DEPARTMNT
DEPARTMNT turns physical objects into secure, app-free digital entry points by embedding NFC tags that open browser-based Portals with a simple tap. The platform gives artists, brands, and venues a way to deliver ticketing, product authentication, and membership experiences while letting users control their data and consent. Advanced tags use one-time cryptographic codes to block cloned tags and copied links, ensuring genuine engagement and fraud prevention.
- Social Networking
- Events
- Applications
- Creator / Creative Economy
- Marketing Technology
- Software Only
- Hardware
- Consumer Electronics
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Traditional networking and audience engagement at events, launches, and physical products rely on business cards, multiple social media apps, or QR code scans that are slow, cumbersome, and easily lost. This friction leads to missed connections, weak follow-up, and limited ability for brands to verify genuine engagement or control access to exclusive experiences.
Solution
DEPARTMNT provides tap-to-open digital portals that turn any physical object—record, wristband, wall, garment tag, or card—into a point of entry for a browser-based experience. Users simply hold a modern phone to an NFC-enabled tag, and the Portal opens instantly, with no app to download, no camera scan, and no account required before content appears. Each tag carries its own unique ID, and advanced tags sign every tap with a one-time code, so copied links or cloned tags fail, and product authenticity can be verified. Brands own their Portal and the data users choose to share, with full consent controls that let visitors delete their account or withdraw consent at any time. Real-world deployments include ticketing (1,320 tickets through one door), event entry, product authentication, and membership records, with the platform also offered as a white-label service for brands to create their own portals.
Target Audience
Primary customers are artists, brands, and venues—such as Kasina × Crocs, Mulaa Joans, H.LLS, Genesys, and YOU Studio—that need secure, app-free digital engagement for launches, events, memberships, and physical products across cities like London, Paris, Seoul, Los Angeles, and Singapore.
Features
- Tap-to-connect via NFC technology that opens a Portal in the phone's native browser without requiring an app download or account creation
- One-time cryptographic codes on advanced tags that invalidate copied links and cloned tags, enabling genuine product verification
- Tag ID is separate from user identity; no personal data is captured unless the user voluntarily provides it, with explicit consent per action and full account deletion available from the Portal menu
- Portal builder for artists, brands, and venues to deploy tags across stickers, cards, resin tags, wristbands, garment tags, and mini CDs
- Dashboard analytics showing which tags were tapped, when, and on what phone type, without tying activity to specific individuals
- Ticketing workflow where tickets live inside the Portal on the phone and expire if screenshotted, preventing fraud at the door