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David Chreng-Messembourg – Building the blocks
David Chreng-Messembourg was draped in a white coat when he first heard of bitcoin a decade ago. In the stuffy heat of his biophysics research, he witnessed the processing power...
Trading platform Bitpanda raises $263M at a $4.1BN valuation
It’s not even half a year since crypto exchange Bitpanda announced a $170 million Series B — when, back in March, Austria’s first unicorn was being valued at $1.2 billion. Today...
Tesseract Raises $25 Million is Series A Funding to Strengthen Institutional Digital Asset Lending Offering
Heavily oversubscribed round is led by Augmentum Fintech, with participation from other high-profile investors. Tesseract provides digital asset lending solutions to...
Why TransUnion led blockchain fintech Spring Labs’ $30M Series B
Consumer credit reporting agency TransUnion recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a blockchain-based data-sharing platform....
Bitpanda Announces Series B Extension To Build Institutional Offering
The Vienna based fintech Bitpanda raises further €10M as an extension of its Series B round and bringing in extensive know-how to strengthen its institutional offering in Europe...
Marketplace: Direct Market lève 1,7 million pour booster l’offre de produits locaux
Les géants Intermarché, G20 ou encore Franprix utilisent déjà cette place de marché B to B, qui met en contact producteurs et commerçants, pour remplir les rayons de leurs...
LeadBlock Partners – Investing in B2B Data-Driven Start-Ups Leveraging Blockchain Technology
LeadBlock Partners is an early-stage venture capital fund, investing in B2B data-driven start-ups that leverage Blockchain technology. Investment Sectors “At LeadBlock Partners,...
Will NFTs Break into the Mainstream Market?
Some of the most famous people dominating the business news cycles have been investing in the newest object on the block, Non-Fungible Tokens (or NFT). The first tweet ever...
How to pitch your blockchain startup to investors – a reflection by David Chreng-Messembourg
BlockStart has asked its external mentor David Chreng-Messembourg, Founding Partner and Early-stage investor at LeadBlock Partners, to give our community a reflection on how...
Forecast: Investment In Financial Services Using Blockchain Poised For Growth in 2021
Experts say 2021 is poised to see greater adoption and venture capital investment in blockchain technology. That prediction comes as more financial services apps are built using...
Tech startups: a vehicle for change in agri/food?
1.3B tonnes of food is wasted each year, representing a 1/3 of global production. 270,000 tonnes of food is wasted over Christmas in the UK alone. COVID has proved to us all our...
Enterprise Blockchain 2020 – Summary
Data driven insights into the uncharted Enterprise Blockchain World & Data Economy To access the full report, with all interviews, please click here. A word from...
Blockchain technology: the next great frontier for startups and investors
Leadblock Partners unveils "Enterprise Blockchain 2020", based on interviews with more than 200 startups and 20 experts in the Blockchain field. It has collected 9,000+ key data...
Connecting Food récolte 3 M€ pour la traçabilité des aliments
Après Tilkal en juin dernier, une autre jeune pousse utilisant la blockchain pour améliorer la traçabilité vient de lever des fonds. Baptisée Connecting Food, spécialisée dans...
Questions With VCs : introducing LeadBlock Partners
In the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than the money and the media moment. With...
Will technology bring back trust in the food industry?
Following the announcement of LeadBlock Partners first investment in Connecting Food, I wanted to take this opportunity to share our thoughts on why we invested. ‘Behind the...
Trust through transparency: Connecting Food to the consumer
RisingFoodStar Connecting Food have created a digital platform that can follow a product in real-time, tracking and digitally auditing each batch or production as it goes through...
Sustainability & Blockchain – How blockchain technology can help ans where it can’t
Away from the hype, we discuss how blockchain technology can help us reach sustainable goals illustrated by start-ups currently developing actual solutions. Often blockchain will...
There Is No Such Thing as a Blockchain Startup
Let me ask you a question. Is the start-up founder in the following discussion convincing? Investor: What are you up to? Founder: We are an internet start-up Investor: More...
