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A unique Franco-Californian venture designed to accelerate innovation by leveraging corporate intrapreneurship

OCTO’s 28-week program offers a new take on corporate innovation: by first identifying talents already available within the company, Start Me Up then supports the selected intrapreneurs by providing them with the culture and methods traditionally associated with startups. The offer includes several weeks of total immersion in San Francisco in partnership with The Refiners, a powerful cross-border acceleration program. 

OCTO launches OCTO Skool, an innovative way of integrating budding digital talents

Going digital is high up on the list of priorities for many companies – corporations, SMEs and startups alike – that are edging towards transformation by developing and adopting new skill sets.  

OCTO believes that the most promising talents in the field of digital transformation, regardless of their future career paths, are those who master the very essence of Digital – code! Since April 2016 developing coding skills in-house has been the raison d’être of the company’s new initiative, OCTO Skool: an innovative, comprehensive, developing-centric training scheme for young recruits. 

Wishing to draw on its expertise in the field of emerging technologies, the consulting firm OCTO Technology has just been selected by the software firm R3 as the first official training provider for Corda, its blockchain platform designed specifically for businesses. Initially developed to meet the exacting standards of the financial services industry, Corda is now applicable to any commercial scenario such as healthcare, energy systems, or real estate.

At the Tezos Global Summit in New York on October 1, 2019, Equisafe investment platform announced it is working on the launch of the most sophisticated smart contract package ever developed, with support from Nomadic Labs and OCTO Technology. This new model is intended to constitute a new technological standard for the exchange of financial instruments.