Auston Bunsen had a lot of free time after his company QuickNode reached a certain size. That company, a blockchain developer platform, was founded in 2017 and subsequently raised around $60 million in funding, according to PitchBook.

Then Bunsen started thinking about the fact that people would perhaps like to unlock their doors with their iPhone. “I eventually met with some folks at Apple and they decided to make a bet that I could help further their goals to enable every company to bring the power of Apple Wallet to their door,” Bunsen told TechCrunch.

Bunsen left QuickNode last October and decided to work on his new idea: AccessGrid , which builds APIs that companies can use to manage digital key fobs directly within Apple and Google’s wallet platforms.

“It works when your iPhone

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