Ascribe offers a blockchain-based notary and timestamp for intellectual property and creative works, allowing creators to designate and prove a definitive version of a digital asset. Users can upload images, obtain a certificate of authenticity (a public key), loan or transfer the asset, and monitor where copies appear online. The platform stores and signs each image on the blockchain to create an immutable record of existence. Ascribe is building a web crawler and web-scale machine learning similarity search to crawl and index digital artifacts and report where creators' work has surfaced. Founders Bruce Pon, Trent McConaghy, and Masha McConaghy bring experience in banking, hardware, and curation; Masha holds a Ph.D. from the Sorbonne and has curated at the Louvre and galleries. The company prototyped in fall 2013, moved to full-time operations in mid-2014, and is working with early users; it raised $2 million in a seed round from institutional and angel investors.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jun 2015