Meet the eSSIF-Lab’s ecosystem: the 1st Business-oriented Programme participants

After a tough competition among interesting proposals and 2 days of intense on-line Hackathon, eSSIF-Lab has selected 15 best projects out of the 19 who succeed in the open call to join the 2nd stage of its First Business-oriented Programme:

• CommercioKYC by Commerc.io - Easy KYC with SSI
• Universal DID SaaS by Danube Tech - Building a hosted service that allows developers to easily work with Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), without having to set up their own infrastructure such as blockchain nodes or DID resolvers
• SSI-enabled “Contractual Event” Passport by Domi Labs - Enabling businesses to integrate SSI into their contractual record management processes.
• e-Origin Wallet by e-Origin - Digital wallet of verifiable credentials for the origin of the product
• Gataca Connect by Gataca España - Trusted Single Sign-On for a human-centric Internet
• SSI4DTM: Self-Sovereign Identity for Digital Transaction Management by JoinYourBit - a Digital Transaction Management platform to execute any cross-border transactions: NDAs, contracts, bids, etc.
• Universal Backup Service (UBS) for SSI Agents by Jolocom - A vendor-neutral, plug-and-play component for equipping SSI Agents with a service to generate interoperable backups of end-user data
• SSI-as-a-Service by Netis - Simplifying SSI integration and adoption.
• Gaya by NYM - Supports public notaries to remotely incorporate Limited Liability Company, providing shareholders with all the tools they need to apply digital transformation to their business since the start.
• NYM Credentials for Self-Sovereign Identity by Nym Technologies - A bulletin-board and search system for privacy-enhanced services
• Digital ID and signatures for businesses and organizations by Off-Blocks - Onboarding businesses and organizations in a self-sovereign world through user-friendly and low-cost control over trusted digital identities, verified credentials and digital signatures.
• IRIS - Discourse Community Credentials by Resonate Beyond Streaming - A Discourse plugin that allows SIOP OIDC login and allows community-friendly transparent recognition, award and governance of verifiable credentials as represented by user-friendly 'badges'.
• Dynamic Data Sharing Hub with Consent Flow by The Human Colossus Foundation - Brings SSI benefits to the wider economy by enabling a privacy-preserving full data life cycle including consent.
• Trusted Digital Assistant - a data operator solution by unikk.me - Bringing the fundamental right to an autonomous identity to every person by enabling trusted parties to act as a ‘trusted digital assistant’ in catering; safety & protection, convenience and benefits for every individual and organization in the world.; Project developed in collaboration with the iGrant.io.
• User-friendly Management Interface for Verifier Policies by Verifiable Credentials - Verifiable credentials for reviewers of scientific publishing and research funding proposals.

The Business-oriented Programme is an 8-month programme including business and technical support to integrate SSI technology with market propositions and it’s structured in 3 competitive stages (only the best performing projects in each phase are entering the next).

The initial stage, which expanded for the first month, was intended for the teams to work in the Proof of concept of their projects and to start building their business case. They both presented the outcomes of their work during business pitches and technology demonstrations in the online Hackathon which took part on September 16th and 17th. All the 19 projects who took part in this stage, including those by Filancore, Wellbeing cart, MyData Global and Spherity, will receive 15 000 euro funding to reward their efforts.

During the second stage, which already is ongoing, the 15 selected teams will work during the next 5 months on their developments to create a mock-up and a Prototype and on their business models and will cooperate among them to create a real ecosystem ensuring interoperability and scalability. Funding linked to the participation in this stage is 50 000 euro.

Only the best-in-class teams from those will reach the third stage and focus on testing their MVPs and defining Business models to get final funding of 41 000 euro.

Are you curious about which ones will be those completing the programme?

Follow up the course of the programme at eSSIF-Lab space at NGI Community and join us in congratulating all the participating teams on their development efforts so far!

Last but not least, 2nd Business-oriented Call is expected to launch in late spring 2021, and it will be open to SMEs and startups developing commercial SSI-based applications and services with a focus in the verticals of HealthTech, eGovernment, Education or competing in the generic track of Open Disruptive Innovation. Follow the updates in the community!