Calibrate is focused on long-duration capital investments. Our firm belief is that having a longer timeline for investing will generate superior returns. We do not believe in short term solutions. Our ethos is to operate with integrity and to add value across the spectrum of the investment cycle. Our mission is to provide the means to support, sustain, and enhance stakeholder value; to generate an environment aligned with value creation. Our business is founded upon our core values and a measured approach to risk management as our name suggests.

Calibrate Management

1414 Ventures is a digital identity venture capital firm offering pre-seed or seed-stage investments. It is focused solely on the digital identity space which supports functions such as payments, cybersecurity, and data privacy & trust. The firm looks for startups and founders who are driven by solving a digital identity business problem with a solution that is unique and truly meets a market, customer, or user need.

1414 Ventures

Adjuvo is a bridge between high growth opportunities of the moment and a network of top tier investors with capital to invest. Adjuvo aim to invest between £1.0 and £3.0 million in early stage businesses.

Adjuvo

Appold is a specialist company focused on the Web3 industry incorporating: - Blockchain technology  - Decentralised finance - Tokenisation of assets Appold advises institutions and corporations, as well as Founders and teams, seeking to access and expand both their own and their client's interests in the sector.

Appold

Massive helps you invest at all stages of the business lifecycle: From Seed+ all the way to Pre-IPO.

Massive

Cygnetise

Cygnetise is a decentralised application that makes the process of managing authorised signatory lists efficient and secure. Using blockchain technology, organisations including PwC, BNY Mellon, SG Kleinwort Hambros (SocGen) and many more significantly mitigate the risk of fraud and save over 90% of their admin time and costs.

Cygnetise offers a blockchain-based platform that enables users to manage and share data on authorized signatories with third parties, like banks, in real time. Users can select the fields that are required and the type of data used (such as drop-down selections, free format, or numerical) and onboard their signatories onto the platform. Furthermore, Cygnetise enables users to customize their validation controls to ensure compliance practices are met when updating the signatory details.

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Cygnetise offers a blockchain-based platform that enables users to manage and share data on authorized signatories with third parties, like banks, in real time. Users can select the fields that are required and the type of data used (such as drop-down selections, free format, or numerical) and onboard their signatories onto the platform. Furthermore, Cygnetise enables users to customize their validation controls to ensure compliance practices are met when updating the signatory details.The company claims that it saves companies over 90% of the time spent on manual and paper-based tasks.Key customers and partnershipsAs of September 2023, the company served a number of enterprise customers, including PWC, Societe Generale, Willis Towers Watson, Charles Schwab, ADNOC, and SEI.Funding and financialsIn September 2023, Cygnetise<a href="https://sp-edge.com/updates/22135"> raised GBP 2.5 million</a> (USD 3.1 million) in a pre-Series A funding led by Adjuvo to add to its sales and tech teams and expand across new international markets.

BlockCypher is an enterprise company specializing in blockchain technology. The company’s cloud-based platform helps enterprises build blockchain applications with web APIs and callbacks. BlockCypher's APIs enable users to interact with multiple blockchains and retrieve data from blocks, receive notifications about unconfirmed transactions, and request multiple signature transactions​.In terms of product offerings, BlockCypher's primary service is its cloud-based platform. The platform's design is blockchain-universal, enabling its compatibility with any blockchain. This versatility permits BlockCypher to support numerous enterprise scenarios, including supply chain oversight, financial transactions, and record maintenance.Key customers and partnershipsBlockCypher and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) partnered in June 2018 to showcase secure peer-to-peer energy transactions using the blockchain, forming the foundation for a distributed energy marketplace. This collaboration opens up new value streams for customers and utilities by reducing the need for a central arbitrator.

BlockCypher

Bloq's products are designed to accelerate blockchain development and deployment, catering to individual developers, startups, and enterprises. Focusing on enterprises, the company’s solutions are offered through the Bloq platform, which includes tools for exchanges, wallets, data and analytics, and custody providers.The company provides managed blockchain cloud services that consist of three primary services: Connect, Nodes, and Stake. Connect is a blockchain API service that accelerates the development of real-time connectivity to popular blockchain networks and access to additional blockchain data services. Nodes offers private, fully managed clusters of nodes to access popular public blockchain networks. Stake provides infrastructure and API endpoints to allow users to create validators and start staking, with support for Ethereum and Avalanche networks​​.Key customers and partnershipsThe company's timeline of innovation includes major milestones such as delivering Fidelity’s first bitcoin wallet in 2016, launching BloqLabs in 2017, and working with Citibank on a Universal Node for digital assets in 2018. In recent years, Bloq has launched BloqCloud, a managed node and API service. It also partnered with Lumerin project to tokenize hashpower and founded Atmos Labs to develop metaverse-native sports​​.Bloq’s key enterprise customers include Discover, Citigroup, Foxconn, Barclays, Fidelity, and Circle.

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Dragonchain offers a blockchain-based, language-agnostic enterprise solutions that includes a Learning Management System. Some of the solutions include 1) Lyceum, which provides traceable proof-of-course progress, completion, scoring, continuing education units, and certification, along with a GDPR- and CCPA-capable identity management platform; 2) Factor, which enables secure PII storage and streamlined authentication; and 3) A FinTech suite that supports regulatory compliance. Dragonchain’s products are quantum-safe and the proof of every transaction is secured to bitcoin, Ethereum, and other blockchain networks.In January 2020, Dragonchain was able to execute over 260 million transactions on a business system in just 24 hours. The test was run on 520 active nodes with a utilization rate of below 2%; it was estimated that at full capacity, the platform could execute approximately 13 billion transactions.The company’s solutions can be used across a range of industries, including healthcare, FinTech, government, and supply chain management. Most use cases focus on using the platform for information gathering and management, with a priority on accurate and real-time information availability.Key customers and partnershipsThe company has worked with a range of customers including Snohomish County in the US, Beaxy, Knowledge Perk, and SafePass.

Dragonchain

BlockApps is a leading provider of blockchain solutions that helps businesses enhance transparency and trust in their transactions. BlockApps' key product, STRATO, is a BaaS platform compatible with Ethereum, which is designed for business network transactions and activities, adhering to the standards of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). It can be deployed on multiple cloud providers, integrated with various systems, and is configurable for a range of business activities. It is primarily used for building business networks with a focus on enhancing security, performance, trust, and transparency. STRATO's capabilities include tokenizing real-world assets, incorporating transparency data, and creating value chain incentives. It offers a suite of features including data privacy controls, network governance, scalability, APIs for third-party integration, audit and reporting tools, data migration facilities, identity management using existing enterprise sign-on systems, consensus mechanisms, developer tools, application portability, and the ability to use existing enterprise data models.Key customers and partnershipsIn 2016, BlockApps collaborated with ConsenSys and BHP Billiton to deploy its first production application. In the same year, it built enterprise Proof of Concepts (POCs) with John Hancock and Upgraded (now Ticketmaster).BlockApps announced an initiative with ARC, United Airlines, and Blockskye in 2018 and also launched the STRATO platform on all major cloud providers by partnering with Google and Amazon Web Services.In September 2021, it launched TraceCarbon, a CO2 ecosystem management application, supporting sustainability traceability.Funding and financialsIn April 2022, BlockApps raised USD 41 million in funding through a round led by Liberty City Ventures. The company intended to use the funding to enhance its go-to-market strategy, expand its team, help businesses expand in its blockchain ecosystem, and bring more real assets to the STRATO platform.

BlockApps

Cryptowerk is an enterprise blockchain company that offers blockchain-as-a-service, allowing organizations to create a tamper-proof chain of custody for their digital assets and enabling them to prove authenticity at scale​​. Cryptowerk's solutions are used in multiple industries, including aerospace and defense, automotive, pharmaceuticals, software, and utilities​​.The company's primary product is Cryptowerk HORIZON. This software creates tamper-proof records of digital assets that can be sealed in public or private blockchains up to one million times per second. These digital "fingerprints" can then be compared to the original data to verify authenticity. Cryptowerk HORIZON is offered as a REST API. The product is available for cloud-based deployment and supports various organizations including midsize businesses, small businesses, enterprises, freelancers, nonprofits, and government entities​​.

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Companies that offer blockchain-based solutions that enable users and companies to track price, date, location, quality, and other relevant information for supply chain management

Companies and protocols that leverage blockchain technology to act as content delivery networks (CDNs) or provide content sharing solutions

Companies that leverage blockchain technology to offer databases, query services and data sharing

Companies that offer blockchain-enabled Internet-of-Things (IoT) development platforms for building networks and transferring IoT device data

Companies that leverage blockchain to protect and manage digital intellectual property (IP) rights

Companies that leverage blockchain technology to provide cybersecurity and identity management solutions for enterprises

Companies and protocols that offer industry and context specific blockchain-based solutions for enterprise applications

The blockchain-as-a-service segment operates under a B2B SaaS model

Companies offering blockchain-enabled tools to build IoT networks/supply chain traceability solutions for smart factories

Includes companies that offer blockchain-enabled tools to build IoT networks and transfer IoT device data

All companies within this industry are either blockchain-based platforms or offer blockchain-centric services

Blockchain-based signatory management platform Cygnetise has secured £2.5m ($3.1m) in pre-Series A funding. Adjuvo led the round, with contributions coming from Massive and existing investors. Cygnetise plans to use the capital to further develop its sales and technology teams, and expand into new sectors and global markets. The platform allows users to manage and share authorised signatories and related data with third parties, such as banks, in real time. Users can customise the application according to their needs, selecting required fields and data types, and enable validation controls to ensure regulatory compliance.


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