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: DAOs / Business Model: B2B / Stage: Seed
Purpose: Making DAO onboarding simpler
Problem: Working for a DAO can be intimidating, contributors have a hard time understanding where to start, what to know and how to truly add value
Solution: Offering a set of tools for DAOs to get contibutors up to speed and integrated quickly. The tools are similar to Web2 so the leap is “natural”
Team:
Ben Dobbrick - Co-founder
Catriona Emily Furlong - Co-founder
Rahul Rumalla - Co-founder
Traction:
Funding: In the process of raising a $4M seed round
Product: Currently in waitlist mode, seem to have the bare bones product ready
Positive Signals:
Team: Solid team with Rahul (engineering) and Catriona (product) at SoundCloud. Ben is an investor and on the board on many startups
Traction: Website visitors and Twitter followers are exponentially increasing (seems to be gearing up to launch)
Problem: DAOs are still complicated and onboarding is a genuine pain point
Market: DAOs are still so early, there is a lot more room to grow and adoption to occur - big long term potential
Risks:
Funding: Will investors see there to be a big enough opportunity (right now), DAOs are still early - are they willing to wait it out
Traction: No real information if they are working with any DAOs currently and how they are getting paid - interested to see what the revenue model looks like
Segment: DAOs / Business Model: B2B / Stage: Seed
Purpose: Making DAO onboarding simpler
Problem: Working for a DAO can be intimidating, contributors have a hard time understanding where to start, what to know and how to truly add value
Solution: Offering a set of tools for DAOs to get contibutors up to speed and integrated quickly. The tools are similar to Web2 so the leap is “natural”
Team:
Ben Dobbrick - Co-founder
Catriona Emily Furlong - Co-founder
Rahul Rumalla - Co-founder
Traction:
Funding: In the process of raising a $4M seed round
Product: Currently in waitlist mode, seem to have the bare bones product ready
Positive Signals:
Team: Solid team with Rahul (engineering) and Catriona (product) at SoundCloud. Ben is an investor and on the board on many startups
Traction: Website visitors and Twitter followers are exponentially increasing (seems to be gearing up to launch)
Problem: DAOs are still complicated and onboarding is a genuine pain point
Market: DAOs are still so early, there is a lot more room to grow and adoption to occur - big long term potential
Risks:
Funding: Will investors see there to be a big enough opportunity (right now), DAOs are still early - are they willing to wait it out
Traction: No real information if they are working with any DAOs currently and how they are getting paid - interested to see what the revenue model looks like
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