David Moskowitz is known as the co-founder of Indorse, a skills validation platform which helps companies match with better candidates and helps candidates validate their technical skills.
Education
David Moskowitz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at University at Albany in June 1994.
Early career
Moskowitz was a teacher in various education companies for nearly 12 years. Moskowitz owned iKaiwa.com, which could create, produce, and sell a series of English educational CDs, and sold online in Japan. Moskowitz was also an owner of Membership Academy that teaches how to set up and run a profitable member site. Moskowitz served as a director at Rapid Net Profits Pte. Ltd., which was acquired by the meXBT bitcoin exchange.
In July 2013, Moskowitz founded the Coin Republic, a bitcoin platform based in Singapore. As a founder, Moskowitz was responsible for creating content, articles, videos, etc. to promote Bitcoin locally and internationally. Moskowitz also conducted seminars and consulting for firms looking to learn more about Bitcoin. In July 2015, meXBT acquired the Coin Republic for an undisclosed amount. The Coin Republic also partnered on the DBS Blockchain Hackathon in 2015. Before co-founding Indorse, Moskowitz co-founded Attores, where he also served as CEO.
Indorse
In May 2017, Moskowitz co-founded Indorse, a Singaporean blockchain software development company, along with Gaurang Torvekar, Dipesh Sukhani, and Avadhoot Kulkarni. Moskowitz serves as Director at Indorse, Torvekar as CEO and CTO, Sukhani as CBO, and Kulkarni as CMO. The company offers a blockchain-based decentralized professional social network platform for validating the skill claims of individuals and connecting them with companies looking to hire for those skills.
As a co-founder, Moskowitz helped create the first digital diplomas issued in Singapore from 2016-2017 with Ngee Ann Poly. Moskowitz also assesses candidates programming skills by testing their code online, received tailor-made code reports, and hire the right tech candidates.
Skills are verified through a decentralized consensus based on a unification of anonymous recommendations by other users and artificially intelligent based validation systems. Users of Indorse are compensated for their activity on the platform with the Indorse cryptocurrency token (IND), which can be used on the platform to obtain business services.
Indorse uses a network of experts to evaluate and confirm the expertise, abilities, and achievements of candidates searching for new job positions - with an initial focus on the coding sector. In six months, Indorse declares to have assessed more than 2,000 tech candidates and 7,000 code reviews.
In November 2017, Decentralized News Network declared a partnership with Indorse. The partnership between the two developing platforms added value to editors, writers, and publishers on DNN by highlighting professional talent on Indorse. It also increased professional opportunities available to DNN users, while DNN offered Indorse with a sustainable and expansive market of platform users.
In November 2017, Indorse declared a strategic partnership with AppCoins, the first ever token sale helping 200 million active users, backed by the Aptoide App Store.
In January 2018, Indorse announced that Coinsilium, the venture builder that manages and finances the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, is expanding its share in the company to 6.5%.
Funding rounds
In May 2017, Indorse raised SGD 450,000 in a seed round from investor Coinsilium Group, for a 10% equity stake in the business. In September 2017, Indorse raised $9 million in an initial coin offering from existing investor Coinsilium Group. In June 2019, Indorse raised $2 million in a convertible note funding from its lead investor Brand Capital, valuing the company at $15 million, with the possibility of an additional tranche of $4.5 million. Indorse will use the funds to extend into India and to intensify the demand for its services through The Times Group’s 360-degree media assets in India.
Indorse has raised a total of $15.8 million of funding. Indorse competes with HackerEarth, HackerRank, and Mettl.
Volunteer experience
Moskowitz was formerly a board member and director of membership of ACCESS, a Singapore cryptocurrency and blockchain association.