Coadjute is a blockchain network that enables the existing software used by estate agents, conveyancers, mortgage brokers and lenders to become interoperable, enabling the parties involved in a property transaction to synchronise and share progress updates, property information, digital identities and even payments.��

The network aims to create a seamless journey with improved security for all parties, transforming the experience for buyers and sellers, reducing administration costs and cutting the time it takes to move house by up to 50%.

The first live transaction was announced earlier this year: a four-bedroom bungalow in Kent which went live on the network in July 2021 and completed in just nine weeks. Since then, Coadjute has announced a string of major software players joining the network and today nearly 70% of all estate agents are using a platform that will be connected to Coadjute.

Coadjute aims to connect the current software platforms used in the industry to each other through their blockchain network, enabling the secure, real-time sharing of updates and information.

The pre-Series A funding round follows a £1m pre-seed round in 2019 and a £3m seed round last year. Led by Manchester-based Praetura Ventures, the round was also supported by three US institutions: New York based blockchain specialists, Collab+Currency, the world’s largest LawTech investor, The LegalTech Fund and Miami-based FinTech investors Rocket One Capital.

As part of the round, Praetura Ventures’ Operational Partner Colin Greene will be joining as a non-executive director on Coadjute’s board, having previously held senior positions at Apple, including CEO of Apple Korea and leading the Apple US consumer retail business.

“The UK property market has been overdue an innovation like Coadjute for many years,” said Greene. “The founders have developed something that will completely revolutionise how we buy houses in the UK and beyond.��

“I am looking forward to supporting the outstanding team at Coadjute as they roll out and grow the network, and to helping them achieve their vision of a truly seamless property market.”

Dan Salmons, CEO of Coadjute, said:�� “Whilst there have been many attempts to improve the property process, at heart the challenge is that the many systems involved are not interoperable. �� Adding yet more platforms, more hubs, more databases just doesn’t solve that.��

“Coadjute have shown we can now connect multiple existing systems to each other, securely, in real-time, and since our first transaction in July the demand has been phenomenal.��

“With the strong backing we have from Praetura Ventures and our other international investors we will now start to roll out our network across the UK market. The revolution in how property transactions are done has started.”

Coadjute plans to use the funds secured to roll out the network across the UK over the next 24 months.

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The London firm is billed as the��most popular place to securely buy, store, trade and use cryptocurrency.��

Led by��CEO and co-founder Peter Smith, it says its platform is trusted by 70m wallets, with more than $620bn in transactions having gone through the platform since 2013.����

“Since 2011, the Blockchain.com team has been heads down, relentlessly focused on building a company at the intersection of cryptocurrency, institutions, and (most importantly) people around the world,” Smith wrote in a Medium post.����

“We continue to be honoured by the trust our consumer and institutional clients put in us each day.”��

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The Series��C round features��partners of DST Global, Lightspeed Venture Partners and VY Capital, with participation from other existing investors from around the world.

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Blockchain.com raised around £87m��from ‘macro investors’ barely a��month ago.����

“While Blockchain.com is highly profitable across each of our business lines,��we believe that our new partners, who have experience in supporting companies during times of hyper growth,��are the perfect complement to our recent addition of some of the best macro investors like Louis Bacon and Kyle Bass,”��continued Smith.��

“With one of the most significant balance sheets in the industry, we plan to aggressively expand the products we offer our customers, grow our global team, and pursue M&A opportunities to bring exciting new products and ideas into the company.��

“I couldn’t be��more proud��of the team, I couldn’t be more optimistic about the future of Blockchain.com, our products, and our brand to meet this moment.”��

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Since its release in 2005, the track has racked up 28 million views on YouTube and 87 million plays on Spotify alone.

Comparatively less well-known is her investments into music technology. The British songwriter, who more recently wrote the music for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in the West End, is an advocate of using technology to interact and collaborate with her fans, regularly streaming on YouTube and even taking requests.

She is also the Creative Director at MI:MU, creators of gloves used by Heap – and more recently Ariana Grande – to manipulate live sound through hand gestures.

The Grammy-winning recording artist is also the founder of Mycelia, a��non-profit with a focus on enabling a fair and sustainable music industry ecosystem through new technology.

Heap wrote the music for West End play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Carlotta De Ninni is CEO of new Mycelia spin-out The Creative Passport, bringing specific skills in the implementation of blockchain technology in the music industry.

A��musician herself, she had moved to London from Italy to continue her studies into business management, and there would meet Heap for the first time.

She began to work with Heap as Head of Research and Operations for Mycelia, where she specialised in music copyright and licensing, blockchain technology, smart contracts and��mixed reality.

Currently in the proof of concept and testing stage with the music-making community, Creative Passport is aiming to improve musical collaboration, democratise data ownership, cut down on old-fashioned admin and speed up ID verification.

“Music makers are always first to invest in their own careers and the last ones being paid,” De Ninni explained to �Ͼ�Ʒ��Cloud.

The goal of The Creative Passport is to replace the numerous databases of artists’ information held separately by record labels, streaming services and performance rights organisations with one ‘decentralised’ database owned by the artist.

It is designed to hold a mixture of private and public data on an artist, from��biographies, press photos and genres, to��ISNI,��IPI,��IPN data ��which is used by the industry to get music makers paid.

The passport can be shared with other musicians to foster collaborations, and just as easily is shared with journalists as “almost an electronic press kit”.

It can also hold song data or ‘metadata’, including the��correct lyrics, and tempo.

Despite the encyclopaedic possibilities, the plan is not to build yet another source of data which artists have to update.

“We’re not building something that resembles Wikipedia,” De Ninni clarifies. The platform is not designed to crowdsource data, but to ensure data only ever comes directly from one, authoritative source.

Once a musician is authorised on the platform, the data they add to their Creative Passport stays on their device, and is editable and retractable.

“Privacy is a right, and musicians shouldn’t be paying for better privacy and to improve the industry which capitalises upon them,” said De Ninni.

An unexpected��cryptocurrency��windfall

In October of 2015, Heap released her single ‘Tiny Human’ on the Mycelia platform and charged buyers in Ethereum cryptocurrency.

While the song reached around 150 downloads – a fairly small figure in the pop industry – De Ninni calls it one of the most successful experiments they conducted.

In 2015 each download cost one Ether,��equivalent to about £1 at the time.��She said critics of the experiment were quick to point out that 150 downloads was “pretty much nothing”.

But the cryptocurrency saw a boom.

“The Ether appreciated so much that it rose to £2,000 per Ether. We ended up having a bunch of money that was unexpected. We had more than £150,000 without even realising it.”

Heap reinvested the money into more experiments, including a research project into where the revenue created from Heap’s ‘Hide and Seek’ song actually went.

De Ninni, head of��research at Mycelia at the time, spent a��year investigating the income from that song with a��group of students from Westminster University.

They spoke to record labels and performance rights organisations, and created an interactive visualisation of how revenue created by the song was divided.

It was this which led to the creation and ultimate spin-out of Creative Passport.

Also garnered from the research was a feeling in the music industry that artists are��bad at keeping their��information up-to-date, and so the administration falls to the industry.

“That’s not true,” she said. “Music makers are��creative��entrepreneurs. They are not just singers; they are business entrepreneurs.”

Carlotta De Ninni

In July last year the firm received a grant from the Finnish government to investigate digital identities in different sectors, with its pilot programme representing the music sector.

The firm is now developing what De Ninni calls a research portal, which will offer a way for fans and artists to type in keywords and skills to find collaborators – all open to the public and free to use.

De Ninni said the portal may lead to a revenue stream in future, with a B2B model possibly offering a way for businesses to find musical influencers for their projects.

“Something that is fundamental to what we are doing is user consent and privacy by design,” said De Ninni.

“The B2B option of the business models we are offering is that the music maker decides what is public and what is private. They can decide who they share their information with.”

While grants and unexpected cryptocurrency windfalls have helped to power the project to date, the real business proposition is not artist privacy but administration savings.

“[The receiving firms] do not have to go find updated information because they are getting it from the authoritative source.”

De Ninni said the company is in conversation with major labels and independents, who have shown interest and excitement��in the possibility.

“Part of the interest is about increasing efficiency and decreasing admin costs on the verified artist’s information,” she said.

“The second interest, which is less sexy, is the costs of identity verification. Right now, PROs [the collection��agencies and��societies which actually pay music makers for radio play] and record��labels need to��manually verify identity.

“You literally need to send a��picture of your passport. Signing up, everything is sorted with physical copies. It’s an admin burden which is very��expensive.”

With large record labels showing interest, and the potential for the infrastructure of the music industry to be turned on its head, the firm is now working on features for larger artists.

While unsigned artists can use Creative Passport to bolster their career, Heap, who has her own team, “might not be the ones updating the information”.

To account for this, De Ninni said in the next year, the firm is adding a managers portal to allow large music makers to give access and control to a specific person.

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