Slock.it

Basics

• People behind The DAO
• “Slock.it makes Airbnb apartments become fully automated. Smart objects can be rented on demand and unused vehicles get a new lease on life. We’re developing the future infrastructure of the sharing economy.”
• Creators of the Universal Sharing Network (USN)

History according to their founder:

• 2016 was a particularly challenging year, with the rise and fall of The DAO . We gained a lot of experience and learned a lot during those times, making us a bit wiser and much more resilient.
• In 2017 we received seed funding from US investors and were able to grow the team and continue to work on our core products.
• 2018 saw the launch of the Incubed client, a minimal verification client suited for mobile applications as well as IoT devices. By selling enterprise licenses and providing consulting services, we became profitable and grew to more than 30 people.

Team, partnerships, etc.

• Acquired by Blockchains in 7-2019, which have also named slock.it founders Christoph and Simon Jentzsch as Blockchains’ vice president of technology and director of blockchain development, respectively
• Jentzsch, Christop; CTO & Co-Founder (3 other Jentzsch's are also on the, pretty big, team)
• Simon Jentsch (brother of Christop) co-founder
• Tual, co-founder an former CCO of Ethereum Foundation
• Is a 'friend' of Polkadot