Venture Overview
ReliablyME is a software utility providing an onramp to financial and social inclusion for individuals with insufficient credentials by helping them establish and retain a trusted record of identity, character, and accomplishment through smart contracts on a Hyperledger blockchain. Founder Alex Todd, former CTO at PRESTO and Metrolinx and Managing Consultant in Information Security and Trust at IBM Global Services, is a published researcher and thought leader on ESG, corporate governance, trust enablement, and NLP. ReliablyME emerged from his decades-long work optimizing trust systems through emerging technology.
Website: http://reliablyme.com
Venture Issue Area: Civic Engagement
Venture Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario
Venture Founder
Alex Todd is the Founder and CEO of ReliablyME, a for-profit social enterprise. He is a social innovator and entrepreneur, as well as a published researcher and thought leader on ESG, Corporate Governance, Trust Enablement, and natural language processing (NLP). His distinguished career in technology includes serving as CTO at PRESTO, Metrolinx, and Managing Consultant, Information Security and Trust at IBM Global Services. ReliablyME is a social innovation that emanated from his career-long insights into leveraging emerging technologies to optimize conditions for trust.
Founded on the premise that everyone has value and should be recognized for their authentic self and social worth, ReliablyME is a commitment-based nudging utility that helps youth and workforce development organizations change and measure behavior while empowering users with a transferable character credential. Our character-credentialing utility empowers people with equitable access to opportunities from which they otherwise might be excluded by demonstrating evidence of their lifelong experiential learning.
