Partners
Among SmartPlaces’ esteemed partners and investors is APX, backed by Axel Springer and Porsche.
Axel Springer, Europe’s leading digital publisher, operates in over 40 countries. The media and technology company provides information through its various media brands and classifieds portals. Additionally, Axel Springer offers printing and publishing of advertisements, a digital classifieds portfolio, marketing models, and related services. Axel Springer’s operations are segmented into News Media, Classifieds Media, and Marketing Media, encompassing numerous multimedia news brands.
The worldwide acclaimed car manufacturer Porsche, headquartered in Germany, invests in the fields of mobility and industrial technology. Its technology and digital unit, Porsche Digital, was founded with the mission to create exceptional digital experiences and develop innovative products and services that enhance the digital lives of customers both within and beyond the automotive realm. In 2022, Porsche Digital made Porsche's initial foray into web3 with the development of the Porsche NFT homebase. This platform brings the iconic 911 to blockchain technology, allowing automotive enthusiasts and NFT collectors to own and customize an exclusive digital artwork of the Porsche 911 as a non-fungible token.
Furthermore, SmartPlaces partners with the internationally renowned SingularityNET for AI content moderation and data monetization. SingularityNET was founded by Dr. Ben Goertzel with the mission to create a decentralized, democratic, inclusive, and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence that is not dependent on any central entity, is open to anyone, and is not restricted to the narrow goals of a single corporation or even a single country. The SingularityNET team includes experienced engineers, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and marketers. Its core platform and AI teams are complemented by specialized teams dedicated to application areas such as finance, robotics, biomedical AI, media, arts, and entertainment.
In addition, SmartPlaces partners with NMKR, a leading NFT infrastructure provider on the Cardano blockchain. NMKR offers a suite of tools that enable brands, businesses, and enterprises to create and launch custom NFT projects with ease. As the largest NFT infrastructure provider on the Cardano blockchain, NMKR has already minted over two million NFTs and collaborated with high-profile celebrities and entities.
SmartPlaces continues to expand collaborations with several other great web3 partners such as FluidTokens to integrate renting, lending, and borrowing with NFT land plots and more. Further partners of SmartPlaces include nucast.io and OceanProtocol, recognized as the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2021.
SmartPlaces also partners with advanced store, a media platform for advertisers and publishers worldwide (with over 50,000 advertisers. It serves as the technological interface between advertisers and publishers, providing access to web, mobile, streaming and digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertising channels.
Additionally, SmartPlaces partners with UfoStart, a community-sourced, AI-driven marketing company specializing in assisting web3 projects in developing their ideal marketing strategies.
That is only an excerpt of our partners.
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