Blockchains, Inc., a Nevada-based blockchain tech­nol­ogy com­pany, today announced the acqui­si­tion of evan GmbH. The trans­ac­tion entails the com­plete sale of bm‑t’s shares. bm‑t sup­ported evan´s growth since its early stage invest­ment in 2019. 

evan GmbH, a bm‑t Investee-Part­ner with offices in Dres­den, Eise­nach and Stuttgart, has been acquired by Blockchains, Inc. The US tech­nol­ogy com­pany con­cep­tu­al­izes, devel­ops, and incu­bates blockchain-pow­ered ideas. The com­pany owns more than 67,000 acres in north­ern Nevada that it intends to use as a real-world sand­box for show­cas­ing blockchain and other inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies. Blockchains is now inte­grat­ing evan GmbH, a com­pany that spe­cial­izes in devel­op­ing blockchain-based solu­tions for greater data sov­er­eignty in the dig­i­tal economy.

“Devel­op­ing a trust infra­struc­ture based on dig­i­tal iden­tity is key for coop­er­a­tion on the blockchain. Enabling par­ties to trans­fer trust from the real world to the dig­i­tal world is what led us to Blockchains,” said Thomas Müller, evan’s co-founder and CEO. “Dig­i­tal iden­tity is in Blockchains’ DNA. We are very excited to be join­ing the Blockchains fam­ily and work­ing with like-minded inno­va­tors and vision­ary devel­op­ers to empower indi­vid­u­als and businesses.”

In 2018, the founders of evan GmbH set out to jump-start the move­ment to Web 3.0 by devel­op­ing decen­tral­ized iden­ti­fiers for busi­nesses to inter­act directly with each other with­out an inter­me­di­ary, by lever­ag­ing automa­tion and a trust and trace-based method­ol­ogy. Evan’s core tech­nolo­gies have sig­nif­i­cant impli­ca­tions for Blockchains’ suite of solu­tions cur­rently in devel­op­ment. The com­pa­nies plan to inte­grate evan’s solu­tion stack with Blockchains’ dig­i­tal plat­form to empower indi­vid­u­als by allow­ing them to con­trol their per­sonal infor­ma­tion and assets.

“The value that evan brings to Blockchains is not only in the tremen­dously tal­ented peo­ple who built a tech­nol­ogy port­fo­lio based on a much-needed trust infra­struc­ture but also a deep under­stand­ing for devel­op­ing decen­tral­ized solu­tions with global inter­op­er­abil­ity stan­dards in mind,” said Lee Weiss, exec­u­tive vice pres­i­dent, Blockchains. “Whether for com­pa­nies to be able to work together and with us in our blockchain-based smart city in Nevada, or for us to be able to part­ner with a wide scale of enablers for our dig­i­tal ecosys­tem, inter­op­er­abil­ity is key.” Together, evan and Blockchains are writ­ing a new chap­ter in the evo­lu­tion of the web by break­ing depen­den­cies on cen­tral plat­form providers and giv­ing indi­vid­u­als back their auton­omy in the dig­i­tal space.

Since Jan­u­ary 2019, bm‑t has actively sup­ported the company’s devel­op­ment together with co-investors TGFS Tech­nolo­giegrün­der­fonds Sach­sen, LINDIG Invest GmbH and a busi­ness angel. evan had grown sig­nif­i­cantly within a very short time and was named “Cool Ven­dor in Blockchain Busi­ness in 2020” by Gart­ner last year. Sebas­t­ian Kned­lik, Senior Invest­ment Man­ager at bm‑t: “We are delighted about the suc­cess­ful exit! We thank the entire evan team for the great dynam­ics in build­ing the com­pany and the good coop­er­a­tion and wish them much suc­cess for the future growth as a mem­ber of the Blockchains family.”

About bm‑t beteili­gungs­man­age­ment thürin­gen gmbh (bm|t)

bm|t is the first address for invest­ments in Thuringia, Ger­many. bm|t cur­rently man­ages ten funds with a total vol­ume of over EUR 440 mil­lion and invests in inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies in nearly all sec­tors and in all phases of com­pany development.

www.bm‑t.com

About evan GmbH

Founded 2018 by the IT experts Thomas Müller (CEO) und Thomas Herbst (CTO), the soft­ware com­pany offers solu­tions that enable com­pa­nies to col­lab­o­rate effi­ciently, sus­tain­ably, and securely with their part­ners in the dig­i­tal space. At the ’company’s loca­tions in Dres­den, Eise­nach, and Stuttgart, the evan team is shap­ing the future of the dig­i­tal mar­ket econ­omy based on decen­tral­ized tech­nolo­gies — thus ensur­ing more trans­parency and trust in dig­i­tal busi­ness rela­tion­ships. Evan’s cus­tomers come from a vari­ety of indus­tries, includ­ing tex­tiles, mobil­ity, FMCG, con­struc­tion machin­ery rental, logis­tics, and healthcare.

www.evan.network

About Blockchains, Inc.

Blockchains con­cep­tu­al­izes, devel­ops, and incu­bates blockchain-pow­ered ideas. The com­pany owns more than 67,000 acres in north­ern Nevada that it intends to use as a real-world sand­box for show­cas­ing blockchain and other inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies. Blockchains is com­mit­ted to pro­tect­ing and empow­er­ing indi­vid­u­als through the devel­op­ment of appli­ca­tions and ecosys­tems set to change the way peo­ple inter­act with tech­nol­ogy, infra­struc­ture, and each other. Blockchains’ soft­ware solu­tions presently in devel­op­ment focus on prepar­ing the world for the next phase of the internet’s evo­lu­tion, with an empha­sis on dig­i­tal iden­tity man­age­ment, dig­i­tal asset man­age­ment, and blockchain con­nec­tiv­ity for IoT devices.

www.blockchains.com