📣Applications are open for our Techstars Web3 2025 program &
@PeteTownsendNV
&
@mcgirrh
just shared how they’re thinking about the next class.
Check out the post below on the
@Techstars
Newsroom for thesis insights and how to apply!
👇👇👇
We are delighted to have
@Aleph__Zero
as a Techstars Web3 Innovation Member 💡 Aleph Zero is a layer 1 blockchain that employs ZK-proofs so companies can
#buildfast
and
#scaleeasy
under the comfort of privacy and security. Big thanks to
@AntoniZolciak
, co-founder of Aleph Zero
@AntoniZolciak
, co-founder of
@Aleph__Zero
&
@Techstars
Innovation Member, recently shared his insights on helping web3 founders, the power of data confidentiality, the Aleph Zero ecosystem & its involvement with Techstars.
Here's what he said! 👇👇👇
After months of sourcing & selection (assessing nearly 750 teams), we are super excited to share the final 12 who have made it into this years
@Techstars
Web3 Accelerator.
🤩 Please meet the 12 founding teams of the Class of 2023! 🤩
#Web3
#startups
Take a closer look at the exceptional talent within the
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator 🔥🔥
Learn more about what our 12 teams are building, and follow along to see their progress over the next 10 weeks 🙌
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The time has come 🔥 Techstars Web3 is headed to New York
#TechWeek
to showcase our visionary founders and builders during our
#TechstarsWeb3
Demo Day!
Register now to witness the brilliance of each founder and company transforming the web3 space 🌐
🗽 See you in NYC on June 6!
After three exhilarating (and exhausting) weeks with hundreds of virtual and face-to-face meetings, Mentor Madness has officially wrapped up! The 12
#TechstarsWeb3
teams had the opportunity to connect with a diverse group of mentors, gaining insights and feedback in refocusing
Another phenomenal day at
#TechstarsWeb3
🌟 Day 4 wrapped up with Mentor Madness, connecting our teams with exceptional
#Web3
builders, sellers, and fundraisers🌐 The journey doesn’t stop here, so a huge thanks to our dedicated mentors for their their time and dedication to the
The teams had a blast last week kicking off the program, connecting with fellow web3 builders, and exploring Dublin (where else do you get the chance to pose with the fabulous Oscar Wilde?!) ☘️ We have a busy week 2 of
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator as we dive deeper into Mentor
🚀 Mentor Madness is underway this morning in Dublin! Our
#TechstarsWeb3
accelerator class is diving into a day filled with invaluable insights from our incredible mentors. As a
#mentorship
-driven accelerator, we're soaking up every bit of advice and ideas circulating the room
Week 12 of the 2024
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator has concluded, and our founders are busy preparing their products and pitches for Demo Day in New York City🗽
The remarkable progress made by each team over the past three months would not have been possible without the support from
A huge thank you to
@A_gutierro
for spending time with us to go through his Founder Story Mission-driven to decentralise trade finance, zero'd in on realizing
#DeFi
for real-world assets and always holding people at the centre of everything 💚
A sneak peak from our
#investor
breakfast in Toronto today 👀🇨🇦
And we are already getting ready for an Investor dinner in
#NYC
tomorrow😎🤘🏼 Are you coming???
A special thank you
@TheOGLauraWalsh
for great pictures💚🖤
Next week, we are excited to be participating in
#NYTechWeek
hosted by
@a16z
! There are several chances to meet the
#TechstarsWeb3
Class of 2024 throughout the week 👏👏👏"
June 4th & June 5th ➡️ We are hosting Investor-Founder coffee mornings for interested investors to
Mentor Madness was a buzzing today with a special in-person day in Dublin! 12 startups, 12 mentors, 144 meetings! What a day🚀
#techstars
#techstarsWeb3
#givefirst
Step counter told us we walked 21k steps and climbed 103 flights of stairs this Saturday, and, as you might assume, it was the easiest challenge for our founders this year😁 What might be the better way to get to know each other than doing a hike in Glendalough?🍀🤔
The
#TechstarsWeb3
Investment team, along with the current accelerator class, are coming to Waterloo (
@ETHGlobal
) 🇨🇦 , Toronto (
@CollisionHQ
) 🇨🇦 &
#NYC
🇺🇸 at the end of June 🤩
We will be hosting Investor events in all three locations. Links for registration below 👇🏻
You have just gotten a taste of
@protico_io
, and we are excited to present to you the lead mentors who will be supporting
@protico_io
over the course of our Accelerator 🤩
Alizee Carli,
@ashihadah
,
@David_TH_Ham
,
@mariuslsmith
, Vilma Mattila.
A huge thank you to all mentors👏🏻
Our final remote all hands as we look towards getting back together in a weeks time.
Thank you to all our founders and to
@Techstars
#Web3
’s team 👏🏻
It’s time to prepare for our trip to North America 🤩 Catch us in
#Waterloo
,
#Toronto
and/or
#NYC
!
We're back!
@PeteTownsendNV
&
@mcgirrh
officially opened applications in the last 24 hrs for
@Techstars
Web3 2024!
As web3 is global & borderless, so are we - we're looking for 12 fantastic web3 founding teams from all over the world. Details below!!👇👇
Gm everyone☕️ We are kicking off our week with an announcement 👀
@MNSshow
has released an episode with a founder of incredible personality & resolve. Howie Young, a solo founder (although not without a team) and CEO of
@protico_io
– a Universal
#Web3
Chat.
There's no better way to end day two of
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator than listening to
@A_gutierro
and his compelling Founder Story!
His insights on bridging the gap between
#DeFi
and traditional finance make Alejandro a fantastic mentor to our 12 teams 🤝 Thank you for sharing
Meet
@Trustware_io
🚀
A secure, recoverable, non-custodial crypto vault that connects users in a social network for sharing value
Tomorrow,
@MNSshow
will release an episode with
@Jesse_TrustWare
, CEO of
@Trustware_io
Stay tuned to learn more about founders building in
#Web3
👇🏻
We are super excited to be hosting an Investor Dinner in NYC on June 28th!
If you'll be in town and are pre-seed/seed investing across B2C & B2B, media, web3 infrastructure, no-code, marketing, data, finance & gaming, this should be a great fit!
We are officially one week away from Demo Day!!
Don’t miss your chance to watch these startups take the stage and showcase how they’ve been building up
#web3
!
After the pitches, join us for a web3 Happy Hour hosted by
@Techstars
x
@dfnsHQ
🥂
See you on June 6 in NYC🔥
Is there a way to build better smart contracts together & faster?
@PeteTownsendNV
got an answer in the conversation with
@FedericoPanisi
, CEO & Co-Founder of
@lokicodeio
👀
Loki.code is one of companies forming the
@Techstars
#Web3
class & building Figma for smart contracts 👏🏻
Here we are again, a roundtable with our founders to exchange insights, ideas, & gained experience with each other after 7 intense weeks of the
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator 👍🏼
There is a great opportunity to join this conversation this Thursday in
#London
😎 🥂
Ever felt compelled by an
#art
piece that you wanted to interact with?
@OltaArt
enable participation and collaboration with art and you can check out interactive
#NFTs
on OLTA’s website right now👇🏻
We are one week away from our first Investor-Founder Coffee Morning during
@a16z
's
#NYTechWeek
🚀
Join us in NYC and register to schedule 1:1 meetings with founders from the
#TechstarsWeb3
Class of 2024!
You can read more about each of our companies building in
#web3
below ⬇️
Going to be in
#Waterloo
or in the
#Toronto
area on June 24th?
The
#Techstars
Web3 Investment team will be hosting a special dinner for pre-seed -to- seed investors interested in those building towards Web3.
When you put great people in the same room, magic happens and quality relationships are ignited 👌🏼
Our first week of the 2023 Techstars
#Web3
Accelerator is coming to an end, but our founders are pumped for the next 12 weeks 🚀
#techstarsweb3
#givefirst
WE ARE LIVE!
That's right - applications are open for the next Techstars Web3 accelerator! We'll be investing in founding teams building in web3, enabling the next wave of growth in the decentralized internet & in token economies. If that's you, reach out!
🚀
@techstarsweb3
and
@dfns
are bringing you the ultimate web3 Happy Hour during New York
#TechWeek
!!
Join fellow web3 founders, VCs and enthusiasts as we enjoy refreshments and brainstorm the next big ideas in the decentralized internet 🌐
Register now to secure your spot 🌟
What do
#NFTs
do? What could
#NFTs
do?🤔👀
Step up
@PeerkatOfficial
, a company that is empowering is taking the pain out of
#Web3
for users, developers, and brands by using deep data science to provide unique insights into digital collectibles 📈
Building websites as a 14-year-old teenager, 18 years of IT experience, community based VC, how being a gamer helps being an entrepreneur, and much more are discussed in the new
@MNSshow
's podcast with
@PeteTownsendNV
and
@neal_npe
👍
#TechstarsWeb3
is coming to London🤩
We are super happy to announce that the founders of the 2023 Techstars
#Web3
Accelerator Class will be based in London from May 15th to May 19th, and working out of WeWork Aldwych.
Stay tuned for more info regarding events for that week!
@EthIreland
Day 2. First Panel of the day: “Web3 Entertainment” with two companies from 2022
#techstarsweb3
cohort 😎
NFT ticketing, adoption challenges, predictions for the next 10 years for
#Web3
entertainment & more👏🏻
“Some
#Web3
communities fall apart under pressure, others come together stronger.”
Meet
@together_crew
TogetherCrew exists to help build and grow communities by ensuring members and stakeholders create together 🙌🏻
Thank you to these incredible founders, builders, investors, and operators who met with our 12 teams during week 2 of
#TechstarsWeb3
! Your commitment to
#givefirst
is the foundation of our program's success 👏🏻👏🏻 With one more week of Mentor Madness ahead, our founding teams are
TogetherCrew is already on the way to getting deep & valuable insights about your
#Web3
community 👀 And this impressive bunch of experts will lead them through the programme of
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator with one main goal - to speed up their progress & succeed 🚀
Join us for a virtual session on 20th Nov @ 4pm GMT w/
@alextapscott
and a group of leading web3 VCs sharing their insights on what to expect next with
#web3
. We'll also do a crowd Q&A, so get your questions ready!
👉Register here:
How to protect software creators’ copyright and open up new monetization strategies for those who contribute to open source?
@MintyCodeDao
, a decentralised IP marketplace for software creators, knows☝🏼
@MintyCodeDao
has made it into the
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator 🚀
A sneak peak from our Founder's Night event, which we hosted during our in-person meetup week in London 👀
Three short panels on the night included:
#decentralisation
,
#ownership
, and
#creatoreconomy
😎
We are thrilled to announce that our founders will join
@PeteTownsendNV
as guests of
@MNSshow
podcasts 🚀 Meet great Web3 builders and learn more about their startups & perspectives 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Want to meet some great
#web3
builders from
@Techstars
? This week's episode of
@MNSshow
features the CEO from each of the 12 companies that form the
@TechstarsWeb3
class of '23!
🎧Apple
🎧Spotify
"Empowering young creators who have ideas" and "enabling multiplayer
#art
" with a "state machine to prevent inevitable IP disputes" ... are words that can give you a little taste of a
@MNSshow
new episode with Terence Reilly, CEO and Co-Founder of
@OltaArt
It's time to provide a superpower to indie developers and small
#gaming
studios 💪🏼
Meet our final startup:
@JRStudio_
, a
#Web3
PaaS platform that gives gaming studios the superpowers to build, host, launch, manage, and scale their creations to new heights 🚀
Today marked our final
#MentorMixer
of 2024! Thank you to each mentor who has guided our teams throughout the program⭐
Our founders have significantly shaped and grown their businesses under the expertise of each mentor and Lead Mentor. These experts in web3, decentralization,
With founders statistically more likely to encounter personal mental stress, breakdown, challenges etc., managing 'mental fitness' is critical.
A huge thank you to
@hellochowders
for a very special Founder Mental Health session with the class 👏🏻
#web3
#startups
#givefirst
So much goes into a perfect pitch and our founders are working on all of those ingredients!
Thank you to
@GerritMC
for delivering a Neuroscience of Equity Stories masterclass for all to really grasp the science behind the art of storytelling 🤩
"We are measuring decentralization. When you refer to decentralization, people are usually thinking about technology. If you apply the same concept to communities - to human beings - we are measuring who is influential in your community.”
Here's our MD
@PeteTownsendNV
with
@hesusci
on 'Venture with Hesus' telling the
@Techstars
Web3 story melded with his own story, how the accelerator program works and what to focus on if you're interested in applying!👇
The Techstars Web3 teams are on their way to NYC from all over the globe to participate in
@a16z
's
#NYTechWeek
!!
🥂 Catch us on June 6 for the
#TechstarsWeb3
Demo Day followed by a Web3 Happy Hour hosted by
@Techstars
x
@dfnsHQ
For a more personal meeting with our founders,
We are excited to introduce
@Ospree_io
– a global digital asset compliance solution that allows companies to quickly implement and manage their key
#compliance
requirements from a single platform 🚀
Enable the artwork to detect your motion by moving the mouse or enabling access to your camera with
@OltaArt
🤩
OLTA's team is preparing a new drop, and you just got a chance to see what it will be like👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Magic!
@keeffEoghan
We will be in
#Toronto
on June 27th to host an Investor Breakfast ☕ 🥐
Check out the link & sign up if you are investing in founders building or enabling for greater decentralisation 🌐
📍 There is limited capacity!
Gm Web3, it's happy Friday and time to learn more about our founders and their solutions ☕️👇🏻
Check out the
@asiatechdaily
article about
@protico_io
, who makes it possible to chat with each other in and across any app with their Web IDs and assets 👇🏻
A huge thank you to one of the most prolific angel investors out there
@ChrisAdelsbach
for coming in to engage our founders all day yesterday and for providing his founder story 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Super learnings for our founders on both the operating & investing ends of the spectrum 🚀
@PeerkatOfficial
's team of Lead Mentors
Vinson Leow, Michael Young,
@tokyotribe
, Amor Sexton,
@qbuttonphd
😎👏🏻
Thank you, each and all!
And a huge thank you to all mentors participating in the
#TechstarsWeb3
Accelerator for your time & effort in supporting these founders 👏🏻