- Web3 platform allows talent to launch a token to accelerate their career, and users to back people they believe in.
- Talent Protocol raises $1.75M to rethink the way we engage professionally with each other.
Lisbon, 21th December 2021 - Talent Protocol, a web3 platform where talent can easily launch a token to bootstrap their career (Talent Tokens), and where users can back people they believe in, has launched the beta version of its platform. The startup has also raised $1.75M from 58 individuals and 10 funds, including Protocol Labs, Good News Ventures and Flori Ventures, the company announced. “This milestone not only secured a 2-year runway to grow the platform, but it is also an important first step to make Talent Protocol community-owned”, says Pedro Oliveira, CEO and Cofounder of Talent Protocol.
Angels included Alex Masmej (CEO at Showtime and creator of one of the first social tokens: $ALEX), Diogo Mónica (Chairman at Anchorage), Hiten Shah (seasoned founder and investor in the Bay area, founder of Nira and KISSmetrics), Rene (Founder at Celo), Jason Choi (from The Spartan Group), Ganesh Swami (CEO at Covalent), Sanja Kon (CEO at Utrust), Hung Lee (Founder at Recruiting Brainfood), David Hoang (Head of Product Design at Webflow), and many others.
Talent Tokens are like shares in someone's career, where both talent and their supporters get paid dividends over time. In the first month, the platform launched 50+ Talent Tokens and is gradually distributing invites to the 5,000+ users on the waitlist to buy those tokens, access exclusive perks and earn weekly rewards.
You can already back Abel Rodrigues ($ATR), a climate activist from the Amazon Rainforest and young entrepreneur; João Montenegro, who plans to become the first Portuguese astronaut; June Bolneo, who wants to teach 1B people on how to better work remotely. Or maybe we want to help Andrea Solomonides ($ANDY) to become the first female President of the Republic of Cyprus.
No advanced crypto knowledge is required to support talent, users can buy tokens within minutes with crypto or a credit card without platform fees.
“Talent Tokens are an unbreakable bond recorded on the blockchain, which bring deeper financial, social, and emotional alignment between a talent and its early supporters. From single-player careers to multiplayer journeys, where success is collective.”, says Filipe Macedo, CMO and Cofounder of Talent Protocol.
Founded in May 2021 by Andreas Vilela, Filipe Macedo and Pedro Oliveira, Talent Protocol will become a decentralized organization (DAO) powered by the native governance token $TAL, which will be launched in 2022.
As a web3 project, Talent Protocol is rooted in the belief that openness and transparency are better for the world. That is why we are fully open-source, building in public, and on a path of progressive decentralization.
About Talent Protocol
Talent is like a little seed. When nurtured, it will flourish. This belief is why Talent Protocol was founded on May 1st 2021, by Pedro Oliveira, a successful startup founder in the HR Tech space, Andreas Vilela, an experienced engineer and founder of a coding school for kids, and Filipe Macedo, the creative mind helping to spread this story.
In October, Talent Protocol was picked by CoinList for it’s fall selection of early stage startups. In November, Talent Protocol came ahead of 69 other candidates to win the silver prize at Celo Camp.
Today, Talent Protocol is a growing web3 platform with 5,000+ people on the waitlist to join the platform. These numbers are a good indicator of the market interest in social tokens, which grew more than 500% in 2021 according to Forefront.
Talent Protocol is also actively looking to grow its team with developers and a designer that can help build an inclusive and seamless web3 user experience. They will be joining a global core team where they will have ownership over the product and vision. Check your job board here.
