The Venture Builder for Human Centric Solutions
LEDGER, an EU funded project, empowers people to solve problems using decentralised technologies such as blockchain, peer to peer or distributed ledger technologies.
We are looking for 32 projects to build Minimum viable products (MVPs) where privacy by design, openness and citizen data sovereignity are at the core of their proposition.
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LEDGER offers to the selected projects:
Up to €200.000 equity free
A venture builder programme for up to 12 months with business mentors, camps, technological vouchers, training and demo days.
An expert researcher in residence to support the selected teams along the full programme.
Access to market and support to raise further investment for the best projects in class.
focus on 5 + 1 sectors
Health
Economy
Mobility
Public Services
Energy & Sustainability
Open Innovation
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LEDGER 3rd Open Call: The Venture Builder has selected 9 projects out of 18 Jury Day finalists to join the final round of its programme
LEDGER – After a long selection process and strong competition that started with 99 submitted applications from 26 countries, the EU-funded MVP Venture Builder for human-centric solutions has held its final Jury Day on Thursday the 29th of April 2021 where 18...
LEDGER has successfully closed its 3rd and last Open Call!
LEDGER closed its 3rd Open Call on the 3rd of March, congratulations to all the applicants on their work and dedication in submitting their projects to the LEDGER 3rd Open Call. Finally, there have been 99 applications submitted, from 26 countries! The evaluation...
LEDGER launches advanced 3rd Open Call for decentralised solutions to give citizens back control of their data
The EU-funded Venture Builder, whose first 2 cohorts are already making strides towards transforming decentralised data governance in Europe, will invest up to €150K equity-free in the projects selected through its third and last Open Call. Paris, Amsterdam,...
Meet the 2nd cohort of LEDGER’s Venture Builder programme for human-centric solutions
LEDGER’s second cohort in alphabetical order: Backme.org – Make content creators, journalists and artists become independent. ConDIDI – Full lifecycle decentralized conference participant management Distributed Secure Smart Farming Log (DISEMIN) – A digital log...
About the selection process
An explanation on the selection process after the Review meeting with the European Commission. Dear LEDGER Community, Following the second Jury Day session, we have received some emails questioning the evaluation and selection process to enter the second round of...
LEDGER 2nd OPEN CALL: MEET THE 32 FINALISTS who, this time, are heading to the ONLINE Jury Day on the 23rd of April 2020
LEDGER - The Venture Builder for Human-centric solutions is announcing the final 32 projects that will be competing for up to 16 available MVP Venture Builder programme spots, including mentoring services and up to 200.000EUR in equity free funding. The Jury Day event...
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𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐰𝐬!📢
Orvium moves to the "Business Ignition Phase" with 3 more projects out of the 9 who originally started the NGI @LedgerEu program back in September 2020. Congrats to all teams! 👏👏
This is not just about systemd. I'm sharing some thoughts on strategies and opportunities ahead for ICT entrepreneurs and decision makers, happy to get in touch with anyone interested to join the journey ahead: https://medium.com/think-do-tank/lead-or-follow-the-dilemma-of-ict-industry-for-the-coming-decade-4f83ee1851bc
Don't worry and keep saying NO to systemd https://www.zdnet.com/article/nasty-linux-systemd-security-bug-revealed/
💥@francesca_bria, UN Senior Advisor on digital cities & digital rights, and @LedgerEu Advisory Board Member, Sunday on German public TV @DasErste talking about data, digital power and democracy: https://youtu.be/sn8rwUgzkGo
#NGI4eu #PeopleFirst #InternetofHumans #privacybydesign