My latest venture is Ovvio. Our platform was a pandemic baby that was born out of a need to connect humans with other humans to solve daily tasks with the help of someone else’s knowledge.

Last week, we were lucky enough to have the team from Ovvio join us at our Lisbon HQ! The next day, we even got the opportunity to visit them at their stall at WebSummit!

Altar Case Study: Building a P2P knowledge sharing platform that allows people to monetise their wisdom. Ovvio, a peer-to-peer marketplace that allows real-time relevant knowledge and wisdom sharing. In Ovvio whenever someone has a question they will have an on-demand expert ready to reply.

There are already over 30,000 Ovvio users. Hundreds are signing up each day either as Seekers or Givers. Ovvio looks on course to have circa 100,000 users by Q3 2022. For many, Ovvio is a step in the right direction (away from exploitational algorithms): it’s trying to bring people together again, post lockdowns, and is humanising knowledge.

Ovvio was conceived in June 2020 by entrepreneurial brothers Shaalin and Sachin Tandon. Search engine weary, the brothers wanted to create a new way for people to find things out online. Instead of interacting with algorithms, people looking for knowhow or handy hints with practical issues could interact with other people – specialists in their fields – who could help them. Ovvio would be a kind of eye contact between people around the globe. Real time sharing of that most precious resource: knowledge. The brothers got to work.