NYU Blockchain Accelerator
PUML Better Health is glad to announce they have successfully completed the worlds first Blockchain Sports Accelerator in association with New York University and Hype Spin, Tel Aviv. PUML was just one of 10 early-stage blockchain startups that was selected from hundreds of applications around the world.
After completing the Final Bootcamp in Barcelona PUML was selected as a finalist for the full programme. This was a 3 month intense course that included daily checkins, mentoring, weekly workshops and virtual coffees with key industry leaders.
Some of the highlight mentors included working with Bernd Wahler, Ex CMO and VP of Innovation at Adidas, Rod Nenner, VP of the Washington Redskins, Uli Becker, Ex President and CEO of Reebok and many other experienced sportstech advisors.
This has really help us improve our customer proposition in light of our EOSIO Beta release with our first customers next month. The accelerator helped open the door to many brands, partners and corporates that we will continue to build over the coming months as we prepare for our production and mass adoption launch in 2020.
“This Accelerator has put us in the perfect position to execute on our Global Expansion and become one of top Dapps” — Damien King, Founder and co-CEO
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2019 NYU and HYPE Sports-Blockchain Cohort
Including us…
PUML Better Health(Australia): PUML — Personal Units and Movement Levels, is a new HealthTech platform that helps incentivize active movement through a sophisticated rewards protocol based on blockchain technology. It includes a secure digital health record specializing in wearable data to help with early diagnosis of lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity.
Bethereum (Hong Kong): Bethereum combines Blockchain and gamification to deliver the most innovative and engaging betting platform on the market. Offering betting on sports, eSports, and third-party games, it delivers unique social elements and maximum simplicity for a truly rewarding experience. The platform also has an important B2B angle, including white-label offerings and revenue share from third-party developer integration.
Instant Sponsor (United States): Instant Sponsor is a blockchain-powered global sports sponsorship marketplace. Our platform provides an integrated solution to seamlessly connect sponsors and rights holders across sports, eSports, entertainment, business, and lifestyle via a blockchain and smart contract powered P2P platform. Our integrated system incorporates industry-leading tools and ROI metrics into a vast catalog of available inventory.
Lympo (United States): Lympo is a health and fitness app that uses an incentivization model and rewards people for living healthy lifestyles. Behind that, they are building blockchain based user-generated user-owned data sharing marketplace uniting various health apps, wearables, smart gyms, and data-driven companies.
Vanywhere (Israel): Vanywhere is a brand new platform that incentivizes brand advocates to work on behalf of the brand. These aren’t mere employees. Their trustworthy power comes from the fact that they are unofficial brand ambassadors — they’re actual people who love and live sports. Vanywhere provides new customer experiences by creating a dialog via live video, voice, or chat.
SportZblock (Australia): SportZblock is a blockchain powered private social network for clubs fusing the proven trio of betting, social media, and e-commerce (marketing, sales, and advertising) that captures, attributes, and distributes digital rights to clubs via securing ownership of data at the source. It offers the world’s first architecture for monetization of member social media and collective data with crypto incentives for sustained fan engagement and an open portal for third-party digital rights capture incorporating digital betting and incentivized advertising.
IQONIQ (Monaco): IQONIQ is a revolutionary fan engagement and social media ecosystem that exclusively targets the sports, media, and entertainment industry. A best-of-breed social engagement platform that enables leagues, clubs, and athletes to better manage and monetize the value of their global fragmented fan base and social media assets. The platform uses blockchain to record fan behavior including incentives, engagement, rewards, and redemption.
Peerspoint (Switzerland): A non-profit + for-profit market blockchain platform core for supporting athletes, and sport federations; securing performance data, health/drug data, promoting gender and socioeconomic equality, and AI/ML data-driven governance to tackle widespread malpractice.
Globatalent (Spain): Globtalent blockchain Sports Exchange. A global marketplace for the sport industry. We developed a tool that can be used by clubs and athletes to finance themselves and improve their fan engagement. Giving fans the opportunity to contribute and have a participation in their favorite athletes, sports idols, clubs, and more. Athletes can obtain funds to focus on developing their career. Clubs can obtain financing in exchange for a percentage of their future incomes from tickets, sponsorship, television rights and more, in a secure and transparent way.
Tixico (Latvia): Tixico is an EOS blockchain-based ticketing service designed for both the primary and secondary market.
About the NYU School of Professional Studies
For 85 years, the NYU School of Professional Studies has been a deeply respected institution of higher education that is grounded in applied learning. From its early years, training returning World War II veterans to fulfill the nation’s urgent need for skilled technical workers, it has evolved into a professional education powerhouse that offers 19 graduate degrees, 13 bachelor’s degrees, four associate’s degrees, and a plethora of non-degree courses and credentials.
NYUSPS is a thought leader and serves as an incubator for new ideas in industries that are constantly changing including real estate; hospitality, tourism, and travel; global affairs; sports management; publishing; marketing; public relations; project management; human capital management; systems management; translation; and professional writing. It is focused on building skills that open doors to opportunities in emerging fields and global markets. NYUSPS faculty members are leading experts in their areas of discipline, with a hands-on approach that encourages students to push beyond their limits and to break new ground.
Home to some of the largest and most prestigious industry conferences in the world, including the Schack Institute of Real Estate’s Capital Markets Conference and REIT Symposium, and the Jonathan M. Tisch Center’s International Hospitality Industry Investment Conference, the School’s invaluable connections to industry leaders is a truly distinguishing factor in the education that it provides. Through guest lecturers, site visits, participation in numerous conferences and events, and Global Field intensives, students benefit from unparalleled access to the top minds in their areas of specialization. In addition, they have the opportunity to learn from and network with more than 25,000 NYUSPS alumni who live and work around the world.
About HYPE Sports Innovation
HYPE has built the largest global ecosystem in sports innovation. With over 40,000 members, including retail brands, athletic clubs, federations, and academia, together with more than 11,000 startups, HYPE has an unrivaled capacity for outreach to global partners across all sectors in this highly diverse field. HYPE currently operates twelve sports tech accelerators on four continents in partnership with top athletic clubs, such as 1.FC Köln, and academic institutions, such as Loughborough University and NYU. HYPE’s business model is to leverage this platform to grow from the surging needs of the sports industry to innovate and convert sports innovation into business success.
