The Century Program — aimed to mobilize 100 enterprise-grade blockchain solutions in India — announces its final cohort for its first track on Discrete Manufacturing
The Century Program — a corporate-SME bridge program, the brainchild of innovation management startup Lumos Labs, organized in partnership with industry leaders ŠKODA AUTO DigiLab India, Microsoft India, and Tech Mahindra, identified the top 6 enterprise-grade blockchain solutions. The top 6 shortlisted startups will move to the final stage of selection by presenting their solutions in a live pitch session on the Final Demo Day in front of a live panel of global CXOs.
The program focuses on evangelising and unearthing viable enterprise-ready blockchain solutions that solve the real-world solutions in the Discrete Manufacturing sector including -
- Know your suppliers
- Authenticity of parts
- Targeted Recall
- Extended Vehicle Ledger
- Connected Supply Chain
After sorting through over 500 potential projects, we have narrowed it down to the top 6, based on their robust proposals and one-on-one discussions with partners — Tezos and Skoda. These ingenious solutions will pitch live at the Demo Day for a chance to grow further with the ecosystem and go-to-market support as well as ample industry opportunities being provided by our partners.
Meet the six enterprise-ready solutions that are solving pertinent real-world problems in Discrete Manufacturing
Votan Ventures
Based out of Delhi and California, Votan Ventures provides a comprehensive one-stop solution for software development products and services. They assist enterprises in creating their own software products on cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things. Further, their solution aims to solve the problems of the supply chain industry through their expertise in supporting firms to develop robust blockchain-based sustainable solutions.
OBORTECH
Headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, OBORTECH creates the Smart Hub, a digital ecosystem for all actors in the supply chain, where they can remotely collaborate in a decentralized and democratic blockchain network regardless of their size and IT capability.
The Smart Hub offers
- Blockchain and cloud-powered communication hub,
- Tamper-proof, unified and online document exchange,
- IoT based real-time visibility and tracking,
- Open and decentralized networking marketplace.
Chaincode Consulting LLP based in Chandigarh; India is the partner and developing the Smart Hub’s Hyperledger blockchain aspects.
Established across India and Singapore, Birthvenue is an elegant platform that provides holistic services to firms across multiple verticals, by way of educating them about blockchain technology as well as developing viable blockchain solutions and empowering them to sustain themselves in the sector. They further organize various blockchain and artificial intelligence training courses for universities, training centres, startups, and corporates.
Through the Century Program, they have built two secure solutions: an anti-counterfeiting solution and a product authentication platform. The anti-counterfeiting solution aims to provide a blockchain-based licensing platform that prevents counterfeit products from entering the supply chain. Further, the product authentication and tracking solution uses QR/NFC tags that are connected to the blockchain which can verify their authenticity and origin.
Techvizon Private Limited
With a vision to put India at the forefront of technological innovation, Techvizon Private Limited, located in Noida, is an end-to-end customized Web solutions provider for startups to corporates. They provide customized solutions to firms specializing in various spheres like banking and finance, e-commerce, healthcare, entertainment, transportation, etc.
Techvizon Private Limited aims to implement decentralized and cutting edge solutions for a secure vehicle ledger. They are focused on using cutting-edge technology like blockchain to enable vehicle records and facilitate fair pricing and tracing of vehicle ownerships.
Karpine
A group of techies who had built eCom private labels which generated $4M in revenues decided to solve real-life problems with blockchain after seeing deaths in India due to fake Covid drugs during the second wave.
Karpine is a Blockchain As A Service startup based out of Bangalore. Karpine simplifies blockchain adoption for any firm through API’s without disturbing the architectural integrity of the existing software. The Century Program is helping them see through a blockchain-based anti-counterfeit solution with track and trace functionality for Supply Chain for facilitating authentication of parts and products
Info Grains
Based out of Indore, Infograins Software Solutions, are a leading blockchain development company that provide high-level security solutions for startups and corporations. They provide solutions in numerous technology spaces that leverage public blockchain technology, decentralized finance (DeFi), non-fungible tokens (NFTs), augmented reality (AR), IoT, mobile applications development, etc. They aim to increase awareness about the advantages of blockchain-based supply chain management solutions through their services such as smart contracts, public, private, and hybrid blockchains, dApps, DeFi, etc.
Congratulations to these top 6 robust solutions!
These enterprise-ready platforms will now pitch their solutions live to various industry experts in the Century Program Demo Day for the top spot which will entail industry, technical, go-to-market, and ecosystem support from our partners. We congratulate these well-deserved firms in developing real-world blockchain-based solutions to enhance the productivity and efficiency of the DIscrete Manufacturing sector.
The Demo Day is set to take place in November. Follow us on Twitter to get more updates and join us for the event.
Learn more about the Century Program, here
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