Storj is a blockchain and software development company founded by Shawn Wilkinson, James Prestwich, Jim Lowry, John Quinn, and Tome Boshevski on April 3, 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
The company offers a blockchain-based, encrypted, distributed cloud storage platform designed to be sustainable and open-source. Key features of the Storj cloud platform include end-to-end encryption, peer-to-peer technology, and very high availability.
The Storj cloud storage platform uses the platforms native ERC20 cryptocurrency token called STORJ that allows users to be rewarded for renting their unused storage space for for purchasing services offered by the Storj platform.
Introduction to Storj decentralized cloud storage.
Funding
Initial coin offering (ICO)
From May 19, 2017 to May 25, 2017 Storj held their initial coin offering (ICO) selling approximately $30 million worth of STORJ, their native cryptocurrency token for the Storj cloud storage platform.
Seed round
On February 23, 2017 Storj completed a seed funding round raising $3 million in funding from Tank Stream Ventures, BnkToTheFuture, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Techstars, and Gabriel Jarrosson.
Partners
The following companies are open source partners with Storj
- Couchbase
- MongoDB
- FZ
- InflucDB
- Kafka
- Minio
- Nextcloud
- MariaDB
- Plesk
- Pydio
- Zenko.io
Timeline
Initial coin offering (ICO)
From May 19, 2017 to May 25, 2017 Storj held their initial coin offering (ICO) selling approximately $30 million worth of STORJ, their native cryptocurrency token for the Storj cloud storage platform.
Seed round funding
On February 23, 2017 Storj completed a seed funding round raising $3 million in funding from Tank Stream Ventures, BnkToTheFuture, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Techstars, and Gabriel Jarross
Launch of Storj
Storj is a blockchain and software development company that was founded by Shawn Wilkinson on April 3, 2014 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
People
Ben Golub
Executive Chairman & Interim CEO
Bonnie Adams
Head of People & Culture
Dan Sorensen
Public Relations Director
Jocelyn Mathews
Community Manager
John Gleeson
Vice President of Operations
John Quinn
Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Jon Sanderson
Vice President of Marketing
JT Olio
Director of Engineering
Kevin Leffew
Business Development Manager
Mathew May
Chief Financial Officer
Philip Hutchins
CTO & Principal DevOps Architect
Shawn Wilkinson
Founder & CSO
Further reading
A brief overview of Kademlia and its use in various decentralized platforms
Storj Labs
Web
Nextcloud joins Storj Labs to deliver decentralized, secure storage - Nextcloud
Nextcloud
Web
Storj A Peer-to-Peer Cloud Storage Network
Shawn Wilkinson, tome@storj.io Tome Boshevski, josh@storj.io Josh Brandoff, Vitalik Buterin
Academic
Storj Launches Version 3 of Its Decentralized Cloud Storage Platform
Erik Kuebler
Web
What is Storj - An Ultimate Guide on STORJ crypto
Coinswitch
Web
What is Storj? | Beginner's Guide - CoinCentral
Bennet Garner
Web
White Paper
Shawn Wilkinson,Tome Boshevski ,Josh Brando, James Prestwich,Gordon Hall, Patrick Gerbes, Philip Hutchins, Chris Pollard
Academic
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
Storj Tutorial - How to Rent Your Spare Hard Drive Space
November 6, 2017
Storj update! Blockchain, crypto, decentralized file storage V3
February 2, 2019
What is Storj? - Decentralized Data Too Soon? - #REVIEW
April 15, 2018
Companies
References
Storj
CryptocurrencyCryptocurrency attributes
Cloud computing
Decentralized File Storage
Proof-of-work system
Proof of Existence
Proof-of-storage (PoS)Other attributes
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