Decentralization

Lately, blockchain and smart contracts technologies have been focusing a lot of attention. Some even go as far as comparing them to the start of the Internet. Numerous applications have started to grow around these two technologies, in many different fields such as social networking, marketplaces prediction or decentralized storage.

All of these technological advances have one point in common: it is possible to replace every single intermediary with an option that is more fair and decentralized.

Innovation investment ecosystem

In history, humans have never ceased to look for ways to improve their lives and the world of tomorrow is built on innovative projects that are being created today. Thus, innovation is and will remain at the core of our daily lives. Moreover, it has become monetizable, thanks to patent and licenses that guarantee the ownership of these creations. Each year, patent licenses generate $180 billion, and the average value of a patent on the market is $400,000.

Source : WIPO Database, October 2016

Accessibility

The current innovation investment ecosystem holds various intermediaries between inventions and the people who will use them one day. We can think about research laboratories, incubators, companies, investment banks, angel investors and many more… This made us wonder: how can we change the innovation process?

There is a gap that exists between innovation’s two main actors, and it is currently filled with intermediaries. Today’s technologies, as the Internet was at some point, allow us to find a more democratic and transparent solution: a new and direct route linking investors and innovation.

By creating a new framework upon which project teams can rely on to get fundings, the whole process of innovation is bound to become more efficient. No need to convince financiers that might not know about the science or the issue at hand, less paperwork that could lead to mistakes or delays and no involvement from any third-parties. People will directly judge which project they deem viable and worth the investment. Innovation projects will be put out faster and will be able to benefit the whole society, thus creating a virtuous circle.