Learn
Understand the impact and opportunities around digital identity, wallets, verifiable credentials, and more.
Understanding and embracing new technology can be daunting. Accurate, impartial information is hard to find, and there aren’t yet many reference implementations to learn from.
As veterans of the self-sovereign identity and digital wallet movements, we’ve educated hundreds of organizations on the elements of Empowerment Tech. We’ve distilled our knowledge into practical propositions designed to take organizations from zero to hero in record time.
What is ET Kickstart?
- Get deep into Empowerment Tech: understand reusable ID, Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), personal AI and agents, Wallets, Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized identifiers, and more;
- Understand the impact of Empowerment Tech on Customer Engagement and Experience, Digital Transformation, Personalization, and Cybersecurity;
- Learn how to get buy-in from your colleagues in different departments and how to elevate the conversation to the executive level;
- Make sense of the big unsolved problems and how to engage with the experts across industry associations and standards bodies;
- Contextualize industry trends and review case studiesIdentify opportunities and threats to your business;
- Participate in interactive workshops;
- Get actionable insights from an Empowerment Tech audit of your business and products, with a plan to start implementing (or evolving) your Empowerment Tech strategy.
Build
Accelerate and derisk your Empowerment Tech activities with uniquely expert help.
Our experienced team of operators built out the world's first self-sovereign identity deployments while at Evernym. We’ve helped dozens of companies build in Empowerment Tech, from innovation POCs to full production use cases. We understand what it takes to get things moving.
Here are some of the ways we help builders:
- Tailored market reports and benchmarking on vendors or technologies (e.g. wallets);
- Deep dives into technical, product, governance, or compliance considerations;
- Developing product and technical roadmaps;
- Go to market planning, including use case showcasing and elevation of your market position;
- Rapid prototyping, including out-of-the-box POCs;
- Vendor and partner selection, including both objective and subjective feedback (RFI/RFQ creation, execution, and commercial negotiations);
- Facilitated participation in a curated pilot (or that of one of our partners);
- Ecosystem creation and acceleration;
- Team augmentation.
Invest
Get ahead with the right mix of knowledge, network and experience.Web3 smart money has already realized the importance of digital trust and identity. Jack Dorsey’s Block has an entire business unit focused on digital identity - a key element of financial inclusion. Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin is focused on "proof of humanity". Meanwhile, Sam Altman (OpenAI) is also building a digital identity initiative.
With a combined 8 startup exits, our team of operators knows what it takes to raise and deploy capital and create value in new tech.
How we can help:
- Tailored education on the Empowerment Tech opportunity;
- Showcasing a range of emergent Empowerment Tech startups;
- M&A advisory;
- Due diligence;
- Market mapping and scouting;
- Venture formation;
- Incubation.
