🚀 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...
🚀 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...
🚀 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.
🚀 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...
🚀 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...
🚀 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: Mints branded digital tokens unqiue to you in relation to your digital presense. Allowing you to monetize your online activity
Problem: Web2 didn’t let you own the monetization of your online activity, Web3 solves for this. However, creating your own token to monetize your activity is still somewhat complicated
Solution: Simplifies the process of creating your own social token, where you can also earn and redeem other tokens. But what’s key is that it lets you own, control and coordinate across platforms (interoperability).
Team:
Bradley Miles: Co-founder and CEO. Currently also Enterpreneur in Residence @ Techstars, Previously Product @ Coindesk and Launched Columbia University’s VC club
Sid Kalla: Co-founder and CTO. Previously CTO @ Acupay and Developer @ Bloomberg
Traction:
Funding: Raised $10M Series A in Sept 2021 from IOSG Ventures, Huobi Ventures, Alchemy, Animoca Brands, Weekend Fund, Audacity and Mischief Fund
Progress: In Sept 2021 (which is a long time ago in Web3 terms) had onboarded 350 creators, $2m daily trading volumes and YTD trading volume of $680m
Positive Signals:
Huge Market: The creator economy is huge and many people are doing this full time, so monetization is key. Being an enabler creates a $$$ opportunity
Team: Powerhouse team, relevant expereince launching and scaling businesses. At this stage this is key!
Business Model: Looking to be the Stripe for social tokens, the concept is proven out - make getting paid easy.
Risks:
Traction: No news since their Sept 2021 raise and numbers, have they been able to scale with the new funding (though active on thier blog and socials = good sign)
Customers: Creating a token generally isn’t too complicated, the solve is the managing the token post creation - will enough creators know how to leverage their tokens and see the value in doing so (or is this the true opportunity)
Segment: DeFi / Business Model: B2C / Stage: Series A
Purpose: Mints branded digital tokens unqiue to you in relation to your digital presense. Allowing you to monetize your online activity
Problem: Web2 didn’t let you own the monetization of your online activity, Web3 solves for this. However, creating your own token to monetize your activity is still somewhat complicated
Solution: Simplifies the process of creating your own social token, where you can also earn and redeem other tokens. But what’s key is that it lets you own, control and coordinate across platforms (interoperability).
Team:
Bradley Miles: Co-founder and CEO. Currently also Enterpreneur in Residence @ Techstars, Previously Product @ Coindesk and Launched Columbia University’s VC club
Sid Kalla: Co-founder and CTO. Previously CTO @ Acupay and Developer @ Bloomberg
Traction:
Funding: Raised $10M Series A in Sept 2021 from IOSG Ventures, Huobi Ventures, Alchemy, Animoca Brands, Weekend Fund, Audacity and Mischief Fund
Progress: In Sept 2021 (which is a long time ago in Web3 terms) had onboarded 350 creators, $2m daily trading volumes and YTD trading volume of $680m
Positive Signals:
Huge Market: The creator economy is huge and many people are doing this full time, so monetization is key. Being an enabler creates a $$$ opportunity
Team: Powerhouse team, relevant expereince launching and scaling businesses. At this stage this is key!
Business Model: Looking to be the Stripe for social tokens, the concept is proven out - make getting paid easy.
Risks:
Traction: No news since their Sept 2021 raise and numbers, have they been able to scale with the new funding (though active on thier blog and socials = good sign)
Customers: Creating a token generally isn’t too complicated, the solve is the managing the token post creation - will enough creators know how to leverage their tokens and see the value in doing so (or is this the true opportunity)
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