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Blloc

Minimalist smartphone home screen

Blloc logo
1-20 employees
  • B2C
  • Lifestyle
  • Productivity
  • Design
  • SaaS
  • Mobile
Mitte, Berlin, BE

Company mission

Blloc's mission is to redefine humanity’s relationship with smartphones by providing a home screen app that turns mindless distraction into mindful productivity.

Our take

Smartphones have changed the way that we interact with the world, providing endless opportunities for productivity tools, augmented social interaction, and other life-improving applications. However, they have also complicated our lives in many ways, leaving us with more distractions and notifications than our brains can handle, often causing more harm than good.

Blloc develops a smartphone application for Android called Ratio that transforms users' home screens into a simplified and minimal setup with productivity in mind. Instead of using applications, the software makes use of modular widgets that users can access within a single environment, exclusively including those that encourage distraction-free productivity.

Many developers have released free Android applications that block social media notifications or prevent app distractions, and this will present significant challenges for Blloc. However, whilst the home screen application is expensive in comparison to its competition, it is undeniable that the simplicity, integration, and ease-of-use is of much higher quality, showing potential to provide a more permanent solution that users will stick to.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours focus on milestones over time
  • Very few meetings. Productive work environment
  • Remote, hybrid, or on site (cozy office in Mitte, at the heart of startups)
  • Impactful work - improve the lives of real users today
  • Open, and supportive working environment in an international team

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Jan 2022

$2m

SEED

Jan 2021

$1.9m

ANGEL

Total funding: $5.5m

Leadership

Experience as CTO of Lernstift UG, and as Interim CTO for Moneyfellows. Co-founded Blloc in 2016 as CEO.

Mladen M Hoyss

(Product Designer)

Experience as Product Designed and Creative Director for Hoyss Studio from 2011 to 2016. Co-founded Blloc as Product Designer.