The Backbone Of Modern Work Agreements
Transparent contracts. Drastically reduced overhead costs. And instant payments. Facilitated by Grain’s blockchain solution.
What is Grain?
Grain is an infrastructure solution that allows companies to process work agreements on the blockchain, with an instant payment mechanism.
How Grain changes the world of work agreements.
By moving work agreements and payment to the blockchain, every party involved benefits greatly.
Companies can slash the cost of labor
By organizing work agreements through Grain, companies can save billions in expensive payrolling and other middleman services.
Transaction partners get a share of the transaction fee
With every transaction, transaction partners receive 50% of the fee that is charged to the users.
Workers are better off with Grain
Every worker shares in the success of Grain. And they'll never have to worry about late payments again.
The ecosystem for processing work
Transaction partners
Transaction partners use Grain's protocol as their infrastructure to process work agreements on the blockchain.
Flexentral is our first transaction partner. But very soon, we’ll be able to announce new partners.
Flexentral
Founding partner FleXentral is the first front-end solution that uses the Grain infrastructure. The enterprise workforce management solution received $1 million in seed funding and is currently in closed beta.
Roadmap
2016 /
Founding of Flexentral.
€1,000K total capital (€500K seed, €500K founders).
Start of development of Flexentral.
2017 /
First BETA customers committed.
Release of first public version of the whitepaper.
Friends ’n Family pre-ICO round, €500K raised.
GRAIN Foundation established (Zug, Switzerland).
2018 / Q1
Public whitelisting and token sale of Grain tokens.
Start bounty campaign.
First distribution of developer funds.
2018 / Q2
ICO start April 17th.
First public beta of Grain API set.
Listing on first exchanges.
Public release of Flexentral.
2018 / Q3
Release GRAIN API v1.0
First GRAIN strategic development partner sign-up
GRAIN API release
2018 / Q4
First BETA test developer solution with GRAIN
Milestone number of 10 active GRAIN transaction partners
2019 / Q1
First revenue reporting quarter
Announcement financial plan 2019
People behind Grain
The team
Onno Hektor
CEO & President of the board
Former Senior Director for Microsoft. Introduced several products to the EMEA market during 18 pioneering years (Windows, MS Office). Managed a lot of introductions of US startups to the EMEA market.
André Bonvanie
Board Member
Serial entrepreneur and investor. Excellent go-tomarket manager, responsible for several US startup successes in the EMEA market.
Erik Koster
Blockchain strategy / Board Member
Experienced blockchain consultant and CEO of Globalscreen. Double MSc at University of Amsterdam and Delft.
Arjo van Ramshorst
Founding member
Blockchain knowledge, Chief Technology Officer at Flexentral, architecture and design advisor for the Grain protocol. Has been involved from the early days.
Jeroen van Megchelen
Blockchain expert
Former hacker turned blockchain developer. Technology entrepreneur. Vast experience in building blockchain applications.
Artem Gorev
Smart contract expert
Blockchain and smart contract expert. All-around, multi-language backend developer. MsC in computer science.
Lucas Huizinga
Marketing + Community
Tech-savvy marketing expert. Responsible for go-to-market strategy and community management.
Maurits Elzinga
Founding member
Liaison between software developers and GRAIN. chief user experience and usability. Is actively involved in integrating GRAIN inside Flexentral.
The advisory board
Hans Hoogeveen
Board of Advisors
Former COO of Randstad, the world's second-largest HR services provider. Human capital expert. Will expedite Grain's go-to-market success with access to key players in the market.
Hedwigh Verbruggen-Letty
Board of Advisors
Human resources and organizational development expert. Senior honours lecturer at University Utrecht and co-author of “Het nieuwe werken” (The new way of working).
René Hendriks
Board of Advisors
Entrepreneur. Great out-of-the-box thinker and investor. Rene will always challenge the board to take the 180 degree view on business decisions. Endless energy.
Bhavik Patel
Board of Advisors
Venture Capital and Crypto Investor. Serial Entrepreneur. CFO of private equity company Conor Acquisitions. Liason for North American market.
Roberto de Freitas
Board of Advisors
Actuary and risk management professional. Great knowledge resource for the requirements of designing and managing the Harvest fund. Works for big insurance companies.
Laurent Delaporte
Board of Advisors
Serial entrepreneur. Board Member. Former Microsoft VP. Laurent will assist Grain in conquering the French market.
Ralph Jacobs
Board of Advisors
Executive lecturer at Nyenrode Business University and co-author of “The secret of agile organizations". Expert on how a dynamic workforce connects to strategic and operational excellence.
Temme Sikkema
Board of Advisors
Assistant professor at University of Groningen, specialized in information security and auditing. Helps Grain with implementing IT security and privacy certifications.
Discover what Grain is all about.
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