There’s more funding for Blockchain related startups this week as Stratumn scores €600,000 for its development platform, designed to provide the infrastructure to help ideas take flight. The company says it wants to remove barriers to building, deploying and running blockchain apps. The backing will help the company more than double its team from five to 12 as it aims to boost its prominence in the European blockchain space.
Funding comes from Optium Venture, also French, as well as blockchain angel Eric Larcheêque, the CEO of Ledger and founder of Maison du Bitcoin. The team is headed up by CEO Richard Caetano from California who is behind iPhone app btcReport with Stephan Florquin as CTO, who was lead developer for French bitcoin exchange Paymium.
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