Meet the 16 Trailblazers Who Make Up T-block Accelerator’s Cohort of 2020
So far, we’ve introduced you to the mentors of the Bootcamp and we’ve given you an idea of how we conducted the Bootcamp as well. Now we’re ready to introduce you to 16 immensely talented units of people who are taking up the mantle and solving real-world problems with blockchain technology. They were shortlisted from a pool 150 applications and 2 weeks of training during the bootcamp.
Here are the startups who will be pitching for T-block’s Internal Demo Day. Get to know the solutions that they’re building.
Agro Block is an agricultural traceability platform powered with blockchain technology. They recognised that blockchain technology had the potential to bring in traceability and trust, along with cost reduction to enable better supply chain management in the agriculture sector. Agro Block is leveraging innovation to increase efficiency and change the ways of working.
Ally Software is a SaaS-based content distribution platform that provides an alternative for ‘Theatrical-At-Home’. It has a with a built-in tool to configure dynamic pricing, geotagging and live data dashboards. Content creators and filmmakers can distribute their work at zero-costs to consumers on a pay-per-view basis. Ally Software is a run by its founder — Nithin Narkhede who is driven to provide a platform that will give equal opportunity to content creators who cannot meet the costs of conventional screening platforms.
Alt-Verify is building document verification solutions. It is a secure database of educational student records like transcripts and degree certificates, powered by blockchain security. They believe that they could replace third-party verifiers and give educational institutions and other stakeholders to power to issue authenticated certificates. They believe that Alt-Verify will simplify the hiring and admission process by removing the manual component of verification, “saving both time and money, a lot of money for students.”
Bagmo — a Kochi-based startup, is aiming to solve healthcare problem statements with technology. They are building a blood bank monitoring system ensuring that the supply chain is secured and is made adequately available to rural healthcare centres as well. With Bagmo, healthcare centres can access a state-of-the-art blood bag monitoring solution that will ensure that the unused units will be returned before the expiry date to the mother blood bank where the usage rate is high and wastage is very less.
LegitDoc by Crossforge Solutions
Crossforge Solutions is building LegitDoc — a patent-filed solution that will curtail the forgery of documents using blockchain technology. With LegitDoc, authorities in institutions will issue digital documents whose authenticity can be verified publicly within 10 seconds, from anywhere around the world, by a simple drag and drop of the document on an open-source portal. LegitDoc’s aim is reduce the whole process of verification of documents on blockchain to a simple drag and drop that doesn’t take up more than 10 seconds, is cost-effective and preserves the privacy of users where only they are the owners of their data.
Finaara Technologies is building an automated, verifiable remittance machine that will simplify the transfer of inward and outward remittances. The Finaara team realised the need for automation and digitisation in the remittance space with innovative standalone machines by integrating specific money service businesses (MSBs) as a unicorn or by forging MSBs-based hub partnerships
InfyU Labs is aiming at decreasing food wastage by providing a smart handheld device that determines the quality of fruits without cutting them, and ensures traceability in the chain. The device will be based on UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy integrated with an AI-powered cloud-based application. The device is capable of doing non-invasive rapid testing of fruits for nutritional values and for contamination by harmful chemicals. Additionally, with our cloud-based app, clients can remotely monitor the grade of incoming raw material and can generate reports for the same.
Kare4u is a startup that is creating innovative solutions with Blockchain and AI Mobility in the healthcare and insurance domains. They are using health claim settlement using blockchain technology to ensure security and trust amongst the participant stakeholders tp solve the problem of trust deficiency amongst payers and healthcare providers.
KavsK is a startup that is building — AgriTrust, a unified B2B national marketplace for agriculture commodities, and processed products. They claim to create value by facilitating exchange between farmers, enterprises, and large corporates for purchasing, warehousing, selling, transporting, and payment settlement, to ensure an effective transfer of agricultural commodities, from farmer to business (F2B) and processed products from business to business (B2B). AgriTrust Traceability addresses through blockchain technology to connect participants through a transparent, permanent and shared record of agricultural commodity produce information.
Koinearth’s marketsN is a blockchain technology-based platform that is creating the digital twin for supply chains. Akin to messaging application Slack, marketsN is a similar platform with a focused offering for B2B transactions. It integrates with ERPs to create supply networks and B2B marketplaces.
Metanoa is a startup that is building a unique solution for autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. They are aiming to provide an affordable, accessible and data-driven, early-detection and therapy progress tracking solution. They are combining blockchain and AI technology to build an application that can predict Autism and other disorders as early as possible with live therapy progress tracking.
New Street Tech is a startup that develops, hosts and operates blockchain-enabled ecosystems and complements them with operating expertise in select domains. They’ve recognised that the vast majority of customers and the Micro Small & Medium Enterprise (MSME) space is virtually unbanked. However, they believe that their solutions will access this market through innovative business models and technology. Multi-interface Financial eXchange [MiFiX] is New Street’s flagship ecosystem for the Banking and Financial Services Industry — aimed at optimising the value chain around lending, savings and cross-border remittances, serving over 17,000 retail customers.
Param Network is a startup that is building a blockchain-based multi-enterprise workflow automation platform to share documents electronically with all the necessary ‘proof of delivery’ to automate the entire invoice verification flow. They have a ready-made plug-n-play solution to eliminate paper/email/pdf invoices instantaneously. The platform is built on Blockchain and semantic-web technology.
Retcons Technology is building Guhaar — a product that aspires to bridge between the top management and the last mile delivery person of the company. This will be an open platform that is based on a grievance system that connects the last employee of the company to the top management about the problem which they are facing related to management and work experience using blockchain technology.
Schrocken is an India-US B2B enterprise blockchain SaaS startup catering to the life sciences, defence and aerospace industries. They help pharmaceutical brands manage contract manufacturing with the same operating visibility, control and compliance as internal manufacturing. Life Sciences, Defence and Aerospace industries are characterised by significant outsourcing of activities in a highly regulated environment; this outsourcings met with a lack of transparency, control and compliance adherence. Schrocken is building solutions to meet these demands.
TraceX is an agritech platform built to supplement supply chain traceability. They are building FOODPRINT- a digital agriculture platform which enables farmers, producer organisation, aggregators, food processors, insurance providers, financial providers, logistics providers, buyers etc., to exchange information with mutual trust via a permissioned blockchain digital ledger enabling each one to prove transparency, traceability and provenance of the claims.
The startups that make it through the Internal Demo Day will continue to go through the acceleration phase, fine-tuning their products and business models, gearing up for the Final Demo Day. Stay Tuned for more updates.
