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What is Birdchain?
Birdchain is a decentralized application (Dapp) similar to instant messenger. The big difference is Birdchain will allow its users to make a monthly passive income. Simultaneously, Birdchain will provide companies with higher quality and better-priced services: A2P SMS distribution, content engagement, personal data marketplace and others. The main goal of the Birdchain app is to create internal economics, where its users can earn, transfer (to exchanges), or spend their BIRD tokens, without leaving the app. Birdchain will be developed exclusively for Android devices.

Established business

The team behind Birdchain has been a part of the European-based company JSC “Vertex”. In 2009, Vertex started our A2P SMS aggregation business, called VertexSMS. Since then, VertexSMS has delivered more than 2.6 billion SMS messages globally for various international brands, including Western Union, MasterCard, SalesForce, TransferGo, and many others.

Vertex is a profitable company. In 2015, Vertex received an award for being the fastest growing ITT company in Lithuania. Vertex continued to grow in 2016. In 2012, Vertex was recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in Latvia.

In early 2015, Vertex was certified in information security management and received an ISO/IEC 27001 certificate. The certificate is adapted to all our businesses held in Vertex headquarters: dating sites, bulk SMS sending systems, and a rent-to-own company. Now, all these procedures are being applied to Birdchain.

The combined per country turnover and EBITDA of Vertex is growing every year.

	Turnover	EBITDA
2017*	4-5M euro*	20%*
2016	3-4M euro	19%
2015	3-4M euro	17%
2014	2-3M euro	18%
2013	2-3M euro	17%
2012	2-3M euro	16%

Vertex owns several brands and VertexSMS is one of them. Company founders gathered Birdchain team members from other brands, meaning the members of the Birdchain team know each other well and have been working together for years. This decision eliminates possibilities of the team not being able to work together and creates a healthy, creative, and productive working atmosphere.

Birdchain team members are individuals with a set of unique experiences to make Birdchain fly. Most of them have experience working in a global A2P SMS market and share extended know-how about regulations, key players, technologies, and other aspects. Other team members are experts in marketing, business development, law, and software development.

The founding team has successfully co-launched several businesses:

Social network with more than 1 000 000 unique users (flirtas.lt, flirts.lv, flirtak.pl, teidi.ee, and others). This business allowed our team to design and test new ways of advertisement. It exposed several unique user experience patterns to us, which led to developing very efficient campaigns. We learned a lot about software and app development in the user communication field. We will adopt this knowledge to the Birdchain app and service.

In 2013, we invested in advanced microlaser manufacturer (integratedoptics.com). Today, we manufacture the smallest lasers in the world, and our company is considered one of the most promising Eastern European start-ups. We have more orders for our lasers than we can manufacture.

Retail. In 2013, we launched the first in the region rent-to-buy service (bekredito.lt).

Birdchain team is led by Ernestas Petkevicius, Audrius Vrubliauskas, Aurimas Sabaitis, Marius Petrauskas, Joao Martins, Arminas Keraitis, Tomas Vitkauskas, Simas Radkevicius, Kristina Mataciunaite, Martynas Rackauskas, Aiste Surutkoviciute, and Zygimantas Vanagas.

Advisors

Anatoly Ressin

A founder of Fastr, a reading-training application development firm, and AssistUnion, which builds intelligent and performing web-enabled systems. Has been a team member of Civic as a contractor, senior software developer at C.T.Co and #Decent as a core developer. At the moment, he is a CEO of BlockVis, a company involved in organizing blockchain competence and education opportunities and structuring the blockchain market in Latvia and abroad.

Andreas Petrow

7+ years of experience working in financial services & data providing business. He is a leading Relationship Manager within Standard & Poor’s – improving client relations and consulting Asset Managers in Northern Europe. Andrey is developing and cultivating strategic relationships, maintaining and developing existing business at CEO-Level. By helping customers develop their businesses using advanced analytics, standing up financial-data analytical tools, creating and maintaining financial models, and onboarding compelling new datasets – growth is always a top priority. The focus lies on Portfolio Analytics and Quantitative investment approach.

Rob Eijgenraam

Rob Eijgenraam is an online marketing expert, founder of ICO Marketing company CryptoLeads.io, and a co-founder of Purple Minds. He is a speaker about cryptocurrency marketing and an organizer of crypto educational events. His passion for Bitcoin and Blockchain comes from a belief in open systems and a permissionless society and market place.