Backed by Vint Cerf, Emortal wants to protect your digital legacy from ‘bit-rot’

Backed by Vint Cerf, Emortal wants to protect your digital legacy from ‘bit-rot’

3 years ago
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https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/22/backed-by-vint-cerf-emortal-wants-to-protect-your-digital-legacy-from-bit-rot/

We are all pumping out data into the cloud. Some of it we’d like to keep forever. Emortal is a startup that wants to help you organize, protect, preserve and pass on your ‘digital legacy’ and protect it from becoming unreadable, otherwise known as ‘bit-rot’. The project has received backing from the legendary Vint Cerf, one of the co-creators and founding fathers of the internet.

Emortal, which has been in engineering R&D for more than 10 years, has raised $5.7 million from ‘friends and family’. It is now raising $2.7 million in a crowdfunding on the UK’s Crowdcube platform, following what it says was a successful BETA test.