Some updates for the last month and next:
- On Nov 28-30th, we'll be in Cannes at the TRUSTECH conference attended last year by 13,000 people. We were chosen as 1 of only 4 startups (out of the 44 participating and pitching) for a free-of-charge package including a full stand, a 7 minutes pitch to 200 people, and participation to a closed workshop with VCs and corporate VCs, including Astorya.vc, Axa Strategic Venture, P101 Ventures, dPixel, TIM #WCAP Milano, Digital Magics, ICCREA Banca, Innogest, Berlin Innovation Venture.
- On Dec 7th, we'll be in Berlin hosted as "alumni startup" to BetaPitch INvestor Day, hosted by the Hardware.co Pre-acceleration Program from which we graduated in July 2016.
- We have great new advisors joining the team - Fabrice Croiseaux and David Drake, and a new cofounder, Ryan Molecke, with great core blockchain expertise.
- We are making advances in the prototyping, architecture and business modeling of the project, and fundraising strategy: see Overview.
- We were sought and invited to apply by the MDs of 4 of World's most prestigious acceleration programs. We passed the 1st phase of 3 of them including a call with the team and their MDs:
- Techstars Boston
- Plug and Play Cybersecurity program in San Francisco.
- Techstars Boston - Autonomous Tech Acceleration Program with the US Air Force. (They are looking at utilizing our proposed standards, certification, and open computing base to improve DoD defense from drones and through drones in civilian airspace. They welcome the pursuit also of parallel verticals, such as communications, as an initial or parallel track.)
- JVP Play, an accelerator for the largest and oldest cybersecurity venture fund in Israel.
- Over the last 6 months, 4-5 leading equity VC investors in the blockchain/crypto domain have been actively interested in investing. We are actively engaged in detail discussions with 3 small pre-seed venture funds.
- We have been holding off until the closing of the round before pursuing a formalization in Pilot Partner MoUs with 3-4 of the many prospective end-users which had engaged with since us last spring.
