Startup Perpetu Helps People Manage Their Online Accounts After Death

In today’s connected and digital world, our online profiles are as much a part of our identity as

much as our physical assets and representations. Perpetu is a Hong Kong based startup which wants to enable users to decide what would happen to their online accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Dropbox, Flickr, Instagram and Github after their death.Perpetu was launched to the public 6 weeks ago and has acquired close to 1000 users. The startup is incubated at Hong Kong Cyberport Incubation Programme. The founders are Ryanne Lai who is an intellectual property lawyer and Andrea Livotto who is a technology and finance professional.

Perpetu won Echelon’s Hong Kong session and is pitching and exhibiting at Echelon 2013, Singapore.

Perpetu lets users connect their Facebook, Twitter, Gmail accounts to Perpetu and users can leave final wishes for their social accounts. Users can write their last tweet, decide which photos albums on Facebook they want to keep online or write a final email.

Users can appoint trusted notifiers who would notify Perpetu of the users’ passing. Users give the notifiers a unique Perpetu code, which they must use when notifying. After Perpetu receives a notification, they always try to contact the user and if the user does not reply in 30 days, they start to carry out your final wishes.

Perpetu uses standards of oAuth & APIs to carry out wishes. Perpetu will be launching a freemium model soon which will allow users to choose the services, for now its services are free. Perpetu algorithm is awaiting patent approval.

Perpetu will also allow lawyers, will-writers and insurance firms manage their clients’ online assets, or execute their wishes on those assets.