Industry Insights: Pitch Session

Industry Insights: Pitch Session

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “NFTs: Hype or Future?”

The pitch session of this year's CAC21A showcases some of the blockchain industry's most innovative and disruptive projects, bringing together ambitious entrepreneurs and investors passionate about decentralized technology. Explore how these start-ups leverage blockchain to create new business models and drive growth to secure further funding for their development.

Watch this video on YouTube (ca. 45 min.).

About the lecturers

Benjamin Horvath is a German venture capitalist and startup consultant with key expertise in psychometrics, process optimization, leadership, technical development, and international management. Furthermore, he is the Managing Director of BLOCKROCKET - the leading investor and accelerator program for early-stage blockchain startups in Germany.

LinkedIn profile of Benjamin Horvath

Tim Dierckxsens is the CEO and Co-Founder of Venly (previously Arkane Network), a blockchain API acting as a translation layer between blockchain and REST API so that any developer can build with blockchain. Till 2017, Tim has worked as a business analyst and consultant.

LinkedIn profile of Tim Dierckxsens

Simon Peters is the Managing Director of DECUS Network, a solution for financial institutions to manage digital assets across custodians and asset classes (payment and equity tokens) via one API. Previously, Simon worked in a leading role as Venture Pioneer at the impact-driven company builder Ampion Ventures. His vision is to build flexible, incentive-based networks replacing old, rigid, and inefficient systems.

LinkedIn profile of Simon Peters

Holger Geissler is the CEO and founder of ipOcean, a network that lets everybody secure and shares their ideas and intellectual property in a protected, easy, and fast way. Holger holds an MBA, a Ph.D., and attended Stanford University.

LinkedIn profile of Holger Geissler

Daud Zulfacar has worked and founded several start-ups mostly as side projects in various areas such as proptech, foodtech, fashion, online community building, and design. For most of his professional life, he worked in the enterprise software management space. In that industry, he built up a startup to one of the leading service and product providers in Germany working in various positions and always closely together with the founder himself.

LinkedIn profile of Daud Zulfacar

Moritz Putzhammer is Co-Founder & CEO at Trality, a platform assisting cryptocurrency traders with limited experience with trading bots. Moritz holds a Ph.D. in International Business and displays broad professional experience in strategy, finance, project management, and research.

LinkedIn profile of Moritz Putzhammer

 

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