Everledger chief Leanne Kemp on her ambitions for blockchain

In March the company completed a $10.4m funding round led by the Canadian arm of Fidelity Investments, enabling Everledger to ramp up its global expansion by opening an office in Israel. Since founding the company in 2015, Kemp spends her time travelling between Everledger’s offices, customers and t...

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Hlavní autor: Smyth, Jamie
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Vydáno: London The Financial Times Limited 10.08.2018
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Shrnutí:In March the company completed a $10.4m funding round led by the Canadian arm of Fidelity Investments, enabling Everledger to ramp up its global expansion by opening an office in Israel. Since founding the company in 2015, Kemp spends her time travelling between Everledger’s offices, customers and trade events. The dark grey steel structure is grafted on to the side of a small wooden house to create a unique two-bedroom home that nestles under a row of Drooping She Oaks, a native Australian tree, which provide shade from the sun. The start-up developed a suite of different technologies — blockchain, RFID and data matrix coding — to track diamonds from mines to retailers and is now diversifying to prove the provenance of fine wine, gemstones, metals and the lithium and cobalt in next-generation batteries.