Zug (Switz\u00ader\u00adland) \u2014 Never\u00admi\u00adned AG, a Web3 company provi\u00adding tools for reading, writing and owning digi\u00adtal assets, announ\u00adced its first invest\u00adment round of \u20ac3 million, led by Signa\u00adture Ventures and Poly\u00admor\u00adphic Capi\u00adtal. The Never\u00admi\u00adned plat\u00adform consists of modu\u00adlar solu\u00adti\u00adons that make it easy for users to create and mone\u00adtize digi\u00adtal assets and parti\u00adci\u00adpate in the read-write-own vision of Web3.<\/p>\n
The plat\u00adform provi\u00addes the foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adons for buil\u00adding digi\u00adtal ecosys\u00adtems with compon\u00adents such as Toke\u00adniza\u00adtion Engine, Market\u00adplace Crea\u00adtor, Royal\u00adties Engine, Decen\u00adtra\u00adli\u00adzed Access Control, DAO Frame\u00adwork and DISC, or Data In-Situ Compu\u00adta\u00adtion, for remote computation.<\/p>\n
Don Gossen, CEO of Never\u00admi\u00adned<\/strong>, explains, \u201cThe best Inter\u00adnet is the one that ever\u00adyone can access and own. And that is what Never\u00admi\u00adned enables people to do. When it comes to data rela\u00adted to Web3, our pedi\u00adgree speaks for itself \u2014 our team has been working with cutting-edge tech\u00adno\u00adlogy for over 20 years, first in Big Data and now in Web3. With these buil\u00adding blocks, we can help you realize your vision. I would argue that we are the best team in the world doing what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n Accor\u00adding to a new report by Grand View Rese\u00adarch, the global block\u00adchain tech\u00adno\u00adlogy market is expec\u00adted to reach $1,431 billion by 2030. Given this market oppor\u00adtu\u00adnity and its solid, proven tech\u00adno\u00adlogy, Never\u00admi\u00adned will use this capi\u00adtal increase to:<\/p>\n Become more complete and scalable by driving its product road\u00admap: Never\u00admi\u00adned will enhance its digi\u00adtal asset deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment plat\u00adform that makes the Web3 acces\u00adsi\u00adble by stream\u00adli\u00adning the crea\u00adtion, mone\u00adtiza\u00adtion and manage\u00adment of distri\u00adbu\u00adted digi\u00adtal assets. Key projects include: Improve acces\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adlity by acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adting global presence: To drive busi\u00adness growth and a better custo\u00admer expe\u00adri\u00adence, Never\u00admi\u00adned will streng\u00adthen its presence in key areas such as product, engi\u00adnee\u00adring, marke\u00adting and community.<\/p>\n Easier to use by expan\u00adding the breadth and depth of the part\u00adner ecosys\u00adtem: Never\u00admi\u00adned will form both tech\u00adni\u00adcal and crea\u00adtive part\u00adner\u00adships to support its mission. In addi\u00adtion to deepe\u00adning part\u00adner\u00adships with initia\u00adti\u00adves like Auto\u00adno\u00admies, an NFT music plat\u00adform that enables artists to become participants.<\/p>\n We only invest in outstan\u00adding teams that are the back\u00adbone of the decen\u00adtra\u00adli\u00adzed future,\u201d said Signa\u00adture CEO Juliane Hahn<\/strong>. \u201cWe see a lot of start\u00adups trying to combine data with block\u00adchains. Never\u00admi\u00adned is the first company to under\u00adstand the comple\u00adxity and provide concrete solu\u00adti\u00adons at the inter\u00adsec\u00adtion of data and Web3. In the future, every data-driven company will need the ability to trans\u00adform its data silos into data ecosys\u00adtems. Never\u00admi\u00adned provi\u00addes the complete product stack to do just that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are very impres\u00adsed with the Never\u00admi\u00adned team,\u201d says Vitaly Spassky, foun\u00adder of Poly\u00admor\u00adphic Capi\u00adtal<\/strong>. \u201cThey have both the vision and the tech\u00adni\u00adcal talent and pedi\u00adgree to make it happen. For us, digi\u00adtal assets are a criti\u00adcal buil\u00adding block for the decen\u00adtra\u00adli\u00adzed web. And the Never\u00admi\u00adned plat\u00adform makes it super easy for teams and projects to inte\u00adgrate Web3 tech\u00adno\u00adlogy. We\u2019re very exci\u00adted to see what people will build with Nevermined.\u201d<\/p>\n Never\u00admi\u00adned star\u00adted as an incu\u00adba\u00adtion project within Keyko AG to solve problems rela\u00adted to data sharing through toke\u00adniza\u00adtion and smart contract gate\u00adways. From there, it evol\u00adved from a data-centric solu\u00adtion to a decen\u00adtra\u00adli\u00adzed digi\u00adtal asset solu\u00adtion with much broa\u00adder applicability.<\/p>\n About Never\u00admi\u00adned
\n\u25cf Company: A global energy company used the plat\u00adform to estab\u00adlish a peer-to-peer market\u00adplace for trading carbon credits.
\n\u25cf Crea\u00adtive: Auto\u00adno\u00admies uses Never\u00admi\u00adned to build a music NFT plat\u00adform and DAO that enables a more equi\u00adta\u00adble distri\u00adbu\u00adtion of value between musi\u00adci\u00adans, labels, and collectors.
\n\u25cf Science: In a world first, Vita\u00adDAO used Never\u00admi\u00adned to toke\u00adnize the intellec\u00adtual property of scien\u00adti\u00adfic rese\u00adarch conduc\u00adted by the Schei\u00adbye-Knud\u00adsen Lab in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n
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\nNever\u00admi\u00adned is a Web3 company that provi\u00addes tools to read, write and own your digi\u00adtal assets. It was foun\u00added by CEO Don Gossen, CTO Aitor Argo\u00adma\u00adniz and CIO Dimi\u00adtri De Jonghe. They met while foun\u00adding Ocean Proto\u00adcol, the worl\u00add\u2019s first decen\u00adtra\u00adli\u00adzed data market\u00adplace. In 2019, they foun\u00added Keyko out of a shared belief in the power of digi\u00adtal ecosys\u00adtems. They helped a variety of orga\u00adniza\u00adti\u00adons deve\u00adlop Web3 ecosys\u00adtems that are coll\u00adec\u00adtively valued at $3 billion. In 2022, they deci\u00added to spin off Never\u00admi\u00adned as a stan\u00adda\u00adlone tech\u00adno\u00adlogy platform.<\/p>\n