Ali Shaikha🚀 Startup #13: Rain
Segment: DeFi / Business Model: B2B / Stage: Seed https://www.raincards.xyz/Purpose: Corporate card built for Web3 teams to be able to access their funds and manage spend Problem: As Web3 teams grow accessing your funds and managing spend becomes complicated, where you need to use a centralized exchange to access your funds Solution: A corporate card that syncs to a decentralized wallet and allows teams to access their funds easily and track their spending Team:Charles Naut - Co-founderFarooq...
Ali Shaikha🚀 Startup #12: Chaingrep
Segment: Infrastructure / Business Model: B2B / Stage: Seed https://chaingrep.com/Purpose: Making on-chain data easy to ready and understand Problem: Blockchains are fairly complex and understanding how protocols work is challenging. This complexity is preventing adoption of crypto the the masses. Solution: An API that converts strings of data which are random numbers and letter to easy to understand words formulated into sentences. Team:Merwane Drai - Co-founder and CEORosco Kalis - Co-found...
Ali Shaikha🚀 Startup #8: Dialect
Segment: DeFi / Business Model: B2C / Stage: Seed https://www.dialect.to/Purpose: Web3 messaging technology to provide wallets a secure way to communicate on Solana Problem: Not all users want to dox their emails or phone numbers to communicate or receive notification in the Web3 environment (sharing personal information isn’t ideal). This is particularly the case for DeFi users or on-chain gamers Solution: Communicate directly from wallet to wallet and dapp notifcations, without the need for...
Crypto enthusiast. I'm obsessed with what the future could look like and the interesting startups creating this space. X-ice cream addict.
Ali Shaikha🚀 Startup #13: Rain
Segment: DeFi / Business Model: B2B / Stage: Seed https://www.raincards.xyz/Purpose: Corporate card built for Web3 teams to be able to access their funds and manage spend Problem: As Web3 teams grow accessing your funds and managing spend becomes complicated, where you need to use a centralized exchange to access your funds Solution: A corporate card that syncs to a decentralized wallet and allows teams to access their funds easily and track their spending Team:Charles Naut - Co-founderFarooq...
Ali Shaikha🚀 Startup #12: Chaingrep
Segment: Infrastructure / Business Model: B2B / Stage: Seed https://chaingrep.com/Purpose: Making on-chain data easy to ready and understand Problem: Blockchains are fairly complex and understanding how protocols work is challenging. This complexity is preventing adoption of crypto the the masses. Solution: An API that converts strings of data which are random numbers and letter to easy to understand words formulated into sentences. Team:Merwane Drai - Co-founder and CEORosco Kalis - Co-found...
Ali Shaikha🚀 Startup #8: Dialect
Segment: DeFi / Business Model: B2C / Stage: Seed https://www.dialect.to/Purpose: Web3 messaging technology to provide wallets a secure way to communicate on Solana Problem: Not all users want to dox their emails or phone numbers to communicate or receive notification in the Web3 environment (sharing personal information isn’t ideal). This is particularly the case for DeFi users or on-chain gamers Solution: Communicate directly from wallet to wallet and dapp notifcations, without the need for...
Crypto enthusiast. I'm obsessed with what the future could look like and the interesting startups creating this space. X-ice cream addict.
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Segment: DeFi / Business Model: B2C / Stage: Series A
Purpose: A social trading platform aimed at facilitating financial connectivity for the crypto community. Users can create and share their crypto portfolios, where other users in the community can replicate and learn from others.
Problem: The cypto market has a lot of speculation and as with traditional markets the distribution of information is stacked against the average individual. But also with so many new tokens coming out daily, it’s hard to assess which ones are worth investing in.
Solution: A platform that is built on a community where you can create, share and replicate portfolios. You can follow your favourite investor who might have more information than you and just replicate their portfolio. Portfolios are minted as NFTs so are easily discoverable but also opens opportunities for gamification.
Team:
Rudy Kadoch: Co-founder and CEO. Involved in the crypto space for a few years. Worked @ Ledger and Ex-consultant @ Accenture
Adrien Supizet: CTO. Engineer @ talent.io
Aurélien Rousseau: CPO. Consultant @ Profileo
Traction:
Segment: DeFi / Business Model: B2C / Stage: Series A
Purpose: A social trading platform aimed at facilitating financial connectivity for the crypto community. Users can create and share their crypto portfolios, where other users in the community can replicate and learn from others.
Problem: The cypto market has a lot of speculation and as with traditional markets the distribution of information is stacked against the average individual. But also with so many new tokens coming out daily, it’s hard to assess which ones are worth investing in.
Solution: A platform that is built on a community where you can create, share and replicate portfolios. You can follow your favourite investor who might have more information than you and just replicate their portfolio. Portfolios are minted as NFTs so are easily discoverable but also opens opportunities for gamification.
Team:
Rudy Kadoch: Co-founder and CEO. Involved in the crypto space for a few years. Worked @ Ledger and Ex-consultant @ Accenture
Adrien Supizet: CTO. Engineer @ talent.io
Aurélien Rousseau: CPO. Consultant @ Profileo
Traction:
Opertional on Polygon, Binance Smart Chain and Avalanche - open to use by all now, post successful beta testing
Positive Signals:
Problem: The average person really has no clue what to invest in or what value the company behind a token provides
Business model: Validation with similar model existing for current businesses (eToro - $8.8bln valuation)
Strong team: With experience that screams they have the right skillset
Hiring: Looking to hire 3 new positions (super early stage)
Risks:
Competiton: The crude way to do this is finding someone wallet address and tracking thier portfolio (not accounting for multiple wallets). If a platform is built around that, can this idea be displaced quickly?
Young Team: Without heaps of previous founding or traditional experience, it’ll be interesting to see how they grow and scale. They have smart investors that might help with some of those gaps though.
B2C: Is hard, I’m personally only a B2B investor for scalability benefits, but if you can crack B2C then it’s a 🚀
Opertional on Polygon, Binance Smart Chain and Avalanche - open to use by all now, post successful beta testing
Positive Signals:
Problem: The average person really has no clue what to invest in or what value the company behind a token provides
Business model: Validation with similar model existing for current businesses (eToro - $8.8bln valuation)
Strong team: With experience that screams they have the right skillset
Hiring: Looking to hire 3 new positions (super early stage)
Risks:
Competiton: The crude way to do this is finding someone wallet address and tracking thier portfolio (not accounting for multiple wallets). If a platform is built around that, can this idea be displaced quickly?
Young Team: Without heaps of previous founding or traditional experience, it’ll be interesting to see how they grow and scale. They have smart investors that might help with some of those gaps though.
B2C: Is hard, I’m personally only a B2B investor for scalability benefits, but if you can crack B2C then it’s a 🚀
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