Mediachain builds a blockchain-backed platform and open library that automatically connects media to its creator and metadata. The platform combines a decentralized media library with content-identification technology to enable collaborative registration, identification and tracking of creative works online. Developers can use the system to automate attribution, preserve history, provide creators and organizations with analytics about content usage, and create channels for exchanging value tied to content. The company intends to use new funding to further open-source development of the platform and to build applications and services to make it broadly accessible. Today over two million images or related metadata records have been contributed by participating organizations including MoMA, Getty Images, the Digital Public Library of America and Europeana. Mediachain is led by Cole Brown, Yusef Napora, Arkadiy Kukarkin, Denis Nazarov and Jesse Walden.

Total raised

$2M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Jun 2016