WCD Member Estelle Metayer To Serve On Blockstream Board
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
Posted by: Lisa Stella
Estelle Metayer has accepted the invitation to serve on the board of
Blockstream at the heart of the Silicon Valley – with a head office in Montreal. She will be the only independent director (but the second woman on the board ...).
Blockstream is the leading provider of blockchain technologies, on the forefront of work in cryptography and distributed systems. From fraud to counterfeiting, from security to confidentiality, from accountability to transparency, our mission is to solve problems that undermine trust in today's financial systems. Blockstream's primary area of innovation is in sidechains, a technology invented to extend the capabilities of Bitcoin's blockchain. Sidechains create the opportunity for new models of trust, extending and improving upon the properties of Bitcoin.
Blockstream has been seed financed by Reid Hoffman (founder of Linkedin and on the board of Airbnb) , Khosla Ventures and Real Ventures, with Nicolas Berggruen, Crypto Currency Partners, Future\Perfect Ventures, Danny Hillis, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Max Levchin, Mosaic Ventures, Ray Ozzie, Ribbit Capital, Jerry Yang’s AME Cloud Ventures and others. In 2016, a Series A financing round of $ 55 million included Horizons Ventures, AXA Strategic Ventures, Digital Garage (VC firm in Tokyo by Joi Ito from MIT MediaLab), and existing investors AME Cloud Ventures, Blockchain Capital, Future\Perfect Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Mosaic Ventures, and Seven Seas Venture Partners.