Startup Grind Blockchain Month

August is #SGBlockchain Month. Startup Grind in 400 cities are hosting successful startup founders and investors in blockchain sector. In Hong Kong, we're featuring a promising local data blockchain startup - Datum, who has raised $7.5M in initial coin offering last year.

SPEAKER

Roger Haenni

Co-Founder & CEO, Datum

Roger co-founded various early financial information portals amongst them StockX, SwissInvest and later co-founded PCP.ch, one of the largest online stores in Switzerland. He designed and created a Fitbit for babies at Cleverbaby as well as various smarthome devices such as Kosi, a Bluetooth mesh sensor network. Roger started working on mobile apps as early as 2004, when phones were still black and white, and is looking back at a 17-year career helping various Tier-1 Telecom companies with their app and big data strategies, overlooking dozens of large-scale app initiatives over the years. Recently he co-founded Datum, which closed a successful Token Sale last year and is working on a decentralized data store and data marketplace, a way for users to take back their data ownership.