Jean-Maxime Rivière

Jean-Maxime studied business and computer science at the Technische Universität München, graduating with a bachelor thesis on the intersection between blockchain technology and intellectual property.

Before enrolling in the Master »Open Design«, he spent 3 years in the founding team of Bernstein, a start-up allowing innovators to secure their innovation process globally and in real time, without having to disclose it. The service leveraged a zero-knowledge architecture and blockchain certificates proving the existence, integrity and ownership of any IP asset.

During his master, so far, he explored design strategies in languages, the potential to unlock protein structures to fight global hunger and hairy viruses.

He’s also a »venture architect« at Mantro and fitness kickboxing coach.