<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiRWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZpbnNtZXMuY29tLzIwMjMvMDIvcGVnZ3ktcmFpc2VzLWNhZDEwLThtLWluLWZ1bmRpbmcuaHRtbNIBAA?oc=5" target="_blank">Peggy Raises CAD10.8M in Funding</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">FinSMEs</font>

Peggy Raises CAD10.8M in Funding - FinSMEs

<a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMipQFodHRwczovL3d3dy5idXNpbmVzc3dpcmUuY29tL25ld3MvaG9tZS8yMDIzMDIwNzAwNTIzNC9lbi9QZWdneS1SYWlzZXMtMTAuOC1NaWxsaW9uLUludHJvZHVjZXMtYS1XYXktZm9yLUFydGlzdHMtdG8tRWFybi1Sb3lhbHRpZXMtV2l0aC10aGUtT2ZmaWNpYWwtTGF1bmNoLW9mLUl0cy1BcHDSAQA?oc=5" target="_blank">Peggy Raises $10.8 Million, Introduces a Way for Artists to Earn ...</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#6f6f6f">Business Wire</font>

Peggy Raises $10.8 Million, Introduces a Way for Artists to Earn ... - Business Wire

Adam Meghji

University of Guelph

Co-founder & CTO at Peggy

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peggy is the secure marketplace for investment-grade art.  In times of societal crisis and turmoil throughout humanity, artists pave the way for social change and transformation.  As an investment, art is among the only appreciating asset classes you can also enjoy (like real estate), plus is uncorrelated to traditional markets.  This is why billionaires and banks seek out art as a safe haven to preserve wealth in their portfolios. Yet tragically, the rest of us are unable to participate in the art market, and support the practice of emerging artists who create transformative messages through their works.
Peggy partners with galleries and artists to make living with and investing in art accessible to all.  Finally, you can buy incredible art at a price you can afford, and can later sell to fellow collectors if your tastes change or you  seek to rebalance your art investments.  Core to our values, Peggy does good by the artists themselves, who can finally earn artist royalties for all future secondary sales as well - something they miss out on today.  This is all made possible using sophisticated and proprietary AI and ML which keeps buyers and sellers protected without the need for the antiquated and opaque Auction House model.

Peggy

Co-founder & CTO

LP in Funds III & IV. Portfolio includes Mejuri, Sonder, League, ElementAI, Integrate.ai, Blockstream, RenoRun, and more.

Real Ventures

Limited Partner (Investor)

Ethos ICO'ed in 2017, and acquired by Voyager in 2019 [VYGR:APH].

Ethos is the people-powered cryptocurrency platform.  Our mission is to make the daunting cryptocurrency market accessible to everyone, accelerate adoption of blockchain technology and democratize ownership of cryptocurrencies. Ethos harnesses the power of design, technology and social intelligence to create a breakthrough solution that will enable everyone to participate in the New Economy.

Ethos

- Provisional patent author, "Systems and Methods for Securing Ticket Access Using Cryptography and the Blockchain"
-  Served as Live Nation's "blockchain guy", tasked with owning strategy and pursing Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain Ticketing to strengthen our tech stack
-  Pitched the LN Board of Directors on Blockchain / DLT, resulting in significant investment
-  Participated in all aspects of M&A with Upgraded Inc., a leading Blockchain Ticketing technology company
-  Technical lead on biometric ticketing, resulting in partnership with Blink Identity, a privacy-first and opt-in Facial Recognition solution for contactless authentication

Ticketmaster

VP Cryptographic Ticketing

Product Ownership:
-  Universal Checkout product to sell ticket directly on 3rd party websites (artists, sports teams, partners)
-  Marketplace Content Platform incl. consumer APIs that power mobile & web apps, Discovery API & Site Search, plus data quality & ingestion pipeline for the Ticketmaster catalog

Built → shipped → scaled → handed off key products and critical infrastructure:
-  Ticketmaster's official OAuth2 server and CDN integration
-  Support for securely tokenizing credit cards and purchasing tickets via an API
-  Maintainer of the official Ticketmaster JavaScript SDK and Dev Portal
-  Championed use of Terraform to enable migration from 2 TM-owned Data Centres into AWS
-  Championed a new approach for internal collaboration via Pull Requests to improve developer happiness and velocity
-  Hosted public "Dev Jams" to encourage developer community engagement at major cities in US and UK

VP Technology

<a href="http://www.universe.com">www.universe.com</a>
Universe was acquired by Ticketmaster / Live Nation Entertainment, NYSE:LYV, in 2015

Universe

Unata was acquired by Instacart in 2018.

Unata’s award-winning platform has been redefining the grocery shopping experience since its inception in 2011.

Unata Inc.

Lead Developer

Metavera was acquired by Enterprise Rent-A-Car in 2015.

Metavera Solutions, formed in 2000 and based in Toronto, ON, Canada, is the world leader in Car Sharing technology and provides solutions to organizations on 5 continents.

Metavera Solutions Inc

- Product development for the AccuFreight suite of transporation expense management
solutions: Freight Intelligence System (FIS), and Rate Manager (ARM)
-  Impressively engineered a rich desktop-like web application for expenditure analysis
-  Innovatively created a data warehouse and service-oriented query and analysis tool
-  Commended for “exceeding job accountabilities and objectives”

Trans-Lucent Markets

Software Developer

Department of Mathematics & Statistics

-  Innovatively developed a handwritten Content Management System in PHP & SQL for faculty and students
-  Drastically reduced routine information maintenance costs through a clever admin panel
-  Patiently tutored faculty members on using a new departmental information portal
-  Constructed and deployed a state-of-the-art Mathematics research lab

Web Developer

- Independently founded a dynamic online music and arts media outlet
-  Solely developed 3 hand-written content/document management systems with highly customized contributor/editor content creation workflows
-  Effectively managed a team of a dozen content contributors
-  Dependably authored new content and rich media features on a weekly basis

Earwaks.com

Founder, Technical Director

Intellitactics was acquired by Trustwave Holdings in 2010.

- Accurately created UML software design models using a variety of diagrams
- Efficiently performed technology analysis and feasibility studies
- Inventively re-designed and improved an existing graphical user interface

Intellitactics

Software Architect

Freelance work on per-contract basis.  Built small and large-scale projects using Ruby on Rails, and LAMP stack.  Clients include Quantec Geoscience, Canadian Institute of Mining (CIM), Manifesto Community Projects, and dozens of others.

Consultant

Intellitactics was acquired by Trustwave Holdings in 2010.

- Methodically developed web components for network security software
- Responsible for daily monitoring of new zero-day vulnerabilities