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Top 10 Tech Startup Founders in the UK for 2025

Scytale

Before founding Synthesia in 2017, he co-led Immersive Futures, shaping the UKs VR/AR industry and working with the UK government to establish Londons first high-quality volumetric capture studio, Dimension. He also co-founded Coincall, a privacy-focused crypto portfolio tracker, later selling it in 2019.

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The Impact of Blockchain on SaaS

Tom Tunguz

More than 30% of the initial coin offerings (ICO) in 2017 target developers and businesspeople with their products. B2B crypto companies raised about $400M of ICO dollars in 2017. The blockchain is a technical advance. The numbers are still small. B2D companies commanded $1.2B.

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Predictions for 2019

Tom Tunguz

Blockchain technology finds its second killer application. After all the hype and ICO-mania in 2017, the flurry of startups attempting to solve every startup with a distributed ledger and the collapse of currencies in 2018, one startup emerges in 2019 with the next killer use case; Bitcoin being the first. To an extent.

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An Era of Fundamental and Massive Change - The Capital Markets Innovation of the ICO

Tom Tunguz

In December 2017, the amount raised in ICOs nearly equaled the amount raised by Series A investments globally. The technology innovation catalyzed by Bitcoin and Blockchain is creating many multibillion dollar economies quickly. About a third of the ICOs in 2017 raised some form of institutional capital before ICO.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

Baremetrics

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. Table of Contents. Where Web 2.0

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How Will We Value a Crypto Token?

Tom Tunguz

Imagine you have a dollar to invest and you can choose between two options: a public cloud service or a layer 1 blockchain. How do you decide which is more attractive? How does a token differ from equity? The answer is that tokens can act remarkably like equity if they are structured in the right way.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Founded : 2017. Founded : 2017. Chelpis creates quantum-proof tech for cryptocurrency and blockchain. Founded : 2017. Based in: Hong Kong. Funding to Date : $1.6M from a seed round.