Bitcoin is just the beginning.
FinTech News
Fintech News Singapore covers stories about the Fintech Ecosystem – i.e. Mobile Payment, Personal Finance, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Robo Advisor and Lending - and Startups in Singapore and Southeast Asia.
Fintechnews.sg also provides a bi-weekly newsletter with the most important information about the Fintech industry in Southeast Asia.
NEWSBTC
NewsBTC, founded in October 2013, aims to publishing useful news articles, interviews, and other pieces of information that help you better understand the bitcoin ecosystem. Our editorial vision is to deliver hard news and analysis — not speculation and rumors. There are many new innovations taking place in the field of cryptocurrencies every day and we keep you up to date. We also cover litecoin, dogecoin and a host of other digital assets in the cryptocurrency space.