German Blockchain Award 2020 — category “Seed Stage”
About the event
The German Blockchain Award 2020 was designed by BLOCKROCKET to showcase the best blockchain-related early-stage startups in the financial, crypto, and industrial space in Germany.
On December 15, 20 early-stage blockchain startups competed in two different categories (10 startups for the “Idea Stage” + 10 startups for the “Seed Stage”) in front of 200+ leading executives, founders, and investors from the blockchain ecosystem in Germany.
In this article, we would like to honor the 3 winners of the category “Seed Stage” (startups >200,000 EUR funding in 2020). The event was divided into two different stages:
- A short elevator pitch of 60 seconds per startups (voted by the audience)
- A regular pitch (5min pitch + 5min Q&A) of the top 3 startups (voted by the jury)
1st place - eCustoms
Cristina Lorenzo and eCustoms - a cloud platform, scalable and accessible from any device with internet access, which allows having all the documentation and data associated with international shipments of goods available in real-time by a simple, secure and transparent way through the use of blockchain.
2nd place - FINEXITY
Henning Wagner and FINEXITY - Europe’s first and leading digital asset investment platform.
The company enables everyone to invest into hand-picked, asset-backed investments like real estate, artworks, and oldtimers via its blockchain-based investment platform. Investors invest digitally, from 500 Euros, and complete the investment process within 3 minutes. The advantages for the investors: No own asset management, the receipt of an annual interest rate, and the participation in the performance of the asset. Through tradeable virtual shares, investors profit just like an owner.
FINEXITY makes the unbankable, bankable! It facilitates and accelerates the access to tangible asset investments for everyone — that’s how you invest like an owner today.
3rd place - Trality
Moritz Putzhammer and Trality - a platform for anyone to create and invest through automated trading bots.
While professional traders successfully use automated trading, over 80% of private traders lose money due to emotional bias and lack of automation. That’s why we build the first marketplace for trading bots that is available for traders of all levels of experience. With just a few taps from their mobile app, we enable followers to easily invest in bots created on the platform. To attract the best bot creators, we offer the most advanced tools for bot creation in private trading as well as the option to participate in revenue generated from their follower-base.
It is Trality’s vision to become a 1-stop shop for automated investments. Bots will manage users’ investments - across asset classes, across platforms - all in one place.
Startups (Seed Stage)
- Arkane Network - An open network for building blockchain applications
- Blocksport - Swiss sports tech specialized in digital identities
- BREACH - Cyber insurance for digital asset exchanges and wallets
- Ecustoms - Blockchain customs technology
- Finexity - Platform for digital real asset investment
- Finoa - Digital asset custodian
- Flovtec - Market-making solutions to exchanges & tokens to enable a liquid market
- Madana - SaaS for confidential computing
- Spherity - Digital Identity & Supply Chain Compliance
- Trality - Platform for algorithmic crypto trading
Jury
- Alex von Frankenberg, Managing Director, High-Tech Gründerfonds
- Patrick Van de Mosselaer, Managing Director, Tioga Capita
- Olaf Hannemann, Co-Founder, CV VC
- Wolfgang Maennel, Managing Director, Tathros Innovation
- Benedikt Schulz, Investment Manager, tokentus investment AG
About BLOCKROCKET
BLOCKROCKET is an early-stage investor and digital accelerator program for blockchain startups in Germany that offers an exclusive ecosystem to help startups, corporates, and investors to leverage the potential of blockchain technology. Want to find out more about our program? Then please visit our website or reach out directly to us: www.blockrocket.io
