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Forward31 expands its start-up portfolio

Porsche's company builder, Forward31, launches a platform for digital trading cards. The first partner is the DFB.

Tom Schmidtgen · Stuttgart, 14. June 2021

Forward31 expands its start-up portfolio — Das junge Unternehmen aus Berlin bietet das digitale Sammeln von Spielerkarten an. (Foto: Porsche)

Porsche's company builder launches a platform for digital trading cards. The first partner is the DFB.

Forward31, Porsche's company builder, launches the start-up Fanzone. The young company from Berlin offers the digital collection of player cards. The technology behind this are non-exchangeable tokens (NFTs), which make digital works unique and tradable. The blockchain-based technology is already being used in digital artwork. Fanzone's first partner will be the German Football Association.

"The demand for classic collector's cards and albums has been unbroken for decades," says Christian Knörle, Head of Company Building at Porsche Digital. "With Fanzone, we are now digitizing this promising market." The three founders Dirk Weyel, Björn Hesse and Claudio Weck have decades of experience in the fields of gaming, sports marketing and blockchain technology.

Fans can currently collect player cards for the German women's and men's national soccer teams, the U21 youth team and players from the Bundesliga 3. Further partnerships are being planned. "We are convinced that innovative, digital interaction platforms between sports fans and their favorite teams offer huge growth potential," says Dirk Weyel, CEO of Fanzone.

Christian Knörle Fanzone Fußball NFT Sammelkarten

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