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Web Summit 2019 - Opening Night

Jenna Pilgrim

Co-founder & CEO | Streambed

Jenna is the Cofounder and CEO of Streambed – a Saas publishing tool and analytics engine for the social sharing future. 

Founded with Age of Cryptocurrency author Michael J. Casey; Streambed leverages the blockchain to attest to and link content on the Internet together, illustrating derivative pathways and delivering better analytics to publishers about their online footprint (though agencies and companies find this most useful). Streambed is blessed to be in the midst of the 10-month blockchain cohort of the Creative Destruction Lab – one of the most prestigious tech accelerators in the world with streams in Quantum Computing, Space, AI, Blockchain and CPG.

Jenna is also a Partner at Imperius Co., a decentralized ninja-network that hires and trains new grads to be smart, hungry and helpful to high-growth startup executives. 

Formerly Jenna was the Director of Partnerships at Bloq Inc., a blockchain company building tools to make it easier for organizations to build on public blockchains. In her previous life, Jenna was the Director of Business Development at the $multi-million Blockchain Research Institute, founded in March 2017 by Don Tapscott and Alex Tapscott, coauthors of Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World. Jenna was brought on by the Tapscott Group in 2015 to be the hype-master for Blockchain Revolution, which has now become a bestseller in Canada and has been translated into 18 languages.

Jenna holds a BBA in Finance from Trent University, and. She is an Ironman triathlete, and volunteers coaching rowing at Upper Canada College in Toronto. She co-founded her first company when she was just 18.