About
We are a team of engineers, designers, and advisors that are helping to make the worlds of Web3, NFTs and DeFi a reality
We Solve Problems
At Applied Blockchain we build applications for our clients: enterprises and startups. We value working through their real world business problems, and leverage advanced confidential computing, secure enclaves, cryptography and blockchain technology to build applications that maximise trust, data privacy and security.
We Build Products
We build products to solve a problem once for our many clients. We focus on confidential computing, secure enclaves, and advanced cryptography to enable businesses to do more together, while reducing their cyber risk.
Leadership team
Our founding team brings in 20+ years of experience in enterprise IT architecture, big data, artificial intelligence, integration and solution delivery in telecommunications and financial services.
Adi has over 20 years enterprise software experience, more recently leading major deliveries of production blockchain and advanced cryptography solutions. Adi is widely recognised as an independent thought leader in the industry, a noted speaker at major conferences, and acts as an advisor for a number of startups. His work has been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to present at Parliament, the House of Lords, and at University College London. Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents related to confidential computing, cryptography, blockchain and mobile payments.
Founder & CEO
Adi Ben-Ari
Adi has over 20 years enterprise software experience, more recently leading major deliveries of production blockchain and advanced cryptography solutions. Adi is widely recognised as an independent thought leader in the industry, a noted speaker at major conferences, and acts as an advisor for a number of startups. His work has been noted by the UK Government, where he was invited to present at Parliament, the House of Lords, and at University College London. Adi has co-invented and designed a number of patents related to confidential computing, cryptography, blockchain and mobile payments.
Francesco is a seasoned technology expert and a serial hackathon winner, with a decade of experience in software development and four years within building blockchain applications. Francesco has worked on large-scale enterprise projects and with startups, building solutions for Sky TV Italia, 5Apps, and Quill Content to name a few. He has also developed tools and libraries for Ethereum and Bitcoin. Francesco is a fan of reading, writing and talking about software development, and is an open source enthusiast. When he’s not looking at code, Francesco builds and rides electric skateboards.
CTO
Francesco Canessa
Francesco is a seasoned technology expert and a serial hackathon winner, with a decade of experience in software development and four years within building blockchain applications. Francesco has worked on large-scale enterprise projects and with startups, building solutions for Sky TV Italia, 5Apps, and Quill Content to name a few. He has also developed tools and libraries for Ethereum and Bitcoin. Francesco is a fan of reading, writing and talking about software development, and is an open source enthusiast. When he’s not looking at code, Francesco builds and rides electric skateboards.
Management team
Cláudia Neves
HR and Office Manager
Porto
Tudor Popescu
Operations Analyst
London
Andy Campbell
Solution Architect
London
Mario Gemoll
Senior Software Engineer
London
Katerina Sobetskaia
Project Manager
London
Patrick Timmis
Project Manager
London
Anna Zambon
Junior Sales Executive
London
Daniel Castilho
Marketing Manager
Porto
Investors
Investing in Applied Blockchain is part of our commitment to use digitalisation to create value in our core business and develop new business models.
Governments, corporates, and individuals are increasingly concerned about data privacy and data security. We believe zero knowledge proof offers a new and better way to share and handle data. We are very excited to be supporting Applied Blockchain, a pioneer in this space, and we can’t wait to see an abundance of applications for ZKP coming out in the near future.
We believe in the long-term promise and process innovation that blockchain brings and believe Applied Blockchain is strategically positioned to lead in this space.
Our story
2015
Adi started the company in 2015, and was soon joined by Francesco, with the vision of helping companies solve real-world problems by developing distributed applications and contributing towards creating a trustless ecosystem.
2016
We received an Innovate UK grant to develop identity and privacy toolkit.
Applied Blockchain was bootstrapped, growing from 2 people to 18 using revenue from client projects before receiving venture funding.
2017
2018
We opened an office in Porto! We have chosen Porto as our first non-UK office and as our development centre for European expansion.
2020
We completed a funding round led by Hong Kong based venture capital firm QBN Capital to further develop our privacy preserving technology and work with them to extend our reach into the Asian markets.
2021
2022
