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Simple Token has an impressive 23 partnerships to date, mainly startups and mid-sized companies spanning across the globe and in multiple industries. There isn’t a place to find all of the partnerships, so I’ve compiled them into this article and given each a brief background. There are currently 3 stealth projects that Simple Token has not released the name of and for that reason I have chosen to leave them out of this article.

Simple Token has added 3 new partnerships in the past couple of weeks and added 11 partnerships in their first OST Start Up day back in January. Most of these companies work in tech and blockchain technologies.

1. Unsplash: Beautiful Free Photos

Unsplash is arguably OST’s largest partnership and most promising. OST recently announced an investment of $7.5million (with the possibility of increasing to $10 million in the coming months) in to Unsplash, a Canadian photography platform that has over 65,000 contributors and 4 billion monthly impressions (nearly 3,000 a second). Unsplash is currently not a household name, but odds are you’ve viewed an Unsplash photo (possibly even today). Unsplash photo views growth has been unprecedented, with a 1000% increase over two years. The funds provided by OST will help them decide how to create a new economic model for Unsplash and photography.

A photo from Unsplash, isn’t it beautiful?

OST will tokenize the photo views in order to help Unsplash achieve their mission of democratizing the market for high quality photography. CEO Jason Goldberg claimed that Unsplash was the number one project he wanted to invest into/ partner with.

Simple Token led the investment round, 80% of which was done through USD and the remaining 20% in OST tokens. Jason Goldberg will join the Board of Directors for the project. To read more about OST involvement in Unsplash click here . The CEO of Unsplash has also written an article discussing the partnership and financing round, which can be read here.

2. Pepo: Get Insider Tips Direct From Locals (Social Media App)

Pepo was created by Jason Goldberg (CEO and Founder of Simple Token) and developed by many of the team members currently part of the Simple Token Team.

Pepo is a social media app aimed to connect travelers with locals to give vacationers/backpackers expert advice on places to go, stay, take pictures of, eat and more. Pepo is divided into channels (public and private) where people can post pictures, ask questions, or posts articles that they think the community will enjoy.

Pepo is the first partner of OST; they intend to use the OST’s platform to provide a reward and incentive system for creating quality posts on their platform. If a user accumulates enough Pepo Coins, they can “cash” them out for unique features such as personalized itineraries.

Pepo has over 100,000 downloads on the Google PlayStore and is available on the App Store.

3. Wooshii: Video Production Platform

Wooshii! Wooshii is the most recent company to partner with Simple Token. The company is a video production platform and marketplace that has powered teams who have worked for 3M, British Airways, Google, Unilever and more.

The Wooshii platform allows people to keep all vital information in one place, from communication to schedules ( think of it as being the Slack of Video Production). The platform allows you to find local crew, motion graphics support and more.

Wooshii hopes to tokenize its marketplace which will allow for a more cohesive digital community. Wooshii is used by over 13,000 video production managers. With the growth of the internet, video production is no longer solely in the hands of the television networks. Facebook, YouTube, and Vimeo have added new channels of distribution for video streaming.

I absolutely love this quote from the CEO of Wooshii and it embodies how I see Simple Token and why I think it will be so successful.

This sounds like the Wordpress of Blockchain. Simple Token promises a quick and easy way to do this, while I can focus on my business without having to pay the cost of blockchain coding in terms of time, money, people or resources. — Fergus Dyer-Smith, CEO and founder of Wooshii

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4. Digital Knights: The Authority on Tech Teams

Digital Knights is a company seeking to evaluate software development companies. Digital Knights connects businesses and entrepreneurs to software companies that have gone under their rigorous six-week screening process. Digital Knights works across most programming languages, industries, domains, and platforms. They coordinate with teams working on blockchain, IoT, and AI projects. Development partners working with Digital Knights have built for iHeart Radio, Skype, Hello Fresh, Deloitte, and more.

They will work as an advisory member for the side-chain protocol. The two hope to work together to advance tokenization of businesses. Digital Knights will explore the tokenization of their own platform as well.

Digital Knights works across Europe and has offices located in Germany and Switzerland. Their official statement can be found here.

5. InterviewBit: Master Coding Interviews (Website)

InterviewBit is a platform that provides customers with a customized plan to get you hired by the best technology companies. The website provides people with coding questions and skill refreshers as well as referrals to the top companies.

The company was founded by a member who worked alongside Jason Goldberg at Fab.com. InterviewBit hopes to use a native token on their platform for courses and coaches.

6. XAIN: The eXpandable AI Network (Blockchain/AI Hybrid)

XAIN. is one of the more interesting partnerships. It’s a blockchain/AI hybrid company that has not done an ICO and has some big partnerships. Xain started as a research project at Oxford University in 2013 and has expanded to a 23 person team headquartered in Berlin and London. XAIN is created on the eXpandable AI Network. The three main products on their network are vehicle networks, logistics tracking, and accounting automation.

XAIN is part of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Trusted IoT Alliance, partnered with Volkswagen, Nvidia, and more (seen left). I highly suggest reading their yellow page and skimming through their website as it is an extremely interesting project.

By partnering with Simple Token we are able to further explore the tokenization of business processes and consumer applications for the automotive and supply chain sector, while in the near term specifically focusing on potentially tokenizing a medical blockchain network to run on top of the OpenST protocol.” — Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbaek, CEO (Source: blog.simpletoken.com)

7. Gushcloud: Influencer Marketing Network

Gushcloud is an online marketing influencer network connecting over 12,000 influencers across Southeast Asia ranging in verticals from beauty & fashion, food & travel, to arts & music. Gushcloud hopes to utilize tokenization of their platform to incentivize influencers, micropayments, gaming and more.

Gushcloud recieved a $3 million strategic investment from YG Entertainment, one of the largest South Korean record labels with famous K-wave band Big Bang. It operates in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

8. Look: Capture Moments in 3D (Virtual Reality App)

Look is a start up hoping to allow VR to gain large scale adoption by creating their own 3D camera and allowing users to share their content on their Look mobile application. Look hopes to use the “Freenium” app model on the OST platform, where their own tokens will be used to incentivize and reward creators of content. Jason Goldberg CEO of Simple Token wrote a case study on Look that can be found here. Look’s public beta is expected to go live in Q1 of 2018.

9. Floship: Global eCommerce Fulfillment (Logistics Company)

Floship is the world’s largest crowdfunding fulfillment provider by packages shipped and was one of the top rated Supply Chain start-ups in 2017 by Explore WMS. Floship transports products from micro-multinational entrepreneurs to large-scale IndieGoGo and Kickstarter campaigns and allows for integration of e-commerce software such as Shopify and Woocommerce.

Floship is strategically located in the world’s largest air-freight hub and tax free zone, Hong Kong. It’s strategic location allows for ease of transporting your products to and from China and beyond. Floship partners with the best couriers, ranging from DHL and Fedex to the Royal Mail and United States Postal Service.

Floship hopes to use Simple Token’s platform to tokenize it’s business for micropayments, and consumer benefits which do not exist in the logistics space.

10. Tesloop: Transportation Freedom (Ride-Sharing Company)

Tesloop is a Southern California startup providing Tesla car services between Palm Springs, Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego with intentions of expanding into Northern California and Texas. Tesloop provides riders with a sustainable car service and the experience of riding in a Tesla.

Tesloop provides riders with the ultimate travel experience, with amenities such as free wifi, snacks and drinks, heated seats, curated music playlists, and travel pillows.

Hotels that Tesloop are partnered with in SoCal

Tesloop is partnered with dozens of hotels across Southern California as well as several food and events partners and is hoping to expand its services in 2018. The start up is excited by the prospects of using blockchain technologies to record ride usage on the immutable ledger and smart contracts scenarios.

Who likes NASCAR?

11. 704 Games (Game Production Studio)

704 Games owns the exclusive rights to NASCAR. They released NASCAR Heat in 2016 and the sequel in 2017 on PlayStation 4 and Xbox 360 as well as a mobile version available for iOS and Android. The team has years of experience working on previous NASCAR games for EA Sports and Hasbro. 704 Games chose OST to help for the tokenization of its games. The tokens will be used for buying and selling things within the game.

Radmule Labs

12. Radmule: Game Monetization Consultancy (Consulting Firm)

Radmule Labs is a small game studio and consultancy firm situated in Turkey with two mobile games and seeking to create a blockchain-based game. Letta is the first game developed by Radmule. It is a PvP that combines aspects of traditional scrabble and Tetris. Trivia Game Show is their second game that tries to take an exciting twist on traditional trivia games.

In-game currencies are trapped in the game they are a part of and can’t be used/redeemed in the real world. Radmule is hoping to build a blockchain game on OST’s platform that can be redeemed and used within the OST network.

13. Korhal: The Best Cloud is No Cloud (Blockchain Start up)

Korhal is an open source decentralized IoT platform based in Berlin. Korhal is attemping to become the Docker of IoT allowing developers to monitor, configure, and network millions of devices. Korhal is using OST platform instead of launching an ICO. For more information on their project, their whitepaper can be found here.

14. TribeCoin: Co-create the Future. Share the Bounty. (Blockchain Start up)

TribeCoin is a decentralized infrastructure for story telling and incentivized influence. Product reviews/announcements, petition signing, and viral campaigns are a few examples of what can be done on their platform.

TribeCoin campaigns work in 5 steps.

Post a Campaign Bounty Form Your Tribe: Invite customers, influencers, organizations, and brand evangelists. Launch Your Campaign Allocate Tribe Coins Achieve Your Goal

The team is composed of 5 members of different backgrounds. Tribecoin is partnering with Simple Token as they want to breakdown the barriers of a multi-billion dollar influencer industry.

15. Lookhave: Fashion, In the Hands of Everyone (Social Media App)

Lookhave is a fashion social media mobile app that connects your personal wardrobe to your smartphones. Over 1 million items are listed on their app, that allows users to mix and match their outfits and share them with your friends. It will allow users to get inspiration from others and the ability to create look boards. It uses image recognition to add pieces from your wardrobe to the app. Lookhave has been featured in many of the major fashion magazines, including Vogue and GQ.

16. ToMoRRoW: Your Money. Your Impact. (Financial Start Up)

ToMoRRoW is a German based start up seeking to create sustainable checking accounts. With every payment with their credit card, ToMoRRoW plans to promote reforestation projects across the globe, allow for 5 free withdrawals (monthly), guaranteed deposits of up to 10,000 Euros, and opening accounts instantly.

17. ConnectScale (Social Media App)

ConnectScale is my personal favorite of all of the partnerships because of how niche it is. The Tennessee startup founded in 2015 is a social media app that uses their Fishing Scale to weigh and track fishing trips. The social media app will allow fishers to compete with their friends and others in their area. ConnectScale will tokenize their app so users have more incentives and rewards for using their social community platform. Their fishing scale can be bought on their website for $79.99 and their app is downloadable on the AppStore and Google Playstore

18. Treat (Social Media App)

Treat is a Barcelona-based start up creating a social app for the medical community where members can discuss treatments or procedures that they have undergone and how to cope with the recovery or prepare for them. The partnership with Simple Token will allow Treat to tokenize it’s app, rewarding high quality content users and spend these tokens on source specific professional advice.

19. License.Rocks: License as a Service (Blockchain Startup)

License.Rocks is a decentralized platform for software licensing partnered with ProLicense, 7Analyse, Simmst, Simple Token, and BigchainDB. They incorporate software asset management and blockchain technologies to create a secondary market for unused software licenses. Due to this secondary market it makes sense that License.Rocks is seeking to tokenize the assets and other options. It is currently in a closed beta.

20. Lytepay: Get Paid Instantly (Blockchain Startup)

Lytepay (not to be confused with Litecoin’s Litepay) is a decentralized payment platform for freelancers, influencers and the rest of the gig economy. Lytepay is in its closed Beta phase having completed $400,000 in transactions over 3 months. According to the Freelancing in America (FIA) 2017 report, 57 million Americans (36%) are freelancing and contributing $1.7 tn to the economy. The report estimates that the majority of the US workforce will work as freelancers by 2027.

Lytepay’s invoicing will be powered by the token and user will have the option pay with the token. Influencers will receive faster transactions by accepting the token, which through traditional methods would normally take anywhere from 60–120 days.

Lytepay will also be the first partnership to use the soon to be released ostKIT. For more information on the Lytepay partnership and ostKIT click here.

These partnerships are not household names but it is an impressive list that come from all over the globe and in different industries. The demand for the OST platform is there, and OST has been gaining larger partnerships over the past couple of weeks. I am very excited for the future of OST and I hope this article provided you with a better understanding of the partnerships!