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Kampela Secures Polkadot Network Investment, Becomes First Fully DAO-Funded Hardware Wallet

Kuopio, Finland, September 12th, 2024, Chainwire

Kampela, an innovative hardware startup, has successfully secured funding through a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) on the Polkadot network, marking a significant milestone as the first hardware project to be fully backed by a DAO in the Polkadot ecosystem. This achievement demonstrates the power of decentralized governance in supporting tangible technological innovations and opens new possibilities for hardware development in the blockchain space.

Kampela’s device leverages NFC technology and operates without the need for wired charging or a battery, showcasing a novel approach to secure, user-centric hardware wallets. The company’s innovative strategy consolidates both the design and production processes within a single integrated platform, enabling the delivery of highly differentiated solutions to the market.

Key Highlights:

– Funding secured through Polkadot Referenda #62, #370, and #886, totalling approximately 253,000 DOTs (around $1 million USD at current DOT price)

– Transparent, community-driven decision-making process

– Establishes a new model for supporting hardware innovation in the blockchain industry

– Battery-free operation powered exclusively by NFC during active use

– Secure NFC-only connectivity, eliminating vulnerable USB interfaces

Kirill, ex-CISO of Parity and Kampela’s Co-Founder, stated, “Not only is Kampela one of the very few fully open hardware wallets on the markets (you can get everything, up to the precise machining instructions for the casing, from our GitHub), but the project is also a brilliant example of the power of DAOs in the new, blockchain-enabled economy: the project was funded via the Polkadot Treasury (one of the biggest DAOs in the world right now), and it is thanks to this funding that our designs are so uncompromisingly open, free, and democratic.”

The successful funding of Kampela through a DAO on the Polkadot network showcases how community-driven funding can fuel advancements in secure, user-centric devices. This achievement is expected to attract attention from blockchain enthusiasts, hardware innovators, investors interested in decentralized funding models, and Polkadot community members and stakeholders.

Kampela’s hardware design features several enhanced security measures, including battery-free operation and secure NFC-only connectivity. The device remains completely powered down when not in use, deterring physical access or tampering, and its NFC-only communication provides an additional security layer compared to traditional USB interfaces.

With six hardware revisions conducted and 54 components in its design, Kampela represents a significant leap forward in blockchain hardware innovation. As the first fully DAO-funded hardware project in the Polkadot ecosystem, Kampela sets a new precedent for how hardware startups can leverage decentralized funding and governance to bring cutting-edge products to market.

For more information about Kampela and its innovative hardware wallet, readers can visit https://www.kampe.la/ or https://x.com/kampela_signer

About Kampela

Kampela, a Finnish startup, is revolutionizing secure transaction management with its innovative NFC-powered hardware device. Operating without Bluetooth, USB, or batteries, it features an e-ink display and open-source design. Tailored for blockchain applications and backed by the Web3 Foundation and Polkadot Treasury, Kampela offers a sustainable, secure solution for digital interactions in decentralized systems.

Media Contact:

Viktoria

CMO [Telegram: @vikrpc ]

Contact

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Viktoria
Kampela
vv.repich@gmail.com

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PersonalAIze and Cube Forge Groundbreaking Partnership to Accelerate AI-Driven Healthcare Platform and Point of Care Diagnostics

2024-09-19T13:00:00Z

Strategic partnership aims to further develop Cube’s award-winning AI guided platform for Software as a Service (SaaS) for the private sector and large healthcare systems and diagnostic to support clinicians and patients in making informed therapeutic decisions from early detection to personalized treatment and disease monitoring, for improved health outcomes

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 19, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (NASDAQ: RENB) PersonalAIze and RenovaroCube are proud to announce a strategic partnership to develop, validate, and commercialize Cube’s AI-driven, multi-omic platform for early detection of cancer and other diseases. This strategic partnership aims to provide services to many AI companies and healthcare systems while also creating the next generation of medical diagnostics through cutting-edge AI by driving greater accuracy, transparency, and trust in healthcare solutions.

Prof. Mark Hoogendoorn, Co-CEO and Co-Founder PersonalAIze: "The strategic partnership between PersonalAIze and Cube has the potential to provide a transformative leap in healthcare diagnostics, uniting cutting-edge AI with trusted, high-performance capabilities and industry related in-depth expertise.”

Frank van Asch, Founder and CTO of RenovaroCube,” Together, we are pioneering a future where healthcare outcomes are improved by training models for multiple decisions through the entire health journey, ensuring the right accuracy for therapeutic decisions in every disease stage.”

The first phase of the collaboration focuses on establishing a strong foundation for the partnership, with PersonalAIze providing critical expertise in the integration of AI into healthcare. It will enhance existing collaborations with Academic and corporate partners and create new ones to build an eco-system to help develop and bring to the market a cutting-edge SaaS model and the next generation highly accurate diagnostics, starting with cancer.

Prof Sandjai Buhlai, Co-CEO and Co-Founder PersonalAIze: “This collaboration signals a bold step forward in utilizing the full potential of AI potentially to help revolutionize early-stage medical interventions and diagnosis at the earliest stage of cancer before imaging has been able to detect the tumors.”

Key contributions from PersonalAIze include:

  • Ethical AI: Ensuring the AI models are free from harmful biases and trained to support fairness and inclusivity in medical diagnostics.
  • Legal Guidance: Providing expert advice on legal responsibilities tied to AI outputs, including issues of AI accountability and potential liability.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Assisting in navigating existing and emerging regulations such as NEN, ISO, GDPR, and the AI Act, ensuring the platform adheres to all relevant healthcare regulations and clinical guidelines.
  • Medical and Diagnostic Input: Offering support in clinical validation in collaboration with medical scientists to ensure the AI is reliable and effective in real-world medical environments.
  • Explainable AI: Developing AI models that are transparent, fostering trust and confidence from both healthcare providers and patients.

Key Resources and Support from PersonalAIze
As part of the collaboration, PersonalAIze will contribute:

  • Expert Personnel: Including a Principal Investigator (PI) to lead clinical AI efforts, a project manager to coordinate the collaboration and a strategic advisor to oversee the scientific strategy and execution.
  • Research and Talent Capacity: Leveraging academic partnerships to ensure access to cutting-edge research and innovation and facilitating talent scouting to support the project’s development.
  • Academic Spin-Out Opportunities: Supporting the commercialization of academic research through potential spin-out ventures related to AI diagnostics.
  • Co-Development of AI Platform: Jointly developing a science-driven, evidence-based AI platform that meets rigorous clinical and regulatory standards.
  • Ongoing Research and Publications: Contributing to the body of research through support with peer-reviewed publications in collaboration with clinical experts that will help build trust within the medical community and among regulatory bodies.
  • Architecture and Strategy Guidance: Continuously advising on the platform’s architecture and strategic direction, ensuring it stays aligned with the latest industry trends and scientific advancements.
  • Trusted AI: Developing a trustworthy, explainable AI platform that inspires confidence among healthcare providers and patients through clear and transparent decision-making processes.

About PersonalAIze
PersonalAIze focuses on building solutions that improve healthcare by leveraging state-of-the-art AI techniques. It has been founded by four experienced professors bringing together decades of research experience in AI and healthcare with the aim to bring the latest scientific AI developments into healthcare practice faster. PersonalAIze does this through both consultancy and product development and targets clinical decision-making systems as well as improvement of health care operations such as capacity planning.

About Renovaro
Renovaro aims to accelerate precision and personalized medicine for longevity powered by mutually reinforcing AI and biotechnology platforms for early diagnosis, better-targeted treatments, and drug discovery. Renovaro Inc. includes RenovaroBio with its advanced cell-gene immunotherapy company and RenovaroCube.

RenovaroCube has developed an award-winning AI platform that is committed to the early detection of cancer and its recurrence and monitoring subsequent treatments. RenovaroCube intervenes at a stage where potential therapy can be most effective. RenovaroCube is a molecular data science company with a background in FinTech and a 12-year history. It brings together proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) technology, multi-omics, multi-modal data, and the expertise of a carefully selected multidisciplinary team to radically accelerate precision medicine and enable breakthrough changes in disease agnostic decision support.

Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not strictly historical in nature are forward-looking statements. These statements are only predictions based on current information and expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the success or efficacy of our pipeline, platform and fundraising. All statements other than historical facts are forward-looking statements, which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “plans,” “expects,” “aims,” “intends,” “potential,” or similar expressions. Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in any of such statements due to various uncertainties, including as set forth in Renovaro’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement, and Renovaro Inc. undertakes no obligation to revise or update this press release to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof.

For media inquiries, please contact: karen@renovarocube.com

Source: Renovaro Inc.


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