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Blokchain accelerator program to include help from Amazon, Deloitte, Fidelity and more, launched by IDEO CoLab

  • IDEO to partnership with big blue chip and crypto firms, as they look to provide resources to the community.
  • The subsidiary IDEO gives users access to tools and funding for their innovation with blockchain. 

IDEO CoLab, a subsidiary of design firm IDEO, has announced partnering up with 20 blue chip and crypto firms to ready launching a blockchain accelerator dubbed Startup Studio.

In terms of the big house-hold names as part of the collaboration include the likes of; Amazon, Deloitte and Fidelity. On the crypto side, data firm Messari, the Ethereum Foundation, the Stellar Foundation, plus many more.

All involved will be set to contribute in the building of the distributed web incubator that IDEO CoLab launched in February.

IDEO CoLab managing director Ian Lee says:

Partners will be hosting acceleration programs to provide enterprising blockchain entrepreneurs and firms with required resources of; tools and funding they need to further the “development, adoption, and impact of blockchain technology.

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