i-House Chairman and Founder Participates in Silicon Valley Blockchain Tour

Between May 18–19 i-house Chairman and Founder Ricky Ng took part in a blockchain tour in the Silicon Valley. The tour was put on by The Blockchainer, and is intended to help blockchain and crypto companies to gain more knowledge about the complexities of doing business in the U.S. The tour also helps these companies to connect with local U.S. business that they can potentially cooperate with, or that can invest in them.

The first stop on the tour was ConsenSys’ San Francisco, Calif. office. ConsenSys is a venture production studio building decentralized applications and various developer and end-user tools for blockchain ecosystems, primarily focused on Ethereum. In addition to the development of internal projects and consulting work, ConsenSys is interested in the identification, development and acquisition of talent and projects on an ongoing basis.

The second stop on the tour was Fenwick & West’s Mountain View, Calif. office. For more than four decades, Fenwick & West has helped some of the world’s most recognized companies become, and remain, market leaders. From emerging enterprises to large public corporations, their clients are leaders in the technology and life sciences sectors and are fundamentally changing the world through rapid innovation.

The third stop on the tour was Wyre’s San Francisco, Calif. office. Wyre’s technology allows for the transfer of money into some of the most difficult to reach markets. Founded in 2013, Wyre started with building the simplest suite of products and services which were designed to make it easy for consumers and businesses to use blockchain technologies. Wyre is an enterprise-level API and dashboard which allows companies to instantly send funds worldwide, without taking on any price volatility, and for a fraction of the cost.

The final stop on the tour was Fenox Capital’s San Jose, Calif. office. Fenox Capital works with emerging technology companies across the world and they specialize in helping entrepreneurs achieve global expansion into North America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Fenox Capital seeks to work with world-class management and technical teams that target disruptive opportunities in IT, Health IT, Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Robotics, Big Data, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, FinTech and Next Generation Technologies.