Blockchain Startup Hyperledger Wins $50,000 at Swift Innotribe
Blockchain startup Hyperledger has won the Innotribe Startup Challenge at Sibos conference, walking away with a reported $50,000 in prize money. The team, acquired by Blythe Masters' Digital Asset Holdings earlier this year, made their pitch onstage alongside 11 early-stage finalists including crypto remittance platform Bitspark. And the winner is... @Hyperledger! Congratulations from the whole Innotribe team! #ISCFinale #Sibos pic.twitter.com/cWolJSHUid. - Innotribe (@Innotribe) October 14, 2015. Launched in 2011 by Swift, Innotribe seeks to bridge the gap between the financial services....
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HyperLedger, a blockchain startup progressed to the finals stage of the Innotribe New York Showcase. The finals will be held at Sibos Singapore after regional showcases in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The five best startups in each region will then compete for a $50,000 grand prize, and the possibility to work with global financial giant SWIFT. "The regional showcases represent a unique platform for discussion, debate, and high-level networking for our community and are a great opportunity for the startups to meet face to face with potential investors, partners and customers," explained....
Bitcoin companies who are part of this year's Innotribe Startup challenge, a contest run by the international payment network SWIFT, have the opportunity to partner with and be mentored by some of the world's most prestigious financial institutions. "What really sets the Innotribe program apart is the coaching we give the startups in how to engage the more established financial services providers," said Mike Sigal, Innotribe's lead coach. "There's a chasm between how startups and banks practice innovation, and helping our startups understand how to communicate their value propositions to....
Blockchain startup Hyperledger won the Innotribe Startup Challenge finale at the Sibos conference in Singapore and bagged $50,000 in prize money. The company specializes in shared ledger technology for decentralized data management and was recently acquired by Digital Asset Holdings. Other bitcoin and blockchain firms that made it to the finals were Bitspark, a remittance service based in Hong Kong, and Elliptic, which is a bitcoin storage and analytics firm. Hyperledger's Blockchain Technology. Prior to winning this year's fintech challenge sponsored by SWIFT, Hyperledger was also one of....
Bitspark is a bitcoin remittance company operative under the power of block chain technology. Based out of Hong Kong, they are a pioneer in remittance for the crypto age. Operating a cash-in cash-out platform leveraging bitcoin as the means of transmission, they are taking leading steps in developing remittances for the new age. The most promising FinTech companies in Asia have been chosen, and Bitspark were announced as joint winners of the SWIFT supported Innotribe Startup competition (semi-finals) in Singapore. They will now join the other four finalists that have been chosen to compete....
Bitcoin custodian Elliptic has been selected to compete for a $50,000 prize in the Startup Challenge Finale at SWIFT's Sibos conference. Some 370 companies applied to take part in the challenge and Elliptic was one of 15 companies selected to compete in the Innotribe Startup Challenge showcase, which took place in London last week. Elliptic was one of two finalists in the growth-stage startup category, the other being xWare42, which enables banks to give customers additional information on their bank statements about their purchases. "We're very pleased to have been selected as finalists.....