Digital Currency Council Joins 500 Startups Accelerator
The Digital Currency Council (DCC) announced it will join 500 Startups following an investment from the prestigious accelerator and Bitcoin Opportunity Corp. Funded by PayPal and Google alumni, the programme will see all DCC team members living in the same house for four months and attempting to complete a series of rigorous business exercises. DCC will also receive mentoring from experts, including Sean Percival, a serial entrepreneur and former advisor at Blockchain. In an interview with Upstart's Michael del Castillo, founder and CEO David Berger said he hoped the programme would help....
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Digital Currency Council, a digital currency-training platform is now being accelerated by the coveted 500Startups Accelerator in Silicon Valley. Digital Currency Council is a startup founded by David Berger to offer training and certification programs in digital currencies to professionals whose work might involve dealing with digital currencies in either direct or indirect fashion. Apart from training and certifications, the company also offers ongoing practice and marketing support. The programs offered by Digital Currency Council is targeted towards financial professionals, attorneys,....
Blockchain startup Everledger has joined a startup accelerator owned by insurance and financial services company Allianz France. Announced on 3rd December, the class of six startups will move to workspace located at the Allianz Riviera stadium in Nice, France. Participants in the accelerator will have access to the firm's network of advisors and investors, with Bpifrance and Idinvest Partners cited specifically. According to the program's website, the program will last for five months. London-based Everledger uses a blockchain implementation as a diamond verification registry, which, as....
Boost VC, a well-known accelerator among startups and the bitcoin community recently had a demo day for its latest cohort. Boost VC gained the attention of the bitcoin community after it started focusing only on bitcoin and blockchain based startups for a couple of programs. Since then, the accelerator has distributed its focus between two emerging technologies - Bitcoin and Digital Reality. The digital reality segment includes startups and entrepreneurs who are working on augmented reality and virtual reality technologies. October 8, 2015 saw the graduation of the 6th batch of startups....
We had recently reported on the demo day organized by Boost VC, the blockchain and virtual reality startup accelerator. The demo day was held on the 8th of last month which saw the accelerator's sixth batch of startups graduating from the program. The last batch or tribe as Boost VC prefers to call them has 21 bitcoin and digital currency technology based startups. READ MORE: Boost VC's Tribe 6, Now out in the Wild to Make a Killing. As a line in one of the famous songs by the British rock band Queen goes... 'The show must go on'. Graduation of a batch of startups doesn't mark the end of....
Nordea, a financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic region, continues its hunt for AI and blockchain breakthroughs. Later this year it is launching its Fintech accelerator in Stockholm and Helsinki. 200 startups applied to join the 3-month program that will be led by Nordea and its partners, including IBM, Tata Consultancy Services and Nestholma Venture Accelerator. Nordea’s accelerator program goal. The main goal of Nordea’s accelerator program is to hunt for developments in both Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain technologies. Presently, only 35 startups have made it through....