Market Segment Banking

Focused on Banking, Credit

Fintech

#Banking

#Fintech

Located in Sunnyvale.

Raised funding 0.025 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Insurance

Focused on InsurTech

Fintech

#Fintech

#Insurtech

#Trade

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Transparency protocol for decentralized economy. First blockchain tech project to receive capital from government-backed initiatives and funds. Actively contributing to Hyperledger and Kubernetes.

Market Segment Legal & Regulatory

Focused on Transparency as a Service, Governmental grands, Fundraising

Fintech

#Fundraising

#SocialImpact

#FinancialServices

#PersonalIdentity

Located in Dublin, Ireland.

Raised funding 1.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in AID:Tech include Enterprise Ireland, Techstars, Blockasset Ventures, Expo 2020 Dubai.

AID:Tech partnered with Wachsman, AmaZix.

Market Segment B2B

Focused on Payments, Trading

Fintech

#Payments

Located in Helsinki.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Remittance

Fintech

#Payments

Located in India.

Having started as a simple service for topping up your prepaid phone card with Bitcoin, since 2014 the startup expanded into a more complete ecommerce solution. Bitrefill is currently expanding out of EU and has joined an initiative to develop a LN protocol for Bitcoin.

Hot!

Market Segment Ecommerce

Focused on Shopping, Ecommerce

Fintech

#LightningNetwork

#Ecommerce

#Payments

>> Similar to Wyre, Wirex

Located in Stockholm.

Raised funding 2.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Bitrefill include Sergej Kotliar, Patrick Stiller, Charlie Lee.

Bitrefill partnered with Poseidon Group, Fulgur Ventures, BHB Network, Chainside, inbitcoin.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Payments, Trading

Fintech

#Poloniex

#Remittance

#Technology

#Fiat-Crypto

Located in Boston, USA.

Raised funding 246.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Identity Management

Focused on Identity

Fintech

#KYC/AML

>> Similar to Selfkey, traceto.io

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 35.75 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Finance Technology

Fintech

Located in Singapore.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Remittance

Fintech

Located in Manila.

Raised funding 10.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Finance Technology

Fintech

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Market Segment Fintech

Focused on Legal

Fintech

Located in Stanford, USA.

Raised funding 1.5 MM USD
via ICO

Blockchain-based marketplace for mergers & acquisition, intellectual property and tech solution trading. As for now, without a competition in the blockchain tech space.

Market Segment Smart Contracts for Backoffice

Focused on M&A

Fintech

#IP

#IntellectualProperty

#Legal

#Acquisitions

>> Similar to Blocknotary, traceto.io

Located in Estonia.

Raised funding 8.0 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Lexit include Amir Kaltak, Waijid Khilji, Jason Corbett.

Lexit partnered with Selfkey.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Fintech

Located in Vancouver.

Raised funding 0.2 MM USD
via ICO

Nexo is a regulated financial institution that fills out the inefficiencies in lending markets, especially within the digital economy. The main product of Nexo are cryptocurrency-backed loans. Nexo emerged from an older and more broadly focused European consumer finance fintech Credissimo.

Hot!

Market Segment P2P lending, Fintech, Bitcoin Loans

Focused on Banking, Credit

Fintech

#Lending

#P2P

#Interest

>> Similar to Salt Lending

Located in USA (Originally Bulgaria).

Personalities involved in Nexo include Michael Arrington, Asen Benev, Constantine Krastev.

Nexo partnered with BitGo, onfido, TrueUSD.

Article / Crypto-Backed Loans Similar to PayPal Credit Are Coming

Market Segment B2B

Fintech

Located in Santa Cruz.

Raised funding 9.0 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Blockchains

Fintech

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Market Segment Remittance

Fintech

#Banking

#Fintech

>> Similar to ZED Network

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 86.5 MM USD
via ICO

Market Segment Credit

Fintech

Located in Mountain View, USA.

Market Segment Trading

Fintech

Located in Delaware.

Raised funding 0.12 MM USD
via ICO

Blockchain technology initiative for compliant decentralized trading, supported by the DCG or Tim Draper.

Market Segment Remittance

Focused on Fiat-Crypto

Fintech

#RegTech

#Compliance

#DecentralizedFiatTrading

>> Similar to ZED Network, MakerDAO

Located in San Francisco, USA.

Raised funding 8.61 MM USD
via ICO

Personalities involved in Wyre include Tim Draper.

Wyre partnered with MakerDAO.

Platform modernizing the remittance business via the Stellar network, currently organizing a token sale and an airdrop.

Market Segment Fintech

Focused on Remittance

Fintech

#Stellar

>> Similar to Ripple

Located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Personalities involved in ZED Network include Alan Safahi.

Market Segment Global Trade

Focused on Backoffice, Regulations, KYC/AML

Consortium

#HyperledgerFabric

#SMEs

Located in Dublin, Ireland.

Batavia (merged with we.trade) partnered with we.trade.

Integrated digital strategy for Dubai.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Focused on Digitalization, Smart Dubai

Consortium

#Digitalstrategy

Located in Dubai, UAE.

Dubai Blockchain Strategy partnered with Emirates Airlines, Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company, Aramex.

Proof-of-concept demonstrating that distributed ledgers can bring cost savings and higher revenues in some areas of global trade. Launching a test in cooperation with the we.trade consortium.

Market Segment Global Trade

Focused on Trade platform, proof of concept.

Consortium

#Trade

#TradeFinance

#Accounting

Located in Hong Kong.

HK Trade Finance partnered with we.trade, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, HSBC, Deloitte.

Consortium blockchain that supports the TradeIX network.

Market Segment Blockchains

Focused on Blockchain technology for banking and trade.

Consortium

#ConsortiumBlockchain

Marco Polo partnered with R3, BNP, ING, Natwest, Barclays, Natixis, Commerzbank, Wells Fargo, ING.

Blockchain enterprise alliance with more than 200 members developing solutions for global trade and insurance available from the Corda marketplace.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Focused on Trade Finance, Insurance

Consortium

#Fintech

#Insurtech

#Trade

r3 partnered with Microsoft, Amazon, Intel.

Full insfrastructure for banks, asset managers and B2B networks.

Market Segment Finance Technology

Focused on Network of networks (alliance of blockchain consortiums)

Consortium

#Banking

#B2B

#Trade

TradeIX partnered with R3, BNP, ING, Natwest, Barclays, Natixis, Commerzbank, Wells Fargo, ING.

Joint venture of bank giants like HSBC and Deutsche, we.trade is a blockchain trade finance consortium focusing on SMEs.

Market Segment Trade Finance

Focused on Fintech, Backoffice, Regulations, KYC/AML

Consortium

#HyperledgerFabric

#SMEs

>> Similar to r3, TradeIX, HKTFP

Located in Dublin, Ireland.

Personalities involved in we.trade include Roberto Mancone.

we.trade partnered with HSBC, Deutsche, Santander, Societe Generale, Erste, Unicredit, e-Trade Connect.